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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But I think the most beautiful translation I've read is by Sophus Howell.
A very accessible translation with some wonderful essays as well.
Fabulous.
And there was a new scene discovered.
Is that right?
Yes, from Tablet 5, about five or six years ago, maybe a bit longer.
Yeah, I think it was the sex scene, actually.
Filled some blanks in.
Yeah.
Seven days.
Utnapishtim.
The epic of Gilgamesh has meant and will mean different things to me throughout my life.
It's about power, grief, community, death, love.
But right now, as we watch one interconnected crisis after another unfold, I want to tell you what I think it could mean in this moment.
Khumbaba was the guardian of the cedar forest, appointed by the god Enlil to keep the ancient cedars safe.
He had the face of a raging lion, he breathed fire, his cry was a deluge.
In ancient Mesopotamia, people sometimes used sheep entrails to predict the future, and one omen says that intestines shaped like Khumbaba's face foretell the arrival of a usurper king.
Imagine the face of this monster, like the coiled intestines of a dying animal, slippery, bloody, palpitating.
I used to wonder why create such a terrifying creature to guard trees.
Like many of you, I bear witness daily to the destruction of a once thriving world to line the pockets of a handful of people with already full pockets.
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