steppe🔊

The grasslands of Eastern Europe and Asia. Similar to (North American) prairie and (African) savanna.

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Enkidu was the hairy man of the wild steppes, and Gilgamesh was the hero of civilization; but now the contrast is between Gilgamesh, the king, the man of political power, the heroic man of action, the extrovert, and Utnapishtim, the man of religious authority, the introvert, the sage.

William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture (1981)

A vast, cold, dry grass-plain.

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