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-2100
Canon spine row 1. The Epic of Gilgamesh. Era: ~2100 BCE. Lang: Sumerian/Akkadian.
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What this book knows
Humanity's oldest story knows that friendship with death's witness transforms ambition into grief, and grief into the question of why we must die.
mortality
the episode between Gilgamesh and the maiden Sabitum is made the occasion for introducing reflections on the inevitable fate of mankind
THEEP-RC-030I will go, O Shamash, thy hands I seize hold of. When I shall have saved my life, Bring me back to the rampart in Erech.
THEEP-RC-075ambition-and-status
the woman instructs Enkidu in the further duty of living his life with the woman decreed for him, to raise a family, to engage in work, to build cities
THEEP-RC-034Enkidu becoming a guardian of flocks… the entire third column is taken up with this introduction of Enkidu to civilized life in a pastoral community
THEEP-RC-033grief
the kneeling attitude of prayer… symbolizes submission, as shown by Gilgamesh's defeat in the encounter with Enkidu, where Gilgamesh is forced to kneel
THEEP-RC-079the coming of Enkidu, conducted by the woman to the outskirts of Erech… Gilgamesh recounting his dreams directly to his mother
THEEP-RC-0126 published passages · book excerpt · research analysis
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