Marjolein Robertson

Because in Hattusa, is that right?

Hattusa, yeah.

Hattusa, sorry.

Their capital.

There was the, but beside it, they called it like a liminal space where they had this like water going into this tunnel.

And they thought it was something to do with like a passage into another realm or that kind of wisdom.

is an interpretation in archaeology which is the classic we don't know we don't know ritual could be ritual ritual could be ritual like that's where we washed our hands yes so strike that from my notes that's lovely yeah yes because the Hittites would come along later I suppose the Hittites are they're around the same time yeah and they are using cuneiform as well so the myth does travel and they have versions of the Gilgamesh epic although I don't know when they date when they're dated yeah they were like he was three foot five yeah

It's like, yoink, goes straight over to Eden.

It's like, yo, Eve.

Try some of this apple.

I would like to point out that he went to this adventure where he killed...

special forest guardian, his best friend died, killed the bull of heaven, offended so many gods, troubled all these different people.

And it feels like when he got out of the city, he just said, you know what, guys, let's be peaceful.

And the women of the city were like, this is what we said from day one.

The women were like, we were always like, let's be peaceful.

Yes.

I do remember the end bit of the story was that the secrets that he learns is to build structures that stand for all time, have a lineage of offspring that carry on your bloodline and have great stories that are told forevermore.

Because those walls of Uruk are still standing.

Did he build those walls before or after the adventure?

Because it sounded like before he was working the men and the boys to the bone.