Dr. Moudhy Al-Rashid

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840 appearances 4 recordings 2 series 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 podcast
Okay.
So the gods create Enkidu from clay and divine blood.
There's a really beautiful description.
He's born in silence.
In other words, not with the cries of childbirth.
He's at first a wild man.
He's described as being very hairy and almost animal-like.
And he lives among the animals, the gazelles.
And he causes grief to hunters because he's constantly foiling their traps and rescuing the animals.
Yeah.
So Gilgamesh learns about this when the hunters complain, effectively.
He learns about Enkidu from the complaints.
Exactly.
Yeah, so Gilgamesh sends a woman called Shamchat to seduce Enkidu, effectively.
She's a temple worker, maybe a sex worker, a priestess of Ishtar.
We're not really sure how to translate the word that's used to describe her, Ishtar being the goddess of love and war.
And they have sex for seven days and seven nights, possibly more.
Oh, wow.
Afterwards, she becomes civilized and the animals actually reject him after this.
No way.
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