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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Yeah.
So they're just like, no, we can smell that you've changed.
Yeah, or Enkidu sort of shows up to Uruk.
Oh, the other way around.
Yeah, yeah.
So Enkidu's told that Gilgamesh is kind of demanding this right to sleep with brides on their wedding night, and they meet on the threshold of one of these brides' houses and start wrestling.
The verb is itzabtu, they take hold of her, they seize each other, which is the same phrase used later when they embrace.
And it's also a phrase used for marriage in other sources.
Seize someone in marriage, which is very romantic.
And they turn out to be equally matched.
They kiss and make friends.
And Gilgamesh caresses Enkidu like a woman.
There's some really interesting imagery being used and, you know, quite direct, I would say.
Yeah, I think there's definitely a romantic love.
And they tell us this with a lot of language, like he's going to love him like a bride.
They caress each other.
They kiss.
Later in the story, it gets reprised in different ways.
So I think matches, maybe it's, I don't know if it was deliberately vague, but I think our translation is nicely vague because it covers all the bases really of what their relationship takes on.
Yeah.
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