The Epic of Gilgamesh is a Babylonian poem composed in ancient Iraq, millennia before Homer. It tells the story of Gilgamesh, king of the city of Uruk. To curb his restless and destructive energy, the ...

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There’s a wild man wandering the desert and there’s a woman. She has what he doesn’t: language and sex and utensils for eating food. Untamed Enkidu meets the priestess of sacred sexuality Shamhat on ...

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TWO-thirds god, one-third man — Gilgamesh, King of the Sumerian city of Uruk, with an enviable physical structure, transcendent valor, and unparalleled wisdom holds the prelude of the most ancient ...

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‘Gilgamesh,’ said the renowned German poet Rainer Maria Rilke in 1916, ‘is stupendous’. The great Babylonian epic inspired Rilke so much that he enthusiastically repeated the story to everyone he met.