He cannot see in front of him or behind him in total darkness. He walks the first, second, and third double hour in total darkness and struggles to catch his breath in the hot darkness. He walks four, five and six double hours, the north wind blowing in his face. As the eleventh double hour approaches, the darkness begins to fade. At the end of the twelfth double hour, Gilgamesh emerges from the tunnel into the soft morning air and sunlight. He enters a magnificent garden filled with fruits and foliage the colors of carnelian, rubies and other jewels. Beyond the garden shines the sea. (Gilgamesh 31) this quote shows the symbolism of death and rebirth. When it gets dark, Gilgamesh's bad emotions begin to fade. The color black in Mesopotamian culture represents death, according to academia.edu. The color black, also known as ṣalmu “was considered inauspicious and associated with night, darkness and shadow” (Sinclair). The color white was known as BABBAR or peṣu and was "equivalent in value to the color white and was used to describe the concepts of light, brilliance, radiance, radiance, holiness, ritual purity and sometimes colorless. » (Sinclair) So, it can be said that according to a cultural understanding of colors and meaning, symbolism cannot be far away. Gilgamesh is remembered for his good things, even though at first he was not so virtuous. Why this quote is important is to understand the metaphor