You need not worship me; I am not a god.
Not yet.
I am Mot. I am death, King of the Underworld, prince of the nether-lands, lord beneath the mountain, ruler of the wastelands beyond and below. And I am hungry, so very hungry. The bones of ten thousand men are scattered at my door and before the day is out I will have consumed ten thousand more. My mouth is wide, my teeth are strong. A lip to the earth and a lip to the heavens, I tongue the stars and lick the sky.
Ba’al has gone down into my stomach. Asherah too. I have eaten my way through the pantheon of the Canaanites and the mythology of the Greeks. Marduk is in my gullet. Mithras, Isis, Ahura-Mazda… I have eaten them all. I have crushed them between my teeth and swallowed them up.
But I am still hungry.
I will climb in through your window, enter unseen into your palaces. I will devour your children as they play. I will consume your young people in the public square, and the elderly as they sleep in their beds.
I am Mot. I am death, King of the Underworld, prince of the nether-lands, lord beneath the mountain, ruler of the wastelands beyond and below. And I am hungry, so very hungry. The bones of ten thousand men are scattered at my door and before the day is out I will have consumed ten thousand more. My mouth is wide, my teeth are strong. A lip to the earth and a lip to the heavens, I tongue the stars and lick the sky.
Ba’al has gone down into my stomach. Asherah too. I have eaten my way through the pantheon of the Canaanites and the mythology of the Greeks. Marduk is in my gullet. Mithras, Isis, Ahura-Mazda… I have eaten them all. I have crushed them between my teeth and swallowed them up.
But I am still hungry.
I will climb in through your window, enter unseen into your palaces. I will devour your children as they play. I will consume your young people in the public square, and the elderly as they sleep in their beds.
I am Mot and I am hungry. Though you need not worship me, I will accept
your sacrifices. But I will not be
satiated. I will eat and eat, and eat,
until there is no more. Then I will be
god of all.
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