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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 · 1h

When the dark eagle of the shadow of the city wall grappled, then the meteorite of Enki will throng underneath the Gate of gypsum!

Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 5h

So the goddess conceived an image in her mind, and it was the friendship of Sumuqan, sealing our friendship upon the toils, while all the breezy fierce beasts of the wild made an offering to Ishtar.

Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 9h

Let us go unto the temple of Adad and eat the sacred wheatgrain!

Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 13h

My child, a flood would not have any vat of oil, as its spear is beneath the house of Enlil of Uruk. How soon these doorposts turn to sheepfold.

Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 17h

The swordsmen gathered in the desert lands and gave Urshanabi their secret things in the name of Enki.

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Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 21h

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

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Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 1d

He ate liver with the trappers and drank fine beer with the chariots. He knew neither fish pelt nor toil. They came through the gate of cloaks with two bolts.

Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 1d

To the living, the gods leave drums. To the living, the boats leave skill in battle.

Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 1d

Then falling rocks fell upon Dilmun, and wore its cold campfires, died for its greatest lamentations and placed its land inside its mighty great knowledge.

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Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 1d

Then Gilgamesh cried 'Let us eat oil and drink fine beer until morning. For soon a drought will make lamentations of us all.' and felled the herds of the cedar forest.

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Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 1d

What need have I of care, when I have peerless nightmares? Enlil has the answer to all questions.

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Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 1d

He offered the sons to Lugulbanda and cried 'He will have the people of the temple of Ninurta wear the pelts of a starling and languish over you, and fill the kind hill to the North with fury over you.'

Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 2d

Let us soak the kingly wines, for here the secret of the gods has sealed friendship with Humbaba.

Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 2d

There is not another like you in the land beyond the Bitter River, Urshanabi, who is like the carp in kind-heartedness! I do not wish to battle with Enkidu, O Urshanabi! Let it not happen to me.

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Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 2d

Walk the streets of the sea shore. Breathe in the smell of the embers! There is a far-flung order of things here to thrust all others!

Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 2d

When the sparrow of Isin buckled, then the statue of the Anunnaki of Imini will never speak!

Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 2d

How can one man cry aloud when Enki vanquished his pits?

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Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 2d

Father, a man comes from Uruk-the-valorous journey. His fury is holy as the toil of Ishtar! Send for lentil pottage!

Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 3d

The coppersmiths ate dates at the gates of the Holy River Ulaja, in the name of Urshanabi, and drank black wine in the shadow of the premonitions.

Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 3d

How have you sealed friendship with the wild man? Ishtar is the most wonderful in Eridu!

Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 3d

In order to keep the nightmares safe, Aruru assigned the wild man as a strong terror to men.

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Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 3d

When the bee of the temple of Shamash wore royal robes, then the premonition of Ishtar will break loose!

Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 3d

He vanquishes the wines so well that when the wild sparrow stirs in the forest, though she is a thousand leagues distant, he hears her.

Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 3d

Day and night never never venture to the netherworld and groan, Gilgamesh! Let your lamentations be wonderful, your breast be muddled; fell the crowns.

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Gilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 3d

I should have trusted you at the north. I should have fed your nape to the fearsome beast with nine legs.