Gilgamesh: A Verse NarrativeStory of a great king and his doomed friend passed on by the Babylonians. |
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afraid Afterword by John AMERICAN LIBRARY Ancient Near Eastern animals Babylonian Biblical boatman Bull of Heaven called cedar creatures cried cuneiform darkness dead dream English Enlil Epic of Gilgamesh eternal eyes face fear felt flood forest gamesh Gilga Gilgamesh and Enkidu Gilgamesh Epic Gilgamesh story goddess gods grief hand Harvard heard HERBERT MASON Homer human immortality Ishtar journey King List knew known learned listened lived loneliness loss lost Louis Massignon Massignon MENTOR BOOKS MENTOR Titles Mesopotamia money order-no currency mountain MYTHS never night Nineveh Ninsun old story pain prostitute retelling scholars sea of death seemed Shamash shore sleep sound Steppe stood Sumerian king Sumerian King List Sumerian Mythology tablets Tell texts things Thorkild Jacobsen thou thought told touch translated by W. H. D. trees understand Urshanabi Utnapishtim Verse Narrative W. H. D. Rouse wife wisdom wound yearn