Do yourself a favor and go read more of the Epic of Gilgamesh. It’s kind of a weird situation because we don’t have any single complete version. We have a couple of different versions-- the Old Babylonian and the Standard Akkadian. There’s a great website where you can see which bits they’re pulling from where. It’s insanely cool. There’s also a bunch of Sumerian poems about Gilgamesh which you should look into if you’re interested.

This is what the Epic of Gilgamesh looks like. It's written on a tablet. I'm trying think of a joke about a tablet versus a Kindle. But I haven't come up with one. Whatever, it's cuniaform. 

A text that was invaluable to me through this season was Catherine Ball’s Ritual Theory, Ritual Practise. There’s a full PDF online that you can just read for free, which is utterly thrilling. One of my favorite things about this book is the really decent summaries she gives of theories of a bunch of other notable anthropologists. So you’ll get a good overview of a bunch of different perspectives, without having to gather a bunch of separate sources. Incredibly convenient.

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