Motif
Celestial weight as dream-symbol of a person
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A motif of the Dream, Vision, and Altered Perception family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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1 traditions
mesopotamian
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An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic / Part III / PREFATORY NOTE / INTRODUCTION.; lines 398-455 confidence: high
The Pennsylvania tablet begins with two dreams Gilgamesh tells his mother; she interprets them as foretelling Enkidu's coming to Erech. In the first dream, a heavy meteor-like object falls from heaven and almost crushes Gilgamesh.
A heavy meteor-like object falls from heaven and becomes a burden carried to Ninsun, who explains that it symbolizes a person connected with Gilgamesh.
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