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Chapter 10. Small Nations — The Ring of Fragments

  Chapter 10. Small Nations — The Ring of Fragments It is impossible to begin this chapter with names. A name without prior preparation is like a shop sign into which the reader is pushed directly from the street: they see a word, they do not see the goods, and they conclude they are being deceived. First, simple things must be laid on the table. What a Great Canon is. What a small nation is. What is designated in this book by the term "Anunnaki." What a fragment is. And what a massacre is—when that word is spoken not as an abstract symbol, but as the physical destruction of living cellular tissue. Only then can we approach the Armenians, Assyrians, Samaritans, Mandaeans, Yezidis, Druze, Zoroastrians, and Jews. Otherwise, what remains is merely a long list of suffering, whereas we require a functional map of memory. 1. Methodological Threshold: Canon, Nation, and Function The Great Canon and the Monopoly on Time A Great Canon is a religion or historical narrative that has won...

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