We have condensed the oldest and longest (at 13,000+ words) poetic drama ever composed, entitled the Epic of Gilgamesh. This epic is about the first and original hero …of those “with a thousand faces”, the term coined by the mythologist Joseph Campbell to indicate that there were more mythological heroes who underwent similarly challenging rite-of-passage quests after Gilgamesh.
There were heroes like Hercules, Jason, Theseus and Odysseus, Buddha, Pinocchio in fact, and even Bob Dylan sung of his own hero’s journey in his song Isis on the album Desire. King Arthur and Merlin also undertook a heroic quest in the Celtic myths, a sea voyage around the pole stars.
But Gilgamesh is the prototype, and his epic journey requires him to “tread the rim of the wheel”. In my book, Stories in the Stars, I re-interpret the translations of the cuneiform on the Babylonian tablets to show that this “wheel’s rim” symbolises the ring of the zodiac constellations in the stars, and so that’s also reflected in our track.
The words are by me, and Andreas (APi_ZZ) has complimented the journey of the soundscape with some beautifully enchanting music. So do enjoy!
Annie Dieu-Le-Veut 