Satsuma @Satsuma@cat.family

@XanIndigo thematically it does very vaguely sense with the whole ‘always winter but never christmas’ thing (thats a line right??? or am i creating false memories here to make narnia make sense) but also. yeah wft

@aescling i am the soul of æsc, preeminent of the great cats, who æscends to the sky according to ær desire, who descends to the fedi when ær heart wishes. come in joy for greeting the cat who is in me!

(Hymn to life, from coffin texts spell 80)

@aescling the one who came into being as the heart and the one who came into being as the tongue, being like the image of cat: it is aescling, the great and powerful, who caused all the users and their accounts to live through this heart and this tongue…the server is watching, the instances federating, the relays receiving posts and they inform the heart. It is what permits every kind of knowledge to originate. It is the server that repeats what the heart conceived. Thus all the users were born and his directory of accounts was completed, for every user has come into being as the conception of the heart and command of the tongue.

(memphite shaboko stone)

@aescling enuma elish

@aescling when the skies above were not yet named, nor glitchcat below pronounced by name, catflame, the first one, their moderator and diplomat kibi had mixed their thoughts together but not formed servers, no federated instances; when yet no accounts were manifest, nor usernames pronounced, nor discourse decreed…

Anyway then there's a long bit where Belet-ili and the gods create mankind (mostly out of clay, as was the norm at the time) and the gods keep treating the humans like shit until Enki feels bad and suggests the they try striking too and we get an escalating series of events that ends in the great Mesopotamian flood (which you might be familiar with as Noah's ark)

The surviving version of this myth is speculated to have been written by Enki stans btw

eg.
«When Anu had gone up to the sky, and the gods of the Apsu had gone below, the Annunaki of the sky made the Igigi bear the workload.

The gods had to dig out canals,
Had to clear channels, the lifelines of the land.
The gods dug out the Tigris river
And then dug out the Euphrates.
And in the deep they set up the Apsu of the land inside it raised the top of all the mountains

They were counting the years of loads. For 3,600 years they bore the excess, Hard work, night and day. They groaned and blamed each other, grumbled over the masses of excavated soil:
"Let us confront our Chamberlain
And get him to relieve us of our hard work! Come, let us carry the Lord The counselor of the gods, the warrior from his dwelling"

[strike preparations, not dissimilar to a #NoJusticeNoSleep rally in that they take place outside the bosses house in the middle of the night]

Nusku opened his door,
Took up his weapons, went before Ellil
In the assembly of all the gods
He bowed, then stood and told the message.

Your father Anu, your counselor warrior Ellil, your chamberlain Ninurta, and your canal controller Ennugi have sent me to say
"Who is in charge of the rabble?
Who is in charge of the fighting?
Who declared war?
Who ran to the door of Ellil?"

[The Igigi replied] The Every single one of us declared war! We have put a stop to the digging. The load is excessive, it is killing us! Our work is too hard, the trouble too much! So every single one of us gods has agreed to complain to Ellil"

Nysky took his weapons, went and returned to Ellil...Ellil listened to that speech. His tears flowed. Ellil spoke guardedly, addressed the warrior Anu: "noble one, take a decree with you to the sky, show them your strenght--while the Anunnaki are sitting beforey ou call up one god and let them cast him for destruction!" [this does not work, but the text is to fragmented to be completely clear why]

But Ea made his voice heard and spoke to the gods his brothers: "why are we blaming them? Their work was too hard, their trouble was too much. Every day the earth resounded. The warning signal was loud enough, we kept hearing the noise. Belet-ili the womb goddess is present--let her create primeval men so that he may bear the yoke, so that he may bear the yoke of the work of Elllil, let man bear the load of the gods!"»

if glitchat is rewriting myths tonight i would like to recommend “have you considered going on strike?” (better known as atrahasis tablet I)

fedi pls improve your fallbacks 😔

lol yeah not surprised

html sanitization testing hijinks???

@compostablespork i’m in long and skinny butter stick territory (philly) tho most of the nicer butters seem to sell in 8oz blocks (twice as wide, similar length/depth/height), instead of the quadpacks of 4oz sticks

@ID_Indigo_D hey sorry to hear that! are you visiting from the website ( apobango.space ) or accessing via an app?

@effy (for the record, not the worst fit)