Akasha then turned Enkil into a vampire by drawing out nearly all of his blood and then allowing him to drink nearly all of hers.

Akasha then took her king Enkil and passed the " Dark Gift " onto him, transforming Enkil into a vampire, and then made Khayman, who then passed it on to Mekare and Maharet.

Akasha fell upon Enkil, draining him of the blood that was left, and then feeding him her own.

Then, Enkil, furious as ever, nearly kills Lestat, who is saved by Marius, and sent away.

In The Vampire Chronicles series of novels ( beginning with 1973's Interview With the Vampire ) by Anne Rice, Characters Akasha and Enkil ( who appear in 2 books in the series, The Vampire Lestat and The Queen of The Damned, which were combined to create Queen of the Damned, a major motion picture starring late R & B singer Aaliyah in the title role ) are referred to both as, ' Those Who Must Be Kept ' and also as, ' The Old Ones '.

Eventually she ( along with Enkil ) becomes a living statue, kept safe for centuries by guardians who know that she is the source of their existence and immortality.

Enkil was the King, who ruled with Akasha.

Enki () or Enkil ( Sumerian: ) is a god in Sumerian mythology, later known as Ea in Akkadian and Babylonian mythology.

* Enki ( / ˈɛŋki /) or Enkil ( Sumerian: dEN. KI ( G ) ) is a god in Sumerian mythology, later known as Ea in Akkadian and Babylonian mythology.

Marius eventually has the task of keeping them, and it is while in his keeping that Akasha destroys Enkil and consumes his blood as she no longer needs him and feels imprisoned and dead around him.

In the book The Vampire Lestat it is specifically spelled out that Enkil and Akasha were made into vampires at the same time by a demonic infusion but it is later explained in Queen of the Damned that Akasha made Enkil into a vampire, after she was first made by demonic infusion, in order to save him from the wounds inflicted upon him by citizens of Kemet.

Marius rescues Lestat from being destroyed by Enkil after Enkil rises and hits him away while he is drinking from Akasha, despite ( or possibly because of ) the fact that Akasha appears to have summoned Lestat to her.

Enkil is furious and almost crushes Lestat when a shocked Marius saves him.

As they age they become more powerful and slowly their skin becomes whiter, smoother, and more reflective, resembling marble as seen with Akasha and Enkil, Maharet, Mekare, and Khayman.

This terrified the queen and her husband, King Enkil, and the twins were thrown into jail again for three nights and days before they received their punishment.

Akasha and Enkil had summoned the twins in the hope that the witches could enlighten them on the form that they had taken, and how they could satisfy their endless thirst for blood.

She rose to become a Queen in Kemet, the land that would eventually become Egypt ; she and her husband King Enkil wanted their people to turn away from their cannibalistic ways and encourage the eating of grains.

The term " Those Who Must Be Kept " was coined by the vampire Marius referring to the fact that what befalls Akasha and Enkil also befalls all vampires ; if they are injured, so are their children, if they die, so do all vampires.

Having been awakened by Lestat's rebellious music, Akasha destroys her husband Enkil and plots to rule the world.

Eventually this spirit inflicts such torment on Akasha and Enkil that they again demand advice and help from the two witches.

In an experiment by the first Keeper, Akasha and Enkil are exposed to sunlight when they are several thousand years old.

Then, Marius shares his past with him, and shows him Those Who Must Be Kept, Akasha and Enkil.

Marius employs the Spell Gift often, especially when employing humans to move Enkil and Akasha to a new location.

Enkil does not like it and Marius saves Mael in the last minute from being killed by Enkil.

Originally King Enkil and Queen Akasha of Kemet ( now Egypt ) circa 5, 000 BC, they became the first vampires when an evil spirit named Amel was able to enter the body of Akasha through a wound and fuse with her flesh.

In so rising she killed her consort Enkil, draining him of blood and caused her guardian Marius to become imprisoned in the ice and remains of his house.

After one of these guardians tires of the task, he places Akasha and Enkil in the sun ; vampires worldwide are burned or destroyed as a result of all being linked by the spirit of Amel that still resides in Akasha.

Akasha draws the vampire Marius to her and urges him to take her and Enkil out of Egypt.

The expedition was under orders to make a swift survey of conditions and then to return to Earth.

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After the French party split into a reformist and revolutionary party, some accused Guesde ( leader of the latter ) of taking orders from Marx ; Marx remarked to Lafargue, " What is certain to me is if this is Marxism, then I myself am not Marxist " ( in a letter to Engels, Marx later accused Guesde of being a " Bakuninist ").

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A sub-component of this is to use smaller amounts of cash to purchase bearer instruments, such as money orders, and then ultimately deposit those, again in small amounts.

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After he had taken deacon's orders, however, he concentrated on science, and, through the patronage of Jacques Cassini, obtained employment, first in surveying the coast from Nantes to Bayonne, then, in 1739, in remeasuring the French arc of the meridian, for which he is honored with a pyramid at Juvisy-sur-Orge.

In the 1990s, the development of the World-Wide Web exploded the community of online fandom by orders of magnitude, with thousands and then literally millions of web sites devoted to science fiction and related genres for all media.

Finally, if all possible rightful orders of primogeniture and representation have been exhausted, then the General Courts will select a successor in the way that best suits the interest of Spain.

Tanaquil then addressed the people of Rome from the palace window, stating that the king was recovering from the blow, and had commanded the people to obey the orders of Servius as if he were king.