MGTOW is 5,000 years old! Gilgamesh will not marry Ishtar!

[Anonymous 0]

Consider this ancient advice.
Gilgamesh was the king of Uruk, and his story was told in the Epic of Gilgamesh, a

Babylonian story which older than the Iliad and the Odyssey, older than the Old Testament,

possibly 5,000 years old.

Gilgamesh and his best friend, Enkidu, have just killed the forest ogre, Humbaba, and are

heading back to Uruk:

“Ishtar came,
their city’s patroness,
goddess of love
and fruitfulness
and war.
She brought Gilgamesh
his royal robes and crown
and hinted that the gods
had grieved Humbaba’s loss.

“‘Why should you be chosen
as the one they blame,’
She said in her coyness.
“I might persuade
my father Anu to relent
if you marry me.
That is the way your kingdom
will know peace.’

“Gilgamesh shook off what were to him
unwanted dreams:
‘What would I gain by taking you as wife?’

“‘Love,’ she said,’and peace.’

“‘Just as you loved the lion
and gave him pits to fall in
and the horse whose back
you wounded with the whip?’
He shouted back at her.
‘Your love only brings war!
You are and old fat whore,
that’s all you are,
who was once beautiful,
perhaps,
and could deceive
but who has left in men
a memory of grief.
WE OUTGROW OUR NAIVETE
IN THINKING GODDESSES
RETURN OUR LOVE
I am tired of your promises…'”

Gilgamesh: a Verse Narrative, Herbert Mason, Mariner Books, 2003 (quotation marks and capitalization added)

[LowKeyParticipant 702]

I’ll give you your first +1 ! Thanks for sharing

Don't let defeat, defeat you; Let defeat be your greatest teacher.

[Anonymous 0]

I shed a tear

[Anonymous 5]

Yeah that’s what am talking about ! Loved it.

[SkeptiskParticipant 3679]

Wow! Even back then they knew what was going on!

"Expecting to find a decent woman on a dating site is like dumpster diving and expecting to come out with a gourmet meal." Won'tGetFooledAgain

[GlitchParticipant 18]

Haha, that’s awesome. It’s always awesome to think that all the great achievements that have been accomplished throughout history were in fact, bachelors. My favorite one being Isaac Newton.

[ShinyParticipant 2307]

Glorious.

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