A reader recently reached out to me with an unusual literary question that I loved. He asked me if I knew anything about “The Epic of Gilgamesh”, the world’s oldest written fable (dated around 2,500 B.C.E.).
Of course I did know a bit about it, having briefly touched on it while acquiring my English Literature degree while partying and sucking dick all the time. That’s probably why the story got lost in the fog of my college days, and its obvious application to Hierarchy.
See if you can recognize the qualities of the story’s lead, Gilgamesh:
Gilgamesh was tall, handsome, strong, smart, and the King of Uruk, a walled city-state in what is now Iraq. He was reported to be 2/3 divine and 1/3 human. He was also a pretty major malignant narcissist. As a consequence, he was a very bad king, who viewed the kingdom as his personal candy store. His position as a leader was all about getting everything he wanted at the expense of whomever had to pay. He exploited his position and his people for his own base enjoyments and personal enrichment. When we meet him, he’s not married, but he insists on always being the substitute groom who spends the wedding night with any young woman of his kingdom who is married, and then he moves on to the next special treat he plans to give himself. He wears out the young men of the kingdom in competitive games just so he can win, over and over, and continue to prove his immense superiority.
It’s probably not a coincidence that the oldest written story is centered around a great and powerful Alpha, and he also happens to be a Destroyer Alpha!
Of course, society eventually tries to fight back by appealing to “the gods”:
The people complain to the gods, “Help us with this guy! We can’t take it any more!” And the gods do something creative. They make him a counterpart, an equal to him in size and strength, and they initially put this man into the woods to live with the animals as their protector. While Gilgamesh is a man of the city, this new creature Enkidu is a child of the forest. Gilgamesh has experienced the height of sophistication in an urban setting that at its peak had up to 80,000 inhabitants. Enkidu as a nature boy has a mindset of simple innocence. Rumors of his existence, great strength, and exploits in saving the animals from hunters make their way to the city, and Gilgamesh is both intrigued and troubled. He has to meet this individual and perhaps once again prove his superiority over what is quickly becoming an urban legend and, in that sense, a threat to his own reputation as the strongest and greatest man alive.
In other words, the gods create a Protector Alpha named Enkidu!
Gilgamesh doesn’t like this threat to his domination over inferior humans, so he hatches a plan:
Gilgamesh goes to the big religious temple in town and approaches the beautiful temple prostitute—which was apparently a well-known job in ancient times, serving to unite the world and the spirit in distinctive ways—and he asks her to go find this legendary man in the woods and use her special skills to lure him to town. She agrees and is successful. Enkidu arrives just as Gilgamesh is about to exercise his jus primae noctis (right of the first night) or, as it later came to be called, his droit du seigneur, and the wild hairy man of the forest intervenes to stop the king from this presumptuous deed. They fight violently and it’s basically a tie. Gilgamesh is very impressed. So is Enkidu. They instantly become best friends, and soon go off on adventures together. The prayers of the people have been answered.
Just to be clear, Gilgamesh was about to take the virginity of another man’s bride when he’s stopped by Enkidu in pure Protector Alpha mode. The two Alphas battle, but they develop a mutual respect for their powers and become the world’s prototypical Alpha Pack.
I really wanted to touch on the story of Gilgamesh to demonstrate that Hierarchy is ANCIENT and FOUNDATIONAL. It also demonstrates that all peoples around the world throughout history recognize Alphahood as a very real type of advanced, superior Man.
As we fight to get people to understand and accept the principles of Hierarchy as the ultimate truth governing human life, it’s good to look back into history to see that the foundation upon which we rest our purpose is as solid and true as any mountain.
#HierarachyIsTruth!
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