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- Sat Apr 12, 2014 12:21 pm
- Forum: 3.0. Hypothesis Three: Dating the Development of Consciousness
- Topic: Gilgamesh Stories
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Re: Gilgamesh Stories
Thank you for your prompt reply--which was far more timely than this reply to your reply. I would like to respond to your point #2. As I'm sure you know, many different versions (most quite fragmentary) of The Epic of Gilgamesh are extant. You are correct that the "standard version" (and m...
- Sun Mar 23, 2014 1:22 pm
- Forum: 3.0. Hypothesis Three: Dating the Development of Consciousness
- Topic: Gilgamesh Stories
- Replies: 3
- Views: 22095
Gilgamesh Stories
In "Gilgamesh and the Land of the Living," Gilgamesh says: "In my city man dies, oppressed is the heart,/ Man perishes, heavy is the heart,/ I peered over the wall,/ Saw the dead bodies floating in the river's waters,/ As for me, I too will be served thus, verily it is so!" (S. N...