This incident has not gone unnoticed by Enkidu, and he is on site when the bull of heaven is let loose. At first he refused, but as always, daughters will prevail, and he relents, and Ishtar transports the bull of heaven to Uruk in her space craft. Ishtar demands from her father, 'the bull of heaven ', as the means to assassinate Gilgamesh. He has just rebuffed a request of marriage from Ishtar, which angered the goddess. Together he and his new friend have defeated Humbaba, who Gigamesh had wrongly suspected was guarding some portal or spaceship that could go to other lands. Part 1 of this interpretation of the epic told of the birth of Gilgamesh, his tyrannical rule and the creation of a being to rival his power and also become his companion.
With some degree of poetic license, the author merges some ideas from modern science and technology with the story from the ancient text. This retelling of key parts of the Epic explores the unconventional idea that Gilgamesh was not searching for life eternal on Earth, as has been suggested as the theme of the Epic, but was instead searching for the means of transport to return to his goddess mother Ninsun’s home planet in the heavens.
