Tradition route
Read stories commonly grouped under this tradition lens.
3 stories in this route
Epic of Gilgamesh
A thousand years before the Book of Genesis was written, a Mesopotamian king was told by a god to build a boat — and after the flood, the gods themselves wept at what they had done.
Epic of Gilgamesh
When his beloved friend Enkidu died, Gilgamesh — who had never feared anything — was struck by the one fear he could not fight: his own death. He set out across the ends of the earth to find the only mortal ever granted immortal life.
Epic of Gilgamesh
To humble the tyrant king Gilgamesh, the gods created his perfect equal out of clay — a wild man who ran with gazelles and knew nothing of bread, beer, or human longing.
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