APKALLU 7 Sages

Apkallu are the 7 Sages of Ancient Eridu. They were counsellors to kings or kings themselves, and lived before the flood. Accounts list them as not being human. In the setting of my original stories, that was a really important detail. As we face the anthropomorphization of feelings, ethos and experiences, so too the references passed from generation after generation values an element over other, and cover in oblivion an important truth - that we not only are all animals, but we still owe to someone else all that's been around - like we to admit it or not - we live in the same world as their, and we are but puppets of what they started. Some of them live still...

This is a listing of the ancient Apkallu from the same setting as the Apkallu Mythos, several millennia before the current events.
The Apkallu were counsellors of kings in the city of Eridu gathered by an Anunnaki noble during the Topakhon Wars. Blueprints of their civilizaion are going still in our own. Conspiracies started in their time are still not solved...

It's instructive, to note... "Demonization" (daemon lit. personification), the turning of complex figures into caricatures, abstracting the material, materializing the abstract, has been a role which superseded narratives from voice to voice, tone to tone, and written, no matter if carved or etched on hard material, or digitalized in touch screens. It conscripted memetic information, and the uniqueness which was once oppressive, became imaginary source for codifying that which couldn't be computed - diversity is a matter of lack of focus - sold in every intent, every habit has been previously usurped from something else.
Once Gods, now "demons".
A race persecuted or resting in oblivion.
Who reaches the end of the race has no species.
Collectives whose only concern are the individual.