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    Anomalies A Z

    Being a Brief Compendium of Monsters and Monstrosities, Strange Beasts, and Frightening Individuals

    Compiled from the Lore of Scripture.

    Thatjeffcarter Was Here, 2013

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    ContentsAsmodeus ...................................................................................................................................................... 4

    Azazel ............................................................................................................................................................ 5

    Behemoth ..................................................................................................................................................... 6

    Beelzebub ...................................................................................................................................................... 7

    Chemosh ....................................................................................................................................................... 8

    Cockatrice ..................................................................................................................................................... 9

    Dagon .......................................................................................................................................................... 10

    Dybbuk ........................................................................................................................................................ 11

    Eagle ............................................................................................................................................................ 12

    Emim ........................................................................................................................................................... 13

    The First Born of Death ............................................................................................................................... 14

    Frogs ............................................................................................................................................................ 15

    The God of Fortresses ................................................................................................................................. 16

    Gogmagog! .................................................................................................................................................. 17

    Helel ben Shahar ......................................................................................................................................... 18

    Hermas ........................................................................................................................................................ 19

    Ibis ............................................................................................................................................................... 20

    Irin ............................................................................................................................................................... 21

    Jackals ......................................................................................................................................................... 22

    Jeremiel ....................................................................................................................................................... 23

    Kokabiel ....................................................................................................................................................... 24

    King of Terrors ............................................................................................................................................. 25

    Leviathan ..................................................................................................................................................... 26

    Little Horn ................................................................................................................................................... 27

    Mammon ..................................................................................................................................................... 28

    Molech ........................................................................................................................................................ 29

    Nephilim ...................................................................................................................................................... 30

    Nimrod ........................................................................................................................................................ 31

    Og ................................................................................................................................................................ 32

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    Orion ........................................................................................................................................................... 33

    Phoenix ....................................................................................................................................................... 34

    Pythonic Spirit ............................................................................................................................................. 35

    Qeteb .......................................................................................................................................................... 36

    Raphael ....................................................................................................................................................... 37

    Raven .......................................................................................................................................................... 38

    Salamander ................................................................................................................................................. 39

    Seraphim ..................................................................................................................................................... 40

    Tiamats 11 Monster Army ......................................................................................................................... 41

    Thunder ....................................................................................................................................................... 43

    Unicorn ........................................................................................................................................................ 44

    Uriel ............................................................................................................................................................. 45

    Vanities ....................................................................................................................................................... 46

    Viper ............................................................................................................................................................ 47

    Wizard ......................................................................................................................................................... 48

    World Rulers ............................................................................................................................................... 49

    Xanthicus ..................................................................................................................................................... 50

    Xerxes .......................................................................................................................................................... 51

    Yahoel ......................................................................................................................................................... 52

    Yam ............................................................................................................................................................. 53

    Zeeb............................................................................................................................................................. 54

    Ziz ................................................................................................................................................................ 55

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    Asmodeus

    On February 18, 1865 two months almost to the day before his untimely death, President Abraham

    Lincoln received a strange letter warning him of his imminent assassination and, in a post-script, sharing

    a lewd and completely inappropriate joke about farmers daughters in Kentucky. The letter was signed

    Asmodeus, King of Hell, and Commander of the Infernal Legions.

    He is the King of Demons, the demon of wrath, the demon of anger, the destroyer of worlds, Ashmedai,

    Asmode, Sidonay, Asmodevs, the demonic offspring of a succubus and King David, Commander of the

    72 Legions of Hell. He is the King of Hell, answering only to Lucifer himself. If he appears to you he will

    come three times. First he will appear as a handsome man walking with limp. In his second guise he

    comes with the head of a bull. When he appears the third and final time he will have the head of a

    furious ram breathing fire. He carries with him at all times a lance and the banner of hell.

    The letter was deemed a perverse joke and, along with numerous other discarded scraps of paper, was

    burned in one of the White House fireplaces. The room immediately filled with a rancid, oily smoke.

    Contemporary reports say that it smelled of rotted fish and camphor. The entire building had to be

    evacuated and three servants were overcome by the smoke. They died within the next several hours.

    Fish oil can be extracted from the livers of fish by rapidly heating them to over 400 degrees. Or, in a

    slower, but more complete method, by preserving the livers until they have fermented and allowing the

    oils to separate naturally. When the oil is poured over a hot brazier, it will produce the same thick cloud

    of foul smelling smoke that filled the White House that February afternoon. This is the only way to ward

    off the demon Asmodeus.

    Apocryphal Tobit burned fish livers and hearts to drive away Asmodeus, the worst of demons. He fled to

    Egypt where, for a time, he was bound by the angel, Raphael. This is how Tobit survived in the face of

    Asmodeus assaults. President Lincoln, however, was not so fortunate.

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    Azazel

    The air of the desert is hot and dry, full of grit and sand. It gets into your nose, your teeth, your eyes.

    Even now, as the sun is melting into the horizon, the desert winds bring dry heat into the camp. Other

    than the scarlet glow that illuminates the smoke drifting up from Mount Sinai, the desert is dark. It is

    dark, but it is not silent.

    Out in the darkness there are wild beasts. Owls, ravens and vultures, hyenas, wildcats, snakes and

    jackals make the desert a dangerous place to wander. But there is something more. Even with the

    animals that roam its sands, the desert is a dead place. That is why no one will pitch their tents there.

    The desert is a dead place the haunt of demons

    It is the home of Azazel, who watches over the fallen watchers. Azazel, who corrupted the earth and

    taught men to make swords and knifes, who showed women how to ornament their bodies with jewelry

    and mascara. Azazel, who was bound in chains by Raphael and dragged down from heaven. There in

    the dark of the desert he is chained to the rough and jagged rocks of a precipitous cliff, howling in

    desperate pain.

    This is disgrace; this is Azazel,

    and this is shame,

    for Abrahams portion is in heaven

    and yours is upon the earth.

    Therefore, the Mighty One,

    Eternal Ruler of Time and Space,

    has given you your dwelling upon the earth

    though you are a liar

    and a bringer of wrath.

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    Behemoth

    Behold now, the Behemoth I have made.

    Behold now, the Behemoth and the strength of his loins

    his penis stiffens like a cedar, the sinews around his stones are knit together,

    his limbs are like copper, his bones are like iron.

    The primordial beast of the land,

    brother to Leviathan of the sea and Ziz of the air,

    he is first among the wild beasts and of the creatures that move along the ground.

    The river may rage and the waters wild

    but Behemoth sleeps in the shade of the Lotus tree;

    he is not disturbed by your cries,

    by your shouts of distress.

    Behold now, the Behemoth I have made,

    biggest born of the earth in its upheavals

    born of the ground in all its shaking,

    first of the Masters making

    but against him only the Maker may draw his sword.

    You, who sit in dust and ash,

    upon a tower of dung,

    are you a man? Prepare yourself;

    look upon the Behemoth and tremble.

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    Beelzebub

    Let us consult the Presiding Chaplain

    of the Royal Order of Diptera,

    that chthonic spirit,

    that porcine head impaled upon a stick;though he sits in ruined majesty

    he can still draw an audience

    for a time.

    Let us ask of him: will I live or die?

    O Lord of Flies, speak to me.

    I open my mouth

    and breathe through my nose

    to receive this breeding of pestilence.

    Let him speak though he spreads lies.

    Let him speak in whispers and fizzles.

    Let him speak, this buildup of filth,

    buzzing as I die.

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    Chemosh

    On a hill east of Jerusalem

    the morning sun rising like a flare

    over King Solomons other shrine,

    the high place of Chemosh the obscene.

    A drinker of blood

    A devourer of sons

    Built for the convenience

    of his many porcupines

    though, this may merely be

    a Deuteronomistic slander

    against the despised despot.

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    Cockatrice

    Cockatrice cannot change,

    and cockatrice doesnt care,

    doesnt care who lives and who dies.

    Cockatrice once or cockatrice twice,before the night is out you will deny him thrice,

    before the caterwauling terrorist of dawn

    screams off his bloody head.

    Cockatrice will drink that poisonous cup of wrath

    and will spit in your eye just to spite you.

    From toad-nursed egg and from spiders web

    Cockatrice will rise

    and he will not be charmed.

    He is the winged serpent in the garden,

    striking your heel, blinding your eyes,

    and turning you and your heart into stone.

    Cockatrice cannot change,

    has no sympathy and doesnt care.

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    Dagon

    Dagon pale like fish bellied grain

    waist upward manshaped and bearded,

    downward all gills and scales and fins,

    shimmering oily moon in gloomy seasand thunder on the levee.

    The dais is cracked,

    the idol fallen.

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    Dybbuk

    Lingering, clinging, he will not release,

    this dead soul not yet departed.

    He will not leave;

    something holds him, binds himtraps him here,

    incarcerated in this unwilling flesh,

    involuntary host of unfulfilled desires

    and unrequited love.

    Voices raised, muscles wrenched,

    dislocated in space and time

    cleaved from the outside

    caved in from within.

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    Eagle

    These are revelations untraveled,

    reparations unrivaled,

    tessellations unraveled,

    Woe, for the Eagle has spoken

    terror in midair,

    and a second time woe.

    And now the third Eagle has spoken

    conspiracies from the co-prophet

    who finds numerological connections

    between Korean pop-stars

    and the spotted pelt of the Obama leopard.

    The rosary of Mary will protect us

    from the coming of the Antichrist;

    the rosary of Mary will protect us

    from phallic airport murals.

    666 is always followed by 555;

    doom and gloom proceeds from a Casio keyboard.

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    Emim

    The earliest inhabitants of the country were the Emim, a great race of warriors, so tall in stature that

    they might have come of Enacs family; and indeed men held them to be giants of Enacs breed, but the

    Moabite name for them is Emim. Deuteronomy 2: 10-11

    We craned our necks far back, our chins into the air

    to see them there, the Emim, giants,

    warriors tall in stature,

    great in size.

    Dark wine dripped down from their faces

    as they drank from barrel sized bowls;

    we stood beneath that wretched flood

    huddled, drenched below.

    These dreaded ones,

    these buzzing zamzummim,

    who dwell in iron age castles

    and disappear in a cloud of disowning,

    they, they are the ones responsible

    for sixteen thousand pigs

    floating dead upon the river;

    they, they are the ones to blame

    for fear of fire and of sun.

    Go back. Go back

    to whence you came;go back beneath the shadows,

    to the netherworld.

    The Emim are not wanted here.

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    The First Born of Death

    The man sits alone upon the midden heap

    blastomycosis, and leprosy

    scraping at sores, pinching pustules

    until they burst pale clouded fluids.myiasis, and anaplasmosis

    The shadow thrown by the dancing flames

    of his cookfire flickers on the wall,

    stalking, looming over him.

    This is disease, the First Born of Death,

    necrotizing fasciitis, ebola

    eating his skin, devouring his flesh,

    anthropophagous, consuming limbs

    and wasting strength.

    scabies, and rotavirus

    Deaths primal face,

    deaths first form.

    molluscum contagiosum

    Stand aghast at the sight

    of deaths ever hungry mouth.

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    Frogs

    Then, in my vision, three unclean spirits appeared in the form of frogs; one from the mouth of the

    dragon, one from the mouth of the beast, and one from the mouth of his false prophet. Revelation 16:13

    The first, dripping from the mouth of the dragon,was red, bright and sweet, like berries on my tongue

    but obnoxious in the light and noxious to the touch.

    Brekekekex koax koax

    The second, blue and cold like February rain, like ennui

    came falling from the unexpected sky

    raining poison skinned spirit frogs.

    Brekekekex koax koax

    And when the prophet speaks (lies, all lies)

    in golden sonorous tones like morning bells

    we hardly notice the amphibian in his mouth.

    Brekekekex koax koax

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    The God of Fortresses

    Of the King who did according to his will and magnified himself above every petty god and honored the

    God of Fortresses with much gold and silver, and who regardeth not the gaze and desire of women

    A mighty fortress on pagan sandsphysical forces holding spiritual and temporal sway

    wielding the sword of power

    flashing this way and that.

    He shall do just as he will.

    He will speak barbarisms and blasphemies.

    He will wear the skulls of his enemies.

    He will reawaken occulted mysteries long forgotten by his fathers.

    His militant priests and clerical guardsmen

    will march across the globe

    on ley line energies,

    and they shall wear upon their breasts

    the emblem of their master.

    And this is his device:

    a stone tower on bend sinister.

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    Gogmagog!

    Gogmagog! is at work in the middle-east. President George W. Bush

    How many stories could be told about Gogmagog!, that fearsome giant of forgotten days, how many

    tales of wonder and of woe? How many fortified cities has he leveled? How many castles has he pulleddown? How many nations has he plundered? How many nations has he pillaged? He towers over all the

    ancient terrors, standing over them as a tree stands over a man. He pulls up oak trees as you or I might

    pull up daisies. He is Gogmagog!

    Gogmagog!, who was struck by lightning on five different occasions. Gogmagog!, who was sealed within

    a cave for 30 days. Gogmagog!, who fought the Wyrm beneath Albion. Gogmagog!, who wrestled Hell-

    Hounds at Crooked Creek. Gogmagog!

    And now he is on the move. Gogmagog! is on the march. Awakened from his slumber he now lumbers

    eastward, towards the plains of Shinar, where he will battle once more. The ground shakes beneath his

    feet. His stride is unyielding, his pace unrelenting. He will not rest. He will not sleep now that he has

    been roused to anger. He will have battle once more. He will take on all foes, oppose all armies. He will

    tear down walls and towers. He will smash tanks and chariots. He will sweep aircraft from the sky and

    sink battleships in the sea. None can stop him, he is Gogmagog!.

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    Helel ben Shahar

    How you have fallen, fallen to the

    Earth, to the dust,

    laid out and sprawling across the nations;

    everyone sees your disgrace andlaughs at your shame.

    But you said, I will ascend,

    even to that highest throne,

    Now you are low.

    Scion of Dawn, Day Star,

    Heavens brightest son,

    accursed and darkened now,

    helpless on your back

    and fed upon by maggots and worms.

    Remember this, you who would presume to glory.

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    Hermas

    Hermas, the dreamer, the visionary freedman, has seen him the shepherd again. Hallucinations. No.

    Not hallucinations, but dreams. This is his sixth vision.

    But he couldnt be sure what was happening.

    In the first vision there was desire. In the second, a book. In the third he saw a great tower trembling in

    the shadow of a giant. In the fourth, he saw the world collapse and the sky grow dark. But in the fifth

    he saw him the shepherd, the revelator. That seemed to be the end of the visions. But now he was

    seeing things again.

    First it was thousands of dead pigs floating in the rivers of China. Now its tens of thousands of prawns

    washing up on the beaches of Chile. Theyve overheated, he said to no one in particular, but he had

    no idea what it meant.

    I, myself, have seen the giant camels of the arctic, he thought, majestic creatures, really. Larger than

    the ordinary camels we see today, taller, broader. But they were in no danger of overheating. Not

    them. They were perfectly adapted to their cold environment.

    There was something inside him: an idea that needed to be explored, an hypothesis that needed to be

    tested. The burning on his hands and feet was the result of an intense electrical discharge. Could these

    things all be related?

    He could not answer that question and he began to weep.

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    Ibis

    Who gives the ibis wisdom?

    or gives the rooster understanding?Job 38:36

    In the spring, when the moon is changing,the winged serpents of Arabia rise in flight,

    a knot of venomous snakes and spines,

    but the Ibis,

    sacred bird of the Egyptian moon,

    refuses to let them pass

    and for this he is venerated there.

    In the summer, when the moon is fat,

    the Ibis stalks the marshlands

    measuring the earth

    in one cubit strides,

    as a scientist, a lonely mathematician,

    a practitioner of lunar magic.

    In the winter, when the moon is obscured

    by clouds swollen with rain,

    he is the physician,

    the face that hears.

    The sound of his song

    creates the four frog ponds.

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    Irin

    In the vision that came into my mind as I was lying in bed, I saw a holy watcher come down from

    heaven. Daniel 4: 13

    The eyes of the Irinare the eyes of God

    and the eyes of God

    are loose upon the earth.

    A thousand glimmering eyes

    Ten thousand eyes in the night

    The eyes of the Irin are watching.

    Observe

    The eyes ofAdonaiare ranging about the earth;

    each of them is named and their names are known

    but you must never say their names

    especially at night when their powers are reinforced,

    even in the course of study you must not speak their names.

    Observe

    What has been written will come to pass

    and what will come to pass will be observed

    coming down from heaven in tracks of fire

    When a five legged lamb is born on the White House lawnit will be observed.

    When Grigori moves between this world and the next

    he will be observed.

    When transgenic species rise upon the earth

    they will be observed.

    Observe

    Be vigilant. Never surrender

    you must give yourself to the cause

    and to the victory of history.

    Observe

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    Jackals

    I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of owls. Job 30: 29

    He yelped up the moon using the ancient calls known only by his tribe. This was his privilege and his

    duty though why the regular calling up of the moon should have been entrusted by the First Father tosuch a tribe of tricksters and malcontents as the Jackals was never understood by the other tribes. Why

    had the duty not been entrusted to ones such as the Owls? Or to the Elephants, who were both solemn

    and sage? Or even to the Lions who were kings and princes over most everything else in the First

    Fathers creation?

    But the First Father, in his wisdom, had given that sacred duty to the Jackals. And he gave to them, and

    them alone, the magic calls necessary to bring up the moon. And, for the most part, they had not failed

    the First Father; they had kept the sacred trust.

    His name was Tann, though sometimes he was called Ochim because he was one of the doleful

    creatures. But few would dare use that name in his presence.

    When hed howled the moon up over the horizon and sent her safely on her journey across the sky,

    Tann set out himself, to prowl and to hunt. His strong legs carried him quickly over the sand and rocks.

    The calloused pads of his feet kept his motion silent, stealthy. He could read the scents in the cool

    nighttime breeze. One of the Ibex had come past hours before. A few Hares were nearby but not worth

    the effort to chase. Not when there was yes he sniffed again blood. Something wounded.

    Something already dying. Tann barked once in excitement before letting it trail off into a muted whine.

    He did not want to draw others to his kill. He ran now, following the odor of blood.

    For the most part Tann and his fellow tribe members had kept their sacred trust and had called up the

    moon for her nightly course across the sky with the necessary regularity and precision. But the Jackals

    are tricksters and devious too, so there had been a number of occasions when theyd used theincantations and songs given to them by the First Father in order to manipulate the moon as she

    travelled. On a few occasions they had sent her off course, giving her a song filled with bad directions.

    The Jackals would do this in order prolong the night and to give themselves more time at the hunt. But

    they knew that the other tribes would complain to the First Father if they were caught misusing the

    secret moon songs, so they did this infrequently and only when they were convinced they would not be

    noticed.

    But as Tann cut his way across the rocky plain he wasnt thinking about the moon or her nightly trek

    across the sky. It would be hours before he would think of her again. As he ran he had only one

    thought: meat. He would soon be eating meat, meat and blood. The carrion was close. And fresh.

    It was an Antelope, a young one that had fallen off a rocky ledge and snapped its neck. Tann snapped

    his jaws the few of the Vulture tribe that were already encroaching on his dinner. They squawked

    angrily at him, but flapped away, fearful of his teeth. He pushed his snout into the carcass and began

    tearing out hunks of flesh.

    Later, after hed eaten his fill, Tann loped back towards his cave, satisfied and filled. He would sing

    another song for the moon to guide her towards morning.

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    Jeremiel

    Did not the souls of the righteous in their chambers ask about these matters, saying, `How long are we to

    remain here? And when will come the harvest of our reward?And Jeremiel the archangel answered

    them

    Q: How long are we to remain here?

    A: There is nowhere for you to remain. The Earth is gone from you and we are already on our way.

    From earth to heavens, from the dust of the earth to the crystal sea before the throne, we proceed.

    Q: But where are we going?

    A: To your reward, to the place that has been prepared for you since the timelessness before time, the

    eternal city, the endless vista of hope; we go to the presence of the One.

    Q: Will the trip take long?

    A: Time is irrelevant. There is only the now, for the One is with us even now. Yet you will see him soon.

    Q: But how long will it take?

    A: I have already answered that question. For now, enjoy the visions that are being shown to you. The

    waters of the heavens have been parted especially for your passage; dark waters are on the left and

    bright waters on the right. Do you not see them? Are they not glorious?

    Q: I need to use the bathroom. Can we stop?

    A: The dead have no need of such facilities. We will continue through the heavenly ether. The hosts of

    heaven have assembled to light your way. See how they shine for you?

    Q: Aaron is on my side of the seat

    A: There is room enough for all and no need to squabble.

    Q: Hes touching me

    Q: No, Im not.

    Q: Yes, he is. He is.

    Q: No, Im not. Hes touching me

    A: Stop it, both of you.

    Q: I need to go to the bathroom. How soon till we can stop?A: You should have gone before we left.

    Q: How much further?

    A:

    Q: Are we there yet?

    A: (sigh)

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    Kokabiel

    The stars, I think, have moved into their proper positions, but it is so hard to tell anymore. Once I could

    read the skies unclouded. I could follow the movements of the stars with ease, plot their courses

    through the houses of the zodiac and anticipate their alignments with wandering planets. I could read

    the signs. Once I could interpret and I could understand.

    I remember watching the Magician as he made his way through the Water Carrier with his blue methane

    clouds meandering past Sadal MelekandAl Bali- the Lucky Star of the King and The Swallower. I

    described these rare celestial maneuvers to my brothers and they watched with me until the Ancient

    One, Saturn, chased the Magician out of Aquarius. I taught the host of heaven what these motions

    meant, taught them to read the signs as I did.

    I was a scholar then, and not a charlatan. Astrological wisdom requires a knowledge of languages for

    the study of ancient texts as well as considerable mathematical skill. I could, without the aid of

    telescope or other delicate instruments, observe the motion of the stars and calculate the vectors of

    the planets. But Im regarded as a joke now, and my art, my science, is trivialized in commercial

    publications for the uneducated looking for their horoscopes and their fortunes.

    Once I could do these things, but it is difficult for me now. I cannot see the stars clearly from this side of

    heaven, from beneath the clouds. I have fallen low. I see them, but not clearly. I can plot their motions,

    but my calculations are not as accurate any more. I believe that the stars have come into the necessary

    alignment but I cannot be sure. I will wait until morning. Perhaps with the rising of the Morning Star

    there may yet be some hope.

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    King of Terrors

    We gaze and gaze but the abyss is blind,

    turn in terror at the snap of twigs.

    Death is nothing but everything at the end,

    bitter anguish and bleak descentinto the mouth of the grave,

    the snare, the bite, the sting.

    We are torn from security

    (such as it is)

    of this fleshy tent

    and marched off to face

    the King of Terrors.

    We are all gods ,

    so the psalmist says and Jesus confirms,

    we are all gods, and the sons of God,

    but we will die just the same

    we will die and fall like any prince of the realm.

    This is a certainty, the only certainty.

    He crushes and devours our bones

    there will be nothing left.

    And in this, even the old superstitions fail us,

    all our ancient ghosts rising through

    the damp veil of pale milk white fog,

    the heralds have called his name,

    the fanfare and flourish have been played;

    receive the king of terrors,this guest will not be turned away.

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    Leviathan

    Look! Look now!

    See the Leviathan that I have made!

    Look at my Leviathan!It is a mercy that he has not been made a plague for mankind.

    From the waters of the west,

    comes the first of the Lords Sea Monsters

    springing from the deep, Leviathan coiled,

    Leviathan the twisted and twisting,

    brother to Behemoth of the land and Ziz of the air.

    Who could strip him of his skin, even to make a sukkah of his skin

    Who could penetrate the cavern of his maw

    and who could return from those slashing teeth.

    The smoke of his nostrils

    the flame of his mouth

    this is his terror;

    he is terror, for who could resist him?

    Thrusting spears and slashing swords

    have no effect against Leviathan.

    Look at him and tremble.

    And yet, he will be spread open,

    his flesh given out to feed the people.Him that fed upon the righteous

    will, one day, feed the righteous.

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    Little Horn

    After the lions wings have been removed,

    and the bear has eaten his fill of flesh,

    after the leopard has been given authority to rule

    comes the beast with iron teethand ten horns.

    And then another horn, a little horn

    uprooting the horns before it,

    Out of the ruins of ancient Rome

    out of the boiling seas of humanity

    comes the corniculum of destiny.

    Charlemagne tried and failed;

    Napoleon dreamt of things beyond his reach,

    Il Duce, Nixon, Putin,

    pretenders all,

    but now comes the one

    who will make war against the saints

    with climate based weaponry

    and electromagnetic radiation,

    with genetic bombs

    and Toynbees rejection of national sovereignty.

    From chaos and keratin will emerge the New World Order

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    Mammon

    No one can serve two masters. He will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and

    despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. Matthew 6:24

    A Collect

    O Mammon, thou who has always sought for immeasurably more, give us, your starving children, a

    portion of the treasure that we have wrested from the breast of the earth that we might buy bread for

    our children, lest they die; through the Golden Calf who is your son and who came out of the fire for

    thee; and by your Spirit of Desire, shes the dollars and shes the protection, one God forever and ever.

    Amen.

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    Molech

    Mechanical Molech, the horrid king,

    with arms outstretched, besmeared with blood

    of human sacrifice, the blood of children,

    will not be satiated.

    Gears and teeth grind

    as the faithfully devoted

    send their young into the fire.

    The M-Machine, marching into war,

    with tanks and treads and magazines,

    oiled, fueled, and armored for the fight.

    They are not men, but soldiers,

    and he eats them whole.

    Soldiers! Soldiers!

    but his appetite is never satisfied.

    So go on, feed your sons,

    your daughters, too

    into the flames of Molech.

    His militant priests are already

    beating the drums again.

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    Nephilim

    There was murder in this house.

    Now theres blood on the walls

    and blood on the floorsblood stains the carpet,

    and is spattered on the windows and doors.

    There was murder in this house,

    the house of the fallen.

    The axe, the hammer, the knife

    the saw, the rope, the cudgel

    When the sons of God

    (dark stars from dark skies)

    took for themselves the comely daughters of men

    as wife and concubines

    Their ill-begotten offspring

    are the giants of violence and lawlessness

    remembered in myth and in legend

    They are the corruption of man,

    abnormal progeny, super-human prodigies

    The axe, the hammer, the knife

    the saw, the rope, the cudgel

    There was murder in this house.

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    NimrodNimrodhe was the first on earth to be a mighty warrior. He was a mighty hunter before Yahweh.

    Nimrods Trophy List

    1.

    Latifi Viper2. Egyptian Vulture3. Pakistani Sand Cat4. Dhole5. Cobra6. Arabian Oryx7. Zebra8. Iranian Crocodile9. Water Buffalo10.Himalayan Musk Deer11.Bahamut Fish12.Qarin13.Bat Eared Fox14.Aardvark15.Gerenuk16.Phoenix17.Dugong18.Pangolin19.Finless Porpoise20.Central Kashmir Vole King

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    Og

    It isnt discussed very often; preachers dont like to talk about it, for obvious reasons, but the flood,

    Noahs Flood(though that is an altogether inaccurate title) wasnt entirely successful. The plan was that

    the deluge would kill every living thing on the face of the earth with the exception of Noah and his

    family. But there was one other unexpected survivor: King Og.

    Gigantic King Og watched with bemused indifference as Noah and his boys built their toy boat and he

    laughed as they herded the various animals below deck. But he stopped laughing when they pulled the

    doors shut. And when the rain started to fall, King Og began growling and snarling.

    He was tall, enormous really. So when the waters began to rise, he wasnt immediately concerned. He

    was still standing in front of the ark starring up at the skies when the waters were ankle deep (which

    was waist deep for everyone else.) When the waters reached his knees (and the rest of humanity was

    either treading water or running for the hills) King Og began to pound on the sides of the ark.

    He watched as mothers struggled to hold their infant children above the rising waters. He watched as

    desperate men attacked the ark with pikes and swords attempting to get on board. Their blows were

    turned away by the pitch covered wood; their attack was futile and came too late. They too were

    drowned by the flood waters.

    The rain continued to fall; the waters continued to rise, and soon the rising waters lifted the ark. As it

    began to float away, brave King Og grabbed the stern with his enormous hands and, hand over hand, he

    climbed aboard, squeezing the boat between his thighs to stay in place. The vessel rocked with his

    added weight, but it was a stable craft, well designed to ride out the swelling waves. There, atop the ark

    he rode through the angry fury of the storm. He howled with the winds. He shook his fist at the sky and

    he cursed the lightning. The ark was rolled and tossed about on the waves, but Og kept his grip.

    Day after day he clung to Noahs ark (though it was difficult to determine days and nights because of theimpenetrable cover of storm clouds that covered the sky). Once, after what must have been weeks,

    when King Og was very hungry, he punched a hole in the roof of the vessel and grabbed an ox. He ate it

    raw and bloody and bellowing as he clung to the boat with his other hand. When he reached in again

    for more, Noah and his family beat at his fingers with rods and clubs and he almost lost his balance.

    When the rains finally stopped and the waters began to recede, King Og, exhausted from the ordeal,

    slipped from atop the ark and floated on the waters himself. It wasnt long, however, before he felt the

    bump of solid land beneath him. Hed come to rest on a small island, what was once a mountain peak.

    He could see in the distance that Noahs floating zoo had also been grounded on one ofthe island peaks.

    Noah, observing the giant through his spy glass, watched King Og climbing carefully down the mountain

    side, but never saw him again after that.

    Many years later hundreds of years laterwhen he was very old and very tired, when hed reached

    the point in life when he spent most of his days asleep in his famous giant iron framed bed, King Og

    made one last valiant march to battle. He rode out with his generals and his assembled armies to meet

    the Israelites as they invaded his land, but that was a flood he would not survive.

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    Orion

    Canst thou loose the bands of Orion?Job 38:31

    Bound was the ancient hunter

    with cosmic bands of gravity,held between great galaxy clusters

    but now those fetters are breaking,

    and space is wearing thin;

    the bands are loosed, the prisoner is escaping,

    I have been monitoring changes

    in that most recognizable constellation,

    watching and recording his increasing motions.

    Did you know that the fires off the shoulder of Orion

    are already 7% hotter than at any time in the past 10,000 years?

    Or that when Betelgeux explodes (as it is primed to do)

    it will be visible on Earth, even during daylight hours?

    But thats not the worst of it. No. Not nearly.

    The stars are no longer fixed in space,

    do you know what this means?

    Orion, the giant, the primordial hunter

    is about to escape, and when he does

    he will be coming for us.

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    Phoenix

    Hail, thou Becoming One!

    Hail! Red-gold Bird of Dawn!

    He comes not often into this land;he comes but seldom,

    at the end of 500 years

    to build a nest

    upon the Altar of Paradise.

    With patience, molds an egg

    of myrrh and oil

    and drops within its shell

    a feather of his own.

    Then placing the incense

    upon the altar

    he is consumed by the flames;

    and the smoke of the incense

    mixed with the prayers of the saints

    ascends up before God.

    Hail, thou Becoming One,

    risen with healing in your wings!

    After three days, a wind

    that blows the ash and soot away

    to reveal a wormthat will grow

    and take on feathers

    and assume his former shape again.

    Thus to live forever

    with the Name

    that spoke his name

    at the Suns first dawning.

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    Pythonic Spirit

    And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain girl, having a pythonical spirit, met us, who brought

    to her masters much gain by divining. Acts 16: 16

    She inhales the rising fumes, noxious as they are, and swoons, falling softly onto the couch prepared forher. Her body convulses; violent spasms wrack her small frame and she is flung to the floor where she

    writhes like a gross parody of a snake. Suddenly the contortions are over and she is still.

    She speaks:

    The flight of birds, the whispering trees, another will come.

    Anxious generals should not sneer at windmills. Let the owls be your shields.

    Bagabi laca bachabe. Lamac cahi achababe. Karrelyos.

    To enter the multiplied thunders you must answer the hunger.

    The gibbet is not yet yours.

    Lamac lamec bachalyyas. Cabahagy sabalyos. Baryolas.

    Recite the numbers of pi to the thousandth decibel.

    The old man with the lantern and staff will bless the lovers.

    Lagoz atha cabyolas. Samahec et famyolas. Harrahya.

    And then she is silent. For a moment you fear that she might be dead, but you notice the slight

    movement of her chest as she breathes. Her controllers lift her gently to the couch and cover her with

    sheets before they speak:

    Now Good Sirs and Mesdames, we can interpret the oracles words for you, for a small fee

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    Qeteb

    You would do well to fear me

    for I am the stalking terror of the night

    and the swift arrow by day;

    I am death under the sun at noon,and the destruction that roams about in the dark.

    I am Qeteb,

    that which is cut off.

    I am gnawing famine to consume you,

    winged creatures with destructive fangs

    to pursue you;

    there is will be no escape.

    Poisonous serpents in the dust

    to strike at your heel

    fiery serpents to strike at your heart,

    havoc without

    and terror within.

    I am Qeteb.

    Oppenheimer only thought

    he was becoming me.

    I am the power of the grave.

    I am corruption, destruction,

    oblivion;who could ransom you from me?

    I am Qeteb.

    I am pounding hail.

    I am a whirlwind.

    I am a swift flood covering the plains.

    I am that line of despair

    that you should fear to cross.

    I am Qeteb.

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    Raphael

    DATE OF OPERATION: 04/20/2013

    SURGEON: Israfel A. Raphael M.D.

    PREOPERATIVE DIAGNOSIS: Protrusions of the os frontisOPERATIVE PROCEDURE: Exostectomy. Subchondral drilling of damaged articular surface.

    ANESTHESIA: Fiery Enflurane.

    ESTIMATED BLOOD LOSS: Less than 20 cc

    JUSTIFICATION FOR PROCEDURE: This is a 38-year-old male who presented to St. Clares Medical Clinic

    and was treated by Dr. Azucuna for painful bony proliferations, horn-like growths on his forehead.

    These growths were causing microstatic fluctuations and distinct magnetic disturbances around the

    patient. Dr. Azucuna determined that it would be necessary to remove them immediately. It was

    reviewed with the patient the likelihood for conservative treatment to be unable to completely resolve

    his problem. Surgery was reviewed. The patient was explained that there would be two small bone cuts,

    taking away the sharp bony proliferations and there would be an incision on the frontal aspects of his

    skull. It was also explained that there would be chance of psychic anxiety and a decrease of range of

    telekinetic motion for anywhere from 2-4 months status post procedure.

    PREOPERATIVE PROTOCOL: Dr. Raphael placed one large fish upon a charcoal brazier and intoned "I am

    Raphael, one of the seven angels who enter and serve before the Glory of the Lord." A bell was rung

    three times.

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    Raven

    This is a mystery, that:

    His fingers are of iron;

    his ears are elemental fire.

    His legs are cedars talland his eyes are pomegranates,

    but his mouth,

    his mouth is the raven,

    the raven dark and swift

    through the night

    through the wind

    over floods and deserts

    to bring a word, a message

    to bring deliverance from demons,

    iridescent with preternatural wisdom.

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    Salamander

    The following are unclean for you among the small creatures that swarm on the ground: the weasel, the

    mouse, the various kinds of lizards, the gecko, the land crocodile, the skink, the sand-lizard and the

    salamander. Leviticus 11: 29 -30

    With no digestive organs, he eats nothing but fire,

    from elemental fire he is born, to eternal fire he goes,

    but the fire can do nothing to him,

    even the flame of Gehenna has no power over him.

    Eating nothing but fire, he excretes nothing but fire,

    nourished on flames but never consumed.

    Though his skin is cool to the touch;

    mortal flesh is burned by the poisons he exudes.

    Prestor John, in his hidden kingdom,

    wore a robe a salamander skin

    to ward off the fiery darts of the enemy,

    for he was one of the wise.

    Capture and pierce the salamander,

    you who are wise,

    for his blood, smeared over the skin,

    will protect and preserve life from the fire.

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    Seraphim

    With wings of feathered fire

    the seraphim surround the throne

    to sing the sacred sibilants

    of the trisagion:Holy God, Holy Strong, Holy Immortal,

    the universe unveiled is full of his glory.

    Flying serpents of celestial flame,

    ophidians of the First Light,

    sing again, that refrain:

    Holy God, Holy Strong, Holy Immortal,

    the universe unveiled is full of his glory.

    From the source of light and heat

    from the plane of Atziluth,

    share the spirit and the power with us below.

    Holy God, Holy Strong, Holy Immortal,

    the universe unveiled is full of his glory.

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    Tiamats 11 Monster Army

    Angry Tiamat, robbed of her husband

    chaotic and unruly; she will not be restrained.

    She will have her vengeance.

    She calls forth an army of monstrosities,

    sharp of tooth and fierce of fang,

    with venom for blood and clothed as gods,

    she sends them out to war.

    Bamu

    The venomous viper, double 60 miles long,

    swallowing ships on the sea and herds of cattle upon the land.

    Uumgallu

    The dragon clothed with fearsomeness,

    the great dragon that will kill.

    Mumahhu

    The exalted glorified serpent

    with the bead of a bird, the legs of a lion.

    Tiamat calls to them:

    Come, my darling ones;

    come my beauties.

    Come make war upon my children!

    MuhuuThe fierce serpent, the serpent of splendor,

    look upon him and shudder.

    Lahmu

    The hairy beast, the muddy one,

    dressed in a royal red sash.

    Ugallu

    The big weather beast, the lion-headed storm demon

    to destroy with rain and wind and hail.

    Rise! Tiamat commands them,

    Rise up for me;

    rise up to avenge my husbands cruel death!

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    Uridimmu

    The raging lion, the deranged beast

    snarling and snapping his jaws

    Girtabullu

    The scorpion man whose head touches the sky;

    his terror is awesome, his glance is death.

    Um Dabrtu

    The violence of storms

    fierce day and cruel weapons.

    Kulull

    The pitiless fish-man

    swimming up from the depths to murder men.

    Kusarikku

    The powerful centaur,coming down from the mountains.

    Tiamat arms them for battle

    arrays them in halos

    and sends them out to kill and to destroy.

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    Thunder

    I was sent from the Power

    with lightning and with hail

    and the sound of a very loud trumpet,

    I was sent.

    Look at the sky,

    I am there.

    Hear me, hear me,

    but do not wait for me to speak.

    I am the silence that follows.

    I am the burning smell of ozone.

    I am the unpaid professional.

    I am novels of war and songs of peace.

    I am the richest of the poor

    living in gold plated squalor.

    I break cedars and shake deserts.

    I am alone in the sky

    unequalled among the many.

    I go where I will, following the decrees

    and the path that he laid down for me.

    Over floods,

    over kings,

    over people with peace.Tremble beneath my words.

    Pray that the thunders cease

    and will release you.

    Stretch out your hands

    and the rains will stop.

    Let the sea, and all that it contains

    fish and great sea monsters give praise

    let the fields smile under their burdens,

    the folds of your flesh may be solid,but if thunder should strike?

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    Unicorn

    Karlheinz Stockhausen has done it,

    what none other before him could do;

    the greatest (and most controversial)

    German composer of the 20th

    centuryhas harnessed the power of aleatoric music

    to capture the long fabled Unicorn.

    The intemperate and fearsome beast,

    the Unicorn of myth and legend,

    valued for its horn- an effective antidote against many poisons -

    once could only be captured by virgin maids,

    can now be tracked and captured with stochastic processes.

    Indeterminacy is the new virginity!

    has become the rally cry of a reinvigorated industry

    of unicorn hunters and alicorn providers.

    John Cage is reportedly working

    on a similar process to ensnare Wyverns.

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    Uriel

    Dominus illuminatio mea

    The bright white burning of a cloudless sky, a fire, heat like an ocean wave, slamming into you, pounding

    and oppressive. A southern wind, loud and full of grit and sand bends grass and shakes trees. This is thepiercing presence that shatters and shudders the smoldering sky. This bodiless power over the earth,

    this unseen presence over deep and secret places within the earth. A flashing sword, turning this way

    and that, at the gardens gate.

    I am the reflection. I am the effulgence. God is mylight and I am the light of God.

    Like molten gold, like burnished bronze polished bright, like glittering rays at dawn. Like softened silver,

    like iridescent ice, like silent stars his presence which is The Presence spreads across the earth, filling the

    void. There can be no absolute darkness, not with his all pervading photons.

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    Vanities

    Bleached whites bones of a skull

    and rotted fruit,

    the charred end of a wick

    in a puddle of melted wax.havel havelim

    vanities.

    You are a bubble in time

    blown here, drifting;

    you are a snowflake

    landing on the palm of a child,

    melting.

    havel havelim

    vanities.

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    Viper

    There is no head worse than the head of a serpent...Sirach 25: 15

    The shudder is involuntary

    when the serpent strikes from the fire;the apostle is bitten

    and the viper glides away.

    They hatch the vipers egg

    and spin a spiders web;

    the prophet is stricken

    when the viper has his way.

    Through a wilderness wide of terror

    waterless wastes where scorpions and serpents

    crawl among the rocks and sand and dust,

    and on shipwrecked shores

    from where there will be no escape,

    The shudder is involuntary;

    when the venom is injected

    the flesh swells up and blackens

    as the viper glides away.

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    Wizard

    Men will bid you consult wizard and diviner, that talk in ghostly voices over their enchantments; Who

    doubts, they say, God will send his own people answer, an oracle from the dead to the living?Isaiah 8: 19

    The wizard came from east of earlierwith whispered voice to cast his spells,

    incantations in the fog

    to raise the shades of ancient men.

    No sparks or schizophrenic flames,

    but he speaks in peeps and mutters,

    to call up the spirits of the dead.

    Word for word he speaks the chant;

    the hypnotic cadence of his words

    brings the knowing one divinations

    and familiar dreams and omens.

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    World Rulers

    It is not against flesh and blood that we enter the lists; we have to do with princedoms and powers, with

    those who have mastery of the world in these dark days, with malign influences in an order higher than

    ours. Ephesians 6:12

    Call me Pancras, for I hold everything.

    I ascend, when I will, into the heavens

    and fly out again among the stars.

    I fall like lightning.

    Prince Albert may have ridden

    on the back of giant tortoise,

    and Prince George upon a walrus,

    but I am the one who delivered to King Solomon

    that magical ring

    which enabled him to command the demons

    and compel them to service,

    and which gave him knowledge

    of every human tongue

    I can do these things,

    and much more besides,

    for you as well.

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    Xanthicus

    King Antiochus to the senate of the Jews and to the other Jews, greetings. If you are well, it is as we

    desire. We also are in good health. Menelaus has informed us that you wish to return home and look

    after your own affairs. Therefore those who go home by the thirtieth of Xanthicus will have our pledge of

    friendship and full permission for the Jews to enjoy their own food and laws, just as formerly, and noneof them shall be molested in any way for what may have been done in ignorance. And I have also sent

    Menelaus to encourage you. Farewell. The one hundred forty-eighth year, Xanthicus fifteenth. -2

    Maccabees 11: 27 - 33

    Xanthicus is the cruelest month, breeding

    barley from the ground

    and letters of peace from a mad king,

    stirring hope against memory,

    but then comes drowning

    and burning, massacre

    against those taking refuge;

    the defeated nomads offer cattle and coffee.

    If there were no hope of a resurrection

    it would seem superfluous and foolish

    to pray for so many dead.

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    Xerxes

    And now, doom to foreshew thee, a king shall rise in Persia, the fourth from this, rich in great riches

    beyond all the others; in the power such wealth gives him, he will set the whole world in motion against

    the realm of Greece Daniel 11:2

    He assembles his armies for war.

    Never before such a levy of men,

    assembled and armed for battle,

    over five and a half million

    men at his command.

    Xerxes the great

    is great in power.

    He has but to speak the word

    and they will rise to stand forth.

    He has but to say Go and they will sail.

    They shake the earth;

    they drink the rivers dry.

    The king of kings and lord of hosts

    sends his assembled armies forth for war.

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    Yahoel

    You have called upon the name,

    the great and ineffable name;

    how could I not come to your aid?

    Who moves within the seventh expanse of heaven

    has sent me to your aid in this,

    your hour of trembling.

    All that is within his power

    all spoken word

    has been given unto me for you, power

    over earth, and sky, and sea, and

    everything under the sea.

    Lift up your head;

    lift up your voice, and fear not

    the attack of reptilian spirits.

    Eternal One, you have sent me to this man,

    this child of earth and breath;

    only give him strength to praise and

    he will sing your song,

    the song I will teach him.

    All that is within his power

    all spoken word, all recited praise is

    yours, o child of earth and breath.

    Hear the names of the Mighty One:

    Holy El, Holy Sabaoth, Most Glorious El Yahoel,

    who has heard your prayers.

    Here I stand, for you have called, and I am

    Yahoel, whose name is like unto that of God himself.

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    Yam

    Dare you ask the Question:

    Who by water?

    Who in those dark depths,

    by the encircling blue?

    Yam of the sea,

    Yam of twisting shapeless currents

    like that ancient foe, the serpent.

    Who is calling? Whence comes this voice above the sea?

    The roar of the waters, the crash of the waves,

    luring young sailors and frustrated princes

    over cliffs and out past harbors

    to their doom and drowning.

    The river is wider than you know

    and there is no way to reach the other side,

    save one

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    Zeeb

    a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them Jeremiah 5:6

    Here stand snarling

    the dog-star shepherds,

    hyenas and fire dogs

    slick with common blood spilt on common ground

    between the tinting of the dew

    and the arrival of doomsdays eclipse,

    persecuting the poor with wild heresies,

    and tearing them to pieces.

    They ravin like wolves, devouring in the morning,

    and at night dividing the spoils between themWhat other species to strike such dread

    and pierce the peace of planets?

    What does the wolf have in common with the lamb

    except for feeding,

    and what does Zeeb eat except the lamb

    that is led to the slaughter?

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    Ziz

    Speak to the earth

    and the Behemoth will answer;

    call for the sea

    and Leviathan will reply.But if you would converse with the winds

    and if you could speak with the sky

    you would hear the voice of Ziz.

    When wise King Solomon

    ordered the animals

    to bring him word from distant lands

    only Ziz returned with a report,

    Feathered Zis, who flew

    all the way to Havilah (where there is gold)

    and back again, to say:

    As I am king of the birds,

    you are king over men.

    I am Ziz that stands with my feet upon the earth

    and my beak in the heavens.

    If I spread out my wings, do I not blot out the sun?

    As Leviathan is king over the fishes

    and Behemoth emperor over the beasts of the earth

    Feathered Ziz rules over the flocks and birds of the air,

    yet even he, in his feathered splendor,is subject to the Great Name.


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