SLEEP, ENLIL
(Ending the Chapter)
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My words are Atheneās talons
Baba Gurgur my will
Chiron gave my eyes
My smile to IŔtar
Thereās a universe in my head
You cannot fathom
Layla and Majnūn unleashed
Stars piercing Nyxā fabric
With Ćrisā flame
Dancing until Vamakaliās final step
My fingers were forged in Urim
Eleos is my skin
My voice as wild as Girra
Galbanum withholds me
Thereās a bond in my heart
You must not shatter
For Netiās realm is barred
Beatrice and Vergilio are lost to you
The lightbearer will wash
All of you away
My kiss like Ƨam balı
Philomela weaved my touch
My embrace is Dumuzid
HÄdonÄ leads my hand
Thereās a fervour in my soul
You will never recognise
Venus seduces Å ulpae
Ninmah breathes her concession
Anar thrown to kallistÄi
IŔkur over the kanephoroi
The blood and the fire
The sceptre and the arms
Longing for each other
Holding each other
Being each other
Until Anu cedes.
Footnotes:
Enlil (old; newer name: Elil), Lord Wind, was barred from sleep by the loud people, unleashed a flood to silence the world.
āYour world is mine. Your burden is mine. Until I lay my head to rest.ā ā©
Athene is beautiful but rarely dangerous, still she is a bird of prey.
Baba Gurgur is ever-burning under the surface, fires erupting randomly since ancient times.
Chironās wedding gift to Peleus was a spear: seldom seen, and piercing if directed.
IŔtar (older name: Inanna), the goddess of love and war, tried to conquer the underworld.
āWith radiating eyes that caught me in a beam.ā ā©
Layla and Majnūn: the lovers, they dance,
and burn as hard as Ćrisā flame of hate and contempt (not for each other),
like stars in the night sky until one stops the other lest they go too far
as Vamakali, unhinged Kali after destroying many demons: Shiva lay down in front of her so she would see him and stop, Vamakali only recognised him when she stepped one foot on him.
āThis songless, sightless, silent giantā ā©
Like the Dagger of Ur, the fingers are delicate, unique and hurtful.
Eleos is merciful, sensitive and compassionate.
Girra is the god of fire and of light, both useful and destructive;
Galbanum soothes.
āWe offer our admission and return home.ā ā©
When IŔtar tried to conquer the underworld, Neti took a token of her power from her at each seal, leaving her naked and powerless in the end.
Beatrice and Vergilio are reason and knowledge and thus lost to you.
Lack of depth in understanding and emotion, the same as death.
āFrom afar, just a light on the hillā ā©
Ćam balı, pine honey: unusual, and it might make a heart skip a beat.
Philomela was raped and her tongue cut out; she weaved her story into a cloth. It may caress scars or tear open wounds.
Dumuzid (old; newer name: Tammuz), the consort of IÅ”tar, āthe shepherdā, was dragged into the underworld, blindfolded and forbidden from sleeping. (He dies yearly, thus the seasons.) His caress comes at a price.
HÄdonÄ just follows pleasure and delight and has no regard for consequences.
āSkin deep, we carve our immeasurable sorrowā ā©
Venus and Å ulpae (āthe brilliant youthā, a consort to the mother goddess, though tied to demons and the underworld): the images of beauty and youth.
Ninmah, āmagnificent queenā, is the mother goddess, she breathes and thus allows things that usually are not granted.
Anar: dalim; kallistÄi: Erisā apple over which Hera, Athene and Aphrodite fought.
IŔkur (old, new: Adad), the God of storms and rain; kanephoros: a honorific office for young unmarried women/girls carrying baskets of fruits (and a sacrifical knife), wearing necklaces of figs.
āThis is all you; so this is all yours.ā ā©
Blood and fire are intriguing and to be wielded cautiously. ā©
Anu (old: An) is the sky, created the universe itself.
āThere is no road to redemption.ā ā©