c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…story an ancient myth, actually the oldest written myth of western culture, story of story of gilgamesh and enkidu and the goddess Ishtar might also be called the story of the hero, the wild man and the goddess, or better the goddess, the wild man…
…hair all over his body and had long hair like a woman, and gilgamesh went to the priestesses of the Temple of Ishtar and asked the priestesses of the Temple of Ishtar to send one of their women priestesses, later on falsely called sacred prostitutes.…
…like a woman, and gilgamesh went to the priestesses of the Temple of Ishtar and asked the priestesses of the Temple of Ishtar to send one of their women priestesses, later on falsely called sacred prostitutes. They were not prostitutes. They did not sell…
…for five days and finally enkidu appeared with the animals to drink water at the stream. The woman from the Temple of Ishtar went towards enkidu and exposed her nakedness to him and took his hand to touch her breast, whereupon enkidu was suffused with…
…You have seen the abode of the gods which is in the inner recesses behind these forests the beautiful edenic Garden, the Garden of Ishtar, the Garden of the sun god are all protected by them. You should let me go I am the guardian, I'm doing my job…
…much time, the last one has to do. The third of these stories in this epic has to do with the story with the goddess Ishtar. After they come back and they get great admiration and the people of the city: oh gilgamesh what a hero and enkidu, what a…
…warriors to have killed this huge giant. And look how huge this giant is and his head is huge and his body is huge. And Ishtar, the goddess, says to gilgamesh: I want you for my lover, I want you to come and be my lover and together we will have…
…You turned him into a mole he's under the ground. I don't want to be your lover. Look what happened to the others. And Ishtar was furious. This is a story of the male gods, the patriarchal hero warriors with their male gods and their reaction of fear…
…patriarchal hero warriors with their male gods and their reaction of fear and distrust of the goddess and of the feminine. And Ishtar went to her father Anu and said: Ishtar Gilgamesh has insulted me tremendously and I'm just enraged. And her father Anu…
…and their reaction of fear and distrust of the goddess and of the feminine. And Ishtar went to her father Anu and said: Ishtar Gilgamesh has insulted me tremendously and I'm just enraged. And her father Anu said: well you know what he said was true.…
…a sword, killed the bull of heaven with a great crash and dragged him into the city, adding to their great accomplishments. And Ishtar was even more incensed because now they had killed this semi divine being that had been sent down by the gods. And the…
…enkidu was going to die and enkidu actually there's an extraordinary story too even before he has this dream where the goddess Ishtar goes up on the city walls and complains and invades against them. They've killed not only the forest giant now they've…