The Epic of GilgameshProgram in values, technology, science and society, Stanford University, 1985 - 132 pages |
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Akkadian ancient animals Aruru Atra-hasis Babylonian period boat boatman Broad-Marted Uruk Bull Cedar Forest clay cuneiform curses deity double-hours he travelled double-hours they pitched dream Elders Enkidu Enkidu addressed Gilgamesh Enkidu spoke Enlil Epic of Gilgamesh Ereshkigal Euphrates face father favorable message Flood Story fragmentary fragments Friend Gilgamesh and Enkidu Gilgamesh Epic Gilgamesh spoke goddess gods hand harlot Humbaba Inanna Ishtar killed King Kish land lapis lazuli lines missing lion literary living Lugalbanda Mesopotamian literature message from Shamash meteorite mighty mother mountain mourn myth Neo-Assyrian Netherworld night Ninsun Ninurta Nippur Nisir Old Babylonian tablet passage Rimat-Ninsun roam the plains sadness deep saying seven Shamash Shepherd Shulgi Shuruppak sleep spoke to Enkidu spoke to Gilgamesh stone things Sumer Sumerian epic Sumerian King List Sumerian language tavern-keeper Temple translation Ur-Shanabi Uruk Uruk-the-Sheepfold Uta-napishtim walk wall Waters of Death wild ox Young