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“Give me your blessing! Then I will go.
Unharmed may I see your faces again,
triumphant may I step through Uruk’s gate.
“When I return, I will hold New Year twice,
from now I will always hold New Year twice.
Let us celebrate the festival, let us sing in joy,
let the drums thunder for Ninsun!”
― The Epic of Gilgamesh
Unharmed may I see your faces again,
triumphant may I step through Uruk’s gate.
“When I return, I will hold New Year twice,
from now I will always hold New Year twice.
Let us celebrate the festival, let us sing in joy,
let the drums thunder for Ninsun!”
― The Epic of Gilgamesh
“Livstyven har fat om min krop.
Døden sidder i mit soveværelse,
og hvor jeg end vender mig hen, er døden”
― The Epic of Gilgamesh
Døden sidder i mit soveværelse,
og hvor jeg end vender mig hen, er døden”
― The Epic of Gilgamesh
“One moment I read Enheduana's poems and see her as a living presence whose desperate cry cuts through time to reach my ears; the next, I see her as shrouded in a thousand mysteries, her figure receding farther with each question I ask of it.”
― Enheduana: The Complete Poems of the World's First Author
― Enheduana: The Complete Poems of the World's First Author
