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Writing sacred stories in stone functions as propaganda because visual permanence and spectacle make the story feel like the gods themselves are speaking.
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Priest-kings become politically supreme because they are believed to see the future, speak with the gods, and transmit sacred words from divine authority.
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Priest-kings become politically supreme because they are believed to see the future, speak with the gods, and transmit sacred words from divine authority.
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"Enuma Elesh means, fall up high. So it's a Bible, basically. It's like what God told us. And this is a story of the..."
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"And that's why they wrote stuff down, for propaganda purposes. Now what's interesting is that, there's different writing systems around the world. So in..."
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"Because the gods tell them. They could see the future, okay? They talk with the gods. It was clear before their faces. They saw..."
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"can often find this worldview within their sacred texts, for example, the Bible or, um, the Koran. Okay. And these texts will give you..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on civilization as temple economy, writing as hierarchy machine, Enuma Elish as sky-god propaganda, Gilgamesh as bureaucratic literature, and grain as the crop kings prefer because free pastoralists...
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Disease, steel, horses, and divide-and-conquer matter.
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