And once commerce began, it was important to find a way to use some sort of "token system" in which to account for trade goods. Out of this grew a rather advanced system of writing, which then led to even more advances -- literature, formal religion, and a way to pass down cultural activities from generation to generation in ways other than oral traditions (Woods)
¶ … Epic of Gilgamesh, considered a "hero-king" of ancient Mesopotamia (Kovacs, 1989)
In search of the wind" (Sanders, 103). Universal truths associated with Gilgamesh's travels center around "fatigue, hardship and danger" and suggests journey or travel has the ability to change individuals and create "shepherds" of peace from "predators," often with characters like Gilgamesh and even Odysseus traveling in search of immortality, which they are not to find (Leed, 6)
It has minimal non-periodic enjambment, its syntax is rigid, and each assonantal line…forms a complete clause." (Maxwell, 2002, p
Whereas "Arjuna understands that renunciation in knowledge involves cessation of all kinds of work performed as sense activities.(Bhagavad Gita, chapter 5)