Lugalzagizzi, by Quidditas

Lugalzagizzi

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2.	Subjection Part 1 10:23	download
3.	Subjection Part 2 15:05	download

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This album conceptualizes the entity of Lugalzaggizi as being responsible for the advancement of early civilization and the beginning of the conquest to destroy indigenous life/culture.

Lugal-Zage-Si (reigned ca. 2296 - 2271 BC short chronology) was the last Sumerian king before the conquest of Sumer by Sargon of Akkad and the rise of the Akkadian Empire, and was considered as the only king of the third dynasty of Uruk. He was arguably the first king to unite Sumer as a single kingdom, and is often referenced as the first emperor ("Middle East & Africa to 1875". Sanderson Beck. 1998-2004.)

Fredy Perlman writes about Lugalzaggizi in his essay Against His-story, Against Leviathan! Pearlman speaks metaphorically of Lugalzaggizi's ability to manipulate the masses with full understanding of the need to satisfy leviathan (civilization) despite its destructive impact on the people.

"The town of Umma is not known either for its power or its courage, and it doesn’t suddenly acquire these qualities. Its strongman Lugalzaggizi does not invade Lagash with Umma’s forces. The necessary forces as well as the technology needed for an invasion are in the segment Urukagina attacked. Lugalzaggizi is the instrument of the reformer’s downfall not because he champions the powerful, but also because he knows something Urukagina did not know.

Lugalzaggizi understands that the head of Leviathan is not where it was a year or a generation ago, nor where Urukagina thinks it ought to be. Just as the Lugal’s god is always the god in the phallus-shaped Ziggurat, so the Leviathan’s most powerful segment is always its head. Such is Leviathanic justice, and Lugalzaggizi, not Urukagina, is the true champion of the worm."

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released March 4, 2011

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