{"id":821,"date":"2015-06-11T05:00:12","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T05:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eszter-maura.eu\/?p=821"},"modified":"2015-02-21T23:46:48","modified_gmt":"2015-02-21T23:46:48","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eszter-maura.eu\/fr\/birds-of-babylon\/","title":{"rendered":"","raw":""},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false,"raw":""},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false,"raw":""},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_en_post_content":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em><small>\"Thou didst love the brilliant Allalu bird\r\nBut thou didst smite him and break his wing;\r\nHe stands in the woods and cries \"O my wing\".\"<\/small><\/em><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em><small>(Gilgamesh to Ishtar)<\/small><\/em><\/p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSince then, I hear them all.\r\n\r\nThe flutter of frightened wings in the trills of flute and zither.\r\n(my own wings, though nonexistent, shiver in answer.)\r\n\r\nSince then, I hear them all.\r\n\r\nThe thunder of Anzu's wings, as he storms over, struggling under the weight of his stolen treasure, the Tablet of Destinies.\r\n\r\nAllalu's wordless songs of joy, entrancing, flowing through me as I dance.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSince then, I hear them all.\r\n\r\nAnzu's rebellious cries, a fiery staccato.\r\nHear me now, ye all, and undestand!\r\nFor I have read the Tablet, and I know these laws are unjust and cruel.\r\nHelp me now, ye all, to break it,\r\nlet us make our laws anew!\r\n\r\nMy own name, now whispered, now called out,\r\nsweet-sounding in the voice of Allalu.\r\n(\u2013 and I feel the Mother of my name stirring deep within me.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSince then, I hear them all.\r\n\r\nAllalu's sweeping verses,\r\ncaressing words of promise and of love.\r\nMy dear, I'd fly away with you\r\nmy love I'll fly away with you\r\n\r\nThe eerie chirping of the spirits of the Dead,\r\npraising and cursing their Lady Ereshkigal\r\nunder the same breath\r\npraising and cursing their Lord Nergal\r\nunder the same breath\r\npraising and cursing Anzu, for whom they died\r\nunder the same breath.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSince then, I hear them all.\r\n\r\nSiris' wailing lament, endlessly calling,\r\nAnzu, my son, my beloved,\r\nwho didst fly the highest!\r\nThough hid behind the face of Marduk\r\n'twas the cruel spirit of the law\r\nto cast thee down\r\ninto the deepest of the deep.\r\nAnzu my son, my beloved,\r\nwhere art thou now?\r\n\r\nSilence.\r\n\r\nEchoes of another story,\r\nof a taste of blood on my lips,\r\nof Allalu's cries of pain, my own tears\r\nmingling with his, my own doing;\r\nin its place, now, only silence,\r\nbitter honey and clouds to drink,\r\n\u2013 and the Mother of my name\r\nturns elswhere, sleeps again.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nFate's mesmerizing song,\r\nas its soft feathers cover my eyes again.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSince then, I hear 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