#gilgaposting

[spineless-lobster]

Bitches love me for my ancient literature memes

[freshminttea]

"my friend who I love so dear, who with me went through every danger, my friend Enkidu, whom I love so dear, who with me went through every danger:

"the doom of mortals overtook him. Six days I wept for him and seven nights. I did not surrender his body for burial, until a maggot dropped from his nostril."

-Epic of Gilgamesh, Tablet X

[umbralundertaker]

Its funny when you're reading a translation of gilgamesh (or other cuneiform) thats light on liberties/assumptions so it has huge holes and gives you a headache to read and theres a little note that says 'tablet becomes fragmentary' like yeah I could fucking tell actually

[sinful-cypress]

if effects last longer than 7 days and 7 nights, contact your local ziggurat priest

[mcaelius]

[dykebeckett]

excited to give a presentation on the epic of gilgamesh tomorrow with this image as the last slide in my powerpoint

gilgamesh time

[spineless-lobster]

“I want a story where sex is integral to the plot and not just for the camera” HALT! Look no further than the hit 13th to 10th century BCE clay tablet poem The Epic of Gilgamesh where enkidu has sex for about one to two weeks straight and if that never happened then there would be absolutely no story at all

[spineless-lobster]

I DREW BABY ENKIDU BECAUSE I THOUGHT OF HIM EARLIER AND COULD NOT GET THIS IMAGE OF HIM OUT OF MY HEAD!!!!! I LOVE MY SON!!!!!

(Sketch under cut hehe)