Questions on Gilgamesh

[portcontrol7]

Is there a forum here for the epic? If not, my question is this: being familiar with the judeo-christian significance of the number seven, I was struck by it's significance in the epic of Gilgamesh (and particularly in the Sumerian poem 'the death of Bilgames'). Does anyone know anything on the number seven's significance to the Babylonians? I'm also curious as to how the ancient Hebrews came upon this, as well as what seems an obvious borrowing of the deluge myth.

Thanks for any insight folks.

[Mohammad Ahmad]

You can find what you need here:

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?78416-The-Epic-of-Gilgamesh&p=1254859#post1254859

[YesNo]

You can find what you need here:

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?78416-The-Epic-of-Gilgamesh&p=1254859#post1254859

I agree with your conclusion in the link. I didn't know Buddhists buried texts with the intent that they be found later. It seems like a nice thing to do. We probably do something similar by writing them down.



Regardless of the imperfections of texts, translations, and interpretations, the resurrection of Gilgamesh from the rubble of the past is an impressive witness to the timelessness and universality of our spiritual and human heritage. Like Buddhist terma texts intentionally buried for the benefit of later generations, Gilgamesh has been recovered at a propitious time. For whatever progress we may have achieved (or failed to accomplish) in these several millennia since it was first inscribed, his story is a powerful reminder of a single sacred truth about who we are: companions, friends, and brothers all of us, traveling the road of life together on a heroic quest that is — in its essence — one part human, two parts divine

Regarding the number seven, it seems like an interesting odd prime number. Not enough to fit in one hand's worth of fingers (1-5 fingers worth), but the only prime needing two (6 - 10 fingers on both hands).

[Mohammad Ahmad]

Dear friend
Firstly I would like to tell you and all members that the post I have posted today which its title ( The Gilgamesh Epic) indeed I am not its writer, somewhere I had it, but before forty years ago when we were still students in our secondary schools we studied this epic alongside the history of the Old Human and yet I remember all the story when Gilgamesh and his friend Ankedo went far away searching about the survival, the immortality and as I guess the region they went for is a Lebanon or a place near Jerusalem because the big forest which contains more trees of cedars are not found only there as the story told.
Of course it is an adventurous journey filled up with risks, but when at the last time Gilgamesh friend met his fate, Gilgamesh seriously began to look for something perhaps could dedicate his deed to be eternal for long, so he built the wall of Uruk which it is an ancient city located on south of Iraq.
Of course Gilgamesh perceived in that time that there is no way to flee from death and thus why he built the wall of Uruk.

Indeed I don't know or let me say remember what the tablet -7 includes, but the dependable fragments which now laid on British Museum and really they belonged to 1200 B.C. -the time of the last Assyrian realm who ruled the northern parts of iraq-because the old version of nearly 3000 B.C. relating to Gilgamesh Epic fragments were mostly damaged and this last version was found through excavation done at my city Nineveh in the north part of Iraq.
Moreover I deduced that the Sumerian and the Assyrian are cousins or close relatives or at least there is close relationship between them.
The Flood which was mentioned in Bible, as it was said that it happened nearly about Gilgamesh time, makes me totally puzzled because as we know that the mentioning Flood left nothing unless leveling to the ground.