Thank God for this reading. So many of the others I tried were like listening to an eighth grader forced to stand up before class and read something he had no understanding of at all.
0:06 - (Prologue) Gilgamesh King in Uruk 2:08 - (1) The Coming of Enkidu 19:54 - (2) The Forest Journey 54:08 - (3) Ishtar and Gilgamesh, and the Death of Enkidu 1:20:16 - (4) The Search for Everlasting Life 1:45:32 - (5) The Story of the Flood 1:57:38 - (6) The Return 2:06:50 - (7) The Death of Gilgamesh
Really? I think he's one slice of ham short of Brian Blessed! The way it's overplayed is very distracting. Is there a similarly well paced yet subtle reading somewhere? (One that lets the narrative, not the narration, provide the drama.)
I'm glad I backed out of the video above this one. The audio was low quality with a lot of background noise. I don't know where to begin with his voice, just horrible. I clicked the next video and I hear this man's sweet angel voice, I immediately liked it and started writing this comment...
I miss the Epilogue, where Gilgamesh returns and regards the walls of Uruk and the ziggurat, and he says something about the value of building great works.
Gilgamesh is the kind of guy who will send a priestess to fuck the guy seven days straight to stop him from fucking with hunters, wrestle him and become best bros with him. I LOVE the character development. They teach us to appreciate what we have and what we have gained, and that death is inevitable so we must make our lives glorious. They teach that even the strongest of men still aren't perfect, after all he was one third human and humans are NOT perfect
Beautiful language at the end!!! The story sounds amazing! It sounds like Tolkien took the inspiration from this. A lot of names sound like the names from the Lord of the rings
The adventures of Mighty Gargle-mist and his friend Pinky-doo: slaying dragons, dressing up in cool outfits, doing fun guy activities. Coming soon to theaters every- where: Arnie Schwarzenegger as Gargle-mist, and Jamie Lee Curtis as Pinky-doo.
Tried finding this book on Spotify but the only unabridged version is posted by some random biblical account and they just stole Soygon’s version. Started listening to it and instantly realized who it was and got pissed cause he ambushed me.
I feel you on that one...I've got ADHD, so i tend to easily lose focus, and read the same spot over and over again w/o it making any sense. Hearing it on audio helps to hold my attention. When I was a Senior in hs, we had to read 1984 and Farenheight 451 for Civics...the books made so much more sense to me on tape. It was harder to come by the needed audio bc i'm a Gen X'er, and the 'net was just being introduced, so i thank my lucky stars that my Civics teacher let me borrow audio tape of both books. I'm grateful to her for teaching how I learn.
Does someone know if this is a babylonian version of the poem or a sumerian one? Because I have read a sumerian one and if I remember correctly it had some major differences
The Sumerian and Babylonian versions both have some substantial lacunas (gaps), a few of them quite large. This version seems to omit some of them altogether. It also fills in gaps in a few places as best as the translator could guess. I'd call it a compilation of versions, rather than saying it's definitely from only one. Just my opinion.
I love my first niece like she was my own flesh and blood ( she has died as a baby, but I have asked many gods to take her place and such things did not happen, but I have many nieces and nephews in her place,but it is not the same )
Here's the same narrating, with partitions. This one has the text rolling on the screen while he reads. Also, the weird end part were some young guy reads 'something' is not included, my guess is, that it's added by this channel. (Dunno why, but that made me feel uneasy, even though I have no idea what's been said) ruclips.net/video/-aqt8gIBEDQ/видео.html
The first recorded monomyth. This recording is sure rough. Love the narrator. But that background sounds like he's talking through a few layers of cellophane and the background talking is sure distracting.
You know, I know that it's an issue with the translation and not the reading. But the versions of the story that use the word "Corn" Really bug me. Seeing that corn was totally unknown to every one outside of the Americas until about the 1500's.
corn doesn't necessarily refern to maizecorn. the word was in use in english before the discovery of the americas, iirc, and its older meaning is simply "grain."
@@pantalaemon If I had to guess, it's from the Germanic ancestry of English. In German, "grain" is "Korn" and always has been. We simply called Maize "Mais".
Haaaaha ,at 6:08 " as strong as a STAR In the heavens "........yup yup - that's the fallens description .......Left Their first Estate - kicked out. 13:39 ........." You will love him like a woman " ...... being specific with that description mean's Ole Gill would be polking the one from the hill's , batty polking king 😳 .
He had wisdom and a comely face, he will not come again; He is gone into the mountain, he will not come again; On the bed of fate he lies, he will not rise again, Front the couch of many colours he will not come again.
I love how blatanly obvious the early Israelites just stole the flood myth from this Epic. Sure, there were probably some flood myths before even this one, but even so. How can you believe a story at such face value when you can so easily see through the whole thing?
Is it a blatantly obvious rip off? Or is it possible that there was flooding all around the world in early human history that was passed down through oral tradition. Considering there are flood myths in cultures all around the world even those who had no proximity to mesopotamian people like the sumerians and babyloniansor nor those of the levantine region like judea and the kingdom of israel. Because even south american civilizations have similar flood myths as well as aboriginal australians, polynesians, indians, and all the way to northern europeans as the Vikings even had similar myths. I think rather than the unlikeliness that everyone copied each other or instead of everyone coincidentally making up the same story, maybe world wide flooding happened. If you look into the last ice age and how many shallow parts of the ocean used to be above water, world wide flooding actually seems more likely.
@@kaynesovereign9372 I could let it pass, if you said that most flood myths which did in fact develop independently (which the Hebrew myth objectively did not) were based on a common fear of early civilisations. Like most cultures around the world have some sort dragon myth, despite dragons, obviously, being made up. Everyone is scared of snakes, and of big predatory birds, and here and there, some cultures may have dug up a dinosaur skull by accident. That may be the origin of dragons. I would agree that places like Doggerland or the islands off Australia, that were dry and populated just a few dozen millennia ago, before the sea slowly rose due to climate and tectonic changes, those places might have transferred into collective memory as basis flood myths. But a global flood as described in Gilgamesh’s story, or that of the Hebrews, since it’s nearly wird for word the same? Laughable to even consider. Eye witness accounts are the weakest kind of evidence, if any, and once they’ve gone through a few thousand years of Chinese whispers, translation errors and accidental or purposeful misinterpretations? They’re nothing to base an argument on. Not even close.
Different mythologies(although parts of Hebrew mythology appear to have been copied from the epic of Gilgamesh). Gilgamesh only seems to be slightly superhuman, which makes me think that if Gilgamesh were to face Samson and Heracles they would all be pretty much equal, all 3 are supposed to be the strongest of men with their strength coming from a supernatural source.
Timothy 4:4 we are warned that in the end times we will turn to fables instead of truth. Jonh 17:17 Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth. @ fig informer -- for detail
Abrahamic theism is exactly that. A carrier for the common monomyth shared with everyone. I present, Moses from Exodus and Jason from Greek Argonautica. Just a few easy steps from a vast network of these. 1. Calling - Both saved as kids. 2. Cyclical pain - Harpies defile Phineas' food daily. Egypt has ten plagues. 3. Supernatural Aid - Jason taken to Mt Olympus to talk to Zeus and gains favors from Goddess Hera. Moses to Mt Horeb to talk to Yahweh and gets the magical staff. 4. Struggle to leave past - Jason and Island of Old Gods. Moses and Pharaoh. Both leave but are chased. 5. Crossing of the Threshold - Jason invokes a Gods help to sail through the clashing Rocks. Moses invokes Gods help to run through the Red Sea. Both barely get through. Etc. The Bible is framed on a common template which predates anything Jewish. Most carry the Ark. A few look inside. How well do people know the Bible? Only a few know its true secrets. They might as well worship Zeus and await the return of Jason. Or worship Krishna and await the return of Arjuna.
Thank God for this reading. So many of the others I tried were like listening to an eighth grader forced to stand up before class and read something he had no understanding of at all.
Same.
0:06 - (Prologue) Gilgamesh King in Uruk
2:08 - (1) The Coming of Enkidu
19:54 - (2) The Forest Journey
54:08 - (3) Ishtar and Gilgamesh, and the Death of Enkidu
1:20:16 - (4) The Search for Everlasting Life
1:45:32 - (5) The Story of the Flood
1:57:38 - (6) The Return
2:06:50 - (7) The Death of Gilgamesh
thank you!!! you rock!
Thanks JR
Thanks man!
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Thank you very much.
Richard Pascoe is a brilliant narrator, I could listen to him reading a bus timetable ;)
clawpuss2 is that because he sounds like he's shouting lol
Really? I think he's one slice of ham short of Brian Blessed!
The way it's overplayed is very distracting. Is there a similarly well paced yet subtle reading somewhere? (One that lets the narrative, not the narration, provide the drama.)
HA! Nice
I'd enjoy him reading
The Periodic Table of the Elements.
Best Gilgamesh of all. Best narrator.
For one of the first story's ever written it's pretty well done...
Being one of the oldest surviving isn't the same as being one of the first written, but yes it is fairly decent.
Not the Hero we deserved, but the one we needed.
I'm glad I backed out of the video above this one. The audio was low quality with a lot of background noise. I don't know where to begin with his voice, just horrible.
I clicked the next video and I hear this man's sweet angel voice, I immediately liked it and started writing this comment...
SAME. He didn't even start reading the story yet, and I came here to escape that Hell.
I miss the Epilogue, where Gilgamesh returns and regards the walls of Uruk and the ziggurat, and he says something about the value of building great works.
Fun fact: These are true stories of ancient times..!!
Humbaba especially
funny it started raining really hard when i got to the flood part
Thank you, the Narration on this was wonderful.
Wonderful reading , classic narration, thank you for uploading
Gilgamesh is the kind of guy who will send a priestess to fuck the guy seven days straight to stop him from fucking with hunters, wrestle him and become best bros with him. I LOVE the character development. They teach us to appreciate what we have and what we have gained, and that death is inevitable so we must make our lives glorious. They teach that even the strongest of men still aren't perfect, after all he was one third human and humans are NOT perfect
It also teaches that those who serve directly under powerful people should advise them honestly but in a way so that innocent people aren't hurt.
Beautiful language at the end!!! The story sounds amazing!
It sounds like Tolkien took the inspiration from this. A lot of names sound like the names from the Lord of the rings
The adventures of Mighty Gargle-mist and his friend Pinky-doo:
slaying dragons, dressing up in cool outfits, doing fun guy activities.
Coming soon to theaters every-
where:
Arnie Schwarzenegger as Gargle-mist,
and Jamie Lee Curtis as Pinky-doo.
1:10:00 The Dream of The House of Dust
I never realized it but that creature tearing up traps sound like a big foot creature.
Enkidu !? Bigfoot ? interesting !
Excellent reading.
What an incredible book. Well narrator also.
way better narrator than soygon
@@wraith7666 i dont know when he did it but hes got a video of him narrating it, i found it just searching the epic of Gilgamesh audiobook
Lol YES
I listened to his until I realized it was him. Fixed the error as soon as I noticed.
Tried finding this book on Spotify but the only unabridged version is posted by some random biblical account and they just stole Soygon’s version. Started listening to it and instantly realized who it was and got pissed cause he ambushed me.
yeah i found his first too its sad his is the first result and that it almost covers up this great narration
Sounds kind of like Captain Picard, nice
"Shaka. When the walls fell."😊
What translation is this? I really like the wording used.
brilliant!
Beautiful narration! Absolutely did not wanna physically read for a school assignment so i decide to listen instead
I feel you on that one...I've got ADHD, so i tend to easily lose focus, and read the same spot over and over again w/o it making any sense. Hearing it on audio helps to hold my attention. When I was a Senior in hs, we had to read 1984 and Farenheight 451 for Civics...the books made so much more sense to me on tape. It was harder to come by the needed audio bc i'm a Gen X'er, and the 'net was just being introduced, so i thank my lucky stars that my Civics teacher let me borrow audio tape of both books. I'm grateful to her for teaching how I learn.
Walking through the 12 leagues of darkness: 1:24:10 - 1:27:15
When the darkness is thick 🕶️
There is something amazing about this first telling of a journey through darkness into light.
Does someone know if this is a babylonian version of the poem or a sumerian one?
Because I have read a sumerian one and if I remember correctly it had some major differences
The Sumerian and Babylonian versions both have some substantial lacunas (gaps), a few of them quite large. This version seems to omit some of them altogether. It also fills in gaps in a few places as best as the translator could guess. I'd call it a compilation of versions, rather than saying it's definitely from only one. Just my opinion.
There are multiple versions? Which one is the most original? Sumerian I suppose? Where could I find the most "original" version?
Oldest story in the world older than Ramayana and mahabharata oh boy
Thanks for uploading 🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹
27:13 need to listen later
Did you?
The dream of the House of Dust 1:10:00
I love my first niece like she was my own flesh and blood ( she has died as a baby, but I have asked many gods to take her place and such things did not happen, but I have many nieces and nephews in her place,but it is not the same )
So no one is here from Fate Zero because you didn't know who Gilgamesh the king of heros was
me!!!
i love gilgamesh lol. fate series got me into Assyriology and babylonian history and stories
Me 2
Oh no i recently found out the earth is flat wich sparked me curiosity about the bible stuff.
Listen to Guile's Theme during the introductory description of Gilgamesh.
Here's the same narrating, with partitions.
This one has the text rolling on the screen while he reads.
Also, the weird end part were some young guy reads 'something' is not included, my guess is, that it's added by this channel. (Dunno why, but that made me feel uneasy, even though I have no idea what's been said)
ruclips.net/video/-aqt8gIBEDQ/видео.html
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I missed the bit where he unleashed thousands of noble phantasms out of his gate of babylon
The first recorded monomyth. This recording is sure rough. Love the narrator. But that background sounds like he's talking through a few layers of cellophane and the background talking is sure distracting.
You know, I know that it's an issue with the translation and not the reading.
But the versions of the story that use the word "Corn" Really bug me.
Seeing that corn was totally unknown to every one outside of the Americas until about the 1500's.
corn doesn't necessarily refern to maizecorn. the word was in use in english before the discovery of the americas, iirc, and its older meaning is simply "grain."
@@pantalaemon If I had to guess, it's from the Germanic ancestry of English. In German, "grain" is "Korn" and always has been. We simply called Maize "Mais".
@@BoarhideGaming yeah, that makes sense to me.
source: am also german
No that's just how Chad Gilgamesh was he bringing corn to the Middle East Thousands of Years before anyone else would again.
How about "vampire"?
Which translation is this? I have a goal to read every English translation of certain books, but I’m having trouble finding it in the description.
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Haaaaha ,at 6:08 " as strong as a STAR In the heavens "........yup yup - that's the fallens description .......Left Their first Estate - kicked out. 13:39 ........." You will love him like a woman " ...... being specific with that description mean's Ole Gill would be polking the one from the hill's , batty polking king 😳 .
Best love story
I read the book in 7th or 8th grade!
Wow ! That's Awesome 👌
best riding ever i wod lisen toe dis 100 times
will he come again?
He had wisdom and a comely face, he will not come again;
He is gone into the mountain, he will not come again;
On the bed of fate he lies, he will not rise again,
Front the couch of many colours he will not come again.
15:33
29:00
So what going on with the lasts minutes?
Came to the comments to see, if anyone else is wondering about that
Where can I find the full text of this beauty?
It's literally free.
Like anywhere, just go download it somewhere.
@ 1:24:49
16:49.
totally crash! love this
I love how blatanly obvious the early Israelites just stole the flood myth from this Epic. Sure, there were probably some flood myths before even this one, but even so. How can you believe a story at such face value when you can so easily see through the whole thing?
The epic of gilgamesh is better than the bible and other epics and religious scriptures in my opinion
Actually this is the first record of the great deluge.
Is it a blatantly obvious rip off? Or is it possible that there was flooding all around the world in early human history that was passed down through oral tradition. Considering there are flood myths in cultures all around the world even those who had no proximity to mesopotamian people like the sumerians and babyloniansor nor those of the levantine region like judea and the kingdom of israel. Because even south american civilizations have similar flood myths as well as aboriginal australians, polynesians, indians, and all the way to northern europeans as the Vikings even had similar myths.
I think rather than the unlikeliness that everyone copied each other or instead of everyone coincidentally making up the same story, maybe world wide flooding happened. If you look into the last ice age and how many shallow parts of the ocean used to be above water, world wide flooding actually seems more likely.
@@kaynesovereign9372 I could let it pass, if you said that most flood myths which did in fact develop independently (which the Hebrew myth objectively did not) were based on a common fear of early civilisations. Like most cultures around the world have some sort dragon myth, despite dragons, obviously, being made up. Everyone is scared of snakes, and of big predatory birds, and here and there, some cultures may have dug up a dinosaur skull by accident. That may be the origin of dragons.
I would agree that places like Doggerland or the islands off Australia, that were dry and populated just a few dozen millennia ago, before the sea slowly rose due to climate and tectonic changes, those places might have transferred into collective memory as basis flood myths.
But a global flood as described in Gilgamesh’s story, or that of the Hebrews, since it’s nearly wird for word the same? Laughable to even consider. Eye witness accounts are the weakest kind of evidence, if any, and once they’ve gone through a few thousand years of Chinese whispers, translation errors and accidental or purposeful misinterpretations? They’re nothing to base an argument on. Not even close.
We shall soon see who was wrong and who is right.
When the Midle East had culture we were sleeping in holes in the ground in western Europe.
Gilgamesh despite not being a god was always the best amongst mortals even Hercules and Samson were stronger than him
Different mythologies(although parts of Hebrew mythology appear to have been copied from the epic of Gilgamesh). Gilgamesh only seems to be slightly superhuman, which makes me think that if Gilgamesh were to face Samson and Heracles they would all be pretty much equal, all 3 are supposed to be the strongest of men with their strength coming from a supernatural source.
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There is no light
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Is Gilgamesh ORION?
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lol neiced wtf
Disgusting.
ziberteck yeah right😉
Timothy 4:4 we are warned that in the end times we will turn to fables instead of truth.
Jonh 17:17 Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth. @ fig informer -- for detail
Abrahamic theism is exactly that. A carrier for the common monomyth shared with everyone. I present, Moses from Exodus and Jason from Greek Argonautica. Just a few easy steps from a vast network of these.
1. Calling - Both saved as kids.
2. Cyclical pain - Harpies defile Phineas' food daily. Egypt has ten plagues.
3. Supernatural Aid - Jason taken to Mt Olympus to talk to Zeus and gains favors from Goddess Hera. Moses to Mt Horeb to talk to Yahweh and gets the magical staff.
4. Struggle to leave past - Jason and Island of Old Gods. Moses and Pharaoh. Both leave but are chased.
5. Crossing of the Threshold - Jason invokes a Gods help to sail through the clashing Rocks. Moses invokes Gods help to run through the Red Sea. Both barely get through.
Etc.
The Bible is framed on a common template which predates anything Jewish. Most carry the Ark. A few look inside. How well do people know the Bible? Only a few know its true secrets. They might as well worship Zeus and await the return of Jason. Or worship Krishna and await the return of Arjuna.