From: Brian D Williams (talon57@well.com)
Date: Thu Oct 12 2000 - 08:19:09 MDT
From: "zeb haradon" <zebharadon@hotmail.com>
>I was surprised to learn that the earliest peice of literature in
>existence deals with the quest for human immortality on Earth.
>It's "The Epic of Gilgamesh", preserved in Cuneiform in clay
>tablets, readable but fragmented in parts. It's about a king whose
>best friend dies. He realizes he will die eventually too, and goes
>on a quest to search for the secret to immortality. It's from
>about 2000 BC. The stuff which is not about his immortality quest
>is interesting too. I'm going to name my first child "Gilgamesh".
>The whole text of the Epic:
>http://www.greatdreams.com/gil1.htm
>Summarized versions with info:
>http://www-relg-studies.scu.edu/netcours/hb/sess4/gilgames.htm
>http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/MESO/GILG.HTM
Thanks for the reminder, to bad the story of Gilgamesh wasn't a
Nam-Shub.
One tip though, if you're really so hot on the idea of Gilgamesh as
a name, change you're own, and spare your kid ALOT of playground
hassle.
Brian
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