Episode #067: The Epic of Gilgamesh

Brothers of the Serpent

Society & Culture, History, Philosophy

4.8 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2018

⏱️ 140 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

In this episode Kyle gives us a detailed and fantastic rendition of the oldest known written tale, the Epic of Gilgamesh. We discuss the possible meanings and symbolism and hidden truths contained in the story, but mostly, we just sit back and enjoy this most epic and ancient tale of Gilgamesh, King in Uruk.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hi, Longheads. We know you're listening. This is Brothers of the Serpent podcast.
0:19.4	And welcome back.
0:20.9	Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, angels and demons and demons and monsters to
0:24.2	Brothers of the Serpent podcast, episode 67, coming from our emergency backup podcasting
0:29.3	day Thursday for this week.
0:33.2	And we got a lot of interesting stuff to talk about.
0:35.9	Some new steak bros, glossary terms to go through.
0:38.6	Kyle is going to tell us the epic tale of the Epic of Gilgamesh,
0:42.6	the oldest story ever known, ever written so far that we've ever found.
0:48.2	And I'm going to be interrupting him the entire time.
0:50.7	It's going to be awesome.
0:53.1	And as usual, we are joined by our good friend and Longhead deep in his bunker beneath
0:57.6	his secret space station in our space. How are you doing out there, buddy? What's going on?
1:00.7	Mr. Brett England.
1:02.3	Doing great. Thank you to all of the Snake Bros. listeners for being patient this week and putting up
1:09.2	with Thursday, Friday, because it's totally my fault that we didn't do it on Tuesday.
1:14.6	So I appreciate it.
1:16.7	Yeah.
1:17.1	Hey, I had a question for you.
1:18.4	I'm so mad.
1:20.5	I was looking into Ronald Carlson again this week, and he's talking about the, like, the geologist that he follows that went through all the,
1:28.7	um, that, that basically detailed the massive, uh, meltwater floods, uh, the, of the, of the north,
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Brothers of the Serpent, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Brothers of the Serpent and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.