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Gilgameš Epic (SBV) 9.37ff.:
When he (= Gilgameš) arrived at the mountain range of Mashu, which daily keeps watch over sunrise and sunset, whose peaks reach to the vault of heaven and whose breasts reach to the netherworld below - Scorpion-men guard its gate … their shimmering halo sweeps the mountains that at sunrise and sunset keep watch over the sun. … along the road of the sun he went.
Parmenides B 1.1-12, 22-30:
The mares that carry me as far as my heart may reach conveyed me: they had come and set me on the celebrated road of the Goddess which carries a man of knowledge ever straight ahead. There was I being carried; for there the wise mares were carrying me, straining at the chariot, and young girls were leading the way. The axle in the axle-box shrilled in its socket, blazing - for it was driven on by two whirling wheels on either side - while they hastened to convey me, the girls, daughters of the sun, who had left the House of Night for the light and pushed back with their hands the veils from their heads. Here are the gates of the paths of Night and Day, and a lintel and a stone treshold enclose them. … And the goddess (Dike) graciously received me and took my right hand in hers; and she spoke thus and addressed me: ‘Young man, companion to the immortal charioteers, who come to my house with the mares who carry you, welcome. For no evil fate sent you to travel this road (for indeed it is far from the tread of men) but Right and Justice. You must learn all things, both the unwavering heart of persuasive truth and the opinions of mortals in which there is no true warranty.’
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Gilgameš Epic (SBV) 9.37ff.
Parmenides B 1.1-30
Bibliography
| Barnes 2001, 78-79 | Barnes, Jonathan. Early Greek Philosophy. Penguin Classics. London: Pengiun 2001. |
| Burkert 1969, 18-19 | Burkert, Walter. “Das Proömium des Parmenides und die Katabasis des Pythagoras.” Phronesis 14 (1969) 1-30. |
Amar Annus
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