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Gilgamesh
My vizier says you have tidings of some import to my realm?
Trapper
Great lord, I bring dire news! A threat to the kingdom…
Gilgamesh
Speak, man! If what you say is true, let us have no ceremony. What is it that you have seen?
Trapper
Why, I have seen a giant, my king!
Gilgamesh
A giant? Pah! You have been listening to tavern stories.
Trapper
No, my lord, with my own eyes I saw him.
Gilgamesh
If your eyes have played you false, then your tongue sets you at risk, Trapper. Tell me of this giant…
Trapper
My eyes serve me well, my lord, and are, as always, at your service.
Gilgamesh
Where and when did you see this apparition?
Trapper
I was hunting in the forest, lord. It is true that there was gossip in the tavern, but I thought as you…that it was no more than a drunken tale.
As the dusk fell near the watering hole, three days ago, I saw him… My lord… forgive me…but I have seen such a savage man at the watering-hole.
He has muscles like rock.
He outruns the wild animals he lives with.
Tall he was… and broad… as an ox.
Rough, unkempt, uncivilised.
His speech, if speech it was, is like to that of the animals with whom he runs.
He fills the pits I have dug and tears out the traps I have set so that the animals again run free.
I can catch nothing.
My livelihood has gone.
I fear no beast, my lord, but seeing this creature, I was afraid…
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The Silent Eye’s Spring workshop for 2019
THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH
The Oldest written story known to man…
What spiritual treasures lie hidden in this, five thousand-year old, Epic?
What can this ancient civilisation teach us about the questions of existence?
Join us on this quest of a life-time, next April, to find out…
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‘Gilgamesh is among the greatest things that can ever happen to a person.’
– Rainer Maria Rilke.
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Lord of the Deep: The Quest for Immortality
26-28 April, 2019 – Great Hucklow, Derbyshire
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Thanks, Alethea…
Ah, I am so glad we are getting into Gilgamesh. I have reread it several times now over the months because i would think I had interpreted the messages and then realize I missed the whole point. This is an amazingly knowledgeable story for the time it was created – sophisticated in theme, sub-themes, symbolism, psychology, and spiritualism. Really an incredible work, and I keep thinking about how truly amazing this society had to be to have people who were thinking at that time with such incredible depth. Thank you kindly.
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Thanks for sharing, Adele…