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We reach for the Celts through the parchments of Christian monks, and Greek and Roman historians but still we grasp at phantoms of truth. The mythic invasions, cycles of life and death, war and famine, the true story is the spread of a people across Europe, trying to understand their world, and take command of it. Unlike the Greeks, with …
The Ancient Sumerian and Babylonian Myth of Apocalypse, from the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Dream of Atrahasis and the Eridu Genesis. Retold by Jake Jackson. The Great Deluge: Beginnings Enlil, Fategiver, Lord of Storms and warrior god ruled the realm of Earth, creating kings and great temples for the pure worship and honour of the gods who lived alongside Earth …
Stories of floods appear in most ancient mythologies, manifested as apocalyptic events caused by a God or gods. The Mesoamericans, Chinese, ancient Greeks and Scandinavians all suffered the wrathful storms of a vengeful deity. Human civilisation grew around river systems, with the Amazon, Indus, Nile-Kagera, Yellow River and Yangtze, and the Kızılırmak bearing some of the earliest, as humankind wrestled …
Over the four week period in 2017 I took on a task of retelling the story of the Babylonian Flood. There are three fragmentary stories, the most famous of which is embedded within the myth of Gilgamesh, but their significance is great because they hold voices from the ancient past, further back than the Greeks of Homer, the Tanakh of …