‘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.’
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.
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.
To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches; to aspire to be more is the greatest and most certain of miseries.
…I am finished.