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Fifty leagues in one day (1)

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04 Religious and philosophical literature and poetry
04 Religious and philosophical literature and poetry

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speed
travelling
Period
Modern 		Channel
Akkadian poetry
Mandean culture

Text
Gilgameš Epic (SBV) 4 (passim):
At twenty leagues they broke bread, at thirty leagues they pitched camp. Fifty leagues they travelled in the course of a day, a month and a half’s march by the third day, they drew near to Mount Lebanon.

Mandaic Tale How the Mandai left the Mountain:
The head-priest and Nasurai and Mandai gor ready and on the Sunday they set out. There were many of them. … After a month of traveling, and, with the aid of Šamiš, they travelled in one day a forty-days journey, they reached the place of the seal-ring (skandola), the Talisman.

Sources (list of abbreviations)
Gilgameš Epic (SBV) 4 (passim)
Mandaic Tale How the Mandai left the Mountain

Bibliography

Drower 1937, 320Drower, Ethel Stefana. The Mandaeans of Iraq and Iran. Their cults, customs, magic, legends, and folklore. London: Clarendon Press 1937.

Amar Annus


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