I just woke from a long line of dreams scattered throughout the night. And the last one was the best one.

I was on a bus with people on a beautiful path and one of them was talking about something that I knew was going to end with him saying how his "Lord and Savior" is... the "usual" suspect... but at the last moment he said Lord Zeus and that surprised me. I even said "Oh, Hell yeah!". Zevism was getting popular.

For some reason I hop off the bus as it was still moving, then the bus just disappeared. I didn't see it roar past me. One of those dream logics where if it's out of sight it's out of mind.

On this backroad that had its dense tree line and grasses along both sides the hug the sides of the road for an unknown distance as the bend ahead blocked my view of anything in the distance, but right where I jumped off was a dirt path which I followed.

It was a short path, but it led me to a body of water and a piece of land at the end of it. Maybe not an island, maybe it was attached to the land on the other side, opposite my path, but regardless I walked through the water to get to it. It wasn't far. Just the inconvenience of getting wet would deter some people.

The water was of negligible depth and never rose to my kneecaps. There were small fish and big fish that came to study me and just to see if I could get away with it I put my fist in the water to see if I could catch the big fish. And he came and sucked on my knuckles, so I just picked it up and carried it with me.

Somehow, I knew where I was going and was giddy, I also wondered how it was that we didn't have a bridge. And I thought that especially when I came upon the lodge we had built.

I open the doors and a loud chorus of people speaking whooshed past me, the same sound of opening a door to a school's gym and hearing everyone playing. I walk through and see about 70 of us. As I don't know what any of you look like, all of your appearances were replaced with students and teachers I went to school with, but I knew it was people of the Temple of Zeus and we had gotten together for a big-big feast. And I brought a huge fish :D (while at the door I didn't want it to suffer so I was punching it in the face to knock it out)

There was a big room we fit in, I said about 70, but realistically could've been around 40 of us. And the food was absurd. Huge green shelled crabs with a circle cut into the shell on it's head with the legs devoid of shell and ready for eating next to each head lined up along a long dinner tray. Next to that were lobster tails so big someone was cutting them into thirds with those Dough Cutters. Huge rectangles of foil, some that held Corn, some had green beans, Macaroni (home-made). Dinner plates of Huge loafs of something with rice. Sweet Tea, Lemonade, Milk, Chocolate milk. Except for the Golden Corral Chocolate fountain, we had everything.

I went up to one of my old teachers, which may have really been one of the Priests, and I told him if he wanted my fish, or If we could use it. He said for me to just take it home and cut it there, so we ended up not using my fish. Then I talked to him about how I came up to the path and about the water. I talked about how I kinda like the water and how you need to get here by taking your shoes off, but I think we could still use a bridge. I don't know how to build a bridge, but I would try and he nodded his head and said, "We have people that know how". And I thought great, I could help them.

I wanted to talk to everyone and get to meet all of us as I walked looking at all the food, which spanned far. We had many of those plastic banquet tables that ran along the walls for all 4 walls. There was just a slit you could walk through just to get in the room. The food was on the tables you sit at, so much like in Harry Potter you'll have food sitting in front of you, but if you want something else you have to walk to someone else's seat at the table and get whatever.

I sat next to someone and there were people on the opposite side of the table as well, since we were packed. We waited for someone to tell us all to eat and after a while someone got up and ran to the food, which prompted about half of the room to do the same. The person next to me made a joke about "Now we know who all has Mercury" or Gemini, something. I made a joke something like "Spartans, hold your position".

They got back to their seats, we all waited to eat, all waiting to hear "GO" and before that happened, I woke up.

Has anyone read
An Encyclopaedia of Occultism by Lewis Spence?

I uploaded a post of "Lord Set carrying some Zevists across the waters of ignorance" and posted an image of an alligator with babies riding on it through the water, then realized I mixed up Lord Set and Sobek. We also don't have much information on Lord Sobek either so I wonder who he might be. Google says in Greek he was "Suchus" but I haven't read much into it.

Daily Aesop's Fables:

The Young Thief and His Mother

A young Man had been caught in a daring act of theft and had
been condemned to be executed for it. He expressed his desire to
see his Mother, and to speak with her before he was led to
execution, and of course this was granted. When his Mother came
to him he said: "I want to whisper to you," and when she brought
her ear near him, he nearly bit it off. All the bystanders were
horrified, and asked him what he could mean by such brutal and
inhuman conduct. "It is to punish her," he said. "When I was
young I began with stealing little things, and brought them home
to Mother. Instead of rebuking and punishing me, she laughed and
said: "It will not be noticed." It is because of her that I am
here to-day."

"He is right, woman," said the Priest;

~ "Train up a child in the way he should go; and
when he is old he will not depart therefrom."~

Daily Aesop's Fables:

The Trumpeter Taken Prisoner

A Trumpeter during a battle ventured too near the enemy and
was captured by them. They were about to proceed to put him to
death when he begged them to hear his plea for mercy. "I do not
fight," said he, "and indeed carry no weapon; I only blow this
trumpet, and surely that cannot harm you; then why should you kill
me?"

"You may not fight yourself," said the others, "but you
encourage and guide your men to the fight."

~ Words may be deeds.~

Daily Aesop's Fables:

The Swallow and the Other Birds

It happened that a Countryman was sowing some hemp seeds in a
field where a Swallow and some other birds were hopping about
picking up their food. "Beware of that man," quoth the Swallow.
"Why, what is he doing?" said the others. "That is hemp seed he
is sowing; be careful to pick up every one of the seeds, or else
you will repent it."

The birds paid no heed to the Swallow's
words, and by and by the hemp grew up and was made into cord, and
of the cords nets were made, and many a bird that had despised the
Swallow's advice was caught in nets made out of that very hemp.
"What did I tell you?" said the Swallow.

~ Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.~

Daily Aesop's Fables:

The Silkworm and Spider

Having received an order for twenty yards of silk from Princess
Lioness, the Silkworm sat down at her loom and worked away with
zeal. A Spider soon came around and asked to hire a web-room near
by. The Silkworm acceded, and the Spider commenced her task and worked
so rapidly that in a short time the web was finished. "Just look at
it," she said, "and see how grand and delicate it is. You cannot but
acknowledge that I'm a much better worker than you. See how quickly
I perform my labors." "Yes," answered the Silkworm, "but hush up,
for you bother me. Your labors are designed only as base traps, and
are destroyed whenever they are seen, and brushed away as useless
dirt; while mine are stored away, as ornaments of Royalty."

~ "True art is thoughtful, delights and endures."~

Daily Aesop's Fables:

Mercury and the Woodman

A Woodman was felling a tree on the bank of a river, when his axe,
glancing off the trunk, flew out of his hands and fell into the water.
As he stood by the water's edge lamenting his loss, Mercury appeared
and asked him the reason for his grief. On learning what had happened,
out of pity for his distress, Mercury dived into the river and,
bringing up a golden axe, asked him if that was the one he had lost.
The Woodman replied that it was not, and Mercury then dived a second
time, and, bringing up a silver axe, asked if that was his. "No,
that is not mine either," said the Woodman. Once more Mercury dived
into the river and brought up the missing axe. The Woodman was
overjoyed at recovering his property, and thanked his benefactor
warmly, and the latter was so pleased with his honesty that he made
him a present of the other two axes.

When the Woodman told the story
to his companions, one of these was filled with envy of his good
fortune and determined to try his luck for himself. So, he went and
began to fell a tree at the edge of the river, and presently contrived
to let his axe drop into the water.

Mercury appeared as before, and,
on learning that his axe had fallen in, he dived and brought up a
golden axe, as he had done on the previous occasion. Without waiting
to be asked whether it was his or not, the fellow cried, "That's mine,
that's mine," and stretched out his hand eagerly for the prize: but
Mercury was so disgusted at his dishonesty that he not only declined
to give him the golden axe, but also refused to recover for him the
one he had let fall into the stream.

~ "Honesty is the best policy." ~

Daily Aesop's Fables:

The Lark and Her Young Ones

A LARK had made her nest in the early spring on the young green
wheat. The brood had almost grown to their full strength and
attained the use of their wings and the full plumage of their
feathers, when the owner of the field, looking over his ripe
crop, said, "The time has come when I must ask all my neighbors
to help me with my harvest." One of the young Larks heard his
speech and related it to his mother, inquiring of her to what
place they should move for safety. "There is no occasion to move
yet, my son," she replied, "the man who only sends to his friends
to help him with his harvest is not really in earnest."

The owner of the field came again a few days later and saw the wheat
shedding the grain from excess of ripeness. He said, "I will
come myself tomorrow with my laborers, and with as many reapers
as I can hire and will get in the harvest." The Lark on hearing
these words said to her brood, "It is time now to be off, my
little ones, for the man is in earnest this time; he no longer
trusts his friends but will reap the field himself."

~ Self-help is the best help. ~

Daily Aesop's Fables:

The Man and His Two Sweethearts

A MIDDLE-AGED MAN, whose hair had begun to turn gray, courted two
women at the same time. One of them was young, and the other
well advanced in years. The elder woman, ashamed to be courted
by a man younger than herself, made a point, whenever her admirer
visited her, to pull out some portion of his black hairs. The
younger, on the contrary, not wishing to become the wife of an
old man, was equally zealous in removing every gray hair she
could find. Thus it came to pass that between them both he very
soon found that he had not a hair left on his head.

~ Those who seek to please everybody please nobody. ~

Daily Aesop's Fables:

The Peacock and Juno

A Peacock once placed a petition before Juno desiring to have
the voice of a nightingale in addition to his other attractions;
but Juno refused his request. When he persisted, and pointed out
that he was her favorite bird, she said:

~ "Be content with your lot;
one cannot be first in everything." ~

Daily Aesop's Fables:

The Oak and Jupiter/The Oak and the woodcutter

THE OAKS presented a complaint to Jupiter, saying, "We bear for
no purpose the burden of life, as of all the trees that grow we
are the most continually in peril of the axe." Jupiter made
answer: "You have only to thank yourselves for the misfortunes to
which you are exposed: for if you did not make such excellent
pillars and posts, and prove yourselves so serviceable to the
carpenters and the farmers, the axe would not so frequently be
laid to your roots."

THE WOODCUTTER cut down a Mountain Oak and split it in pieces,
making wedges of its own branches for dividing the trunk. The
Oak said with a sigh, "I do not care about the blows of the axe
aimed at my roots, but I do grieve at being torn in pieces by
these wedges made from my own branches."

~ Misfortunes springing from ourselves are the hardest to bear. ~

Daily Aesop Fables:

The Farmer and the Stork

A FARMER placed nets on his newly-sown plowlands and caught a
number of Cranes, which came to pick up his seed. With them he
trapped a Stork that had fractured his leg in the net and was
earnestly beseeching the Farmer to spare his life. "Pray save
me, Master," he said, "and let me go free this once. My broken
limb should excite your pity. Besides, I am no Crane, I am a
Stork, a bird of excellent character; and see how I love and
slave for my father and mother. Look too, at my feathers--
they are not the least like those of a Crane." The Farmer
laughed aloud and said, "It may be all as you say, I only know
this: I have taken you with these robbers, the Cranes, and you
must die in their company."

~ Birds of a feather flock together. ~

Daily Aesop's Fables:

The Lioness

A CONTROVERSY prevailed among the beasts of the field as to which
of the animals deserved the most credit for producing the
greatest number of whelps at a birth. They rushed clamorously
into the presence of the Lioness and demanded of her the
settlement of the dispute. "And you," they said, "how many sons
have you at a birth?' The Lioness laughed at them, and said:
"Why! I have only one; but that one is altogether a thoroughbred
Lion."

~ The value is in the worth, not in the number. ~

Daily Aesop's Fables:

The King's Son and the Painted Lion

A KING, whose only son was fond of martial exercises, had a dream
in which he was warned that his son would be killed by a lion.
Afraid the dream should prove true, he built for his son a
pleasant palace and adorned its walls for his amusement with all
kinds of life-sized animals, among which was the picture of a
lion. When the young Prince saw this, his grief at being thus
confined burst out afresh, and, standing near the lion, he said:
"O you most detestable of animals! through a lying dream of my
father's, which he saw in his sleep, I am shut up on your account
in this palace as if I had been a girl: what shall I now do to
you?' With these words he stretched out his hands toward a
thorn-tree, meaning to cut a stick from its branches so that he
might beat the lion. But one of the tree's prickles pierced his
finger and caused great pain and inflammation, so that the young
Prince fell down in a fainting fit. A violent fever suddenly set
in, from which he died not many days later.

~ We had better bear our troubles bravely than try to escape them. ~

Daily Aesop's Fables:

The Scorpion and the Frog

A scorpion and a frog meet on the bank of a stream and the
scorpion asks the frog to carry him across on its back. The
frog asks, "How do I know you won't sting me?" The scorpion
says, "Because if I do, I will die too."

The frog is satisfied, and they set out, but in midstream,
the scorpion stings the frog. The frog feels the onset of
paralysis and starts to sink, knowing they both will drown,
but has just enough time to gasp "Why?"

Replies the scorpion: "Its my nature..."

For some reason I got an article on Ms. Enheduanna, the first person to ever Author a Book. She was way back in Akkadia and was also the Priest of Lord Inanna/Ishtar. Her dad was King Sargon and led many battles. Now I got recommended a short on him and what he liked to eat.

This Guy is also making a cookbook titled "Cookbook of the gods." https://www.tableofgods.com/

Daily Aesop's Fables:

The Buffoon and the Countryman

At a country fair there was a Buffoon who made all the people
laugh by imitating the cries of various animals. He finished off
by squeaking so like a pig that the spectators thought that he had
a porker concealed about him. But a Countryman who stood by said:
"Call that a pig's squeak! Nothing like it. You give me till
tomorrow and I will show you what it's like." The audience
laughed, but next day, sure enough, the Countryman appeared on the
stage, and putting his head down squealed so hideously that the
spectators hissed and threw stones at him to make him stop. "You
fools!" he cried, "see what you have been hissing," and held up a
little pig whose ear he had been pinching to make him utter the
squeals.

~ Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing. ~

Daily Aesop's Fables:

The Ass and his Purchaser

A man who wanted to buy an Ass went to market, and, coming across
a likely-looking beast, arranged with the owner that he should be
allowed to take him home on trial to see what he was like. When he
reached home, he put him into his stable along with the other asses.
The newcomer took a look round, and immediately went and chose a place
next to the laziest and greediest beast in the stable. When the master
saw this he put a halter on him at once, and led him off and handed
him over to his owner again. The latter was a good deal surprised to
seem him back so soon, and said, "Why, do you mean to say you have
tested him already?" "I don't want to put him through any more tests,"
replied the other. "I could see what sort of beast he is from the
companion he chose for himself."

~A person is known by the company they keep.~

Daily Aesop's Fables:

The Boy and the Nettles

A BOY was stung by a Nettle. He ran home and told his Mother,
saying, "Although it hurts me very much, I only touched it
gently." "That was just why it stung you," said his Mother. "The
next time you touch a Nettle, grasp it boldly, and it will be
soft as silk to your hand, and not in the least hurt you."

~ Whatever you do, do with all your might. ~