“their greatest piece of literature is the epic of gilgamesh ”
“in particular the epic of gilgamesh twelfth century b c mesopotamian epoch ”
“about going into the wilderness in search of transcendents of a kind you know gilgamesh is looking for the ”
“to me you mentioned gilgamesh earlier what's so fascinating about gilgamesh is gilgamesh and the odyssey let's say they're they're two equal foundational epics ”
“gilgamesh is another right they all sort of map the hero's journey and i think we should read all of them ”
“asherah like the female gods of mesopotamia that we meet in gilgamesh and so on is quite sensual ”
“it's like the old testament gilgamesh and then all the way down through ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 3s
“you know the earliest known poetry actually is the epic of gilgamesh from mesopotamia ”
“the odyssey or harry potter or ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 2s
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