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An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic
Morris Jastrow
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I saw lions and was afraid.”98
He prays to Sin and Ishtar to protect and save him. When, therefore, in another passage some one celebrates Gilgamesh as the one who overcame the “guardian,” who dispatched Ḫu(m)baba in the cedar forest, who killed lions and overthrew the bull,99 we have the completion of the process which transferred to Gilgamesh exploits and powers which originally belonged to Enkidu, though ordinarily the process stops short at making Gilgamesh a sharer in the exploits; with the natural tendency, to be sure, to enlarge the share of the favorite.
We can now understand why the two heroes are described in the Pennsylvania tablet as alike, as born in the same place, aye, as brothers. Gilgamesh in the Epic is merely a reflex of Enkidu. The latter is the real hero and presumably, therefore, the older figure.100 Gilgamesh resembles Enkidu, because he is originally Enkidu. The . . . Read More
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گیلگمش در ابتدای حماسه، وقتی همچون کودکی خردسال از جهان و معماهای جهان فارغ است، مردی است تنومند، دو سومش خدا و یک سومش انسان، با نشاط و سرشار از سلامتی و زورمندی، با کمربندهای مرصع و دستبندهای طلا و سهمی ثابت از نخستین شب هر دختری که در شهرش «اوروک» ازدواج می‌کرد. پادشاهی که از فرط استغنا به
He Who Saw The Deep: A Hymn to Survival
The Gilgamesh epic is one of the great masterpieces of world literature. One of the early translations so inspired the poet Rainer Maria Rilke in 1916 that he became almost intoxicated with pleasure and wonder, and repeated the story to all he met. 'Gilgame
Am citit epopeea în două traduceri: una veche din perioada interbelică (Casa Școalelor, „Biblioteca istoriei religiunilor”, 1921, versiune realizată de Ioan Mihălcescu după traducerea germană a lui Arthur Ungnad, 1911), și alta în antologia cu titlul Gîndirea asiro-babiloniană în texte, publicată în
”The one who saw the abyss I will make the land know;
Of him who knew all, let me tell the whole story
...in the same way...
Is there a king like him anywhere?
Who like Gilgamesh can boast, ‘I am the king!’
From the day of his birth Gilgamesh was called by name.”
An exorcist priest named Sin-Leqi-Unni
“I will reveal to you a mystery, I will tell you a secret of the gods.”
There is something very humbling about reading stories written more than 4,000 years ago. One of the most fascinating things about The Epic of Gilgamesh is how you can easily see the influence it has had on Homer and Judeo-C
"لأنه ليس من قدر الإنسان أن يحيا إلى الأبد ولكن لإنجازاته أن تخلد اسمه للأجيال اللاحقة"
"As for human beings, their days are numbered, and only their achievements that could establish their name to the latter generations."
The oldest discovered "truly literature" epic ever in history, the immortal o