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Winds of Winter (slrpnk.net)
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[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Given that the Epic of Gilgamesh was something copy pasted to train scholars and stonemasons for centuries if not millennium, how can we be sure this is canon?

[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 39 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Because it was around long before cannons.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Behold my comment, unedited, with the correct number of n's and shirk away in your ill natured unsophistry.

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

Part of it was also the lack of canon. The ancient world didn't have "one true version" of anything, it had the version at hand. Which was usually the version that the current (local) king wanted.