ANCIENT WORLD
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IN THE NICHE OF THE EASTERN WALL
She waits: wings folded, eyes wide, claws extended.
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ENŪMA ELIŠ REDUX
The ENŪMA ELIŠ is not just about how the world began, but about who gets to rule it, and why.
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SUMERIAN LAMENTATIONS IV
It’s the oldest quest of meaning in a universe born of chaos, dark skies and dark waters, and ruled by capricious gods.
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SUMERIAN LAMENTATIONS III
‘I remembered that one of the names of God is ‘The Fearless’ and that I had read that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.’
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ANCIENT SUMERIAN LAMENTATIONS
…I am finished.
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RED STRINGS & CONE CAKES
Our Echoversum is only a sliver of broader culture’s Echoverse, one more layer of dreams, stories, and beliefs enveloping it, adding complexity upon complexity and fragments upon fragments.
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HYPERREAL HUNGER
Herostratus’s insatiable, almost feverish craving for the hyperreal – the exaggerated simulations and imitations of reality, rather than authentic reality itself – drove him to an abject act of destruction of something beautiful and beloved.
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ANCIENT BABYLON: THE RIGHTEOUS SUFFERER
The chapter below is from the RIGHTEOUS SUFFERER (LUDLUL BĒL NĒMEQI) c.1700BC, a Sumerian and later Babylonian poem on the theme of unjust suffering.
