Gilgamesh The Spoof!

Gilgamesh The Spoof!
Created by: * ApilIshtar Etana, 2006-09-29 12:27:41

Gilgamesh

Gilgamesh The Spoof!

Gilgamesh is one of the oldest recorded stories in the world. It tells the story of an ancient King of Uruk, Gilgamesh, who may have actually existed, and whose name is on the Sumerian King List. The story of Gilgamesh, in various Sumerian versions, was originally widely known in the third millennium B.C. After a long history of retellings, this story was recorded, in a standardized Akkadian version, in the seventh century B.C., and stored in the famous library of King Assurbanipal.

Later, the story of Gilgamesh was lost to human memory, except for occasional fragments. The story was rediscovered in the mid-nineteenth century A.D., and made available in translation to German by the beginning of the twentieth century. People were especially amazed when they read this most ancient of stories, and realized that the flood story in Gilgamesh was a close analogue of the flood story in the Hebrew Bible.

But, was the version they read the real story? There was much lost in the telling, and retelling of this tale. So, let's help fill in these "holes" and tell the "real" story of Gilgamesh!

Gilgamesh and Enkidu

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