Namtar...

Well I came across a man who asked me if I wished for a teacher, I answered yes and he told me to study the Sumerian text of Gilgamesh (there are about five texts...) the trouble was, he didn't know as much as me about how to run a modification of UnReal; not that that would have been a problem, except he spoke to me as if I didn't know anything about computer game mods.

I was also beginning to suspect that he didn't know anything about Gilgamesh, other than what the original stories told.

And that, my friend is a lesson. You could say that it was my duty to let the subject go, after all this man without doubt knew more about Sumerian mythology than I.

Actually if it had been any subject other than mythology perhaps I would have continued, but mythology is different, it acts as an interface between the world and one's interpretation of it. The stories ebb and flow, the themes repeat through out time, mythology cannot be pinned down nor fixed and categorized.

Mythology is a common resource and weirdly enough, all interpretations are valid.