Sources

Where the stories, the reading and the look come from. If an episode says something about the myth, it is in one of these.

The Epic of Gilgamesh

Andrew George, The Epic of Gilgamesh (Penguin Classics, 1999)
The standard scholarly translation of the Standard Babylonian text, with the older Sumerian poems. Tablet numbers on this site follow it.
Sophus Helle, Gilgamesh: A New Translation of the Ancient Epic (Yale, 2021)
A recent literary translation with essays on the poem's themes; good on Enkidu's death and the ending.
Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (ETCSL)
The Sumerian Gilgamesh poems in transliteration and translation, free.

C. G. Jung, Aion (Collected Works 9ii), chapter 2, 'The Shadow'
Three pages that define the term. Everything in season one leans on them.
C. G. Jung, Psychology and Religion (CW 11), the 'shadow' passages
Source of the remark that the shadow is ninety percent pure gold.
Marie-Louise von Franz, Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales
The shadow as it appears in old stories, which is what these films do.

Lotte Reiniger, The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926)
The oldest surviving animated feature, in cut-paper silhouette. The visual grammar of season one.
TED-Ed, 'The epic of Gilgamesh, the king who tried to conquer death'
The five-minute charcoal telling we measured our pace against.

Google Gemini (Veo) for the silhouette scenes; ElevenLabs for the narration; Lyria for music
Every episode is disclosed as AI-generated where it is published.
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