#gold tablet

[themidnightcleric]

fly

what's been eating me?

the spiderweb of directionality. lostness where you cannot wander. stuck like a fly, at the center of it all and nowhere.

every step counts but in what direction? set off towards the mountains, or the river? towards botany, or the written word? singing in the car, at karaoke. a smaller self sees the mirror as less of a threat. weeps for wasted time.

honesty, honesty. caught throat and tongue like a fish flopping on the boat. how to say what needs to be said:

I hate this. I quit. I loved you but its too late for all this. I'm sorry for the hurt I caused. An apology doesn't undo the damage. I dropped the ball. You dropped the ball. Its forgiven. I don't want to make plans with you. We are not friends. I don't know you. I barely know what friendship means. I've been trapped inside myself for so long I don't know how to do this. I'm not sure I understand. Please repeat the instructions? Don't touch me. I'm uncomfortable. Like that? Less. More. I don't give a fuck anymore. I'll do anything to change my life.

[pathofregeneration]

Happy and blessed, you will be a god instead of a mortal.

From an Orphic Gold Tablet found in Thurii

[archaeologicalnews]

NY court rules ancient gold tablet belongs to Berlin museum, not Holocaust survivor’s heirs

ALBANY, N.Y. — In a ruling rejecting any claims to the “spoils of war,” New York’s highest court concluded Thursday that an ancient gold tablet must be returned to the German museum that lost it in World War II.

The Court of Appeals unanimously agreed that Riven Flamenbaum’s estate is not entitled to the 3,000-year-old Assyrian relic, a 9.5-gram (.34-ounce) tablet smaller than a credit card.

“We decline to adopt any doctrine that would establish good title based upon the looting and removal of cultural objects during wartime by a conquering military force,” the court said in a memorandum. Read more.

[archaeologicalnews]

Dispute over ancient gold tablet goes to US court

A dispute over an ancient gold tablet pitting a Holocaust survivor's heirs against the German museum that lost the Assyrian relic in World War II will be argued Tuesday in New York's highest court.

The 9.5-gram (.34-ounce) tablet, about the size of a credit card, was excavated a century ago by German archaeologists from the Ishtar Temple in what is now northern Iraq. It went on display in Berlin in 1934, was put in storage as the war began and later disappeared.

Riven Flamenbaum, who died in 2003, brought it to the U.S. after surviving the Auschwitz concentration camp and settling on Long Island. Family lore says he had traded two packs of cigarettes to a Russian soldier for the tablet after he was rescued from Auschwitz. Read more.

[st-aloysius-blog]

"4. Thirst [untranslatable]"

[eurydiceunderground]

Example of Orphic Golden Tablet (see preceding three posts).