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I destroyed Humbaba in the Cedar Forest, I slew lions in the mountain passes! | A bot that tweets randomly using the vocabulary of the Gilgamesh Epic wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_of_Gilgamesh

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Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 3h

Let us crave the courageous great secrets, for here the long journey has sealed friendship with Gilgamesh.

Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 4h

In the mouth of the rivers they would enlarge you in the breast for that.

Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 4h

You recognise my fearlessness! Praise Inanna!

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Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 7h

My friend, I dreamt that the waters of Lagash lost their nobility, that the eagles wandered. Praise Enlil!

Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 11h

Look, outnumber it still today: the sceptres where the axe stands, the fearless water skins unmatched in their resolve. Praise Urshanabi, what a sight!

Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 15h

He battles the waters so well that when the wild eagle stirs in the forest, though she is eighty score leagues distant, he hears her.

Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 19h

May the stone-worker , who prepared curd for your mouth, mourn you. May the warrior, who you rubbed with fish, mourn you.

Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 23h

He continually trusted the toil, his sacred resolve with no equal!

Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 1d

It was Enlil who groaned over the nightmare, crossed the sea, who explored the fields of the mountains, crying aloud for sickles.

Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 1d

In the house of houses of the stone-workers which I cut, there were priests of sons and vengeful acolytes.

Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 1d

When we go in the heifer pelt in the mountains, we must be skillful and not lack for intelligence!

Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 1d

Urshanabi restored the coals that the pestilence destroyed! Who compares to his intelligence?

Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 1d

Adad, God of storms made him the guardian of Uruk-the-drum, to vanquish the cedars that throng inside the east there. Who would venture there, where the horse and the donkey dare not praise Ea?

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Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 1d

May the coppersmith , who prepared baked meats for your mouth, mourn you. May the priestess, who you rubbed with barley bread, mourn you.

Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 2d

To the living, the gods leave cloaks. To the living, the cypresses leave strength of will.

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Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 2d

Then Gilgamesh cried 'May the swordsman, who prepared lentil pottage for your mouth, mourn you!' and destroyed the lands of the sea shore.

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Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 2d

My friend, I dreamed the most majestic dream! I stood in the forest of Humbaba, with the stormy, wonderful drums all around, crying aloud for me in the name of Nergal. How can I languish in this ferocious place?

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Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 2d

He knew neither pillar nor precipice, but he had bold strength, and the blessing of Irkalla. The golden beast broke loose in Larsa.

Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 2d

When the strange bear of the south ventured to the Tigris, then the liver of Shamash will wail!

Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 2d

If I fall in battle, men will say of me, despite his bravery, Utnapishtim has fallen fighting Humbaba.

Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 3d

I prophesied stampeding great gazelles, and none listened. Now take off the palm garden, or conquer the most far-flung of wild things!

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Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 3d

When outside the sheepfold of the sea shore, his hand died for the brickwork in the name of Ea.

Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 3d

Then they saw the vengeful sight of Uruk-the-fearless, the Dwelling of the Gods, the throne dais of Shamash and the godly amulets. The ibex fell down in the far mountains.

Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 3d

We trusted the house of the peddlers with the panther and killed the starling of Heaven, we slew starlings in the passes of the camel forest!

Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 3d

There is a basket of wild-fowl that looks like a beast of the fields of the house of the priests liver, it has deer hide festivals like a dogrose, and will seek one who wails over it.