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MP composed both "Ekishnugal" and "Enuma Elish" in 2003. Both recordings are made in 2004. MP again remastered the album for its 10th anniversary edition in 2014. The original Enuma Elish included a bonus track from an archive of Liqui Syn Dementia studio recordings. But since it is not connected to the concept of this album it is omitted from this remastered edition.
Based on two different approaches, one strictly architectural and the other free improvisational. This work also includes some sampled acoustic instruments such as harp and timpani, which are designed to be exposed at some moments in the pieces.
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[In the absolutism of reality] we can only imagine the single absolute
experience that exists: that of the superior power of the Other.
The Other is not yet by preference the other One. Only when the
former is interpreted with the aid of the latter...does a world exegesis
begins that involves man. Chaos, in the language of the Theogony, is not yet the disordered
mixed state of matter...Chaos is the pure metaphor of the gaping or
yawning open of an abyss, which requires no localization, no
description of its edges or depth, but is only the opaque space in which
forms make their appearance
- Hans Blumenberg (1920-1996)
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ENUMA ELISH (THE BABYLONIAN EPIC OF CREATION)
Tablet I
1 When the heavens above did not exist,
2 And earth beneath had not come into being—
3 There was Apsû, the first in order, their begetter,
4 And demiurge Tia-mat, who gave birth to them all;
5 They had mingled their waters together
6 Before meadow-land had coalesced and reed-bed was to he found —
7 When not one of the gods had been formed
8 Or had come into being, when no destinies had been decreed,
9 The gods were created within them:
10 Lah(mu and Lah(amu were formed and came into being.
11 While they grew and increased in stature
12 Anšar and Kišar, who excelled them, were created.
13 They prolonged their days, they multiplied their years.
14 Anu, their son, could rival his fathers.
15 Anu, the son, equalled Anšar,
16 And Anu begat Nudimmud, his own equal.
17 Nudimmud was the champion among his fathers:
18 Profoundly discerning, wise, of robust strength;
19 Very much stronger than his father's begetter, Anšar
20 He had no rival among the gods, his brothers.
21 The divine brothers came together,
22 Their clamour got loud, throwing Tia-mat into a turmoil.
23 They jarred the nerves of Tia-mat,
24 And by their dancing they spread alarm in Anduruna.
25 Apsû did not diminish their clamour,
26 And Tia-mat was silent when confronted with them.
27 Their conduct was displeasing to her,
28 Yet though their behaviour was not good, she wished to spare them.
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