 But you, Gilgamesh, let your belly be full, enjoy yourself always by day and by night! Make merry each day, dance and play day and night! 'Let your clothes be clean, let your head be washed, may you bathe in water! Gaze on the child who holds your hand,...  The Epic of Gilgamesh - Page xxxvi2003 - 304 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | John C. Dancy - Bibles - 2001 - 804 pages
...colours. When the gods created mankind, death they dispensed to mankind, life they kept for themselves. But you, Gilgamesh, let your belly be full, enjoy...Let your clothes be clean, let your head be washed! Gaze on the child who holds your hand. let your wife enjoy your repeated embrace! For such is the destiny... | |
 | Bernhard Lang - Religion - 2002 - 270 pages
...hero of a Mesopotamian mythical tale, mourns the death of his friend, he is given the same advice: "But you, Gilgamesh, let your belly be full, enjoy...night! Make merry each day, dance and play day and night."62 Culinary fulfillment also figures in the Egyptian Tale of Sinuhe. If the hero has to live... | |
 | Joseph Azize, Noel Weeks - Assyria - 2007 - 260 pages
...find: when the gods created mankind, death they dispensed to mankind, life they kept for themselves. 'But you, Gilgamesh, let your belly be full, enjoy...your hand, let your wife enjoy your repeated embrace! 'For such is the destiny [of mortal men,} that the one who lives ...M4 Such an elegant and concise... | |
 | Martin A. Shields - History - 2006 - 266 pages
...sentiments are found in the words of Uta-napishti to Gilgamesh in the standard Babylonian version. But you, Gilgamesh, let your belly be full, enjoy...holds your hand, let your wife enjoy your repeated embrace!35 The Epic's tale of a hero who seeks to outmaneuver death but ultimately fails to do so echoes... | |
 | David F. Noble - Business & Economics - 2005 - 224 pages
...mankind, life they kept for themselves. But you, Gilgamesh, let your belly be full, enjoy yourself by day and by night! Make merry each day, dance and...your hand, let your wife enjoy your repeated embrace! For such is the destiny of mortal men . . . Impatient with Shiduri's wise counsel, Gilgamesh demands... | |
 | Richard J. Clifford - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 116 pages
...You, Gilgamesh, let your belly be full, Keep enjoying yourself, day and night! Every day make merry, Dance and play day and night! Let your clothes be clean! Let your head be washed, may you be bathed in water! 3. The attribution of Etana to the class of wisdom texts is based in part on the... | |
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