Tablet V - The Epic Of Gilgamesh

in Sumerian Academy3 years ago

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'A slippery path is not feared by two people who help eachother.'
--The Epic Of Gilgamesh, Tablet V

http://www.ancienttexts.org/library/mesopotamian/gilgamesh/tab5.htm

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Translated in 1998, fragments remain.

The story about Gilgamesh King of Uruk and his friend Enkidu.

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TABLET I

"He who has seen everything, I will make known (?) to the lands.
I will teach (?) about him who experienced all things,
... alike,
Anu granted him the totality of knowledge of all.
He saw the Secret, discovered the Hidden,
he brought information of (the time) before the Flood."

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( Art by Sina Hayati Source")


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Until both of them slip away

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Enkidu and Gilgamesh. Characters out of the earliest
Mesopotamian creation story cycle called the Enuma Elish.

http://earlyworldhistory.blogspot.com/2012/03/gilgamesh.html

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