You're listening to the ancient tradition. A Wonk Media production. Music provided by Joseph McDade. Here's your host, Dr. Jack Logan. Welcome to the ancient tradition. I'm your host,

Jack Logan. Great to have you with me today. It's a wonderful day. I've got a good program today.

Today's episode is titled Petra, the Lid of Hell. Quite an interesting title for today's

episode, but it'll all make sense to you by the end. Before we jump into today's episode, I wanted to let

you know that I checked to see if the Hulu streaming service really got its name from the Chinese

Hulu Gord. And guess what? It did. The CEO, the former CEO,

I guess now, because it was consumed by Disney, said it like this. He said, in Mandarin, Hulu

literally translates to Gord. And in ancient times, the Hulu was hollowed out and used to hold precious

things. We saw this as highly relevant to the

mission of Hulu and it was easy to pronounce. So that's why they chose the name Hulu for the

streaming service. So there you go. With that, let's jump in. We need to start today's episode with a quick recap of how we got to where we are,

because without a good understanding of the background behind the foundation stone,

we're not going to have a correct understanding of a particular text

that we're going to cover towards the end of today's episode.

So to recap, as we saw in several ancient texts, after the Son of the

High God triumphantly conquered the awful dragon, he was awarded for his victory by the High God

the right to build a kingdom. Weary and fatigued from the battle, the first thing the Son of the High God desired was a place to rest,

a place where he could safely and freely reside from the onslaught of the dragon,

a place where he could rule over his newly acquired kingdom.

But when the Son of the High God looked out over the primordial waters the elements from which he would

build his material kingdom he saw that there was no place to rest in the book of the holy

secrets of enic when enic ascended to the throne of god the lord recounted to inic what he was

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