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Warscared, it seems to me that Enki, Ereshkiga, Inanna, Tiamat, ... and the like are powerful gods in the story that can all create champions to act as their proxies. Imho they are not Gen anything, THEY are the creators and could if they wish provide their proxies with identical or similar 'powers' that other gods may have used for some of their proxies then so be it. In this thread it seems that great effort is made to try and juxtapose aspects of ancient myths and legends onto attributes from modern fiction; given the murky and highly varied nature of ancient myths and legends this is almost a lost cause, because whilst a few things may fit many will not ... that is exactly why academia adopts a consensus view. However, as we all know hypothesising can be great fun. In an earlier post I showed that Inanna was 'in the room' when the MC was created and to my mind could have easily modified his attributes according to her perceived need for his tasks ahead; Calisto on the other hand - according to Fabian - lives in fear of her being attacked by her childe's, so she will definitely not want him to be more powerful/or different than her. Also I don't think that Calisto has a good perspective of things yet, she encourages the MC to 'take out' Ereshkigal, but from Franks perspective 'how can you fight or kill a god' ... the best that you can hope for is that they may sleep for a while. Originally I believed that the title Rebirth pertained to the MC - which of course it does from certain perspectives, but now it seems to me that may not be the case .. to me it looks more like the MC is created to provide the means for the Rebirth of Inanna - by essentially providing her with food and water when he finally gets there. I do like
Arigon's distinction between the slaves in Ereshkigal's bloodline and the 'partially free will' in Inanna's bloodline - fits to a point. Not all myths allude to the sister jealousy, and if I adopt a devils advocate position Inanna ran from the underworld followed by a host of demons, she was seemingly neither troubled by them nor in fear of them because she ignored there demands for a replacement, it was only when she discovered that her 'husband' had disrespected her by not grieving for her when she was dead for three days that she gave him up as a replacement. In the present story it is still unclear how or why Inanna has become imprisoned for a second time and what, if anything, Ereshkigal has to do with it. A long shot, for all we know the MC could be going to Ereshkigal to ask for her help in releasing Inanna from the underworld and has to fight guardians before he can have an audience. Meh, interesting times, we will just have to wait with baited breath to see how it all pans out.