🏛️ Mesopotamian Era - The Story of Ashurbanipal: The narrative begins 2600 years ago in Mesopotamia, focusing on Ashurbanipal, an Assyrian king known for his intelligence and cruelty. He established one of the earliest libraries with thousands of clay tablets.…

🏛️ Mesopotamian Era - The Story of Ashurbanipal:
The narrative begins 2600 years ago in Mesopotamia, focusing on Ashurbanipal, an Assyrian king known for his intelligence and cruelty. He established one of the earliest libraries with thousands of clay tablets.

📜 Epic of Gilgamesh:
A special poem, "Epic of Gilgamesh," stored in Ashurbanipal's library, holds a significant place in the story. The poem's preservation symbolizes humanity's collective memory.

🔥 The King's Conflict and Cruelty:
Despite his wisdom, Ashurbanipal’s cruelty surfaces when he burns his mentor alive for betraying him, revealing the theme of power's corrupting nature.

🌊 Connection to the Theme of Water:
A raindrop serves as a central metaphor, witnessing events and symbolizing the eternal memory of water.

💥 Destruction of the Kingdom:
Ashurbanipal’s kingdom is ultimately destroyed by a flood, with his great library sinking into the earth, preserving its knowledge.

🏞️ The Story Progresses to 17th-18th Century England:
The narrative shifts to England 200-300 years ago, focusing on the Thames River, which was severely polluted at the time, highlighting societal neglect and the consequences of industrial growth.

🏞️ Thames River and Poverty:
In the 17th-18th century, London faced severe poverty, and the Thames River was highly polluted. The narrative explores the struggles of the poor who scavenged the river for survival.

👶 Birth of Arthur:
A woman gives birth to a boy named Arthur, under extreme poverty near the polluted Thames. The boy symbolizes hope amidst adversity.

💧 Connection to the Raindrop:
A single raindrop, seen earlier in Mesopotamia, reappears and connects with Arthur, symbolizing the continuity of human memory and struggle.

👑 Arthur's Symbolism:
Despite being born in destitution, Arthur is named after the legendary King Arthur, symbolizing greatness emerging from hardship.

🧠 Arthur’s Unique Power:
Arthur possesses an extraordinary memory, capable of recalling every event with incredible accuracy, linking him to humanity's collective history.

🏛️ British Museum and the Lamassu Statues:
Arthur becomes fascinated with the Lamassu statues from Mesopotamia displayed in the British Museum. These statues represent spiritual protection and serve as a bridge between the ancient and modern worlds.

📜 Rediscovery of Mesopotamian Tablets:
Clay tablets from Ashurbanipal's library are unearthed and displayed in London, symbolizing the enduring value of knowledge and history.

📜 Arthur’s Skill Recognized:
Arthur's unique ability to decipher ancient Mesopotamian tablets astonishes scholars, earning him fame and a prestigious job at the British Museum.

✍️ Epic of Gilgamesh Connection:
Arthur uncovers the Epic of Gilgamesh tablets and becomes engrossed in its narrative, resonating with the protagonist's spiritual journey of self-discovery and transformation.

🚩 Search for Missing Lines:
Discovering that parts of the epic are missing, Arthur embarks on a mission to Iraq to locate the lost tablets, showing his commitment to preserving history.

💍 Personal Growth:
Arthur's life transforms, including financial stability and engagement, yet his quest for knowledge remains a driving force, reflecting the theme of personal and intellectual growth.

🌍 Introduction of Narin:
The story transitions to 2014, introducing Narin, a Yazidi girl in Turkey. Her connection to her ancestors and the significance of heritage are emphasized through her relationship with her grandmother.

💧 Tigris River:
Narin's journey ties to the Tigris River, paralleling Arthur’s Thames connection, symbolizing rivers as carriers of history and memory.

🌟 Themes of Identity and Legacy:
Narin learns about her ancestral struggles and resolves to visit Iraq's sacred Lalish Valley, showcasing the importance of understanding one’s past to shape the future.

Part 1

This book is a 100 page biography of the human species

A few lessons of history:

1.  In the end superior ability has its way.

2.  History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all.

3.  Every advance in the complexity of the economy puts an added premium upon superior ability.

1. All technological advances are merely new means of achieving old ends.

5.  The influence of geographic factors diminishes as technology grows.

6.  Economic development specializes functions, differentiates abilities, and makes men unequally valuable to their group.

1. In every age men have been dishonest and governments have been corrupt.

2. Competition is not only the life of trade, it is the trade of life.

3. We cooperate in our group in order to strengthen our group in its competition with other groups.

4. War is a nation's way of eating.

5. War is the ultimate form of competition.

6. Leave men free and their natural inequalities will multiply.

7. History shows little alteration in the conduct of mankind.

8. The initiative individual—the "great man," the "hero," the "genius"—regains his place as a formative force in history.

14b. At times his eloquence, like Churchill's, may be worth a thousand regiments; his foresight in strategy and tactics, like Napoleon's, may win battles and campaigns and establish states.

14c. These initiative individuals are effects of numberless causes, and causes of endless effects.

1. The imitative majority follows the innovating minority and this follows the originative individual.

2. Even the skeptical historian develops a humble respect for religion, since he sees it functioning, and seemingly indispensable, in every land and age.

3. History remains, at bottom, a natural selection of the fittest individuals and groups.

4. Every advance in the complexity of the economy puts an added premium upon superior ability.

5. Our capacity for fretting is endless.

6. If a man is fortunate he will, before he dies, gather up as much as he can of his civilized heritage and transmit it to his children.

7. The final test is the ability to survive.

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