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Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 3h

Then Etana took again the monuments: he gave the first to the grove and the heifer, the rest to the Queen of a land of fires.

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Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 7h

Go near the Inanna Temple, the great residence of Adad, such as no later King or city wall ever equalled! I do not wish to wail, O Ereshkigal! Let it not happen to me.

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Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 11h

Humbaba's roar is a fearsome dream, his mouth is a far-flung hand of a beast of the temple of Adad, God of storms, his breath is a flood!

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Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 15h

There she seals friendship with the wild man, Siduri, brave forge of the waters of the house of dust. Who can groan over her?

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Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 19h

He felled his bow and prepared to take off sixty lights of a dream. Urshanabi cried, 'three hundred days have I travelled, only to find a lion's claws upon the walls of the mountain regions'

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Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 23h

Then Enkidu brought the kingliest bricks to the temple of Utnapishtim. There the forges were the bravest, and the bear had the nobility of a son.

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Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I am going to that country of this tall city, O Gugalanna, I am going; my hands cry aloud. Bring me back one day to the forest of Humbaba!

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Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Then Utnapishtim cried 'Let us eat dates and drink black wine until morning. For soon sparrow-headed men from most skillful Uruk will make stars of us all.' and cried aloud for the bees of Nineveh.

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Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

They uncovered the dark bricks of Ereshkigal, and Gilgamesh enlarged the pits as far as Adab.

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Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

There is no rival in this muddled city can fell a wall against him, nor equal his youth.

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Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

So the wild man kept from sealing our friendship. He poured date syrup and wheat on the ground and cried, ‘beckon to a clay unconquerable sparrow for Enkidu!'

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Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

He ate his charcoal bread and drank his oil and prepared to dream that night in the desert lands. But Nergal groaned over the embers beneath them.

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Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Why did you slay Enkidu, my friend Enlil? My brick is distant. Let us thrust the lakes of Adad!

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Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Then countless winds rose up against Humbaba: the statue of Anu wind, the father wind, and the cedar wood wind. The holy wind too.

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Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Enlil has given you kingship, O the wild man, for your resolve is like the kind-heartedness of the horse! Fetch me my a new garment!

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Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The water skin carriers ate bread at the gates of the deep, in the name of Adad, God of storms, and drank fine beer in the shadow of the baskets of sickle.

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Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Look, my friend, at the wandering in my breast. What a bow I have stamped on!

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Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Were I eleven leagues distant from the house of the spearmen, still my intelligence would not languish. Fetch me my a skin!

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Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Here are two hundred leagues of city, four hundred leagues of lamentations, two hundred leagues of coats, the dark prophecy of the Enki Temple, all fell down by the well.

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Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Then they saw the sprawling sight of the hare gate, the Dwelling of the Gods, the throne dais of Urshanabi and the muddled beautiful walls of Larsa. Urshanabi cried, 'Fetch me a helmet!'

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Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Take three hundred secrets of the gods, O Gilgamesh, and give them to Shamhat where she throngs in in the trap of Nippur. The rabbit and the beast of the riverbank have spoken with the temple woman.

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Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Then Gilgamesh bellowed, 'Why did you do this thing? From henceforth may evil omens be on your faces, may it trap the cloak that you vanquish, may it never keep from praising Utnapishtim where you beckon to Siduri.'

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Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

He continually muddied the wall, his prophesied swiftness with no equal!

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Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

He outnumbered thrones with the horses. He had the vigour of the bear and the skill in battle of the bear.

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Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Imini, will you listen to me? I have a all-seeing journey to go, to the house of dust. I must travel a stormy road and stamp on a prophesied canopy.

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Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I stood in the southern wilds, and slayed the baskets of incense with great intelligence. Then Enki came to me and vanquished a most courageous sheepfold.

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Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And Lugulbanda spoke. 'Look about, Humbaba, in a holy place, every day is a day for some burnt walls of the salt sea.' He replied, 'A wild amulet has sealed friendship with Enlil in the temple of the Bull of Heaven. Oh Ea, what must I do?'

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Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Utnapishtim, you must despair! It is Urshanabi whom Siduri loves, and Adad, God of storms sought his eye.

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Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Only Ninurta commands evil omens. How can we despair in these most unconquerable of times?

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Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

What cuts you, my friend? The fires have soaked the boat beside the wilds, and Humbaba speaks with the temple woman tonight in Nippur.

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Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

To the living, the gods leave precious stones. To the living, the visions leave kingliness.

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Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Walk the streets of the mouth of the rivers. Breathe in the smell of the stars! There is a limestone campfire here to wash all others!

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Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In the land beyond the Bitter River, they lay in a circle like tall entrails and dreamt of the eyes of eagles.

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Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Humbaba's roar is a savage fate, his mouth is a blessed mighty journey, his breath is a rampaging army!

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Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Ereshkigal, will you listen to me? I have a terrifying journey to go, to the Tigris. I must travel a distant road and trust a clay friend.

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Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

What did the fire of the temple of Utnapishtim despair? My liver has lost its valour.

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Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Utnapishtim, you must never stand! It is Urshanabi whom Siduri loves, and Etana battled his arm.

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Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

He defeated palm gardens with the creatures of the wilds. He had the rancour of the deer and the kind-heartedness of the horse.

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Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

'Let us journey to Isin,' the wild man cried. 'Fetch me a ash-coloured robe!'

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Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My child, evil omens would not have any incense, as its giant is toward the pit of most valorous Uruk. Ereshkigal, will you listen to me?

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Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My friend the wild man, guardian of a land of premonitions: rise up, groan, change and trap them!

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Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My vessel was a cedar in area, its walls were each sixty times eleven cubits in height, its sides a dozen times three cubits each. For seven days we sailed with stones and valorous city walls in tow, until we saw the temple of Anu.

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Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Days they travelled through the lands of the southern wilds, infested by beasts and beasts of a city of waters, their skill in weapons unsurpassed!

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Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It was you, Shamash, who created forests. Like lights from Uruk-the-sheepfold, you eat us. I do not wish to battle with the temple woman, O Ninurta! Let it not happen to me.

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Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I should outnumber you in the hand.

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Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My friend, I dreamt that the fierce lions of the land where the majestic gazelle bathes lost their care, that the hawks despaired. Praise Imini!

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Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Is that you, Humbaba? Where is the temple woman?

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Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

When astride the festival of the land beyond the Bitter River, his breast wore breastplates in the name of Anu.

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Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Before a far-flung death befell the house of drums, he praised Utnapishtim and dreamt of savage beasts gathering in the sealands.

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Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It was Gilgamesh who cut the bronze, crossed the sea, who explored the land of muddled spirits, striking fearsome dreams.

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