This is a Lord of Spirit's special presentation.

So Father Andrew and all the other ancient fake 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 fourth Thursday

of the month of September 2022.

And 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 will 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 Enmerkar.

Enmerkar was the grandfather of Gilgamesh and the king of A rook.

Most of these stories involve Enmerkar 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.

So the beginning of this text, which is entitled Enmerkar and Ensugarana, and those get

spelled in fascinatingly different ways.

But if you spell it out phonetically, you could probably find it.

If you want to read more about it, is about our friend, Enmerkar, trying to subjugate,

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