Basa rekare repasi rose rezvinyorwa rinotanga uye rinopera nemadziro: rusvingo rweUruk-the-Sheepfold, guta guru reMesopotamia yekare. "Ona kapendero kayo pasina aigona kukopa!" inoverenga yaAndrew George Shona translation. "Tora masitepisi enguva yakapfuura". Rusvingo rweUruk ndiko kubudirira kweGilgamesh, murwi-mambo, mudzungairi uye cosmic nuisance. Patinosangana naye munhetembo ari kuvhundutsa vanhu vake, kupopota uye kuita zvechikadzi kunge chidhoma chakareba mamita gumi nemanomwe chete. Saka vamwari vanoita Gilgamesh mukwikwidzi kuti arambe akabatikana: Enkidu, "mwana wekunyarara", chikara chakaumbwa nevhu. Mushure mekunge varwisana kusvika pakumira, vaviri ava vanova shamwari uye vanoenda kune ropa rechirume adventures, vachiparadza sango dzvene remisidhari uye kuuraya Bull of Heaven, chisikwa chine kufema kwakanyanya kunokonzera kudengenyeka kwenyika.
Ipapo, ngwavaira inorovanya. Vatsamwiswa neaya antics, vamwari vanoraira kuti Enkidu anofanira kuparara nehurwere. Gilgamesh anonetsekana nekurasikirwa uye chizaruro chinoperekedza chekufa kwake. Achisiya chigaro chake choumambo, anotanga tsvakiridzo yakaoma yokutsvaka Úta-napíshti, mupukunyuki asingafi wemafashamo emvura zhinji, kuti adzidze zvakavanzika zvoupenyu husingaperi. Anomhanyisa Zuva pacharo nemunyika yegomba, uye anoyambuka Mvura dzeRufu kuenda kumba kwaÚta-napíshti. Asi munhu asingafi haagoni kumubatsira. “Munozadza marunda enyu nokusuwa,” anonyevera kudaro. "Kusvitsa mazuva ako mberi." Anopa Gilgamesh chirimwa chinogona kudzoreredza hudiki, kana kusingadzivise rufu, asi chirimwa chinobiwa nenyoka - kwakabva kugona kwenyoka kuburitsa ganda rayo. Mambo anodzokera kuumambo hwake apererwa. Asi mumitsetse yekupedzisira ye "standard" edition, anotora nyaradzo muchiratidziro cheUruk's inimitable wall, achivhara zvinyorwa sezvazvinoita guta, chiratidzo uye muchengeti wemukurumbira wake usingaperi.
Epic yeGilgamesh ndiyo purani yezvizvarwa zvenyaya dzehugamba: semurume uye anotyisa seHomer's Iliad, asingatyi uye anochema seOdyssey. Nyaya yaro yakasiyana uye yakajeka: chipfambi, tsika dzekurota, kucheka-cheka, kubika chingwa. Asi pamusoro pezvose, ndezvekutya rufu. “Chinhu chandinofunga kuti chinofanirwa kudzidzwa muzvikoro zvese zvepuraimari pasi rose, sechimwe chezvinyorwa zvekutanga apo vanhu vanotanga kufunga nezvemibvunzo iyi,” anodaro Auday Hussein, muvambi weR&D nekambani yemazano yeMesopotamia Software, ari kupedza basa. PhD mune zvekuchera matongo paYunivhesiti yeHeidelberg. "Ndiri ani ini? Ndiri pano nei? Chii chiri musimba rangu? Muganhu wangu uripi?" Hunhu hwaGilgamesh - angangove mambo chaiye, angangove asina kureba tsoka gumi nenomwe - akagadziridzwa zvakanyanya uye akagadziridzwa kubva kuEurope vanochera matongo vakatanga kushandura epic muzana ramakore rechi17. Asi iyo epic pachayo haisati yazivikanwa kunze kwenzvimbo yezvidzidzo, yakafukidzwa nengano dzemagamba dzevadiki. "Ihwo huzivi hwakadzama hwataive nahwo makore 19 apfuura," Hussein anoenderera mberi. "Uye hapana anoda kutaura nezvazvo - yakakweshwa pasi pekapeti."
