⚠️ Warning ⚠️The following content may include descriptions ofJudeo-Christian ✝️ mythology and also references toother religions of Mesopotamia 🏺 whichmay be sensitive for people's spirituality and beliefs 🌍.The author does not intend to exploit anyone's beliefs 🙏.Remember that everything narrated here is fiction 📖.Reader discretion is advised 👁️🗨️.
📝 Author's NoteThis is really crazy, honestly.I wish I could go back to that time to talkto my 12-year-old self ⏳ and say:"Where did you get so much imagination?" 💭✨
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Kamei-san and Jack were crossing Lake Ontario in a boatas a strategic point to reach the port of Toronto.
Jack could not help but feel fascinated by the stars. And to breakthe silence, he asked Kamei-san:
— "Kamei-san, can I ask you something?"
To which Kamei-san replied:
— "Go ahead, Jack."
Jack spoke:
— "Do you think Adelaida worries about you?"
Kamei-san walked and stopped for a moment.She turned and said:
— "I just hope she doesn't miss me too much, becausemaybe we won't return within a year, Jack."
— "Maybe more. It's better if we don't think about that."
— "Can I ask you another question, Kamei-san?"
Kamei-san said:
— "As long as it doesn't have to do with Adelaida or Dánae, please.We are in the middle of the lake and I don't want to cry, honestly."
— "No matter how many hugs we shared, they weren't enough forthe long wait those two will have to endure."
— "And let's not even mention Nuriel."
Then Jack stayed silent and said the following:
— "Then I will ask you another question, one that has nothing to do with that."
Kamei-san said:
— "Go ahead."
— "You told me that Zhuang's vault was one of the greatestpillars, right? In the spiritual world."
— "I don't fully understand what that means,but can I ask you if there is only one vault?"
To which Kamei-san replied:
— "No, Jack. There is not only one vault."
— "For example, you are walking in one."
— "The vaults, the towers that support the pillars of the creationof the Earth in the spiritual world, are spread everywhere."
— "But some are much more important than others.And now that I think about it, if Zhuang's vault fell."
— "That means things are getting very bad."
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Meanwhile, on the other side of China,Heshin and Frollam were talking.
Heshin said the following:
— "If I tell you all this, it might make you change your mind."
— "Go ahead," said Frollam.
Heshin continued:
— "I haven't told you, but I was one of God's servantsin the middle of the palace of the third unit,on the great pillars of creation."
— "I was above the firmament when everything began to be created.The great wonders God showed meare something no human being could ever comparethrough existence."
God said:"I will create so many things that all will be like me.Everyone will glorify what I am and they will do it because the goodness of my lovewill be the reflection of the entire universe."
— "I was one of His lowest-ranking angels."
— "I have to admit that I enjoyed being able to serve my Father.One day He stroked my head for paying more attentionto the movement of the stars."
— "I still remember those beautiful times when everything seemed so simple,so easy."
— "But one day I found out that there was a legion of angelsthat gathered in front of God's Parliamentto discuss the creation of the Earthand the creation of others."
— "No angel had a name, but he gave himself one.Those who knew him best called him Lucy."
— "But for the rest of us… he was… Lucifer…The highest star among all the stars."
— "Or at least that's how he proclaimed himself."
— "The truth is, he was a lower-ranking angel."
— "But we never heard about the word freedom."
— "In fact, the concept of freedom was invented by him."
— "And this is because, at that time, freedom was not necessarybecause there was no oppression."
— "Or at least that's what we believed."
— "God tried to talk to him."
— "He tried to convince him, to tell him to please stop."
— "That this could divide heaven forever."
— "But Lucy refused."
— "The reason is simple."
— "It makes me laugh when humans saythat angels are perfect."
— "If we were perfect, we wouldn't have fallen to begin with.And if we were perfect, and completely pure,we would be gods."
— "And we wouldn't be angels."
— "There is something inside Lucy that almost none of the angels had.And it was… wanting to be like God."
He said and argued things like:
— "'If you truly love us,why don't you let us create our own worlds?'"
To which God replied:
"Even if I made them gods, they would end up being, after all,the same as they are now. I wouldn't change things."
— "Lucy believed that everything God was buildingwas following an absurd regime."
— "And everything changed when man arrived.When man still crawled on all fours."
— "God had ordered and dictated in His namethat this creature would be His masterpiece,along with the others."
— "Lucy became angry."
— "Because angels are made of light.Some were born from nothing, others from the stars."
— "And some more, who remained on Earth,were formed from wind, from plants,and from the many materials of the world.Why can angels travel through dimensions,and we were practically powerful."
— "The matter was simple… why should weserve a being who could barely stand?"
— "There was something different in man."
— "We have body, soul, and at the same time spirit.But the human body was made of water and earth."
— "It is tripartite like us."
— "But something completely new to us."
God ordered all the angels of heavento kneel before the new man created: Adam.
— "He was the first,but he was not the only man created.There has been more than one Adam, as you know."
— "And there have been more Gardens of Eden than you could count."
— "'One on the banks of the Euphrates River,cradle of the first men.'"
— "'Another, the Garden of the Hesperides ,at the ends of the west, where golden fruitshung like polished pearls.'"
— "'Dilmun, by the salty rivers of the Persian Gulf,pure and silent.'"
— "'Aaru, on the banks of the Nile,the realm of the righteous that mortals barely remember.'"
— "'Tamoanchan, in lands we now call Mexico,home of the first human architects.'"
— "'Plaksaduipa, on the horizons of India, where timedid not exist, where joy was complete by God.'"
— "'The Inca Garden, in the Andes, Peru and Bolivia,where the land touched the sky.'"
— "'Yuy Maraey, in the heart of South America, where males andfemales loved each other with great intensity.'"
— "'Mount Horai, in the eastern islands,home of the immortals, and their beautiful isles.'"
— "'The Zulu Garden, in the plains of southeastern Africa,forgotten by men.'"
— "'The garden in Persia, ancient Iran,where channels and trees whispered to the cherubim.'"
— "'Paliuli, in the Pacific seas,hidden among corals and clouds.'"
— "'And other gardens as well, scattered throughout the world,all carefully located, all full of life.'"
— "But they were carefully chosen."
— "All these gardens were carefully located."
— "And as if it were a balanced tower,if one garden fell, all would fall."
— "And while this was happening, the Great Cosmic War was already ragingin the galaxy."
— "The rebellion against the angels and God was a complete massacre."
— "We had never heard the concept of the word 'death'.We had never heard it. We encountered it in the cosmic war."
— "Lucy knew he could not confront God's throne,so what he did first was take positionin the universe through the stars."
— "They began attacking the stars,and it was there that God created the cherubim."
— "He selected a great legion of soldiersand gave them powers over the Earthand powers over the universe."
— "Adopting matter in a way whereanimal heads would technically signify their rank."
— "Some had heads of bull and lion,as they are known in Mesopotamia and the Mediterranean."
— "But others did not have human heads."
— "Many others were perhaps the closest thing to a wild beast.But that was because they were the protectors of sacred places."
— "They had to protect the Gardens of Eden.They were selected not only to protect them,but also to battle in the war."
— "The seraphim were also created.They were created to dictate the sentenceof what would be the great rebellion."
— "And those who were created from the starswere called virtues and powers."
— "The war took almost the entire rebellion,and only a third of my brothers who survivedcornered us in Orion."
— "On the star that pointed to His throne."
— "I thought they would annihilate us, there were no soldiers left."
— "But Lucy, Astaroth, and Bensecame up with a great idea to avoiddefinitive death and gain time."
Frollam listened very attentively:
— "He sent a great legion of angels,our fastest brothers, to the Earth."
— "All directed towards the Gardens of Eden,trying to enter."
— "The mission was that, if God annihilated us, He would do itwith humanity."
— "If He annihilated us for the sin of rebellion,then we would take humans with us."
— "Perhaps this way God would have to, through the laws of heaven,delay the condemnation of the angels and worry abouthumanity."
— "And perhaps in humans."
— "To find… an ally."
— "No one succeeded, except one."
— "They managed to enter the Garden of Eden of the Euphrates River."
— "And for you to know, the one who fell was not Adam's wife,but the tenth generation of Adam."
— "They did not deceive a woman.Women were faithful, just like men."
— "The one who fell was a girl.Her name was Eva."
— "Named the same as grandmother Eva,the first woman taken from Adam's rib."
— "All were created from clay.Eva is not as they interpret her."
— "The little girl, Eva,only moved on all foursand could barely stand on two."
— "She was a tender creature.She had body, soul, and spirit."
— "She had been ordered not to touch the forbidden fruit."
— "The fruit was for a new era."
— "When humans are ready,to leave the gardens."
— "God would make them eat from this fruit."
— "But if they ate it prematurely,they would be corrupted forever."
— "In short, it was like giving wine to a newborn."
— "It would kill them, humanity was not ready for thefruit of knowledge."
— "But he managed to deceive herand, with the mistake of a little girl, condemned all humanity."
— "After that, they only gained us time.Lucy managed to escape,but the rest of the legions were capturedand sent to the abyss."
— "And those scattered across the universe,God had mercy and ordered that they not attack us,because we would wander the cosmos in condemnationuntil the day of the final judgment."
— "I thought I had lost everything, Frollam.I thought, for a moment,that I would see no other tragedy."
— "It hurts to remember… everything we suffered."