![]() As his tyranny becomes unbearable, the women complain to the gods who disapprove of his actions. Gilgamesh is a great warrior but he intimidates the people of Uruk, capturing and violating brides on their wedding nights. ![]() This may remind Indian readers of the concept of Saptarishi. These sages, as mentioned in the poem, founded the city of Uruk. ![]() Gods, according to Babylonian mythology, sent the seven sages to build the Mesopotamian civilization. The poem tells the tale of King Gilgamesh, whose mother is a cow, the clever goddess Ninsun. Here I will explore three major aspects of the poem: the narrative of the epic itself the story of its loss and erasure from public memory for some two thousand years and finally its retrieval in the 19th century. Composed nearly four millennia ago in Mesopotamia (roughly equivalent to modern Iraq and Syria), The Epic of Gilgamesh is one of the world’s oldest written poems. They lie at the heart of this ancient work. Death and quest for immortality have fascinated poets and storytellers for centuries. But for him, it was first and foremost a poem about the fear of death. The great Babylonian epic inspired Rilke so much that he enthusiastically repeated the story to everyone he met. ![]() ‘Gilgamesh,’ said the renowned German poet Rainer Maria Rilke in 1916, ‘is stupendous’. ![]()
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