It definitely skews lower than my overall Goodreads ratings. Let’s face it, I wouldn’t have read the vast majority of these books if not for this project. In the list below I include the average rating on Goodreads in parentheses next to my reading. As you can see, I didn’t like ...
10.The Epic of Gilgamesh– This epic poem was written on a set of clay tablets from ancient Mesopotamia which were discovered in the 19th century and are believed to date from around 2000 BC. It tells the story of Gilgamesh, a powerful Sumerian king, and his relationship with his friend E...
The Epic of Gilgamesh would have been part of the canonical literature of the Sumerian city-states, for instance. Church laws, decrees, etc. would then be a specific instance of that. Foxfier says: October 16, 2020 at 1:56 pm That got scraped way before the Mouse was involved– half ...
The Enemy, of course, is the originator of Law: the unnatural idea that free spirits should be constrained by anything except their desires and power. It is this great truth that Our Father Below recognized and in the name of which He raised his Great Rebellion against the Enemy. Since the...
A Poem for Every Day of the Year ByAllie Esiri,Zanna Goldhawk(Illustrated by),Papio Press(Illustrated by) Rating 962 Ratings by Goodreads Already own it?Write a review Format Hardback, 576 pages Published United Kingdom, 7 September 2017 ...
The Sufis who meditated in our home were part of a long tradition of spiritual seekers. For as long as human beings have existed, they have yearned to know what makes life worth living. The first great work of human literature, the four-thousand-year-old The Epic of Gilgamesh, is about...