Gilgamesh Part 3: Crossing the Waters of Death
“Here is the epic of the fear of death.” Ranier Marie Rilke This program is the third and final episode in my telling of the ancient Sumerian myth of Gilgamesh, the hero-king of Uruk. When he was a young man he terrorized his people, but at the end of his story they say that Gilgamesh was wise, that he traveled the…
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