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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Exactly.
And then it doesn't sort of get better.
He then has to walk through a pitch black tunnel.
I can't remember if it's 12 hours or 12 double hours.
And then he exits onto this, you know, fantastical, supernatural world where the trees are studded with gemstones.
Oh, wow.
And he reaches the sea and speaks to an innkeeper named Shiduri, who also says, wow, you look like you're in a bad way.
Shiduri, yeah.
And she directs him to what are called the waters of death that you have to cross with a specific ferryman called Urshanabi, I think is his name, to reach Uttanapishti.
Yes, yeah, I would say.
I mean, I don't know when the Greek ones were forbidden.
No.
Oh, what?
Almost, but not quite.
So Uttanapishti basically takes one look at him and says, you're on the wrong quest.
He recounts the whole flood story, explains that Gilgamesh can't and shouldn't follow this path to immortality.
And he challenges Gilgamesh to stay awake for seven nights, which is incidentally the sort of length of various elements of the flood story, the sex marathon.
You know, seven days and seven nights is quite a big theme.
This conquering sleep is sort of like conquering death and Gilgamesh fails.
And I think he wakes up to seven loaves of bread that have been baked each day just to prove.
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