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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 […]
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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.