“She was a member of the Annunaki, the race of reptilian creatures who had arrived on Earth during humankind’s prehistory, and who now lived liked gods, equally worshipped and feared by the local population of human apekin. Ereshkigal was tall and reedy, over six feet in height with a crest of spines that towered another eight inches above her head. Slender of form but muscular as was in the nature of all Annunaki, her pale skin looked almost white in the sunlight, ghostly and scaled in the mann...er of a snake’s hide. She had eyes the color of molten caramel, black iris slits running in thick vertical lines down each eye like the eyes of a lizard. In the days when she was young, before her presence had become known to man, Ereshkigal would sit naked in the courtyard of the Royal Palace of Nippur soaking up the sun, reading and filling in books with long and complicated sums in her precise, spider-thin script. The sums would often run over several pages, and Ereshkigal could often be found switching these pages with one another until she smiled anew, creating a whole new mathematics out of the detached pieces of the old.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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