[comprehensive] Ishtar

What did Anu see Gilgamesh about?

He has seen it.

From the beginning when Goddess Ningsun insisted on marrying human beings and gave birth to a hybrid of humans and gods, to the time when the emperor passed away and the young master succeeded to the throne, from the ignorant and ignorant childhood full of curiosity to him, to later domineering and contemptuous of the gods Anu has seen such arrogant gestures before.

Even when his favorite youngest daughter, Ishtar, was focusing on humans for such a guy, he spent a lot of time observing and studying this bastard who made his daughter tilt all her attention.

——After all, no matter how he looks at it, he is just an ordinary human being.

Anu has seen too many human beings in his long life, and Gilgamesh is just the one with the highest status among these small human beings.His eyes are full of longing for the unknown, full of longing for power, full of ambition for what he can't get, and dismissive of what he already has. No matter how you look at it, except for his short life as a "human", and other things There is not much difference between the gods.

Even he turned a blind eye to the sufferings of the people at the bottom of Uruk, and he was not surprised by the luxurious life he lived in. Even the worship and praise can be crowned on his body as a matter of course, and the part of his blood that belongs to the gods Played to the fullest, on the contrary, the 'human' part becomes slightly invisible.

What's so good about Gilgamesh?

During those years in the new world, when faced with the desolation of the new world, Anu asked himself this question again and again.

——What is so good about Gilgamesh that he can make a daughter who is loved by her father choose to betray the father who loves her so much?

Anu can still recall the morning when everything happened. Ishtar, who was dressed in fine clothes, threw away layers of defenses and dropped all weapons just as before they tore their face apart, and stood unarmed at him. Outside the palace, with a gentle smile on his face, he asked for a temporary cessation of the war and negotiated instead.

At that time, the war between humans and the gods had been going on for many years, and it was more difficult for the gods to pass on to the next generation than the rapidly multiplying humans.Although most human beings are vulnerable in the face of absolute power, Gilgamesh and Enkidu, as the top combat powers, have slaughtered many low-level gods.

In addition to laziness and slackness brought about by an overly long life, there is also the fear of death. It is fine if no one among humans succeeds in killing gods, but when the first god falls, it is no longer a rare thing for a god to die And when things were impossible, Anu could see that the fighting spirit of the gods was shaken.

But how could he allow it, how could he allow it!

This piece of land belonged to them, and this world was first discovered by them.They are the ones who brought human beings on the road of civilization, and they guided the lost lambs, and they helped these uncivilized monkeys when they were cornered, and now that their wings are full, how dare they kill themselves benefactor?

Ishtar, you are my proudest star, my most beloved daughter, I will try my best to give you all the good things I can give you, but how dare you, how dare you, for a man, Betrayed the father who loved you so much?

However, looking at Ishtar with pleading expression on his face, and looking at the gods standing beside him, who were proud of this subdued behavior of human beings, or the gods who were worried because of the increasing casualties of the main station gods, Anu heard what he thought was impossible to say out of his own mouth: "Okay," he heard himself say, "Let's talk about it."

Anu handed out the ladder, but never thought of using this ladder to let humans walk down the steps.He was like a bystander, calmly listening to Ishtar's statement of the extraordinaryness of human beings, his progress, and his grand plans, which were then naturally drawn to the gods.

He heard himself, the daughter of the goddess of Venus, sincerely utter words that shocked him: "Because we were wrong," he heard Ishtar say, "because our superiority made us go up We took the wrong path, and made ourselves completely block the path we could go forward."

"This world is like an ordinary vessel full of water. She has been filled by us, so she chooses not to give it to us, Father God." The goddess looked up at her father, "If you want to add water, There will definitely be water flowing out. When new gods are born, old gods will die, godheads will not disappear but gods will fall one after another. How many years have there been no new godheads born?"

"We reproduce by fabricating and splitting the priesthood. Is it really an evolution, not a degeneration?" Ishtar looked at Anu calmly, "Father God, Irene and I were born because of you. She is death and I am birth (birth), but she is Hades and I am starry sky, have you never thought about the reason for such an opposition?"

Anu thought about it?

Perhaps he had thought about it, when he found out that Ishtar and Ereshkigal had completely different personalities and attributes, despite being the same child, he had thought about it.

But what about later?

Later, he saw the goddess who was still a child star showed him a toothless smile, but the eyes of the child who was connected to the underworld were full of death and desolation.He watched the daughter with the Godhead of Love be lively and enthusiastic, while her sisters were the opposite.He saw that Ishtar was full of concern about his half body, and even visited Ereshkigal in Hades every few days, and gradually forgot about it.

He has so many children, and Allie is just one of them.

"It seems that I am so kind to you that it gives you the illusion that you can ride on my head."

When it came to Ereshkigal, Anu no longer wanted to listen to her long speech.As the king of gods, Anu naturally has more or less godheads, and it doesn't hurt to split out one or two, just like Ishtar's rights.But there is only Hades, only the management rights of Hades, which Anu does not want to hand over anyway. He doesn't want to see that child, and he doesn't want to think about Ereshkigal, and it's really because of this.

If he could predict, if he could see the future, then he definitely would not have given birth to this child who took away one of his most important godheads.It never occurred to him that his desire to find a daughter to raise and play with just as he wished became his biggest failure—the part that belonged to the reincarnation of life and death was separated by one of the two children.

"Indeed, I owe Father God the grace of your birth." Ishtar admitted the relationship between Anu and himself frankly, "If Ai Lei has managed the underworld for you and arranged reincarnation all these years, it can be counted as offset, Then she has been fighting wars for so many years, so she can offset the relationship between father and daughter with you."

Speaking of this, Ishtar sighed, and seemed to be quite regretful: "It's as if she owes you nothing now, but I do owe you a lot as you said." It's as small as a reward , ranging from gifts, from invisible favors to countless treasures.

Anu may be harsh and cruel to Ereshkigal, but he has always been tolerant and loving to Ishtar.It may even be bad for all human beings, and he has never owed or even favored his own people.He is so kind to his people that even his fallen companions who are idle all day long are willing to settle obstacles for them.

If it wasn't for the part that penetrates deeply into the soul, Ishtar would not be able to help questioning whether her actions were righteousness or betrayal: "So as an atonement, what I owe you will soon be offered to you with both hands. "

"What do you owe me?" Anu looked at Ishtar and laughed angrily at what she said, "Without you, those human beings would just be pawns that I placed on the sand table and commanded at will. Without you , those numb and easy-to-satisfy human beings, where do they have the courage to resist me?"

Speaking of this, Anu's eyes were bloodshot: "If it weren't for you, without my love and concession to you, Ishtar, my daughter, a traitor among the gods, where would you get it? Power and Noble Phantasm, have the ability to stand in front of me and engage in this ridiculous 'negotiation' with me?"

The Venus Goddess who was questioned by him was stunned, and the originally calm expression on her face faded a bit: "So, I will atone for your sins, for my betrayal of my people, and for the decision I made." She said so However, the words were as firm as before in the war.

Even at this point, even after saying so much, she never changed her original intention.

"You are bitten to death, do you want to live and die with human beings?" Anu only felt cold, but after a short period of sadness, he was filled with anger like a torrential flood, "For a man, for a... "

"This is the problem between us, father." Ishtar interrupted Anu's slander about Gilgamesh's about to blurt, "All you can see is a 'normal man everywhere', but All I could see—"

——It's the kind of person I've always wanted to be.

"Because she saw a part of me in me that she wanted to be."

Traveling through time, Gilgamesh's answer overlaps with the memory of Ishtar's proclamation to him.It was obviously a different wording and a different voice, but for a moment Anu had an illusion that what stood in front of him was neither Ishtar nor Gilgamesh, but another existence.

A kind of ordinary to insignificant existence, but not humble.

Long, long ago when Anu sounded in a trance, before the war between the gods and humans, when the matter of Ishtar and Gilgamesh was just the last "joke" of the gods, he once asked his beloved daughter why It happened to be the inconspicuous child of Goddess Ningsun.

How did Ishtar answer back then?

It seems that he is compared to the sun, just by being there, he can grab everyone's attention domineeringly and arbitrarily, making people unable to help but watch and feel, and even want to become a dazzling existence like him.

And it is such a person, such an existence that is not unique, so weak that he can crush it by raising his hand, let his child betray his father, let a little princess betray his clansman, when he realizes When the time arrived, the most beloved daughter had already been deeply involved in this vortex called love, unable to extricate herself, even chasing after this ordinary human being almost paranoidly. eyes.

Anu withdrew from the memory, looked at the appearance of the emperor flying wantonly, and looked at Ishtar standing beside him with the same expression as him, and suddenly saw the happy thoughts sitting at his feet again. The beloved daughter who poured out her heart: "Father, I just found out today that he is what I most want to be."

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