Although he is walking on foot, Ananu will not be hungry or tired, so the progress is still quite fast.
He now walked around another city.
This city is called Lagash, and it is considered a relatively famous city. Its wealth is only slightly lower than Uruk and Elidu.
Ananu did not go into the city. After all, the city was not his only way. He had always avoided contact with other people or gods.
He just wanted to make this journey a little more pure.
After bypassing Lagash, Ananu continued walking northeast, and walked for nearly a month before walking from the banks of the Tigris River to the banks of the Euphrates River.
Looking at the turbulent river in front of him, Ananu's mood remained calm.
River? Just walk across it.
He stepped on the waves and crossed the Euphrates River, and what stood in front of him turned into towering mountain peaks.
The Zagros Mountains are extremely dangerous. At least so far, they are completely restricted by humans. Very few people can survive in the mountains.
But Ananu looked at the majestic mountains in front of him, and he was equally unfazed.
Mountain? Just walk over.
Ananu spent a month climbing the Zagros Mountains and walking among the mountains, heading southeast.
He didn't eat anything along the way. After all, Ananu had no appetite. If he was thirsty, drinking a little dew from the leaves would be enough.
His body will not be stained with dirt, and his feet will not be stained with dust. He maintains a calm expression and walks firmly as when he set out.
Ishtar is a complete idiot, but she does have something right.
Ananu truly does not understand the joy of life and the pain of death.
Just like he was not running wildly and shouting in the wilderness, nor was he crying and sleeping peacefully in the night sky.
But the biggest difference between Ananu and the gods is that he is willing to understand.
Even though he may not really understand that feeling in the end, he is willing to understand and wants to understand.
This alone is enough.
Crossing the plains, crossing the rivers, climbing the mountains, walking through the wilderness, and then, what appeared in front of Ananu——
It is the sea that represents mother.
Ananu stood in front of the sea and stopped.
The clouds in the sky are dim in color, as if the gods have closed their eyes, and are extremely gloomy. Under the dark sky, there is a beach full of mist.
No, it should be, Shitan.
There are no beautiful, fine white pebbles on this beach. What is there are just jagged light gray rocks. They are lifeless, emotionless, and lifeless. They just lie there quietly, letting the same gray
The sea water rolled up white foam, slapped on his body, and then receded.
This is the sea.
The sea that represents the mother of Mesopotamia.
"Mother Tiamat..."
Looking at the huge gray waves, Ananu murmured involuntarily.
Tiamat, the salt-water Tiamat, the mother goddess of Mesopotamia, is now slain and banished like Abzu, her magic half absorbed into the sky and half into
The earth provided fertility and prosperity for what is now Mesopotamia.
This mother goddess who loved her children from beginning to end was eventually killed by her children, just like her partner Abzu.
I don't know if it was because he was moved by the scene, but Ananu actually let out a long sigh, then knelt down gently in front of the sea, kissed the gray stone beach, kissed the mother goddess Tiamat, then stood up again and continued walking.
Moved his own steps.
It has been five months since he came out, almost half a year, before he got here.
I don’t know what’s going on in Uruk...
...Then, continue your journey.
Ananu's mind was as calm as water, showing his control over nature.
He is the wrath of nature, and nature can also soothe the wrath of nature.
The huge waves that shook the sky quietly receded in front of Ananu, allowing Ananu to walk on the sea, looking for the fog, looking for the island wrapped in thick fog, with the gate to the underworld on it.
Ananu understood that the island did not exist here or on this sea. It was just a manifestation and a channel of the underworld in the real world, nothing more.
But Ananu needed that island to enter the underworld.
The sea stretched as far as the eye could see, and the scenery on the sea was the same. Ananu did not lose his patience, he just walked and searched, but he had no way to drink dew to quench his thirst. Drinking sea water would only make him thirstier.
Although Ananu is a strange being, he is still a clay figure. If there is no water, he will not feel well.
But Ananu's luck is still good.
After walking on the sea for a month, before his lips became dry and chapped, Ananu encountered a heavy fog that moistened his lips, and he also realized -
He found it.
The island where the gate to the underworld is located——
Smelling the smell of earth and death, Ananu passed through the thick fog, and he finally saw the island hidden behind the thick fog.
This is a gray-black island and a wasteland, because it is a stone, a huge stone plain.
This is the reason why it has no life. It is just a stone, and because it is wrapped in thick fog, it cannot see the sun. It is always like darkness, so no life can exist on its body.
Of course, there are exceptions.
Just like the haggard old man wearing black robe standing on the beach.
Ananu already understood his identity the moment she saw him.
Utnapishtim.
The builder of the Ark, the leader of mankind during the Great Flood, and the only eternal being.
He was given eternal life by Enlil, but because of this generous reward, he was regarded as a freak by people, and finally lived in seclusion on the island of death with his wife.
His wife is not an immortal, but because she is a human being who lived before the flood, she also has a life far beyond that of today's humans. After all, humans at that time were creatures without flaws.
But even so, his wife is already old.
His only companion is about to die, and coupled with the resentment of having to live in seclusion because of wrong rewards, Utnapishtim is now standing on the seaside, cursing the gods.
Therefore, when Ananu came to the island, the first words he heard were——
"Fucking bastard, Gou Ri's son..."
A series of extremely high-quality speeches were uttered by Utnapishtim in a small voice and at a very fast speed, and he did not seem to notice the arrival of Ananu, who was almost ashore, and he