{"id":7513,"date":"2015-10-06T08:45:47","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T14:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=7513"},"modified":"2015-10-06T08:45:47","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T14:45:47","slug":"pagan-superheroes-cut-down-forest-regret-it-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=7513","title":{"rendered":"Pagan Superheroes Cut Down Forest, Regret It Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2015\/10\/20-new-lines-from-the-epic-of-gilgamesh-discovered-in-iraq-adding-new-dimensions-to-the-story.html\">A newly discovered piece of the epic of Gilgamesh includes a sort of ecological theme<\/a>. It&#8217;s in a museum in Kurdish territory\u2014another reason why they need their own country.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.learner.org\/courses\/worldlit\/gilgamesh\/read\/getting-started\/\">The Epic of Gilgamesh<\/a><\/em>, one of the oldest narratives in the world, got a surprise update last month when the <a href=\"http:\/\/slemanimuseum.org\/museum\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=88&amp;Itemid=169\">Sulaymaniyah Museum<\/a> in the Kurdistan region of Iraq announced that it\u00a0had discovered 20 new lines of the Babylonian-Era poem of gods, mortals, and monsters. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soas.ac.uk\/nme\/research\/gilgamesh\/standard\/\">Since the poem has existed in fragments since the 18th century BC<\/a>, there has always been the possibility that more would turn up. And yet the version we\u2019re familiar with \u2014 the one\u00a0discovered in 1853 in Nineveh \u2014 hasn\u2019t changed very much over recent decades. The text remained fairly fixed \u2014 that is, until\u00a0the fall of Baghdad in 2003 and the intense looting that followed yielded something new.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2015\/10\/20-new-lines-from-the-epic-of-gilgamesh-discovered-in-iraq-adding-new-dimensions-to-the-story.html\">Read the rest.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A newly discovered piece of the epic of Gilgamesh includes a sort of ecological theme. It&#8217;s in a museum in Kurdish territory\u2014another reason why they need their own country. The Epic of Gilgamesh, one of the oldest narratives in the world, got a surprise update last month when the Sulaymaniyah Museum in the Kurdistan region [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,264,202,5],"class_list":["post-7513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-archaeology","tag-iraq","tag-middle-east","tag-paganism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-1Xb","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7009,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=7009","url_meta":{"origin":7513,"position":0},"title":"New Poems by Sappho","author":"Chas S. 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