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Micro-fiction 041 – Crossroads Hotel (Echoes series)

A late night trip through the Pando Forest brings Jas and Cody to a Crossroads Hotel for some respite and a truly warm welcome. Crossroads Hotel It was past midnight and the two of them scrambled through the darkness of the Pando Forest. It was her idea to camp out, but he had agreed enthusiastically. Perhaps now they regretted their …

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Micro-fiction 032 – Two Faces (Gothic series)

Was family lunchtime ever like this? The family gathered, dressed on their fine white clothes, but Patsy bears a frustrated frown… “Can’t you see what’s happening around you?” Patsy yells, inside her head. It is Sunday. While not being a religious family, they do observe a long tradition of polite lunchtime gathering. Patsy’s father, his bloated body dressed in an …

Sumerian Gods being worshipped by their human vassals, Utnapishtim, Gilgamesh

Sources | The Great Deluge | Retold

The Ancient Sumerian and Babylonian Myth of Apocalypse, from the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Dream of Atrahasis and the Eridu Genesis. Retold by Jake Jackson. The Great Deluge: Beginnings Enlil, Fategiver, Lord of Storms and warrior god ruled the realm of Earth, creating kings and great temples for the pure worship and honour of the gods who lived alongside Earth …

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 …