2.53 Barduk, God of Greed


"Aquilla’s been hiding inside Mount Ekar ever since?" Zara was shocked.
         "Yes" Nepheus assured. "She only comes out when no one is looking."
         Aquilla was actually a good monster? That was why she didn't get annihilated in the tunnel? Images of the terrifying journey through Aquilla's lair returned with vengeance. It was true, Aquilla hadn't incinerated her as she was led to expect. That was a fact.
         "Really?"
         "Really."
         Nor had she seen Aquilla wearing any skins! She couldn't believe the lies! For all her life Aquilla had been so hated, so despised, so isolated, so blamed! It would explain why the other refugees hadn't been annihilated either! All that fear of Aquilla was for nothing? The Coming War was for NOTHING??? 
         It all was beginning to present a ghastly grand deception. Zara felt the rage shifting inside, fanned in a new direction.
         "Poor Aquilla!"
         Nepheus smiled kindly. The refugees were all the same, once the fear of Aquilla gave way to understanding and compassion, the Phoenix always rose, Zara was on her way now. The truth about Aquilla was a profound moment of awakening for all of them, for they had all travelled through her cave, they had all faced their death, they had all wondered why they didn't die.
         He also knew when it was time to pass the goblet along and the sacred waters to Mina, feeling it was her turn to tell the next part of the story.
         After a moment of reflection into the sacred waters, Mina continued with the tale.
         "After Medel was annihilated, Barduk took the throne and renamed the city to Barda. But the lingering fears of Aquilla's wrath became a great hardship for the new king. All the slaves were afraid, the New Nefilim were too afraid to mine the gold, even the Anunnaki children were afraid of the crazed metal-melting beast cowering in the mountain. Everyone was too afraid to go into the gold mines and hence, gold production sunk to an all time low.
         The only solution for an Archon was to exploit that which hindered the progress. All was not lost. Fear generated a dark energy, the type of energy that was useful in bringing Elon back, and like the gold, they would need a lot of it.

And so, instead of focusing on breeding Archonic slaves, Barduk sought to harness these Archonic by-product powers by developing a system to manage both Spirits efficiently. In order to cultivate the energies in economical ways, he assigned his Anunnaki children godly powers. The first godly power he gave them was untold wealth. Then he confiscated all the Solarian Knowledge, granting only the Anunnaki children access to it, granting them the godly power of Knowledge.
         With cunning design, Barduk walled off the city so they could no longer tend to their farms and invented gold beads, assuring them the wall was to protect them from Aquilla. No longer capable of growing their own food, now he would feed them. He established a secure farming community on Fina and controlled the food distribution this way. If the slaves refused to work in the mines for a wage, they wouldn't be able to buy their food, and their families would starve. It was a brilliant scheme, the slaves had no choice but to work in the mines, in spite of their fears, which generated more fear. Now he was harvesting both the gold and generating the powers of Fear."
         Zara thought about the farming community in Lochia, the fears lurking behind the walls. Along with the truth about Aquilla, the story was getting really creepy.
         "The walls were put up to stop the people from farming?" 
         "Yes" Mina assured. "And to add to Barduk’s success, a new source of dark energy arose as a by-product of the new payment system. Greed. Some of the slaves, those whose Phoenix Spirits had succumbed to the Archons, soon caught onto the scam and exploited it in their own ways. They exploited fear and greed in ways that made them wealthier than others, they were able to purchase lavish things, fine foods and exotic wines, in turn attracting the finest breeding partners and producing the finest slaves, thus the society became divided. This division in turn, increased the Fear and Greed. Some became ill from the psychosis of jealousy and began to steal, others would deceive. Slowly, over time, ill wealth caused all kinds of harm to their loved ones and fellow tribe, which in turn, caused Heartache.
         Heartache was yet another by-product, another dark energy that would help to bring Elon back. Almost overnight, Barda rose from the ashes of a Golden City to a Dark Energy Generator. The power of the Archons only grew in exponential ways. And so, accordingly, the value of the Phoenix slaves changed too. Once undesirable, now they were a resource, for there was no Greed, Fear and Heartache, without their pain and suffering. The slaves, desiring the wealth and Knowledge of the Anunnaki children, willingly gave themselves to any endeavor which promised of these things in return, trusting naive beings had historically been easy to saddle with misfortune and grief. It was a simple formula and it worked well. Soon the gold was piling up in the coffers beneath the Temple of Elon once again."
         "Temple of Elon?" Zara gasped, once again reminded of the blasphemous lies being told.
         "Yes" Mina insisted. "The Firmary still uses the temple for it's banking today."
         "Zara gasped again. "The Firmary?"
         "Yes. Barduk invented it."
         It was a shocking revelation, yet it too rang ominously true to the truth she knew to be true. Heartache of the lashing post flashed back, Heartache of the breeding program... Heartache over the sacrifices... It was all sounding horribly familiar, she had felt nothing but heartache for so much of her life, heartache that she believed Medel had been punishing her for being so bad! It was so wrong!
         "They harvest our dark energy?"
         "We used to call it the Firmary of Fear" Mina elaborated. "But like Medel, Barduk had a fatal flaw. He was lazy. He gave Vina the sole responsibility of overseeing the education the twelve Anunnaki children of Barda."

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