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shark_hatMy phone apparently had a brain fart and sent H. two copies of a text from last week; in a proactive and problem-solving manner, I've dealt with it by deleting all the things in the outbox. (Why does it keep them anyway, I wonder?) I might see about getting it properly sorted if it happens again, let me know if you get stuff from me that's more random than usual...
Building noises FFS! V fed up with.
I refound a book in the library called Mesopotamia: the invention of the city, which is interesting. It has various invocations to gods praising them for maintaining their cities, or describing the destruction when they abandon them (pretty understandable in an area where a river could shift course any time and make a city redundant):
"So that the warehouses are provisioned,
that dwellings would be founded in the city,
that its people would eat splendid food,
that its people drink splendid beverages,
...
that acquaintances would dine together,
that foreigners would cruise about like unusual birds in the sky,
...
(so that all this might happen) Holy Inanna did not sleep.
...
She endowed its old women with advice, she endowed its old
men with counsel, she endowed its young women with dances,
she endowed its young men with martial might,
she endowed its little ones with joy.
...
Holy Inannna opened wide
the portals of the city-gate, as for the Tigris going to sea,
ships brought the goods of Sumer itself upstream
...
All the governors, temple administrators, and land registrars of the Gu'edena regularly supplied monthly and New Year offerings there." (p 103-104)
On the other hand, when Enlil wants revenge on a city:
"Messengers no longer travel the highways, boats no longer travel the rivers... the vast fields did not produce grain, the inundation ponds produced no fish, the irrigated orchard yielded neither syrup nor wine... the great sanctuaries weer remodelled to tiny reed chapels." (p106)
So, anyway, when Inanna has gone down to try and take over the underworld and has been trapped down there:
"No bull mounted a cow, no donkey impregnated a jenny,
no young man impregnated a girl in the street
the young man slept in his private room
the girl slept in the company of her friends" (p58)
Beat that for describing a shocking state of affairs, fantasy writers. (It turns out all right- Enki manages to recover Inanna, and when she gets back and finds that her lover has taken over her throne, she gives him to the demons to take her place.)
Building noises FFS! V fed up with.
I refound a book in the library called Mesopotamia: the invention of the city, which is interesting. It has various invocations to gods praising them for maintaining their cities, or describing the destruction when they abandon them (pretty understandable in an area where a river could shift course any time and make a city redundant):
"So that the warehouses are provisioned,
that dwellings would be founded in the city,
that its people would eat splendid food,
that its people drink splendid beverages,
...
that acquaintances would dine together,
that foreigners would cruise about like unusual birds in the sky,
...
(so that all this might happen) Holy Inanna did not sleep.
...
She endowed its old women with advice, she endowed its old
men with counsel, she endowed its young women with dances,
she endowed its young men with martial might,
she endowed its little ones with joy.
...
Holy Inannna opened wide
the portals of the city-gate, as for the Tigris going to sea,
ships brought the goods of Sumer itself upstream
...
All the governors, temple administrators, and land registrars of the Gu'edena regularly supplied monthly and New Year offerings there." (p 103-104)
On the other hand, when Enlil wants revenge on a city:
"Messengers no longer travel the highways, boats no longer travel the rivers... the vast fields did not produce grain, the inundation ponds produced no fish, the irrigated orchard yielded neither syrup nor wine... the great sanctuaries weer remodelled to tiny reed chapels." (p106)
So, anyway, when Inanna has gone down to try and take over the underworld and has been trapped down there:
"No bull mounted a cow, no donkey impregnated a jenny,
no young man impregnated a girl in the street
the young man slept in his private room
the girl slept in the company of her friends" (p58)
Beat that for describing a shocking state of affairs, fantasy writers. (It turns out all right- Enki manages to recover Inanna, and when she gets back and finds that her lover has taken over her throne, she gives him to the demons to take her place.)
