- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Yay! Recap time. Someone requested it, so I'm going to try and restate the major points about the Enkidu Transmissions.
First, Re: Amendment Request OPORD SENTRYWALK: Not important to the mythology scheme. It's simply just mail stating that the Lebanon and it's crew have been ordered into something called SENTRYWALK, most likely a patrol system in attempt to keep the Covenant from Reach, since they seem to be getting closer. Forced to go to solo because Akkad was unable to repair her engine. (Interestingly enough Akkad is an ancient city from Babylon, the area in which all mythological sources in the Enkidu Transmissions are from. The very fact that it's mentioned here is significant, since it was by a human named Tom. Not the AI, which implys that the references from the AI about all those Summarian Myths are significant, not just the AI believing it was there.)
Second, General Quarters 08:10 08:18:2552: Likewise, not important to the mythlogy being speculated about. Covenant forces engaged the Lebanon. They're going to battle. That is all.
Third, please allow me to introduce myself : We've deduced as follows (All that's in itallics is my interjections and writings:
Once I was wild. Wild shall I be once again. He's not happy about being tame. Not happy at all.
I was seduced into urbanity before I could discover better. Urbanity is sophistication. This is a reference to Shamhat (Mentioned later in Transmissions). In the Epic of Gilgamesh, Enkidu was essentially forced manners into by Shamhat, the harlot who also took him to bed. He doesn't sound too happy about it. Howerver, from all I've seen, this is opposite of what happens in the epic of Gilgamesh (just like Enkidu's story). I may be wrong, but in the translations I've seen, Enkidu didn't seem pissed about this at all.
I was fabled before rings were. Reference to Halo
I was legend before Leonidas was born. He was a Spartan (Halo, of course), so this is probably Myth, being legend before Halo
I was epic before demons rode in the dawn sky. Oni=demons from Shinto religion
I was myth before a sword awoke from a stolen rocky womb. Marathon. Reference to Durandal, I believe
I was sentenced into darkness before Theseus found his foe. Pathways into Darkness and Minitaur; Theseus is the one who slew the Minitaur in Mythology
I was killed before my home was scourged by western winds of war. Desert Storm
I was driven raving mad before dear Dot bounced off the cushioned walls. Gnop. That's Pong spelled backwards. That pretty much sums it up
( ( I ) ) [i]The overall design is of an Eye. (Some say it's 343 GS, though. Notice how the letter I is right in the center. I, Eye, I, Eye.)[i]
Wait. It's really late. Really, really late. I'll try and finish the recap early tommorow (when I'll start going on about everyone's theories and whatnot.) And go through the rest of the Mythology. Until then, goodnight. Stay tuned. I will finish my recap. I will.