Immortals are forever
Inanna popped by the other day, and I asked her about her long relationship with Enkidu and Gilgamesh. Gilgamesh is off somewhere in South America and Enkidu was climbing mountains in Nepal, last I heard. But they all keep in touch.
I was reading somewhere that if people were immortal that relationships would be short lived, ephemeral on the scale of immortality. But Inny and and the boys have kept in touch and rumbustiously lived and loved each other for many centuries, if you are to believe their stories. And I've no reason not to.
Inanna pondered a bit. Thinking doesn't come easy to her. We talked for a while and I for one came to no conclusions. Inny talked about there being more in common between her and Gilgamesh and Enkidu than the rest of the human race. While she looks down on ordinary humans, she still thinks of herself as one, in spite of the events that made the three of them semi-immortal and (in one sense at least) minor deities.
It's natural for semi-immortals to cling together against the mass of humanity, but Inanna speaks of others like themselves who the three of them do not (for any length of time) consort with. She talks for example of hearing of long-lived humans who are rumoured to drink blood. She doesn't admit to meeting them, though.
Is it that there is some cosmic bond between them, or is it just that they were born, grew up, and achieved deityhood at the same place and in the same era?
The three might not meet for hundreds of years they tell me, though they seem to keep in contact, and I've met all three. They are promiscuous and not without issue, I'm told. But they keep coming back to one another in the halls of time. I'd believe in the idea of the separation of a single entity into two sexes, with each half fated to strive to find the other, except that there are three of them in this entity.
Inny scoffs: If ordinary humans were made immortal, they'd go mad! Only extraordinary humans such as herself and the two boys can become gods. She could be right.
I was reading somewhere that if people were immortal that relationships would be short lived, ephemeral on the scale of immortality. But Inny and and the boys have kept in touch and rumbustiously lived and loved each other for many centuries, if you are to believe their stories. And I've no reason not to.
Inanna pondered a bit. Thinking doesn't come easy to her. We talked for a while and I for one came to no conclusions. Inny talked about there being more in common between her and Gilgamesh and Enkidu than the rest of the human race. While she looks down on ordinary humans, she still thinks of herself as one, in spite of the events that made the three of them semi-immortal and (in one sense at least) minor deities.
It's natural for semi-immortals to cling together against the mass of humanity, but Inanna speaks of others like themselves who the three of them do not (for any length of time) consort with. She talks for example of hearing of long-lived humans who are rumoured to drink blood. She doesn't admit to meeting them, though.
Is it that there is some cosmic bond between them, or is it just that they were born, grew up, and achieved deityhood at the same place and in the same era?
The three might not meet for hundreds of years they tell me, though they seem to keep in contact, and I've met all three. They are promiscuous and not without issue, I'm told. But they keep coming back to one another in the halls of time. I'd believe in the idea of the separation of a single entity into two sexes, with each half fated to strive to find the other, except that there are three of them in this entity.
Inny scoffs: If ordinary humans were made immortal, they'd go mad! Only extraordinary humans such as herself and the two boys can become gods. She could be right.
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