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Jiang says the Egyptian virtue that wins is cleverness, deception, and palace intrigue, while Mesopotamia values bravery, strength, pure power, and pure bravery.
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Jiang says the Egyptian virtue that wins is cleverness, deception, and palace intrigue, while Mesopotamia values bravery, strength, pure power, and pure bravery.
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Gilgamesh and Enkidu become friends and triumph over divine challenges through friendship and bravery, including the Bull of Heaven sent after Gilgamesh rejects Ishtar.
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"We humans don't need to participate in the order of things. But in the Enemilish we find out that gods are extremely violent. And..."
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"But here the value that is most prominent in Mesopotamia is bravery or strength. Okay. Not cleverness. There's no trickery going on. It's just..."
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"...at first they're afraid, but through their friendship and through their bravery they're able to triumph in the end. There's a god named Ishtar..."
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"But Gilgamesh rebuffs Ishtar because Gilgamesh basically knows that Ishtar wants to turn him into her sex slave. He doesn't want that. He wants..."
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"...the consequences of my action, which is the greatest act of bravery in the Aelian. Because he knows he's going to die. So everyone's..."
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"...sky god, the cow. They worship war. They worship courage and bravery. Okay? So every culture, every person has a religion of some sorts..."
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Mesopotamia turns geography into mythology: where Egypt imagines divine generosity and pyramidal immortality, the land between two uncooperative rivers learns struggle, creative destruction, and the more fragile immortality of being remembered by the people...
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