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First: the translator includes a description of Nisaba as the goddess of corn. Why? Everything I’ve read has described her as a goddess of GRAIN, specifically. Corn didn’t exist in Mesopotamia 5 thousand years ago. Am I missing something?
Second: interesting how the story sets up Gilgamesh as the villain right away. Enkidu is a savior of the people, a “hero” by their own words. Gilgamesh is a rapist.
— 22 hours, 17 min ago
Second: interesting how the story sets up Gilgamesh as the villain right away. Enkidu is a savior of the people, a “hero” by their own words. Gilgamesh is a rapist.
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Blake Strider
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Again, this is very interesting. Gilgamesh leaves to go rape a newlywed woman, and Enkidu - the beast man from the wilderness, raised by a prostitute and shepherds - blocks Gilgamesh from entering. Gilgamesh claims divine right of kings, but Enkidu is the Gods attempt to humble Gilgamesh. But also interesting is that all Gilgamesh needed was to meet his match. Right here, the grapple at the doorway and they’re bffs
— 22 hours, 6 min ago
Blake Strider
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Third: of all the translations I’ve read of Sumerian work - not that much tbh - I’ve noticed that they write in, like, a circular pattern? Dialogue, in particular. Gilgamesh relays his dream to his mother, who rephrases his statements back in her answers, and it’s CONSTANT. I wonder why they wrote like that.
Fourth: the harlot that civilizes Enkidu is interesting as well; prostitution was a religious practice.
— 22 hours, 12 min ago
Fourth: the harlot that civilizes Enkidu is interesting as well; prostitution was a religious practice.
