Dr. Moudhy Al-Rashid
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard 12 Jun
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You're Dead to Me · Epic of Gilgamesh: myths and heroes in ancient Mesopotamia · 13 Mar 2026
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I don't know.
I don't remember the number itself.
I just remember the ratio.
And that that might be what's built into Gilgamesh here as a reference to Ea, the mischievous god of wisdom.
Is he meant to be the father so that... No, so Ninsun, the mother of Gilgamesh, is the goddess.
That's the divine bit.
Oh, okay.
And it's a mortal dad.
So he is nine feet tall in the sun.
And in one translation by Sophos Hell, which is a gorgeous translation, he's 18 feet tall, which would be more of an inconvenience probably than anything else.
We do.
He's the tyrannical king of Uruk.
He violates brides on their wedding nights.
He exhausts the men and boys by forcing them to build a humongous wall, which is real, an archaeological wall, and play violent sports.
And finally, the women beg the gods and goddesses to create a match or an equal for Gilgamesh to challenge him and just calm this guy down, really.
Right.
Is it an opponent or a friend they're trying to create?
So the word can be translated as equal or match, but there's a lovely children's version of this.
I don't know how you write a children's version of this horrifying tale, where it's basically like he's lonely and miserable, and so he needs a friend.
Yeah, so who knows?
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