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"After his best friend, Enkidu, died, Gilgamesh sought the meaning of life, death and immortality."

I've seen people try to make a connection between Enkidu and Comet Encke.

From a brief scan of your link that would be improbable because the Gilgamesh tablets were reportedly discovered in the 19th century, while "The comet was first discovered on 1786 January.."

Anyway, I always liked Enkidu. Very funny how they tricked him out of 'the wild' to become Gilgamesh's bud. G was doing too much partying and 'prima nocta' (sp) and the locals wanted to get him (as a respectful offering) someone his own size to hang out with.

So to get the 'wild man' into town they sent a very intelligent, personable, witty, charming (=beautiful) houris into the woods to 'culturize' him, ha ha ha. After spending some days getting culturized, Enkidu found his friends in 'the wild' would run away. So he went to town and knocked heads with G. Very funny.

Nothing about a comet, stars, celestial bodies (earthly ones, yes) about Enki. Just a big, loyal guy for G to go drinking and whoring with, ha ha ha.