In Elder Scrolls (Skyrim, Morrowind, Oblivion) theres something known as CHIM. It's basically in-game lore for a kind of enlightenment/self-awareness. Essentially that entire game universe is the dream of some kinda godhead. The dwemer (their dwarf race) were technologically advanced and figured it out but they couldn't reconcile the fact that they were just a dream of some other being so literally disappeared. Like straight up stop existing. Leaving no trace, just phased out of existence.
The other two examples of ppl reaching chim or kind of are Vivec and Dagoth Ur. Vivec is like a manifestation of every duality, all things, at once in a living being. Dagoth is like a twisted version of this, he believes he *IS* the godhead, and that all of the universe is *HIS* dream. No matter how you take it, to "survive" chim you have to be able to hold paradoxes in your mind without losing your individual identity. However you solve that equation is up to you, so long as you don't get a zero sum you won't disappear lol.
“I will harden Dagoths heart that he will not let my Lilliputs go”
Most people when they think of control think of wealth or property but underneath that is belief, which underpins mental and spiritual health.
The people of Crete = Svartalfheimr
I told @Koichos earlier in this thread that Noah’s curse on Canaan that it has to do with language
“A servant of servants shall he be unto his brehthren”
If a king created a language in antiquity(as it says of the ancient king of Tyre) it would mean the language still obeys him. And the children of said language obeys it’s parent languages too. Egyptian and Chinese kings believed this too. This is why I believe Hebrew has been preserved the way it has as it prevents the children of Israel from being ruled over by a foreign tongue. However the tongue they use was formed prior to captivity and likely during the time of Sodom
For the record this is what I think Gematria comes from is that old of a language