I love the whole Ea-Nasir copper thing. thousands of years ago go there was a small-time fraudster who went “oh I’ll get away with this” And thousands of years later people in lands beyond any horizon Ea-Nasir ever saw using tech that would seem like magic to him are mercilessly dunking on him
We only have the tablets complaining about his copper because he literally saved them himself (multiple complaint tablets found in what is presumed be be his home.) (I imagine him going into his hate mail room periodically to reread old mail and just be like : "yes. Let the hate flow through you")
To be fair, we only remember him because he kept all the complaint tablets in his house so maybe it's what he would've wanted. I can imagine him in his old age reading a tablet from someone he screwed long ago and having a nice chuckle from fond memories.
It's brilliant. No matter how unimportant we might feel, there is _always_ a chance that someday, someway, the echoes of our existence will resound.
this is why you don't fuck around and try to cheat Enki's servant! no rest for ea-nasir!
Oh, he was a major copper player! Out there on Twitter there was an amazing thread on the historical research into it, but it was fascinating (and the guy who wrote the complaint was a douche)
It's immortality, of a kind ...
I just love how with the first record we all thought he was the victim of the first Karen. But then when more records were uncovered it was obvious he was a huckster. Plot twists abound in history.
The internet never forgets.
