Tag: gilgamesh
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Who are Gilgamesh and Enkidu?
from kimgraaemunch.wordpress.com: “There are at least two levels or stories in this epos. There is the story about two human beings and their endeavors, and there is the story about mankind, where Enkidu symbolizes the sentient soul and Gilgamesh the Mind soul, the Ego. On the personal plane we learn through Enkidu the descent into…
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Gilgamesh Is Nimrod
Nimrod is a derisive label put on a man who rebelled against god and used by those who follow god (YHVH).
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gilgamesh & search for life, part 2
In the Epic of Gilgamesh, part 1, the semi-divine Sumerian King made a hasty retreat from ‘The Landing Place’ in the Cedar Mountains after Inanna asked Anu to send the Bull of Heaven to smite the King for rebuffing her.The Bull is slain by Enkidu after catching up with Gilgamesh and his android companion, outside…
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Gilgamesh & the Search for the ‘Landing Place’, Part 1
Who needs a television action hero when the Epic of Gilgamesh supplies the real thing? Gilgamesh, the fifth king of Uruk, a Sumerian city-state circa 2500 BC, fulfills any reader’s need for epic adventure.