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    1. commissioned epic poems and stirring stories about his ferocious


    2. “Harold, that was absolutely inspiring, truly an epic endeavor of love


    3. photo stop resembled the shooting of the latest epic from


    4. He had a copy of the same epic in Ionic


    5. Yes, Homer transmuted every facet to an epic scale


    6. In Nerissa’s profound isolation, she’d spend entire days imagining how his epic sounded


    7. Nerissa had each line of her epic firmly committed to memory


    8. When Xolon heard of this, he groused that Father must have been offered some ancient epic on Siros


    9. Nerissa longed to ask how the epic had progressed


    10. “You mentioned composing a long epic in the Cave of Loizos,” Homer said when she

    11. What a stupendous fool I’ve been! All I ever had to do was come and hear your epic


    12. I blush at how I lectured you on the qualities of epic heroes


    13. My tale is only half an epic


    14. What follows is an epic struggle for justice, featuring, among other things, the Loch Ness Monster, a potato with gunshot wounds and the occasional interspatial warp matrix interface


    15. [217] The Bhagavad Gita was written in about 500 BCE, and is part of the epic Hindu poem, the Mahabharata


    16. Whether to refurbish this epic of the past was a decision the Administration had been putting off for years


    17. In retrospect, the six-year cruise of the Milo proved to be an epic and successful voyage, but also a sad journey with the loss of


    18. This is a story about the lives of Jonathan and Jessie Hawes and their two children, Addie and Frederic, before, during and after the epic voyage of the whaleship Milo from 1863 to 1869


    19. He was fascinated by it, probably because it was more epic, more dramatic than Christianity, and that’s what Khan loved best – drama


    20. I kind of dismissed that idea when the corn started falling from the sky, while horns and other brass instruments blared in epic fashion

    21. The Epic of Gilgamesh, an ancient text about a heroic figure, whose adventures occurred within the Euphrates River system, contains a story about an all-encompassing flood, which seems to describe an event similar to that recorded in the book of Genesis


    22. It comes from the Epic of Gilgamesh


    23. Some have interpreted Utnapishtim of the Epic to be the same character as Noah of the Genesis story


    24. The first discovered copies of the Epic of Gilgamesh are estimated to have been written at about 1,900 BC as if copied from earlier sources


    25. Based on the earliest discoveries of that Epic, my educated guess would have put these occurrences no more than two hundred years apart, but the epic turned out to be much older, as those later discoveries indicated


    26. The length of Abraham’s stay in Haran is not certain, but with the long popularity of the Epic story, certainly it would have been told and retold more than enough times to have become a tradition long before the time when “God” spoke to Abraham about leaving for parts south


    27. In the Epic of Gilgamesh, Utnapishtim survived a great flood and was granted hero status and eternal life


    28. Were they stories of the same event? If so, when did it happen? According to the earlier estimate the Gilgamesh Epic appears to have happened sometime before 3,500 BC


    29. Considering the apparent foreshortening of time as one searches back into biblical ancient history, the six chapters that it took to move forward to Abraham from the flood of Noah, might fit into the two hundred years’ difference between Abraham’s stay in Haran and the earliest discovered copy (1,900 BC) of the Gilgamesh Epic


    30. This epic, it seems to me, is written in a style similar to Homer’s 900 BC Iliad, which itself was told as if about a very ancient folklore tale

    31. The epic, which appears through archaeological discoveries, to have been an old story when it first appeared in written form (approximately 2,750 BC) was written in the language of Sumer


    32. This is similar to the journey of Gilgamesh (of the Epic) where he went up the Euphrates to fight the “giants of the mountains” on his way to meeting Utnapishtim of the (Epic’s) flood story…The length of Abraham’s stay in Haran is not certain but with the long popularity of the epic story, certainly it would have been told and retold more than enough times to have become a tradition long before the time when ‘God’ spoke to Abraham about leaving for parts south


    33. Is the story of Abraham also a parable? This biblical account seems to be much more than a story about of a single man’s epic journey in response to his “God’s” direction


    34. As an aside from the primary topic within Abraham’s story, another parable-like experience is embedded, and a conundrum that could offer a tie into a character in the Gilgamesh epic


    35. “All that is definitely known about Nimrod is that he was a Cushite, that he established a kingdom in Shinar, the classic Babylonia…In the Chaldean Epic of the deluge Nimrod has been identified with Gilgamesh” (Amer


    36. It was during a festival some city friends invited him to that he first heard a recital of a most famous epic poem


    37. It told about a hero king named Gilgamesh and his epic adventures, one of which had taken him from his kingdom at Uruk to somewhere near Haran, it was thought, by some whose families had been here a very long time


    38. If you were given the privilege of having witnessed such an event, in the safety of a distance that afforded an appreciation of the colossal scale upon which it took place, how would you describe what you had seen? What if you had also been made aware of the “Source” that had initiated such an epic occurrence?


    39. Two of the men were engaged in an epic struggle with their swords


    40. The most epic period in history being the Dark Ages of Europe, from 476 to 1000 a

    41. “Wow” I said looking at the exterior glass wall to the epic view his office had of the city “I’ve never felt this intimidated by you before” I teased


    42. I slowly applauded him “That was a really epic speech my friend, I’m sold


    43. testimony to his epic shittiness as a person, a father, and a


    44. The people of the Exodus came from a pastoral heritage, becoming settled over many generations and then returning to earlier pastoral ways as they embarked upon this epic journey


    45. generations and then returning to earlier pastoral ways as they embarked upon this epic


    46. book that Mitra gave me (a sea epic that I was supposed to be


    47. This is not an epic adventure or a travel diary


    48. We are witnessing an epic battle of historical proportion, and the momentum of the people and the unity of purpose will be the force to respond to the opposing attempts for control


    49. With its immersive gameplay, deep storyline and epic movie-like delivery, this game is a worthy medium for Solid Snake’s final chapter


    50. But if you do, prepare for a massively epic adventure










































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