Turns out the gods don't like it when you try and find a loophole in their doom prophesy
Immensely based gardener.
Shit sounds like a Caves of Qud Sultan
Some guy is gifted a sword by some lady at a swamp in England
Was it the Assyrians or just the Sumerians who had this tradition? Because in the Fall of Civilization podcast about Assyria, the host mentioned there is a tradition where the king makes a guy king for a month then kills him to appease slash "fool" the gods. Happened more than once. Also kinda strange how Enlil-bani managed to rule for 24 years, considering it's usually the powerful nobles / powerful families who command the armies and thus decide who gets to be king.
It later became more popular in Assyria, but this is iirc the first recorded instance of it happening.
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