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Author Topic: Things that made you sad today thread.  (Read 9766699 times)

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #13110 on: September 23, 2010, 08:00:51 pm »

The Legend of Etana predates the Epic of Gilgamesh.

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #13111 on: September 23, 2010, 08:07:22 pm »

Actually, this is a list of the first 8 books.

1. Sumerian texts from Abu Salabikh, including the Instructions of Shuruppak and the Kesh Temple Hymn
2. Legend of Etana
3. Pyramid Texts, including the Cannibal Hymn
4. Code of Urukagina
5. Palermo stone
6. The Maxims of Ptahhotep
7. Enheduanna's Hymns
8. Epic of Gilgamesh

If we subtract the religious rites, codes of law, and incredibly incomplete ones, we are left with

1. The Maxims of Ptahhotep
2. The Epic of Gilgamesh

Anyone know enough ancient hieroglyphics to read the 'phrases of a pharaoh'?
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« Reply #13112 on: September 23, 2010, 08:11:02 pm »

They had Maxim in ancient Egypt?

'Course, considering where they believed the universe came from...
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #13113 on: September 23, 2010, 08:11:17 pm »

I checked the wikipedia synopsis for Elana, and I'm pretty sure I read a version of it in a book of ancient egyptian legends..
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #13114 on: September 23, 2010, 08:16:45 pm »

Tinypic used to be the best. Now it's the worst. :(
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #13115 on: September 23, 2010, 08:17:24 pm »

 Imageshack man, imageshack. Or photobucket if you want to access the images later.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #13116 on: September 23, 2010, 08:18:24 pm »

Tinypic used to be the best. Now it's the worst. :(

Resizing your images and turning them into jpegs despite being told not to?  Or just the incompetent Captcha?  But yeah, I've gone back to Imageshack myself.  And make an account, then you can access them there to, and all they want is an email, I think.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #13117 on: September 23, 2010, 08:20:55 pm »

Speaking of which, I'm going to need to make a second photobucket account soon.  I'm almost capping the storage space I have.
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« Reply #13118 on: September 23, 2010, 08:21:56 pm »

I checked the wikipedia synopsis for Elana, and I'm pretty sure I read a version of it in a book of ancient egyptian legends..
You may have read a part of it, but there is roughly half a tablet of it left. The others have either been lost or destroyed. Also it's from Mesopotamia, so you might be thinking of a different legend.
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« Reply #13119 on: September 23, 2010, 08:23:15 pm »

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« Reply #13120 on: September 23, 2010, 08:25:38 pm »

I read that bit. As I said, I read something that roughly corresponds to wikipedia's synopsis of the legend of Elana, in a book of egyptian legends. It was some sort of morality tale on Ra's justice. I think the animals were different, too: a giant eagle and a lioness, I think. But the outline was the same
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #13121 on: September 23, 2010, 08:25:44 pm »

Civ V aar:

I was Germany. I had gotten about 7-8 units from Bismark's special ability and began taking over nearby city-states. Then I attacked Almaty and met Montezuma. On the battlefield. with support from 3-4 militaristic city-states.

End result: Total defeat. I would have won if a group of warriors hadn't got past my front lines and attacked my archers.
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« Reply #13122 on: September 23, 2010, 08:29:09 pm »

I met Montezuma. On the battlefield.
And this is where you went wrong. At least in Civ4, Montezuma was a terrible leader except for when he decided that the Aztecs needed to coat their continent in troops.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #13123 on: September 23, 2010, 08:40:56 pm »

Tinypic used to be the best. Now it's the worst. :(

Resizing your images and turning them into jpegs despite being told not to?  Or just the incompetent Captcha?  But yeah, I've gone back to Imageshack myself.  And make an account, then you can access them there to, and all they want is an email, I think.

Actually, man, I took a look and it turns out that tinypic no longer allows links for foreigners. Which is just ass.

There's a reason I use Imgur.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #13124 on: September 23, 2010, 08:50:12 pm »

I have to type up an autobiography for one of my classes.
It would probably be helpful if I had actual memories from the ages of 6-12 instead of just secondhand knowledge.
That and I hate autobiographies.
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