While my roommate’s owner is screaming at him, I have a menu of music I listen to as I write; Nordic suicide music, Celtic music, Japanese traditional, blues, and Santana. Old Carlos, a man with a very Mesopotamian taste in womanhood, turned out to be the key to finding a modern version of Shamhat, the peerlessly skilled and well endowed High Priestess of Ishtar who seduced the Wildman Enkidu and is hence a fitting metaphor for man’s fall from beast-slaughtering grace to our present low state of domestication.

I have done what I can to strain my eyes in your service and determine the identity of this lady, who, I think, is the same babe in the second video.

The third video and the fourth [in link form instead of window as there are nude models on the YouTube thumbnail window that are not in the video] is included so that the reader can get an idea of the kind of drum the ancient Sumerian dancers, and later Babylonian boxers, practiced their arts to. These drums were thought to communicate with the spirits of the underworld, which may explain the reference in Gilgamesh as to the priestesses of Ishtar causing old weary men to rise from their beds.

Why is this listed under ancient combat?

Because this is what the winner of an ancient battle brought home in his chariot, while her brother was dragged behind—and somehow we got from there to feminism?

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