beneath deep waves and storms345 from every raining sky
Same with flood in Genesis
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over all the earth318 ferocious deeds prevail,—all men conspire319 in evil. Let them therefore feel the weight320 of dreadful penalties so justly earned,321 for such hath my unchanging will ordained.”
Reminds me of Genesis-how god created a flood to start over and punish/get rid of the majority of humans besides Noah and his family.
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and violence and wicked love of gain,
Maybe they're saying that the formation of tools and civilization was the start of all things bad in our lives today, and made way to greed and violence.
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ruthless and hard Age of Iron
It's interesting how they have ranks for the ages and the Age of Iron is the last and worst, when we've been taught in school that the Bronze Age and Iron Age were times of development and ideas.
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Eternal Spring!
Just like the garden of eden
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Avengers were not seen, for laws unframed123 were all unknown and needless. Punishment124 and fear of penalties existed not.125 No harsh decrees were fixed on brazen plates.126 No suppliant multitude the countenance127 of Justice feared, averting, for they dwelt128 without a judge in peace.
This reminds me of when Adam and Eve were in Eden before they ate from the tree of knowledge, and everything was peaceful for them.
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was that shapeless clay pu
Same as in Gilgamesh how Enkidu was created-he was created by the gods by them throwing clay down to the earth.
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