Gigamesh
Date Submitted: 06/02/2004 11:29:20
Category: / Society & Culture / Religion
Length: 4 pages (1128 words)
Category: / Society & Culture / Religion
Length: 4 pages (1128 words)
Like all epics, Gilgamesh contains both historical and mythic elements in all its versions, and is meant to be interpreted on several levels. In addition to its very human themes of friendship, courage, the problem of death, and the meaning of life, it is also an initiatory tale about the quest for enlightenment, the revelation of divine mysteries, the duality of man, and the evolutionary unfolding of our spiritual nature. The physical composition of the …
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…emotional overtones that reflect the Sumarian religions of the era.
Epic of Gilgamesh translation. by N.K. Sanders, Penguin Books, The Penguin Classics series.
The Epic of Gilgamesh , translation. by Maureen Gallery Kovacs, Stanford University Press.
Sacred Narrative Edited by Alan Dundes University of California Press.
Sumerian Mythology by Christopher Siren, 1992, 1994, 2000
Storytelling, the Meaning of Life, and The Epic of Gilgamesh Arthur A. Brown
The Encyclopaedia Britannica Overview and Summary of "The Epic of Gilgamesh"
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