Saltu-ed

[dreamer_easy]

I must tell you, I laughed and laughed when I came across the story of Saltu:

Ishtar, the bratty, noisy, brawling, glorious goddess of sex and violence, has become so much of a pain in the arse that the cunning god Ea creates her mirror image: Saltu, whose name means "strife", a warrioress just as loud and scrappy as Ishtar. In fact, Saltu pesters Ishtar so much that the goddess sees what she's been acting like and gets Ea's message. Ishtar's not tamed; that can't be done. She just tones it down a little.

I laughed because I've been going through the same process myself with all this Internet hoo-hah in recent years. It's made me more aware of my own arguing style and helped me modify it a bit.

Comments

[jblum.livejournal.com]

"Great. Now what do we do with the *other* one?"

[qthewetsprocket.livejournal.com]

...Turn her into a man, and give her curly hair and a weekly motoring show with two other blokes on BBC2?

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

BWA

Ishtar would eat Clarkson in two bites. He's less like a god and more like a Horseman of the Apocalypse who fell off.

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

*falls about* omg, it's the Death Mules all over again! "Nice one eh"

She disappears. One author suggests that's because she's really Ishtar's most belligerent part, so once the goddess cools it a little, naturally Saltu is gone.