What do dreams tell Gilgamesh in Tablet IV? Can Gilgamesh interpret his own dreams? ...

Everything in the ancient world was a sign to be read. Our most intelligible surviving mirror of this belief is in astrology: knowing where the sun, moon, and planets were when you were born enables you to tell what's going to happen, what kind of person you are, whom you should marry, and what you should do for a living, so the astrologers say. Remember that astrology was a Babylonian invention.

What do dreams tell Gilgamesh in Tablet IV? Can Gilgamesh interpret his own dreams? Who helps him? Do dreams function in a similar way in the story of Joseph in Genesis?

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