There was no song of birds, no roar of beasts, and no words of human beings.
But it's not quiet here.
"You are not my creation."
The man with long lake-blue hair and a gentle expression looked at the things in front of him with a peaceful smile on his face.
"So, I won't tell you what you are going to do."
That is--
A ball of mud.
"According to the order, Utu borrowed from me the soil that I brought back from the remains of the father god Abzu, and then gave you... the so-called consciousness."
The mud ball was squirming and seemed restless.
There was a wave on its surface, very active.
"Haha, what a naughty life." The man smiled. His smile was very beautiful, giving people a feeling of... full of life?
But he seemed to have thought of something, his eyes lowered, his smile faded, and he sighed softly.
"Forget it, even if you are not my creation, I still love you, but...just like the lives that my wife and I created out of clay, you will eventually leave the protection of gods.
"
"...For the mission given to you by God."
He raised his hands gently and gently, holding up the clay ball in his hands.
The mud ball broke away from the god's hand, and then slowly transformed into two smaller mud balls in the air.
One mud ball is stable and round, while the other mud ball has a wavy surface.
Enki looked at these two creatures and smiled gently.
"You, you need to know."
"What is the so-called human being?"
Enki said, circling his fingers in circles and lightly touching the two clay balls.
"Utu created...[perfect humanity] in the forests of Enlil."
When saying this, Enki's face looked a little strange.
But...what can be done?
Shaking his head, Enki continued: "Observe, describe, and then imitate the posture to look like yourself."
"After that, Ninurdo will give you his power."
Ninurdor is another god, one of the many gods with war powers, and one of the most powerful.
"Before you are thrown into the Uruk Forest, you must be with the...[humans] raised by Utu."
For some reason, Enki always pauses for a while when he says the word "human", which looks a bit weird.
Maybe it’s mostly helplessness and strangeness.
But he didn't stop his words and actions just because of such a trivial matter.
"Finish it and become a doll."
He raised his head, with a smile on his face again, and said to the two clay balls.
"——Because you are the clods that imitate all life."
Buzz————————
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This place is called - [Mesopotamia].
It is a world where gods and humans live together.
The gods live in the Anunnaki, while humans live on the surface. Humans work to produce crops, produce food and jewelry, and arrange sacrifices and dances to offer to the Anunnaki gods.
——Human beings are God’s creations, so they should offer their loyalty and labor results to God, support the gods, and please the gods.
This is natural and has been true since the birth of the world.
...At least, that was the case before that king.
Gilgamesh, a cruel and terrifying ruler, the king of Uruk.
He is the child of Lugalbanda and Ninsong, the patron saint of the city-state. He has two-thirds of the blood of a god and one-third of the blood of a human.
Ninsong is a free goddess. After she gave birth to Gilgamesh with Lugalbanda, she left her friend's city-state Uruk and continued her journey on the earth. As a god and a human
As a child, Gilgamesh naturally became the king of this city.
This - the city-state built and protected by Ishtar, the goddess of Venus, the mistress of the sky, and the mistress of the earth - is the king of Uruk.
So of course, he is noble.
His mother Ninsun was the daughter of Enlil, and his patron saint Ishtar was one of the seven main gods.
In addition, the blood belonging to God in his body gave him the wisdom and power of God, so he was extremely arrogant. He regarded his people as ants and treated them as his own belongings, and he did not hesitate to destroy or play with them.
Under his leadership, the human world gradually fell into chaos. People's production speed slowed down, and they no longer dedicated sacrifices, songs and dances to the gods. Therefore, the gods became dissatisfied.
The last time this happened was because Ishtar entered the underworld and was killed by Ereshkigal.
But Ishtar is one of the seven main gods, and the gods dare not complain about her.
And Gilgamesh is just the king of humans.
Enlil woke up amid the petitions from a large number of gods.
The God King, who has been sleeping all year round, expressed his helplessness about everything that happened, or in other words - he didn't want to care about these things at all.
As long as he could sleep peacefully, nothing mattered to Enlil.
The chirping sounds of the gods bored him, but he could not deal with these gods in the same way as humans - no matter famine, drought, disease, or even a great flood, the gods could not be completely killed.
So he assigned the sun god Utu a task - to create tools that could return humans to the loving embrace of the gods.
Facing Enlil's voice that sounded like a roaring wind, Utu agreed.
It's just that he was a little confused.
Generally speaking, shouldn't this kind of matter be left to the water god Enki?
The actual situation is - Enki is loving, he is the father of mankind, one of the two gods who created mankind, and Enlil's order is actually cruel to mankind.
This is something Enki cannot do - he will always love humans and his children unconditionally.
What's more, Enki is very powerful. Although he may not be Enlil's opponent, he is still one of the most powerful among the gods. Enlil has no intention of angering Enki on this issue.
So this matter was handed over to Utu.
Utu borrowed from Enki the leftover mud from the time when he created man, and the mud he brought from his father god Abzu, and then shaped two mud balls with his own hands.
He originally planned to knead only one, but as expected one was still too big, and Enki had a lot of materials left, so Utu simply divided the mud ball into two, in order to bring humans back to the land of gods this time.
side, adding a layer of insurance.
And these two clay balls are the so-called [Homunculus], which is the prototype of human beings.
After making the two clay balls, Utu pinched the clay balls together again and gave them to Enki.
If you want to bring back humans, you must understand humans.
It just so happened that in Enlil's forest, there was a "perfect human being" created by him.
But even if his creations were in Enlil's forest, he could not enter. He could only ask Enki, who had a higher status, to send these two creations in.
These two creatures—
Lock-type humans use it to deal with Gilgamesh's [Heaven's Lock] Enkidu.
In order to ensure the safety of the Heaven's Lock, and at the same time, it is also a measure to liberate the [Heaven's Key] Ananu.