The First Ghosts by Finkel Irving

Author:Finkel, Irving [Finkel, Irving]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Published: 2021-11-10T16:00:00+00:00

Enk.

If I am to tell you about the Netherworld regulations

Sit you down, then, and weep!

Gilg.

I sit down then, and will weep.

Notice that there is no, ‘Here, Gilgamesh, your precious stick and puck!’ What does follow is a back-and-forth question-and-answer session in which Gilgamesh, impatient and insatiable for hard information about the fate of the dead, literally interrogates Enkidu. His servant is reluctant to divulge what he had seen, for he had witnessed pathetic scenes that he knew would reduce his master to tears. The questionnaire that emerges thus provokes our earliest view of dead Mesopotamians in the Mesopotamian Netherworld. The pattern runs,

Gilg.

Did you see the man who …

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