http://wildhunt.org/blog/2008/07/how-earthy-is-your-religion.html Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:15:33 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2008/07/how-earthy-is-your-religion.html/comment-page-1#comment-2125 Copper Asetemhat Stewart Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:12:00 +0000 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2008/07/how-earthy-is-your-religion.html#comment-2125 Though the inflection is different from "earthy," the seed of that tension seems visible in the contrast between Enkidu and Gilgamesh a very long time ago; part of it is notions of control, of course, but part also seems to be about (a perception of) less mediation. We frequently find this, also, in Christian and Jewish ideas about the past. Though the inflection is different from “earthy,” the seed of that tension seems visible in the contrast between Enkidu and Gilgamesh a very long time ago; part of it is notions of control, of course, but part also seems to be about (a perception of) less mediation. We frequently find this, also, in Christian and Jewish ideas about the past.

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