{"id":2120,"date":"2009-09-11T23:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-11T23:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/09\/not-to-be-confused-with-any-other-epic\/"},"modified":"2009-09-11T23:04:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-11T23:04:00","slug":"not-to-be-confused-with-any-other-epic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/09\/not-to-be-confused-with-any-other-epic.html","title":{"rendered":"Not to be confused with any other epic"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div>Just for clarification, the <a href=\"http:\/\/exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/epic-of-gilgawest-myth-of-biblioblog.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">epic<\/a> I posted recently on my blog should not be confused with any other epic with a similar-sounding title.\n<p>It is <em>not<\/em> the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emusic.com\/album\/Eva-Depoltova-MARTINU-The-Epic-of-Gilgamesh-MP3-Download\/10873490.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Epic of Gilgamesh<\/a>, which is the story of what happened to two men after they found that it was illegal for them to get married in the state of Mesopotamia. Or something like that.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_BtqUSG7RCA0\/SqsQWvSPjlI\/AAAAAAAAAgU\/WGGAfKfneNE\/s1600-h\/gargamel.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_BtqUSG7RCA0\/SqsQWvSPjlI\/AAAAAAAAAgU\/WGGAfKfneNE\/s200\/gargamel.jpg\"><\/a>Nor is it the <a href=\"http:\/\/goteaminternet.com\/show\/58616\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Epic of Gargamel<\/a>, which explains the origins of Smurfette but not much else.<\/p>\n<p>Neither should it be confused with the \u201cBallad of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gargamel.no\/music\/index.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Gargamel<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/music\/Gilgamesh\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Gilgamesh<\/a>\u201c, which is an epic song telling the tragic story of a British-Scandinavian-American-Dutch-Japanese progressive jazz-ska-rock band, whose members combined from previously existing bands and could not agree on a new name.<\/p>\n<p>Hope this clarifies things.<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-5622452379062878862?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just for clarification, the epic I posted recently on my blog should not be confused with any other epic with a similar-sounding title. 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