(From the Epic of Gilgamesh, and the Book of Enoch) The Passing of Enkidu
No human foot, henceforward had approached the grizzled half-human looking beast! And if so, if some had seen him, by what name would they have called him by, other than freak or beast? He had none. No one had previously sought him out, it would be in time said: the gods sent him. Whereupon one morn, a young lad was searching the forest for fruit, and came upon this freak of nature - The adolescent stood stone-still, like white marble, stunned as a white tomb of salt - Hence, he did not murmur a word, a breath, but ran back home to tell his father of what he saw; and of what to said, he described a hairy ape looking demon of some un-descript humanity in him, thoughtful at that. And the father told King Gilgamesh of Uruk, his boy's story.
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