Book · 1973 · Poetry
The Epic of Gilgamesh
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And I know we both, all of us love the epic of Gilgamesh. But this is one of the many reasons why I love the epic because it really talks makes us think about failure, defeat.
What they say about it
- Discusses biblical connections“story of Nimrod in the Bible”2
- Mentions companion creation“created him an artificial being”2
The best things said about it
Now yesterday I mentioned to you all the epic of Gilgamesh of Aruk understood to be actually the story of Nimrod in the Bible.
Candace Owens Candace · Feb 2026 So they fashioned and it's also an epic ofish they fashion uh the friend that Gilgamesh went on the journey with he wasn't born from a woman's womb they created him they created him an artificial being to go on this journey in the Epic of gilgames.
Billy Carson The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2024 I mean obviously the Noah story is inside of the Epic of Gilgamesh.
Billy Carson The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2024 The first thing considered to be a quote-unquote book is the Epic of Gilgamesh which is kind of old.
That's why if you look at like the Epic of Gilgamesh it's a direct overlay for The Terminator.
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Why people recommend it
Why people recommend it: Preserving ancient mythology, human ambition, and timeless existential dread, The Epic of Gilgamesh is an anonymous Mesopotamian masterpiece. Elif Shafak discussed the ancient text on How I Write to illustrate profound themes surrounding failure, defeat, and heroism. David Perell similarly suggested the epic on How I Write as a potential pre-Bible starting point for a chronological bookshelf. Candace Owens brought up the narrative on Candace while exploring historical connections to biblical figures and the Iraq War, while Jamie Loftus referenced the epic during an episode of Behind the Bastards. Furthermore, Billy Carson talked extensively about the work on The Joe Rogan Experience, praising it as an incredible piece of ancient art inscribed on stone tablets, discussing its depiction of artificial beings created outside the womb, and noting its early inclusion of ancient flood narratives. Across literature, history, and ancient mysteries, speakers repeatedly returned to this foundational epic to debate the origins of human civilization, the mechanics of myth-making, and the psychological weight of mortality, making it a recurring subject of fascination for modern commentators and researchers alike.
Every mention
Billy Carson who has time to sit down and write these incredible works of art like the Epic of gilgames for example 6
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“who has time to sit down and write these incredible works of art like the Epic of gilgames for example”
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“so they fashioned and it's also an epic ofish they fashion uh the friend that Gilgamesh went on the journey with he wasn't born from a woman's womb they created him they created him an artificial being to go on this journey in the Epic of gilgames”
Discussed
“they fashion uh the friend that Gilgamesh went on the journey with he wasn't born from a woman's womb”
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“I mean obviously the Noah story is inside of the Epic of Gilgamesh yes I believe that is a result of the younger drus incident in the EP of Epic of atrasis”
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“we know that zidra in the Epic of Gilgamesh was told how to build the ship but it wasn't a boat like what we know was said in the Bible it was actually a disc”
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“he would go into these gigantic Stone boxes and he would then uh transfer his Consciousness from his body into another body and he would leave the the body that he left inside of one of those gigantic boxes one of those G gigantic diorite Stone boxes for a hundred years”
Andrew (Andrewism) And I mean, the the concept of the Noble Savage, it has its roots a lot further back than European encounte… 1
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“And I mean, the the concept of the Noble Savage, it has its roots a lot further back than European encounters with Native Americans, right? That sort of the intellectual lineage of the concept could actually be traced back to ancient Greece.”
Candace Owens Now yesterday I mentioned to you all the epic of Gilgamesh of Aruk understood to be actually the story of N… 1
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“Now yesterday I mentioned to you all the epic of Gilgamesh of Aruk understood to be actually the story of Nimrod in the Bible.”
David Perell Maybe maybe even pre-Bible. You know, there's some like some stoic an epic of Gilgamesh. Yeah. Exactly. How… 1
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“Maybe maybe even pre-Bible. You know, there's some like some stoic an epic of Gilgamesh. Yeah. Exactly. How did you know? Yeah.”
Elif Shafak And I know we both, all of us love the epic of Gilgamesh. But this is one of the many reasons why I love th… 1
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“And I know we both, all of us love the epic of Gilgamesh. But this is one of the many reasons why I love the epic because it really talks makes us think about failure, defeat.”
Gregg Hurwitz and that's why if you look at like the Epic of Gilgamesh it's a direct overlay for The Terminator 1
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“and that's why if you look at like the Epic of Gilgamesh it's a direct overlay for The Terminator”
James Robinson You know, if you go back to the epic of Gilgamesh, I think the first version of that is about 2100 B.C., it… 1
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“You know, if you go back to the epic of Gilgamesh, I think the first version of that is about 2100 B.C., it's all about the same thing.”
Jamie Loftus Uh, you're talking about the Epic of Gilgamesh. The Epic of Gilgamesh. 1
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“Uh, you're talking about the Epic of Gilgamesh. The Epic of Gilgamesh.”
Tim Pool from the end date of the Mayan calendar to the epic of gilgamesh from the Genesis flood to the Book of Reve… 1
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“from the end date of the Mayan calendar to the epic of gilgamesh from the Genesis flood to the Book of Revelations”
Mentioned on the show without a named speaker1
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“we got together and we looked up the first thing considered to be a book ever and generally right now the first thing considered to be a quote-unquote book is the Epic of Gilgamesh which is kind of old”
Also mentioned in the same episodes
Other mentions (3: passing, ad reads, own books)
Plugged
“When I was writing there are rivers in the sky you know we talked about unlearning earlier. I had to do a lot of unlearning myself, particularly as I was writing about the Yazidi minorities...”
Passing
“Or maybe even pre there maybe maybe even pre-Bible, you know, there's some like some stoic an epic of Gilgamesh.”
Passing
“The epic of Gilgamesh references customs that are similar to that as do Herodotus' histories. And we know that around this same period, at least one other Italian city revolted from Atruscan control because their women were abused.”