Gilgamesh

Gilgamesh has made a long and difficult journey to learn how Utnapishtim acquired eternal life. In answer to his questions, Utnapishtim tells the following story. Once upon a time, the gods destroyed the ancient city of Shuruppah in a great flood. But Utnapishtim, forewarned by Ea, managed to survive by building a great ship. His immortality was a gift bestowed by the repentant gods in recognition of his ingenuity and his faithfulness in reinstituting the sacrifice.

http://www-relg-studies.scu.edu/netcours/rs011/restrict/gilflood.htm

THE FLOOD NARRATIVE FROM THE GILGAMESH EPIC

Gilgamesh was an historical king of Uruk in Babylonia, on the River Euphrates in modern Iraq; he lived about 2700 B.C. Although historians (and your textbook) tend to emphasize Hammurabi and his code of law, the civilizations of the Tigris-Euphrates area, among the first civilizations, focus rather on Gilgamesh and the legends accruing around him to explain, as it were, themselves.

http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/MESO/GILG.HTM

Gilgamesh Summary

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HE WHO SAW EVERYTHING

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EPIC OF GILGAMESH TABLET I

 

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http://www.greatdreams.com/gil1.htm

THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH

http://www.ancienttexts.org/library/mesopotamian/gilgamesh/

http://eawc.evansville.edu/essays/brown.htm

Storytelling, the Meaning of Life, and The Epic of Gilgamesh

http://www.garone.net/tony/gilgamesh.html

The Epic of Gilgamesh: Musical Interpretion by Tony Garone

http://www.bomis.com/rings/gilgamesh

http://www.hist.unt.edu/ane-09.htm

http://solar-center.stanford.edu/folklore/gilgamesh.html

Gilgamesh and the Sun