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Favourite mythological texts Anonymous Tue Dec 24 13:12:54 2019 No.14410302 [Reply] [Original]

What's your favorite mythological narrative, /lit/?
I like the Babylonian Enuma Elish or Enūma Eliš.
It has your typical Indo-European King God and War in Heaven themes, but it has what Greek Mythology doesn't: the murder of the conniving mother deity.

Gaia gets away with all of her shit, orchestrating coups and dissidence againt Ouranos (Uranus), Kronos (Cronos), and Zeus. Tiamat however is punished for scheming to murder her children. After Apsu is drowned/smothered, and she wages her war on the younger Gods using her 12 monsters, Marduk slays her and uses her corpse to create the world.

I'm sure Babylonians used these myths to perpetuate distrust of women, like the Greeks, but I'm not worried about that. I just think the character of Tiamat was a bitch.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 14:50:40 2019 No.14410798 File: 14 KB, 400x155, marduktiamat0.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] bump

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 16:02:52 2019 No.14411118 File: 255 KB, 419x600, Marduk5.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 16:37:19 2019 No.14411307 File: 56 KB, 920x449, Gula-incantation.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] bump?

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 18:26:11 2019 No.14411832 Gilgamesh is based

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 18:27:20 2019 No.14411843 >>14410302 Celtic Mythology is based and full of cute boys

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 18:33:33 2019 No.14411877 >>14410302 >Babylonian >Indo-European No you did ant

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 18:37:43 2019 No.14411899 >>14411843 Really? Recs?

Anonymous Tue Dec 24 18:43:29 2019 No.14411925

>>14411877
Iraq (especially the northern regions) has been heavily influenced by indo-european belief systems due to their proximity to indo-european peoples. It’s like how Finns have an indo-european god of thunder (Ukko) despite not being indo-european themselves.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 18:45:10 2019 No.14411936 >>14411925 Oh no no no! Queue seething Med*ids aka Sub-Saharan Africans

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 20:22:03 2019 No.14412375 >>14411925 source?

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 21:31:37 2019 No.14412650 bump

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 21:35:29 2019 No.14412664 >>14410302 what do you mean myths all of those things happened

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 21:38:27 2019 No.14412680 >>14412664 based priest of marduk

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 23:14:48 2019 No.14413081 there's been a lot of mesopotamian threads lately, not that i'm complaining

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 25 07:48:08 2019 No.14414345 bump

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 25 08:13:15 2019 No.14414390 Any good versions of gilgamesh to read?

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 25 11:02:42 2019 No.14414869 >>14414390 Andrew George is the standard.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 25 12:34:41 2019 No.14415174 >>14414390 the sumerian originals

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 25 13:22:01 2019 No.14415423 File: 522 KB, 1012x1543, 917SuayXGBL.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14410302 Mesopotamian myths are great. >>14414390 >Any good versions of gilgamesh to read? Oxford World's Classics

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 25 14:20:38 2019 No.14415707 >>14415423 thx

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 25 16:36:51 2019 No.14416344 bump

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 25 17:54:20 2019 No.14416739 >>14415423 >woman DROPPED

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 25 17:55:57 2019 No.14416744 >>14410302 I like Naruto.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 25 19:16:47 2019 No.14417168 based

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 25 21:59:55 2019 No.14417993 bump

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 26 03:31:12 2019 No.14419121 What are the authorative editions of Atrahasis and Enuma Elish?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 26 09:01:42 2019 No.14419881 >>14419121 Are there any editions of Atrahasis?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 26 10:25:50 2019 No.14420160 bump

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 26 12:10:26 2019 No.14420608 >>14411899 Not the same guy, but I'd recommend the Cattle Raid of Cooley (obviously), The Feast of Bricriu, the Voyage of Bran and the Tragedy of the Sons of Tuireann.

Anonymous Thu Dec 26 12:15:38 2019 No.14420634
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>>14410302
Indian from India, not the American one, and the Mahabharata is the Epic to read. Written as poetry in 18 chapters, 75,000 verses and about 3 million words. I prefer the modern retelling by Ramesh Menon.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 26 13:04:09 2019 No.14420904 >>14410302 based and babylonpilled

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 26 14:44:38 2019 No.14421486 Tiamat is a bitch

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 26 16:22:38 2019 No.14421943 bump

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 26 17:34:00 2019 No.14422290 >>14419121 Ulla Koch.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 26 18:51:26 2019 No.14422688 File: 136 KB, 557x504, sumeriansilverlyre.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] mesopotamian literature is great

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 26 19:06:22 2019 No.14422776 >>14422290 >danish

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 26 20:10:06 2019 No.14423228 >>14419121 The Timothy Stephany translation is my favourite.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 26 20:42:15 2019 No.14423436 >>14410302 Suggest a translation for me bro

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 26 21:13:37 2019 No.14423572 >>14422688 Fucken furries

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