In the fourth Millenium BCE, the Sumerian god Nimuta was god of the plow, thunderstorm and spring flood. However by the third century Nimitz had become the god of war and irrigation. Shifts such as these have been understood by scholars not as crude political legitimations but a kind of genuine attempt to grasp the nature of life (and particularly in its search for order during Empire).
This observation reminds us of one of the most important points when building any genealogy of Empire and its infrastructures: historíes greatest waves of mass colonisation (as the imposition of forms of life for production) are compelled not by maniacal intent but by other motivations: idealism, attempts to save, attempts to solve a problem, attempts to systematise explanations and define substances or essences - then also broadly applying these kinds of essences, substances and ideals to everyone.
