This story where a Babylonian jester makes up fake, gross menus to parody an elaborate feast.
Ingredients include dog poop, donkey butts, and the very specific egg of a goose from a chicken coop on a sand bed.
Ingredients include dog poop, donkey butts, and the very specific egg of a goose from a chicken coop on a sand bed.
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The king turns to a wise woman to solve the problem, and in the end, they all lose because no one was willing to risk anything to retrieve the water.
Maybe he couldn’t understand the dialect, or maybe the patient created an elaborate ruse of miscommunication to avoid the bill...
“When you come to my city Nippur you must enter by Grand Gate. Keep Broad Avenue, the boulevard, and Right Street, the road of Nuska and Ninimma, on your left."
“Like a flatulent anus, the mouth produces too many words”
good stuff.
B. Alster, The Sumerian Folktale of the Three Ox-Drivers from Adab (1991)
G. Barjamovic, Food in Ancient Mesopotamia (2019)
A. George, Ninurta-Pāqidāt's Dog Bite, and Notes on Other Comic Tales (1993)
Proverb: https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu//blms/P396094/html
It features Sumerian fart jokes and other fun stuff 😎 https://lnk.to/BetweenTwoRivers
This sounds so interesting!
Hehehehe