Yeah that sounds great I love how in the end the final think you needed to learn was Mercy. The tiger had not visited fear pain and death upon man I don't think man will ever have gotten as bad as he did
Alma had unwittingly taught Man how to burn the world and unmake what others had built. When Alma next slept, Man slew him under the mountain, then set his sights to the heavens, to the worlds of other gods.
Man is merely an ape with a marginally better brain. One day our gift will truly come to pass and this world shall be a blackened shriveled husk in the solar system.
This honesty sounds like a Native American creation myth. It’s pretty cool, really. The Creator being all, “GET OFF MY LAWN ITS THREE IN THE MORNING YOU ANNOYING CHILDREN!”
If my Google-fu is correct, this might be an Aramaic creation myth. The name of the God was a clue. The inclusion of a tiger could refer to a Caspian tiger.
Alma had power of creation an destruction. Teaching the power of Prickly an impatient short sighted God. Hmmm. That God showed us real power. Life an death. Not patience, (Father Time?) not empathy. (Mother Nature?) Or did wisdom come from time experience an observation? So many teachers. But Alma taught us to think an evolve. To be anothers God is to carry all the weight. With Power comes Responsibility. Hopes. Dreams. Even Fate. You want to raise chickens or colonize Mars?
