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Post by hukkana on Apr 26, 2015 7:01:54 GMT -5
This is a bit of a personal issue but I find it borderline offensive that, given the wide academic recongition of the importance of the Gilgameš text, no one, to my knowledge, has ever produced an actual adaptation of the Epic, beyond dramatic reading. Though some tv series have borrowed names and concepts from the Epic, no one has ever tried to produce a movie version of the myth.
There are other myths I would like to see actually get adapted, the Hittite/Hurian Kingship in Heaven Cycle or any of the myths relating to Ninurta/Ningirsu come to mind, this is probably the one that would have the best chances to actually get made.
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Post by enkur on Apr 27, 2015 6:02:31 GMT -5
Seems that the cinema has little interest in going farther than the Greco-Roman period backwards in the cultural history. Some months ago I staged "Inanna's Descent" on a certain underground scene in my country and even uploaded a teaser of the performance here in enenuru. The performance was without any budget. As a theatrical director I am strongly interested in staging Mesopotamian and other ancient texts but for now there is no interest shown neither by the official theatrical circles, nor by the dry scholar circles. The adaptations if not in some cliche form are marginal.
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Post by hukkana on Apr 27, 2015 10:21:27 GMT -5
Seems that the cinema has little interest in going farther than the Greco-Roman period backwards in the cultural history. Some months ago I staged "Inanna's Descent" on a certain underground scene in my country and even uploaded a teaser of the performance here in enenuru. The performance was without any budget. As a theatrical director I am strongly interested in staging Mesopotamian and other ancient texts but for now there is no interest shown neither by the official theatrical circles, nor by the dry scholar circles. The adaptations if not in some cliche form are marginal. What country is that ? |
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Post by enkur on Apr 28, 2015 8:25:52 GMT -5
Bulgaria. In the context of the ancient monarchy, or better said, the kingship, I would recommend "Minoan Kingship and the Solar Goddes" by Nanno Marinatos, where the Minoan solar goddess is considered as the king's patron with parallels to the ANE. I would apply the same to Inanna in Sumer - the very muse of kingship, especially in Uruk. Hathor and Sekhmet are parallels in Egypt. Venus as the companion of the sun, either following, or preceding it was the heavenly analogy.There is even an older formula wherein the King should marry the Sovereignty personified as the goddess of the land itself. Her role wasn't assumed by the queen but by a dedicated priestess. This marriage provided the divine blood in the king's lineage. It was the refusal of that sacred marriage (as did Gilgamesh according to the myth) which led the ancient kingship to decay.
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Post by hukkana on Apr 28, 2015 15:42:50 GMT -5
Bulgaria. In the context of the ancient monarchy, or better said, the kingship, I would recommend "Minoan Kingship and the Solar Goddes" by Nanno Marinatos, where the Minoan solar goddess is considered as the king's patron with parallels to the ANE. I would apply the same to Inanna in Sumer - the very muse of kingship, especially in Uruk. Hathor and Sekhmet are parallels in Egypt. Venus as the companion of the sun, either following, or preceding it was the heavenly analogy.There is even an older formula wherein the King should marry the Sovereignty personified as the goddess of the land itself. Her role wasn't assumed by the queen but by a dedicated priestess. This marriage provided the divine blood in the king's lineage. It was the refusal of that sacred marriage (as did Gilgamesh according to the myth) which led the ancient kingship to decay. Hmm, well what do you think about Bulgarian monarchism ? Not exactly sure, Knossos seems to be a bit outside of my immediate field of interests, the lack of actual sources kind of deter me. |
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Post by enkur on Apr 28, 2015 17:13:30 GMT -5
I am not interested in any monarchism in the context of monotheism. Yet I will answer your question: The last Bulgarian king Simeon II was a shame not only for his dynasty and the nation but for the very monarchic institution itself. He was a myth for the Bulgarians during his exile by the communist regime. The people expected his return as a messiah. After the regime fell, he returned, made a political party, won the elections and became a premier, but he came out to be quite a mediocre person not unlike most of the Bulgarian politicians nowadays. On the next elections his party was not able to won even the minimal percent to enter the parliament. Now nobody wants to hear about him anymore, and there is no more myth about the monarchy in this country.
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