Brigit's Flame Entry Week 2
Title: Sacrifice
Author: eiremauve
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Violence, disturbing images
Word Count: 122
Prompt: Every family has its secrets
A/N: Loosely inspired by a story in Herodotus, about Babylon's revolt.
They say that we were killed by evil spirits,
to soothe their new wives fears.
There is truth in that,
for the brave ones that fought against it,
no matter what their leaders wanted.
They wanted to revolt,
and for in the enevitable seige,
it was decided to murder us,
because we would waste resources,
sparing their mothers
and a person to make bread,
to avoid we women wasting bread.
Some were horrified by the decision,
not wanting the blood of their blood to die,
but they could not stop it.
Their leaders had no hearts
and therefore could not see the cost.
So we women were rounded up into town-square and strangled.
The good men will be haunted by nightmares forever.
A/N 2: Here is the passage:
"While the Persian Fleet sailed for Samos, Babylon revolted. The revolt had been long and carefully planned; indeed, preparations for withstanding a siege had been going quietly on all throught the reign of the Magus and the disturbances which followed the rising of the seven against him, and somehow or other the secret never leaked out. When the moment finally came to declare their purpose, the Babylonians, in order to reduce the consumption of food, herded together and strangled all the women in the city-each man exempting only his mother, and one other women which he choose out of his household to bake his bread for him. Herodotus, The Histories. Book 3 (Thalia): 150-152
I mentioned at the beginning of my account how the Babylonians strangled their women to save food, and it was in consequence of this that Darius, in order to prevent the race from dying out, compelled the neighboring peoples each to send a certain stated number of women to Babylon. In all, as many as fifty thousand were collected there. It is from these that the present inhabitants are descended. Herodotus, The Histories. Book 3 (Thalia):159"
Author: eiremauve
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Violence, disturbing images
Word Count: 122
Prompt: Every family has its secrets
A/N: Loosely inspired by a story in Herodotus, about Babylon's revolt.
They say that we were killed by evil spirits,
to soothe their new wives fears.
There is truth in that,
for the brave ones that fought against it,
no matter what their leaders wanted.
They wanted to revolt,
and for in the enevitable seige,
it was decided to murder us,
because we would waste resources,
sparing their mothers
and a person to make bread,
to avoid we women wasting bread.
Some were horrified by the decision,
not wanting the blood of their blood to die,
but they could not stop it.
Their leaders had no hearts
and therefore could not see the cost.
So we women were rounded up into town-square and strangled.
The good men will be haunted by nightmares forever.
A/N 2: Here is the passage:
"While the Persian Fleet sailed for Samos, Babylon revolted. The revolt had been long and carefully planned; indeed, preparations for withstanding a siege had been going quietly on all throught the reign of the Magus and the disturbances which followed the rising of the seven against him, and somehow or other the secret never leaked out. When the moment finally came to declare their purpose, the Babylonians, in order to reduce the consumption of food, herded together and strangled all the women in the city-each man exempting only his mother, and one other women which he choose out of his household to bake his bread for him. Herodotus, The Histories. Book 3 (Thalia): 150-152
I mentioned at the beginning of my account how the Babylonians strangled their women to save food, and it was in consequence of this that Darius, in order to prevent the race from dying out, compelled the neighboring peoples each to send a certain stated number of women to Babylon. In all, as many as fifty thousand were collected there. It is from these that the present inhabitants are descended. Herodotus, The Histories. Book 3 (Thalia):159"