Dr. Moudhy Al-Rashid
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard 12 Jun
Dr. Moudhy Al-Rashid’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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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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So he's huge of understanding.
And Uta Napishti is his name in this story.
Yeah, I mean, I know there's a literary connection between the Atrahasis, earlier Atrahasis myth, and there is also a Sumerian flood story that's even earlier.
And the tablet in this Gilgamesh epic, which is tablet 11, that reprises this whole story.
And it tells us that, you know, in broad brushstrokes, the gods forgot basically to build death into human DNA.
And so population just explodes.
Yeah.
And it's just too loud.
And they're like, we can't sleep.
We got to get rid of these people.
So Enlil tries.
He sends down famines and plagues.
But Ea, well, he's called Enki in this earlier one.
But in this story, he's Ea.
Again, the mischievous god of wisdom who we've already talked about, he thwarts all these attempts.
So they decide to send down a deluge that will wipe out all life on earth.
And they make all the gods and goddesses swear an oath that they will not tell anybody about this.
They will not.
So Eya finds a workaround in that he, instead of telling Atrahasis in the old myth or Utanapishti in this one directly, he's talking to a wall, which is sort of how I feel when I'm talking to my children 90% of the time.
Yeah.
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