{"id":6331,"date":"2019-01-29T20:59:11","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T01:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/?p=6331"},"modified":"2019-01-29T20:59:20","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T01:59:20","slug":"demise-of-the-gulabadam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/2019\/demise-of-the-gulabadam","title":{"rendered":"Demise of the Gulabadam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Heroes have deaths. In fact, sometimes it\u2019s the crux of their whole story, per Le Morte D\u2019Arthur. And, like so many myths, they\u2019re inconsistent. Did Herakles die? Or did he ascend to Mt. Olympus? It depends on who you ask and what their interest is in the answer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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The Gulabadam is pierced through the heart by Shabut, whose tale is told by her people to this day.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m not telling the story of the Death of the Gulabadam now. And maybe this isn\u2019t it. He\u2019s a character who takes pride in the mortal danger he puts himself in, with no help but the (extremely wily, powerful) mortal Namedealer, Galil, at his side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, here he is, either dying or coming close to death at the hands of Shabut, who bears the spear, Heart-Tooth, which she drew from the heart of the dragon, Tayezur. In promise to her ancestor, she has never cut her hair, and it, itself, is one of her trophies. Earlier in the battle, she lost her helmet made of the talons of eagles that had been flying off with her people\u2019s cattle. The Gulabadam, likewise, has lost the jawbone of the desert donkey-monster, and is down to palming his enemy\u2019s head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Modular systems are a function of industrial society. But do people of The Fifth World still know how to agree to standards? With their acute interest in efficiency, I think they might have carried that lesson forward!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Heroes have deaths. In fact, sometimes it\u2019s the crux of their whole story, per Le Morte D\u2019Arthur. And, like so many myths, they\u2019re inconsistent. Did Herakles die? Or did he ascend to Mt. Olympus? It depends on who you ask and what their interest is in the answer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":6335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[184,161],"class_list":["post-6331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-set-of-all-sets-that-do-not-include-themselves","tag-gulabadam","tag-world-of-names"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6331"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6337,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6331\/revisions\/6337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}