Nuria Daly

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Gilgamesh Decoded (eBook, ePUB)

The Fall of the Goddess and the Rise of the Patriarchy

Beschreibung

Decoding Gilgamesh is a fascinating and often mind-blowing understanding of The Epic of Gilgamesh and related texts. It gives us an insight into the origins and pre-history of humankind, their culture, religion and belief systems, how they deforested the cedar mountain and killed the spirit of the forest, resulting in climate change, drought and famine. How Gilgamesh overcame Inanna/Ishtar, the fertility goddess - the cause of overpopulation and mono agriculture resulting in famine - the beginning of the patriarchy and the rise of the religion of Moses. The death of the Enkidu and Gilgamesh Time is spiral, not linear. Everything that is happening now has happened before - we have deforested our planet, just as the cedar mountain was clear-felled and the spirit of the forest Humbaba killed, causing climate change, drought, fire, famine and disease. Gilgamesh attempted to follow the mountain journey of his father, the great hero and Holy Lugulbanda, in his quest for cedar wood to build his city. We learn of our interaction and love for the Enkidu and of their tragic and lingering death. A devastated Gilgamesh followed his ancestor, the flood hero Utnapishtim, on an epic sea journey, in search of eternal life so that we, too, need not die. Gilgamesh represents humankind at its worst and at its best. He was a tyrant and a despot, a builder of the great city of Uruk. But on the tragic and long drawn out death of his beloved Enkidu, the extinction of a race of beings (Neanderthal), Gilgamesh followed his ancestor Utnapishtim the flood hero on an epic sea journey in search of the secret of eternal life.

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Autor

Irene's parents were refugees who fled Vienna in 1939 to settle in Derry, Northern Ireland. She was born into that small, quirky community in 1943. Although she understood English, she did not speak it until she started school. She spent much time alone in the woods at the end of the street, in her own world. She loves Ireland, Fairy Tales, trees, and the ocean. Although Irene lived in a Catholic neighbourhood, she was brought up Protestant and bussed to school. When she was fourteen, she began to search for a new 'religion' at the local library. This quest eventually led her to Jung and Sufism. She became a Radiographer, moved to England, married, and emigrated to South Africa. As soon as she arrived in Johannesburg on Christmas Eve 1965, she had twin sons seven weeks premature. Irene was chosen from 200 applicants to train as a computer programmer and became an expert at coding and decoding symbolic language. She divorced her first husband in 1972 and emigrated to Australia in 1977 with her two sons. There, she discovered Jung and undertook adult education, eventually becoming a psychologist and hypnotherapist while working in IT. She undertook an almost seven-year Jungian analysis, which changed her life. Then, she found Universal Sufism and the magic of stories as teaching tales. Her Sufi name is Nuria.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Balboa Press AU
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798765200834
• Artikelnr.: 72326076