![]() ![]() Utnapishtim is called “the Remote.” Indeed, Mesopotamian mythology is the oldest, most distant, in recorded history. The background to these stories consists in the creation of man-because the gods needed a substitute-and the Great Flood that almost ended mankind. Eager to speak after centuries of solitary existence, he relates to Sinbad the extensive mythologies of ancient Mesopotamia: of the gods Apsu and Tiamat, Ea and Ishtar, and the heroes Gilgamesh and Enkidu. Utnapishtim the Remote, an immortal man, lives in Dilmun-a place where time assumes physical form. ![]() Different from its predecessors, The Tablet of Destinies stages a dialogue, between Utnapishtim and Sinbad the Sailor. This book, The Tablet of Destinies, the last volume to the series, is likewise a work about blood sacrifice and the genesis of meaning. Most of his written work belongs within a sequence of studies on the role of sacrifice in modernity and in ancient religion, the first of which was The Ruin of Kasch (1983). ROBERTO CALASSO, the Italian writer and publisher, died in 2021. ![]()
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