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Epic and Gilgamesh
It had a water aqueduct, palaces and a library with 20, 000 clay tablets, including accounts of a creation in Enuma Elish and a flood in the Epic of Gilgamesh.
* The Flood Tablet, relating part of the famous Epic of Gilgamesh
File: BM ; ANE-RM 55, Cuneiform Tablets Display. 1. JPG | Room 55-Cuneiform Collection, including the Epic of Gilgamesh
Tablet containing a fragment of the Epic of Gilgamesh
The Epic of Gilgamesh, for example, or the Bhagavata Purana would obviously not contain this element ).
** Epic of Gilgamesh ( Mesopotamian mythology )
Flutes are also mentioned in a recently translated tablet of the Epic of Gilgamesh, an epic poem whose development spanned the period of approximately 2100-600 BCE.
In The Epic of Gilgamesh, Gilgamesh was said to have destroyed a tree that was in a sacred grove dedicated to the goddess Ishtar / Inanna / Asherah.
Tablet from the Library of Ashurbanipal containing part of the Epic of Gilgamesh
Among the findings were the Enuma Elish, also known as the Epic of Creation, which depicts a traditional Babylonian view of creation, the Epic of Gilgamesh, a large selection of " omen texts " including Enuma Anu Enlil which " contained omens dealing with the moon, its visibility, eclipses, and conjunction with planets and fixed stars, the sun, its corona, spots, and eclipses, the weather, namely lightning, thunder, and clouds, and the planets and their visibility, appearance, and stations ", and astronomic / astrological texts, as well as standard lists used by scribes and scholars such as word lists, bilingual vocabularies, lists of signs and synonyms, and lists of medical diagnoses.
One of the most famous of these was the Epic of Gilgamesh, in twelve books, translated from the original Sumerian by a certain Sin-liqe-unninni, and arranged upon an astronomical principle.
The earliest written flood myth is found in the Mesopotamian Epic of Atrahasis and Epic of Gilgamesh texts.
Martin West has noted substantial parallels between the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Odyssey.
Poetry has a long history, dating back to the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh.
The oldest surviving epic poem is the Epic of Gilgamesh, from the 3rd millennium BC in Sumer ( in Mesopotamia, now Iraq ), which was written in cuneiform script on clay tablets and, later, papyrus.
Examples of epic poems are Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Virgil's Aeneid, the Nibelungenlied, Luís de Camões ' Os Lusíadas, the Cantar de Mio Cid, the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Mahabharata, Valmiki's Ramayana, Ferdowsi's Shahnama, Nizami ( or Nezami )' s Khamse ( Five Books ), and the Epic of King Gesar.
* In the Epic of Gilgamesh, priestess Shamhat, a temple prostitute, tamed wild Enkidu after " six days and seven nights.
Some of the earliest references include the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Bible ( Ezekiel 47: 5, Acts 27: 42, Isaiah 25: 11 ), Beowulf, and other sagas.
The Epic of Gilgamesh is a similar quest for immortality.
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These early levels were sealed off with a sterile deposit that was interpreted by excavators of the 1920s as evidence for the Great Flood of the book of Genesis and Epic of Gilgamesh.

Epic and myth
Apart from administration and accountancy, Mesopotamian scribes observed the sky and wrote literary works as well as the famous myth The Epic of Gilgamesh.
The story of Utnapishtim, the hero of the flood myth, can also be found in the Babylonian Epic of Atrahasis.
This account matches the flood story that concludes the Epic of Atrahasis ( see also Gilgamesh flood myth ).
In myth and literature, Uruk was famous as the capital city of Gilgamesh, hero of the Epic of Gilgamesh.
The Epic of Atrahasis provides additional information on the flood and flood hero that is omitted in Gilgamesh XI and other versions of the Ancient Near East flood myth.
The Babylonian myth of Utnapishtim ( meaning " He found life ", presumably in reference to the gift of immortality given him by the gods ) is matched by the earlier Epic of Atrahasis, and by the Sumerian version, the Epic of Ziusudra.
Further discoveries produced several versions of the Mesopotamian flood myth, with the account that is closest to that in " Genesis 6 – 9 " found in a 700 BCE Babylonian copy of the Epic of Gilgamesh.
The Epic of Gilgamesh, a masterpiece of ancient Babylonian poetry, was found in the library as was the Enûma Eliš creation story, and myth of Adapa the first man, and stories such as the Poor Man of Nippur.

Epic and character
The 1996 pilot to the TV series Tarzan: The Epic Adventures also features Pellucidar, as well as the character Jana from the book Tarzan at the Earth's Core.
He writes in the Southern Gothic aesthetic in his distinctly Faulknerian 1965 debut, The Orchard Keeper, and Suttree ( 1979 ); in the Epic Western tradition, with grotesquely drawn characters and symbolic narrative turns reminiscent of Melville, in Blood Meridian ( 1985 ), which Harold Bloom styled " the greatest single book since Faulkner ’ s As I Lay Dying ," calling the character of Judge Holden " short of Moby Dick, the most monstrous apparition in all of American literature "; in a much more pastoral tone in his celebrated Border Trilogy ( 1992 – 98 ) of bildungsromans, including All the Pretty Horses ( 1992 ), winner of the National Book Award ; and in the post-apocalyptic genre in the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Road ( 2007 ).
In 1761 he announced the discovery of an epic on the subject of Fingal ( related to the Irish mythological character Fionn mac Cumhaill / Finn McCool ) written by Ossian ( based on Fionn's son Oisín ), and in December he published Fingal, an Ancient Epic Poem in Six Books, together with Several Other Poems composed by Ossian, the Son of Fingal, translated from the Gaelic Language, written in the musical measured prose of which he had made use in his earlier volume.
The new decade found Starlin creating an expansive story titled " the Metamorphosis Odyssey ", which introduced the character of Vanth Dreadstar in Epic Illustrated # 3.
The earliest recorded example of the type is the character Enkidu in the ancient Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh.
On September 21, 2004, Atari released in stores the " Editor's Choice Edition " of Unreal Tournament 2004 which adds 3 vehicles, 4 Onslaught maps, and 6 character skins to the original game, and also contains several mods developed by the community as selected by Epic Games.
This is significant since Ptah is a parallel for Noah in that, as the Blacksmith-God of Thebes ( Hephaistos-Vulcan ), he is the equivalent of the Phoenician Craftsman-God Khousor, which is Ugaritic Kṯr, Kothar, Kothar-wa-Khasis, " The-Very-Skillful-and-Intelligent-One ," which is the same character as the Sumero-Akkadian Noahs: Utnapishtim ( in the Gilgamesh Epic ), Atra-Ḫasīs, and Ziusudra ( Khousor = Ptah at Ugarit ).
That year also saw the character return to Epic Comics for a two issue series pitting the Marshal against Clive Barker's Pinhead character.
He first appeared as a character in the Epic Hellraiser comics series and was portrayed as an older man, though still a creator of toys and singing birds.
In deleted scenes from the original Battlestar Galactica TV pilot movie, " Saga of a Star World " ( on the DVD collection Battlestar Galactica: The Complete Epic Series ), Cassidy can be heard providing temporary voice tracks of the Cylon Imperious Leader, before actor Patrick Macnee was contracted to voice the character.
Entertainment features and events at " Last Tour To Endor " included George Lucas, character appearances, Jedi Training Academy, Death Star Disco, Bespin Stage Dance Party, Raiders Of The Lost Jedi Temple of Doom: A Fan Film of Epic Proportions live show, Hyperspace Hoopla, Symphony in the Stars fireworks, and the Star Tours shutdown ceremony.
In 2010, Epic Games held a vote-by-purchase event between July 29 and September 6 to determine the fate of a character, Clayton Carmine, in their upcoming game Gears of War 3.
Enkidu, a main character in the Babylonian poem " The Epic of Gilgamesh " can be considered a parahuman.
" G4TV editor Yodapollo listed Lakitu's first appearance as one of the " Epic Fail Videogame Levels ," commenting that he " cannot come up with a single other videogame character who comes close to being half as annoying as Lakitu.
Siduri is a character in the Epic of Gilgamesh.
Captain Epic, the lead character of Team Epic, a comedic Canadian television and web series is a parody of Captain Canuck and other traditional Canadian superheros both in costume and character traits.
The character appears in various Hellraiser comics and received his own comic miniseries, entitled Pinhead, published by Marvel Comics ' Epic Comics imprint.
) is the name of a female character who appears in Tablets I / and II of the Epic of Gilgamesh -( and later in Tablet VII ).
Epic portrayals of American history in the 19th century were more the product of New England's historiographic traditions coupled with German historical thought, treating national character as a historical agent, rather than a historical result, as Ramsay suggests.
He was the father of Sundiata Keita, founder of the Mali Empire, and a character in the oral tradition of the Epic of Sundiata.

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