The bereaved Sumerian mother, whose first born was snatched away by death, her son the shepherd, Dumuzi. In her sorrow summoned the mothers, to lament the departed. With her magical wand, the eerie words, she creates a substitute, a lament, an eerie substitute, an immortal one, a substitute, for the mortal body. The mother, through her magical wand, the eerie words, becomes inadvertently a magician, a creator. Her immortal lament befools the grip of death-Thanatos, the gate keeper. Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, realizes there is no escape form death-Thanatos, the gate keeper, wishes to create for...
The bereaved Sumerian mother, whose first born was snatched away by death, her son the shepherd, Dumuzi. In her sorrow summoned the mothers, to lament...