A Broken Paradise (The Windows of Heaven Book 3) (44 page)

2206
Elyo perfected at Epymetu’s Temple City. Epymetu killed mysteriously. Pandura becomes High Priestess of Northern Aztlan. Klyeto High Priestess of Psydonis. Initiation of Pyra.

2207
Aztlan assails Lumekkor. Seer Clan Regiment sent to Balimar under Avarnon-Set. U’Sumi and A’Nu-Ahki captured.

2208
Aztlan invades Far Kush. Pyra helps U’Sumi and A’Nu-Ahki escape. Muhet’Usalaq cedes Paru’Ainu to the Archonate. Death of Edina. Lumekkor’s Fleet blockades Thulae. Aztlan War ends. Tarbet and Pandura renew their acquaintance on the armistice ship. Khumi meets Tiva and leaves his father’s house. Samyaza assails Aeden, and is defeated.

2209
“Daughters of Heaven” revive the Samyaza Cult.

2210
A’Nu-Ahki begins
Barque of Aeons
. Colossus dedicated.

Glossary of People &Terms
(Updated for Book 3
)

The definitions are often in relation to the story—some are fictional, others connect with either real biblical history or ancient mythology.

A’Nu-Ahki –
Seer-Prince of Salaam-Surupag and later Akh’Uzan, the biblical Noah.

A’Nu –
The person of the Creator God E’Yahavah
residing in the Heavens; which describes God in his most vast, beyond human ability-to-know sense. The contraction
A’Nu
loosely translates as
heaven
, and so the name of
A’Nu-Ahki
(in the story) means
Heavensent Comfort
. The biblical name
Noah
means simply
rest
or
comfort
. My attempt to fictionally reverse-engineer Sumero-Akkadian theo-historic revisionism (their “sky-god” was called Anu or An) may prove incorrect—though it is reasonable, as scholars with far more qualification than I have suggested it as a hypothesis. Nor is it an attempt at mix paganism with Judeo-Christian theology, since the Sumerian Anu is revisionism, and my story clearly defines its own terms on this matter. Since I view Genesis as history, and the implications of Babel are that we all come from common stock, it is not unreasonable or blasphemous to expect Sumer to have revised the meaning of earlier names to misuse them in their polytheistic mythology. History is full of such examples. The dignified
El Elyon
of Melchizedec and Abraham was 500 years after Abraham depicted by Ugaritic Canaanite inscriptions in less-than-flattering terms. The Canaanite tablets still presented
El Elyon
as the in-name-only head of their pantheon even in redefined form, nevertheless. In no way do my novels imply that the Sumerian Anu and the Hebrew YHWH are the same divinity. Rather, they suggest that maybe the polytheistic Sumerians (or perhaps their immediate predecessors) corrupted earlier names and terms from an entirely different Noahic theological tradition. It would have been easier than trying to use divinity names that people found foreign.

Abyss
u, the –
The original massive water sphere from which all other elements and compounds were formed through gravity compaction-induced nucleosynthesis on creation days 1 and 2. The etymology of the English word
abyss
traces back through the Greek word
abusso
to the Sumero-Akkadian word
absu
. In Sumero-Akkadian myth, the
absu
was the subterranean fresh water abyss that housed their earth god, Enki. The Sumero-Akkadians personified the
absu
as the consort of the ocean-water abyss monster-goddess
Tiamat
.

aerodrone –
A fixed-wing aircraft that functions by the same aerodynamic principles as modern airplanes.

amphiptere –
A non-crested winged dragon that fed on carrion. Fossil remains of this creature today are called
Dimorphodon
.

Archonic Orthodox
– Those sons of Seti that remained faithful to the Archons after Balimar, and then the sons of Khavilakki broke away to follow the Watcher-influenced “Ardisu Glory” religious factions. (See chronology.)
Archronos –
The unique title of the divinely created first man and archon. Later corrupted to Chronos, an early Greek god (father of Zeus) who devoured his children, and had to be overthrown, with the titans, by Zeus.

Assuri
and
Assurim –
The pre-Flood Assyria mentioned in Genesis 2, and its people. The similarity with the post-Flood Assyria is only in name.

astra
– A faster, more advanced aerodrone with turbine impeller engines.

At’Lahazh
– Prominent titan in Aztlan—remembered in Greek myth as Atlas, King of Atlantis.

Atum-Ra –
The biblical Adam, which devolved much later into an early version of the Egyptian creator/sun god Ra, who was the eldest of the gods, and ruled during the idyllic “First Time” of Egyptian myth. Though connecting Adam with Atum-Ra is a fictional device, the ancient god-kings of pagan myth have too many commonalties to be coincidental, and may be faded deified memories of our much longer-lived early fathers.

Basilisk, the
–
Oldest and chief of the heavenly rebels of the First Insurrection. The Serpent of Eden.

behemoth –
The superlative form of
behema
– the biggest and most magnificent of all grazing animals. The description of this creature in Job 40:15-24 resembles most a sauropod dinosaur. (Hippos, elephants, and all other large modern herbivores do not have large “cedar-like” tails but little dinky things—see the Bible passage.)
cockatrice –
A chameleon pack-hunting
wurm
, the fossils of which are today classified in the
Velociraptor
,
Utahraptor
, and
Deinonychus
family—used synonymously with the words
basilisk
and
wurm
if referring to the animals.

Comforter from A’Nu, the –
A semi-messianic prophetic figure predicted to arise among the Seer Clan that would comfort the faithful concerning the depredations of the Curse, and preserve them through World-end. We find a suggestion of something like this in Genesis 5:28-29, where the biblical Lamech of Seth’s line prophesies over his son Noah.

Comfort Fields
– An afterlife place of waiting for the righteous dead, similar to the Hebrew
Abraham’s Bosom
or the Greek
Elysian Fields
; also called the
Fields of Heh’Bul
(Abel)
in the story.

Cosmic Dynasty Stele –
The account of creation given by E’Yahavah
in written form to the first created man and woman, a version of which survives today as a redaction by Moses in Genesis 1 and part of chapter 2.

creation codes –
What are today called
genetic codes
on DNA.

Divine Name –
Describes the proper name of the Creator God.

Divine Wind –
A spiritual persona of the Creator God
that uses natural phenomena to reveal the Divine presence, and which breathes life into prophecy. Called El-N’Lil, or God-as-Air, later revisionism distorted this name into the Sumerian storm god Enlil. In this story, it is an early and incomplete understanding of what Christians would later call the Holy Spirit.

Dragon Breaker, the –
The constellation today called
Perseus
.

Dragon, the –
The constellation
Draco
. A synonym for the Basilisk,
Dragon-Prince
, and
Leviathan
as personal spiritual agents of evil.

Dragon-prince –
In Setiim theology, one of the chief vassals of the Basilisk. Because early man would have, at first, had a serious struggle for survival against large and pack-hunting
wurms
, their mythology and theology came to use this form of dragon as one of its chief archetypes for evil, along with the serpent—which could grow to enormous sizes before the Flood.

El-N’Lil –
See
Divine Wind
.

Eluhar –
The
high majestic
plural (a fictional extinct language form) used with a singular verb to describe the Creator God generically, usually as a judge. Linguistically related to the later Hebrew
elohim
(which also uses a singular verb form), which is the generic term for
God
.

Elyo
– A depiction of creatures named briefly in the Book of Jubilees as “Eljo” and associated with the giants and other bizarre offspring of the sons of God and the daughters of men. My version of them is fictional, although the use of the phrase
el
indicates a linguistic relationship to the Hebrew root for god or judge. I have rendered the term as a contraction that means
Agents of Judgment
, though this may not be how the name developed. The
Elyo
Typhunu is meant to be a form of the mythical Greek monster Typhon.

E’Yahavah –
The proper name of the Creator God (in the story), which was lost, but restored in history as the Tetragrammaton
YHWH
during the Mosaic revelation of God to the Hebrews. In this novel series, E’Yahavah has three aspects: E’Yahavah A’Nu—the vast “God of the Heavens and Eternity,” E’Yahavah El-N’lil—the “Divine Wind” of prophecy who uses natural forces to express himself, and “The Messenger of E’Yahavah” or “Word-speaker” who comes in a human form to interact with men when he sees fit. Together they preside over a council of created “lesser gods” who are not actual deities, but correspond to high-level angels sometimes used to execute judgment. A’Nu-Ahki’s clan and Seti in general do not view this council in a polytheistic sense, nor in a henotheistic one where a lesser god could actually unseat E’Yahavah’s preeminence. (That was a later Sumerian corruption.) Evidence in the Old Testament (Psalm 82, Job 1-2, for example) demonstrates that the early Hebrews had a “divine council” concept in their theology that did not violate the Creator’s unique Deity as a monotheistic God, nor the Trinitarian revelation of Christianity.

Fire River, the –
The stream of stars today called
Eridanus
. It is associated with the Greek mythical figure Phaethon, who tried to drive Apollo’s sun chariot, and was burned.

Fire-sphinx, the –
The bearer of the flaming sword that guards the east gate of Aeden. See Genesis 3:24.

First Heaven, the
, and the
Ten Heavens –
The ancient Hebrews believed there were many heavens, 10 by some accounts, 7 in others. The First Heaven held the stars and planets (the atmospheric sky is just the “face of the First Heaven” in this view). The other 9 heavens were inhabited by various angelic majesties on up to the “heaven of heavens” where God alone dwelt. This view, though not taught directly in Scripture, is reflected in ancient Hebrew literature such as the Enoch manuscripts, originally believed to be written circa 200 to 150 BC. An allusion to the 3
rd
Heaven is made in one of the New Testament Corinthian letters, and the view of 10 heavens was part of Jewish tradition well into the Middle Ages. In certain parts of the story, like the advanced physics of Q’Enukki, the 10 heavens can be compared to the modern theory of 10 dimensions. Though this association is interesting, it should not be taken too seriously. More study in both physics and ancient manuscripts must be done by qualified people.

First Insurrection, the
– The original heavenly rebellion of Shining One, who became the Basilisk at the dawn of creation. This is distinct from, but later produced the Second Insurrection
of 200 “Watchers,” who left their heavenly estate to, in some sense, take human wives in hope of producing sons. The distinction between the two heavenly insurrections is based on apocryphal documents like the Enoch books, and from possible inferences drawn from the Epistles of Jude, and 2 Peter, that the angels who sinned with women in the pre-Flood world were specially imprisoned. The reader should not conclude that the Bible teaches that there were two angelic revolts and make that a basis for any theological doctrine. I have treated some apocryphal literature as semi-historical, the way a historical fiction novelist might treat any relevant historic document. Since the Bible does not give us an exact chronology of angelic rebellion in relation to pre-Flood history, I took some
literary
liberty in how I sequenced such events in these novels.

First Time, the –
Iyared’s reference (in Book 1) to the age between creation and the coming World-end. Many ancient civilizations saw the history of Earth as having previous ages that each ended in a world-destroying cataclysm. The Egyptians looked back to the
zep tepi
or “First Time” as the idyllic age in which their gods ruled. Another version referred to the gods as having come from
Etelante
, which has interesting etymological relationship to the Greek
Atlantis
. The elaborate Egyptian funeral rites were designed to guide the dying pharaoh along the river of Under-world to the stars as they were aligned in this mythic First Time. This is but a dim memory of the paradise lost before the cataclysm.

Gihunu –
The biblical pre-Flood river Gihon of Genesis 2.

glakka
– An extinct giant conifer tree with a sap that was (in the story) distilled into various grades of oil and fuel spirits.

gryndel –
The largest of the carnivorous wurm-kin, fossils of which are today called
Tyrannosaurus Rex
or by the name of other large therapod dinosaurs like
Allosaurus
in other locations.