Gilgamesh

>Being Gilgamesh, minding my own business with my special bro Enkidu. The goddes Ishtar comes along. She wants my D.
>I say: Chill out. You screwed over all your previous lovers. Not sticking my dick in crazy.
>Bitch goes crying to his father. At first he's like "but he's right, you know".
>But he can't stand the crying and caves in. Sends on Earth a werebull to make a big mess and to kill me and my bro.
>The werebull makes a big mess killing hundreds with one hove powerattack. Enkidu tryes to stop him. Werebull waves his tail and covers bro with shit.
>Damn it, Enkidu, keep it together. We use tactics (two against one) and get the better of it. We kill werebull, brofist!
>Bitch Ishtar starts yelling at us, that it was completely uncool to kill her demon.
>Enkidu, my man, rips off the werebull's dick and throws it into her face.

How can Epic of Gilgamesh be so epic? Existentialism, humour, humanism. Them YHWH worshipping scribes were primitive barbarians and plagiarists.
I used to think culture and philosophy needed time to develop and Old Testament was a step forward.
But the Jews were just savage sheepfuckers. No sense of humour, no distance to themselves. They shouldn't have learned to write.
Fall of Babylon was dark ages before middle ages.

Gilgamesh thread.

Indeed the broest of tiers

Also

>When the gods created man they allotted to him death, but life they retained in their own keeping. As for you, Gilgamesh,
>fill your belly with good things; day and night, night and day, dance and be merry, feast and rejoice. Let your clothes be
>fresh, bathe yourself in water, cherish the little child that holds your hand, and make your wife happy in your embrace;
>for this is the task of mankind.

Carpe diem before it was a thing.

>not building giant-ass walls around your city

If you haven't done this, you've wasted your life.

The epic was reworked many times over through oral tradition before it was finally put to paper, or rather to tablet. Saw an interesting lecture explaining how the original gilgamesh was more brutish, how the enkidu/wild man angle belonged to a different tale, how humwawa was actually tricked unfairly and cruelly rather than fought, etc. The epic we know was written around 1300BC, at a period where the babylonian kassites had developed a far more refined and delicate culture and thus it was a tale tailored for a different audience. The original story was meant to have crafted in the 2400-2300BC era before akkad even gave mesopotamia a stable wider state. It was the era of first and second and third dynasties of lagash/kish/uruk/umma/etc. Literally the sumerian equivalent of the chink warring state period. There just wasn't that level of delicacy or appreciation for wit at the time.

Also from what I've read about cuneiform, sumerian was still very much evolving and they only recently put in their determinatives to distinguish one homophone from another on paper (tablet), and they were still trying to define themselves apart from akkadians & elamites who stole their pictogram system. Simply put, whatever the original tale was it was crafted at a time where the language itself was work in project. Oh and yeah I forget, they spoke akkadian in 1300BC so they literally had to translate the original on top, so some degree of adaptation had to have occured (even if only marginal).

I'm not trying to shit on your thread or gilgamesh btw, the exact same thing happened to homeric poetry. The troad war was in 1200-110OBC and phoenician alphabet only got converted to greek around 725BC. Also obvious athenian pandering/retouches among other things. Old epics are never quite that old, but the core story still gets to us somehow, at least there is this to feel grateful about.

>Fall of Babylon was dark ages before middle ages.
No, that was the bronze age collapse.

Eat, drink and be merry before it was a thing. You can totally see the sentiment of Ecclesiastes in that passage, and mankind has been grappling with nihilism for a long time it would seem.

Also the dark age of the bronze age was felt significantly less in mesopotamia and egypt respectively. As opposed to the greeks who got absolutely btfo. Usually the regions with the highest levels of literacy were the ones who end the transition to iron age better as a rule a thumb.

N.B. That doesnt mean they forcibly did well, or as good, once said transition is complete. I just know some autist is gonna come around and say "but muh iron deposits in egypt and babylon".

Not only that but it has important life messeages like living your life to the fullest and how every man is mortal no matter how divine and great they are
Fuck man, babylon was great

BEC was the best thing to ever happen to Mesopotamia, the fact Greece and other maritime nations got raped so hard ensured Mesopotamian nations had no challenge for almost the next millennium or so, pretty much until Alexander.