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The New Year's Celebration - We're the Thing That Can Twist Reality
The mesopotamians used to do at the new year's celebration, they'd go outside their walled city. They'd bring all the statues that represented the gods and act this out because they're trying to figure something out. Andd that was the basis of the mesopotamian idea of sovereignty. It's one of the stories of how the notion of sovereignty itself came to be....