Alex Bernard 9/5/12 F.Y.

Notes on: The Epic of Gilgamesh

Know thy self Gaia- Earth Mother Place in the cosmos Knowledge and self-awareness through death and penance Moriarty, 1st floor happy, basement where we store all our crap we dont want to remember.
Mesopotamia

Sumerians Ziggurat (temple, house of the patron god.) societies would spring up around them, king is also high priest. (Chaos hierarchy with the gods) Development of writing: Cuneiform (wedge hieroglyphs) Built an economy for their civilizations Akkads a relatively new civ dominate 2300 BCE then Babylonian empire in 2000 BCE then in the 1st millennium rise of the Assyrian Empire, dominant by 8th century BCE; Assyrian king Ashurbanipal- 669-627 BCE The epic was passed down by storyteller methods and was actually a true (as true as it can get in a time of superstition) story and it was actually finally written down, in the old Babylonian period, 2nd millennium. Sickness- demonic possession/divine retribution Ravens flight- dreams are messages from the divine Dr. who- power of a name.

God- Mummu-Tiamat, (think gods of Chaos!) Cleansing through flood. Nature sucks and they see it as divine anger Tiamat is a primordial soup where the cosmos is made; she is the source of the soil. <- glooskabe and malsum and the story of creation. Code of Hammurabi (c.1700 BCE) Pride Goethe before the fall Necessity of sleep shows the necessity of death Humans become self-conscious of its own awesomeness

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