- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
I found that one of the latest entries, A Blast From the Past is quite interesting. It retells the epic of Gilgamesh from Enkidu's (the AI) point of view but it reads completely oposite of the original epic from ancient Babylon. Is Enkidu trying to slant the truth of the situation unfolding in its favor?
In the original epic it is Enkidu that convinces Gilgamesh to go through with the slaughter of Humbaba. A couple of times Gilgamesh questions what they are doing and gets scared, but Enkidu always pushes him forward. In this take on the story, retold by the AI Enkidu (whoever they are now since they have changed it seems), they have made it like Gilgamesh is the bad guy that insist on killing the Cedar forest Gaurdian, Humbaba. Why has the Enkidu AI done this? Motive?
In this new rendition of the story, Gilgamesh also says to Enkidu, "You are shaped by Aruru from humble clay." This is not true. there is nothing humble about the clay that made Enkidu. The mythology is that Aruru created Enkidu from clay that was mixed with the blood of the gods. Is this a hit that the Human AI Enkidu is symbolic of the clay and that it has mixed with the forerunner tech which is the blood of the gods? (by the way, didn't Sargent Johnson also mix with the flood where his DNA is now part flood? Mmmm?)
I also found this line interesting as Enkidu is describing Humbaba: "His voice is the Deluge! His speech is fire! He is cherished by Anu!". His voice is the Deluge? Could Humbaba be the Halo? Its Notice that Deluge is capitalized like it is a person or thing. A deluge is also a flood. Could this be the Flood in halo? If we can conclude this, then Halo's voice is the flood and its speech is that of being set off with the index. Also Anu is the God of the sky and is the god of all gods. Anu could be symbolic of 343GS, who does cherish the halo and watches over it.
The next line reads as Enkidu continues speaking about Humbaba, "Should we defeat him, He would be weakened. Dread Nergal could go free." If Humbaba is the Halo or part of multiple Halos, it was defeated by the cheif, possibly weakening the coverage of multiple Halos and allowing this Dread Nergal to go free somehow.
Who though is the Dred Nergal in Halo? The Dred Nergal entity could be the identity in the riddle let me introduce myself , where there is some hints that the identity will be free once more, "Wild shall I be once again". Well, this is a very scary thought and I think the destruction of the halo is much larger and danderous than we can understand, Dred Nergal in babylonian myth is the god of War and Plague! What has now been unleshed upon humanity and the Halo universe?!
This stanza describes the covenant and should be obvious:
"There are others, of far forests, who would stop us in this trespass.
"Their anger is terrible. Their wrath is implacable. They adore the gods.
"They share his speech. They use it often. They would burn Uruk-the-sheepfold!
"They would bake our land to brick. Turn back, and reach that farther shore."
They would bake our land to brick? Sometimes when bricks are cooked in a kilm the suface of the brick turns to glass. Don't the covenant "glass" planets with humans on them? Wasn't there also a reference back it the Cortana Letters that the covenant would not stop until something like "the last human brick atop the other had been torn down"? looking at the last line, how do we turn back and what do we turn back for? Turn back time? Is "reach" a referrence to the panet Reach? Is the farther shore that of the covenant home world? I don't know.
Finally, and close to the end of the entry, Gilgamesh responds to Enkidu's plee to not venture forth, " We already tread the Path of the Sun. We will walk it to reach the Forest." Isn't the Lebanon treading the path of the Sun as it slingshots around Frigid's sun? Someone already pointed out that this: "Thought you would like some light reading while sunbathing." hints at where the ship Lebanon is in space.. This next bit of speculation though does not go along with my theory that Humbaba was the halo ring. Instead, that Frigid is the cedar forest and it contains Humaba. We can then conclude that the JD is the halo equal to Gilgamesh. The new Enkidu AI is trying to (in a symbolic way) warn the JD character from coming to Frigid.