This is a Lord of Spirits special presentation.

So Father Andrew and all the other ancient folk folks are at some kind of meeting or

get together or conference or retreat or some other kind of falter all.

But I did not as an independent contractor who was not involved want our listeners to

go completely deprived of new content on this 4th Thursday of the month of September

2022.

So I said to myself, self I said, what sort of content would appease the appetite of our

listeners?

And I decided that what you might want to hear other than three hours of me monologuing

about something would be to hear the story of a Sumerian wizard duel from the 18th century

BC.

So this text was written down and recorded in between the time of Abraham and the time

of Moses.

That latter part we'll talk about a little more after I read it.

I'm only going to read part of it, the cool part with the wizard duel.

But this text is one of a series of Sumerian texts from that era telling stories

about Enmercar.

Enmercar was the grandfather of Gilgamesh and the King of Erukh.

Most of these stories involve Enmercar trying to place the King of another city into a

vassal position beneath him to pay him tribute.

And so there are all of these interesting ways in which he manages to subjugate these

various other cities.

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