A Myth to Teach Astrology?

Mililalil XXIV · 03-22-2006, 03:24 AM

Some see in this work a literary animation of the Zodiac. What do you think?

Virgil · 03-22-2006, 08:11 AM

I think you're going to have to spell it out for us, Mil. I've always taken it as a folk epic of a people.

Marijn · 08-08-2007, 07:50 PM

Gilgamesj is our first written epos. This doesn't mean its man's first experiment to write down a bedtime-story. The text shows us that the story itself is much much older, and comes from a long line of oral tradition. You can compare it with Homer's Illias, written down aroud 600 BC but narrating of events happened hundreds of years earlier.

I believe one there are more then one explanation for Gilgamesj, like the circle of life and death, mastering your own life, explanations of physical phenomenae, but also giving a look at the babylonian pantheon, a source of social structures and believes in babylonian society. I will read it again Mil, and see what it says about astronomy!

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Mililalil XXIV Banned Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 1,861	A Myth to Teach Astrology? Some see in this work a literary animation of the Zodiac. What do you think?

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Virgil Vincit Qui Se Vincit Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: New York Posts: 18,292 Blog Entries: 93	I think you're going to have to spell it out for us, Mil. I've always taken it as a folk epic of a people. __________________ LET THERE BE LIGHT "That day I shall always recollect with grief; with reverence also, for the gods so willed it." - Virgil, The Aeneid (V, 49) Distracted from distraction by distraction

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Marijn Registered User Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 5	Gilgamesj is our first written epos. This doesn't mean its man's first experiment to write down a bedtime-story. The text shows us that the story itself is much much older, and comes from a long line of oral tradition. You can compare it with Homer's Illias, written down aroud 600 BC but narrating of events happened hundreds of years earlier. I believe one there are more then one explanation for Gilgamesj, like the circle of life and death, mastering your own life, explanations of physical phenomenae, but also giving a look at the babylonian pantheon, a source of social structures and believes in babylonian society. I will read it again Mil, and see what it says about astronomy! __________________ To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour. --- He who binds himself a joy Doth the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in Eternity's sun rise

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