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LORD PLEASE ANSWER

Eight Questions

   to the Third King of Uruk

Did the Gods ever offer their beautiful wisdom to the insects of the earth, or did the human being decide to just plunder and pillage it with all the bruteness of her animal? 

And did Shamhat ever offer her beautiful body in lust, or did Enkidu decide to ravage it forcibly with all the power of his animal?

Did You, Gilgamesh ever visit the cedar forest or did Humbaba only exist as a figment of phantasmagoria nurtured in the composture of your fears, blooming then by force only of your own lively fantasy?

Did You, Gilgamesh ever visit the palace of Anu or did your weakness actually put an end to it all before you even reached the gates of it?

Did you then lie and deceive out of weakness and embarrassment, or can I trust your heart was pure?

Did your works, your words and your deeds transform you into a hero-king as fundamental as the highest Gods in the very mythology which had you solidified in immortality?

Can I continue to bow at your feet in adoration without making myself a fool?

And is it possible to follow in your steps?

“We seem to be equipped with intense spiritual instincts, for we pursue the idea of a personal transformation: we iconize the mythologem of the Hero even in the hammersmiths of our modern entertainment industries, and it is a thread running through our collective millennia.  simply put, we worship human power. We have instincts which, in their true meaning and unspoiled purpose draws us nearer to our religious origin and to our final dwelling (for these are same things). And they may inspire us not to stray from our brazen path we have chosen for ourselves (in consultation with God), and, these instincts, when filtered and transformed through the mind and the personality of the individual,  comes to act as catalysts of Heroic ego-mythical actualization. This opens portals to the transformation, and transcendence into the mysteriousness which we ought to call the Divine. And what a finding it would be. Don't you think?”