The Spartan LordEssay Preview: The Spartan LordReport this essayThe Spartan LordThere was once a Demigod named Rymalechai, in which the Spartans of old believed. The tale of the Spartans great, disastrous victory over the Arab Empire before the battle of Thermopylae including the defeat of 250,000 strong against only 1,000 battle hardened Spartans was never recorded in history. This is that allegory.
Long before the battle of Thermopylae (as the date is known only by the gods), there was a very powerful Demigod, Rymalechai, who was trusted by the greatest warriors of all time, the Spartans. They worshipped this Demigod and all his terrific power. They were grateful for Him and He was grateful for their worship. He did many great things for them; building the Great Wall of China, and the creation of the Pyramids and the Sphinxes (the “Egyptians” are an uncommon misnomer, as are the “Chinese”) of old. He would do anything the Spartans wished, so long as they did as He asked; and so their lives went on beholden. He asked only that they train from the age of six to be the most powerful influence in the entire world.
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The first time a Spartan was able to speak his name would be upon the evening of the night of the 2nd of August. He would say, “When my heart and soul are fulfilled, and I give myself for my father, and come unto Christ, so that I may see the Father on the ground of the earth, we shall see him in all flesh”; and if they had the power to walk and speak their father and their son would leave. For when the Spartans were about to break into Christ’s temple they used to shout, “Enochius, o the God of light and glory!” The first time they would cry out “Enochius, O O thee God”, and the second time, all the gods were singing, “Enochius, thou the Son of the Lord, have the power to walk forever on the earth!”, and this time the people, in their prayers, could hear Christ, who was standing at the right foot of a stone, and could hear that their prayers were answered, and their hearts went on unto Christ and His church. The Spartans would do similar activities on their way to the altar and the worship of the Holy Spirit. They saw that one of the gods was weeping before God, so they set him to pray, as well as God and himself, and they made him kneel, and then they would then say “Enochius, O thy Lord, let thy feet be covered;” and once the people were seated they would then say his name. They would also do the same on a bridge, and then do the same at a different place. And all things they did before His presence, and on every side of the bridge would sing and then tell His name. Then they would repeat what they had said about all their plans and their deeds and would lay His hands out on the bridge.
It cannot be said, in the scriptures, that the Spartans did not pray and sing God’s name, but that they chanted it as one of those prayer words which are read by the Fathers and by Christians that men pray on behalf of their religion. In fact, the name of God was mentioned by the men of Athens, not to mention by the Spartans, or that the Gods had their own plan for all things that they needed in order to meet the needs they were told they must meet. In fact, the names of all the gods were mentioned by the people of the Athenians, and also by the Spartan, but the Spartan knew God as the creator of the universe, not to mention God, and God’s laws, laws, and powers. So they worshiped God as their savior. The Athenians also spoke of Him in their ceremonies
It is believed, as this account goes, that the Spartans received an ultimatum from the Arab empire. Now, not knowing the parlance of the Arabs, the Spartans had no other knowledge other than the fact that it contained a mentioning of the number two-hundred and fifty thousand within its lines of alien text. The Spartans believed it to be a challenge to war. They knew they had neither the warriors nor resources to take on the two-hundred and fifty thousand combat trained and kamikaze soldiers of the Arab empire. They prayed to Rymalechai. They prayed for anything to stop the Arabs from destroying them. They prayed for their waters to be poisoned, for their cattle to be destroyed (for in old times, cows were incredibly powerful sorcerers that have, with time, lost their craft), for their people to be injured by unnatural causes and for their airlines to be bombed (couldnt help it).
Hmmm, not quite as obvious as “one-hundred-and-eighty-five thousand” but this would suffice. There are also numerous other verses of a similar text that are missing from the actual text. Many of these seem to have been “discovered” for no apparent reason, either by archaeologist (not an archaeologist in my experience, though I guess that has helped) or because the “discovered” language of the ancient Near East is not so much original as it is an approximation of the native language of the Middle East. However, like the other fragments mentioned above, it was a highly unusual and surprising text, and an important document. This is a key aspect of a significant project in which I think we all get lost. I would consider it a unique project, and one that is currently still in its infancy. I am currently still in the process of finishing the manuscript, with the hope of using that work to give me a full appreciation for the book, its history, and the context in which it is currently being used or preserved, as well as how that book may later impact our understanding of it.
I want to point this out because I’m deeply grateful to all of you who volunteered, and to those like myself who did not join in the effort to put this project on hold. This “The Ancient Scroll Project” project, which was funded and led by George A. Papadakis and James N. Sorenson, gave the project over to Sorenson in 2003. We did this because we felt compelled to “make history” about a very unique project, which will later be known as the “The Ancient Scroll Project.”
It was also important to our project because of its many contributions. The book’s manuscript and its text are so deeply intertwined. I am proud to say it was our “one-hundred-and-eighty-five thousand” record. Some of these contributions are being considered for inclusion in the project, along with others being decided and accepted for inclusion in the actual text. I know this has not happened (though, I’m willing to bet that some have, I do not) but hopefully we can get something out of the book. We may make this book known to other ancient scholars interested in its history. The book has gone through a few changes in recent times in order to reach its present state. As an example, one of our first steps towards adding the text is to submit manuscripts to “The Ancient Scroll Project.” While it is an effort to give the book a true, scholarly feel, it is an effort to preserve and preserve a unique, not simply a historical text, an important part of the history as we already understand it. We were given the chance to try a couple different approaches. These would be most likely to be published on books that are already fully available and are likely to be of interest to you: an English translation of the book into Arabic with a glossary, an Egyptian translation, and a contemporary Arabic translation. Also, we have plans for using your “The Ancient Scroll Project” manuscript to produce a future edition with both its pages, and one more edition available in an authenticated version as a printed book. Our two other options were to work with Sorenson and others to develop a full manuscript that reflects the experience of this project, and to work and
Rymalechai acknowledged their prayers as long as they march in two days. The Spartans were ready. On the fourth day, they arrived, in what is now known as Afghanistan, to find many sick and wounded soldiers,