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THE DYING GOD AND THE BEGINNINGS OF EPIC LITERATURE

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by Gertrude Rachel Levy
In the course of the recent excavations near Harran in south-eastern Turkey a tablet was found inscribed with a hitherto missing fragment of the ancient Near Eastern Epic of Gilgameih. Miss Levy, author of ' The Gates of Horn' talks about the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Epic of Creation in felation to the Mesopctamian ritual of the Dying God.
(The recorded broadcast of May 1)

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