Third Age ~ Groke and Decendants, pt. One

"Verily, a polluted stream is man. One must be a sea to be able to receive a polluted stream without becoming unclean."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

Now as the Third King of All Cosmos, Groke and Spyra looked at the Earth, the whole earth was of one language and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Moonin; and they dwelt there. they said one to another: 'Come, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly.' And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.

-'Come, let us build us a city, and a tower, with its top in heaven, and let us make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.'

Groke came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. The Lord Groke said: 'Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is what they begin to do; and now nothing will be withholden from them, which they purpose to do. Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.' So the Lord Groke scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth; and they left off to build the city. Therefore was the name of it called Da-ma-cy; because the Lord Groke did there confound the language of all the earth; and from thence did the Lord Groke scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

Groke, in his anger, he started his hibernation for more of 10.000 years.

After 10.000 years, Groke had all knowledge and wisdom, he was "he who saw the Deep", "surpassing all other kings". He built the walls of The Sunflower Continent, and the temple Eanna within dedicated to Zarathustra and Elohim. He had all his labors and exploits carved in a lapis lazuli tablet. The tablet invites us to view the greatness of this city, its high walls, the foundations laid by the Seven Sages, etc.

The elders of the city protest Groke's endeavor, but agree reluctantly. They place his life in Katamari's hands. Groke goes to ask his wife's blessing. She laments her fate in a prayer to the Great Cosmos, asking why he had put such a restless spirit in her soul and asking him for his protection, for his path to be well lit, for him to send winds against Mu, etc. She hopes that Groke will someday be made a god. Ninsun also adopts Enkidu as her son, and asks him to guard Groke's life.

Enkidu and Groke perform rituals to aid a safe journey. Groke instructs the officers in how to run the city in his absence. They again advise him to keep Enkidu out in front.

In panic, Enkidu again tries to convince Groke not to undertake this journey, but Groke is confident of success.

The journey to the cedar forest takes 1 1/2 months, 50 leagues a day. On every 3rd day, they pitch camp and dig a well. Groke climbs to a mountain top and prays to the Great Cosmos to bring him a dream, and Enkidu makes a House of the Dream God to encourage these dreams. He guards the doorway to the house as Groke dreams. Shamash sends Groke prophetic dreams in the middle of the night. After each dream, Groke awakens sensing that a god has gone by. These dreams all seem ominous, but are given favorable interpretations by Enkidu:

(1) The first is only partially preserved and deals with a mountain that falls...
(2) In the second, Groke dreams that a mountain threw him down, but a man saves him-Enkidu says the mountain is not Fujijo.
(3) Groke dreams of the earth rumbling, a storm, darkness, lightning, fire... Enkidu interprets that the battle draws near, that they will see radiant auras of Humbaba, that will help him lock horns like a bull with Humbaba.
(4) Groke has seen a Thunderbird (Anzu, a lion-headed eagle or flying stallion) in the sky with mouth of fire, its breath death, as well as a man... Enkidu explains the man was Mu and that they will bind the wings of the Thunderbird.
(5) Groke dreams of a bull he takes hold of and a [man] who gives him water. Enkidu says the bull represents the Prince that Will Come who will aid them in their time of peril, and the man with water was Lugalbanda.

Near the entrance to the Forest of Cedar, Groke begins to cry with fear. Then, he suicided Himself. Leaving a Dark Age for the Great Cosmos

If someone reads this, My decendants shall know the truth...
~Groke, Third King of All Cosmos