Fascinating tale! Wonderful, thought-provoking questions at the end. As you know I’m terribly interested in conflicts concerning gods and kings.
Here I think the issue was clear, though I doubt many would agree with me: you mentioned the natural order at the beginning of this piece. In this narrative, it was decreed that eight children drown, not seven. Not killing the eighth was a crime in the eyes of the gods, one for which a karmic debt must be paid. Whether or not the king, or we, like this decision-either we submit ourselves to the laws of the universe and join the greater whole-as all other living creatures do-or we sin, strike out on our own, enslave animals and crops, create kingdoms and fight wars of expansion, deny the gods, deny the divine plans the gods have for us, build skyscrapers that threaten those gods homes, reject our neighbors or anyone who thinks otherwise, build concentration camps, strive for totalitarianism, etc etc you get the drift..
Fascinating tale! Wonderful, thought-provoking questions at the end. As you know I’m terribly interested in conflicts concerning gods and kings.
Here I think the issue was clear, though I doubt many would agree with me: you mentioned the natural order at the beginning of this piece. In this narrative, it was decreed that eight children drown, not seven. Not killing the eighth was a crime in the eyes of the gods, one for which a karmic debt must be paid. Whether or not the king, or we, like this decision-either we submit ourselves to the laws of the universe and join the greater whole-as all other living creatures do-or we sin, strike out on our own, enslave animals and crops, create kingdoms and fight wars of expansion, deny the gods, deny the divine plans the gods have for us, build skyscrapers that threaten those gods homes, reject our neighbors or anyone who thinks otherwise, build concentration camps, strive for totalitarianism, etc etc you get the drift..