Following Calasso's masterful retelling of ancient Greek myths in The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony and Indic myths in Ka, this richly imaginative work delves into the crucible of our collective consciousness to reimagine the origin stories of one of the earliest human civilizations. Roberto Calasso, 'a literary institution of one' ( The Paris Review ), tells the story of the eternal life of Utnapishtim, the savior of man, in the eleventh part of his great literary project. Thousands of years later, when Sinbad the Sailor is shipwrecked and arrives on that very same island, the two begin a conversation about courage, loss, salvation and sacrifice. Rather than punish Utnapishtim for his disobedience, Enlil, King of the gods, granted the mortal eternal life and banished him to the island of Dilmun. He advised one of his devotees, Utnapishtim, to build a quadrangular boat to house humans and animals, and saved these living creatures from the Flood. Book 2 in the Celestial triad trilogy takes tory and Maelgwn into the realms of the Devachan, the Fourth Dimension. This is the retail edition of Lady Mechanika: The Tablet of Destinies 2 with a variant cover by the original Lady Mechanika art team, Joe Benitez and Peter Steigerwald (Cover B). But Ea, the god of fresh underground water, didn't agree. I remember days of desperation.' A long time ago, the gods grew tired of humans and decided to send a flood to destroy them. What Utnapishtim tells Sindbad is the subject of this book, the eleventh part of Roberto Calassos great opus that began in 1983 with The Ruin.12. Men just went on multiplying and the noise they made was ever more irksome. It came at the end of a long, tormented story. Varies, see individual formats and editions Publication Date. A beguiling new reimagining of one of the most ancient and mysterious origin myths of human civilization 'The Flood didn't come suddenly as a big surprise. The Tablet of Destinies, a continuous narrative from beginning to end, delves into our earliest mythologies and records the origin stories of human civilization.

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