Both pieces of work represent the existential angst that must have been pervasive in the minds of Mesopotamian thinkers of the time. Gilgamesh plays out as a lesson in the value of moderation and the acceptance of human limitations and from both texts one is able to ascertain that immortality is the differentiating factor between humans and gods. Essentially Gilgamesh’s obsession to find immortality is only a transient disorder of the spirit that must be overcome if one is to live in harmony with the cosmos, and the gods. Similarly, with the myth of the sage of Adapa one can elucidate that man was never meant to be mortal, and through Adapas’ “choice” one feels a spiritual sense that our physical life must end and that we must return to the
