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
But Enkidu is not so keen.
They go on a quest, effectively, to kill the guardian of the cedar forest, Khumbaba.
So these forests are in what is now Lebanon and devastatingly less than 1% of the original cedar forest remains.
And real kings did go into these forests and get timber to build their palaces, to build their thrones, etc.
So that is their first side quest.
It's a different one.
This one they have to travel to and it takes them quite a while to get there, although they cover huge distances in a matter of days.
Well, I mean, he is described as his equal, but they don't give his proportions.
They just say he is big and dazzling and all these other things.
Yes.
He's terrifying.
So he's quite dragon.
He is a mix of things.
That's spot on.
There's fire that comes from his his lips from an earlier Sumerian version of this exact same story.
They write his pugnacious mouth is a dragon's maw.
His face is a lion's grimace.
His chest is like a raging flood.
No one dare approach his brow, which devours the reed beds.
So during and after the battle, Enkidu and Gilgamesh are not sure why they've done it, why they've taken on this monster and killed him.
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