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Gilgamesh and the Bull of Heaven Picture source He has seen everything, had experienced all emotions, from exaltation to despair, had been granted a vision into the great mystery, the secret places, the primeval days before the Flood. He had journeyed to the edge of the world and made his way back, exhausted but whole. […]
I waffled on whether or not to have a separate post on Gilgamesh: A Novel by Joan London and finally decided to do so. I happened to stumble across this book at my local library when I was checking out the epic and thought I would give it a try. Unfortunately I never really connected […]
Picture source(which has additional online links) I won’t go much into recapping the story since I think I’ve provided some summaries and study guides in this post. So instead I’ll focus on a few of the points in the story that interested me. Upon first reading the story, I found parts of it contradictory at […]
I never imagined there would be so many sites that focused on the epic of Gilgamesh, the story of a 28th century BC king. What follows is only a small portion of what is available. Wikipedia’s entry on the epic of Gilgamesh Texts for the epic: From Project Gutenberg, which has “an old Babylonian Version […]