[Archaea]

I urge to re-read the story of Gilgamesh, it is actually quite moving how the selfish Gilgamesh upon the death of his friend Enkidu seeks out a path of wisdom by the head God.

The poet for which we have the majority of the legend wrote his Poem more than a millenium after the historical king about whom the legend was generated. The poet-priest Sin-leqi-unninni writes beautifully about his city which we now view in the past. The king lived or died approximately 2750 BCE and its first forms were found in Sumerian written around 2100 BCE, but the poet wrote in Akkadian around 1200 BCE, having borrowed the theme from a thousand years before.

In it the King Gilgamesh is to be tamed by the Wild Man Enkidu, who is tamed by Shamat, the love priestess. The themes are nonpuritanical and must have been quite a shock for Victorian archaeologists.

It is a beautiful tale.