Enki and other Sumerian Gods

Sources | The Great Deluge | Introduction

Stories of floods appear in most ancient mythologies, manifested as apocalyptic events caused by a God or gods. The Mesoamericans, Chinese, ancient Greeks and Scandinavians all suffered the wrathful storms of a vengeful deity. Human civilisation grew around river systems, with the Amazon, Indus, Nile-Kagera, Yellow River and Yangtze, and the Kızılırmak bearing some of the earliest, as humankind wrestled …

Babylonian Flood Story

Sources | Babylonian Flood Tale

Over the four week period in 2017 I took on a task of retelling the story of the Babylonian Flood. There are three fragmentary stories, the most famous of which is embedded within the myth of Gilgamesh, but their significance is great because they hold voices from the ancient past, further back than the Greeks of Homer, the Tanakh of …

These Fantastic Worlds, Jake Jackson

November 2015 Update

Update on the forthcoming blogs and projects from Jake jackson, at These Fantastic Worlds. Fiction, art, movies music and more. Science Fiction and Dark Fantasy.

Only Connect: The Naming of Things: Part One

I’ve been painting most nights: acrylics, layer upon layer, broadly expressionist, abstract, intimate. But one thing troubles me: what do I call the paintings? You’d think it would be simple, but the ‘naming of things’ is not to be undertaken lightly. With its immediacy a painting seems to be different to a book, or a piece of music, and not …