Saturday, July 21, 2018

Atlantis Creation Myth

This is an invented fragment of an Atlantean creation myth, again done with Greek and Linear B script.My idea is that it's part of a later compilation, and so draws from multiple sources. Thus, like real mythological texts, there's a contradictory doublet. Enjoy.


When the woman came out of the sea, riding a bull, the land was empty and without life.

And the stars, looking down, desired the woman, and shot arrows and slew the bull.

Therefore the sun banished them to the far sky to drift forever.

But one among the stars did not shoot an arrow, who is called the North Star and the Faithful One.

Now the woman mourned the death of the bull, and the sun pitied her. So the sun sent forth a wise serpent, and the serpent said, "Do not weep, for the bull is not truly dead, but from his blood shall come life." And the land became fertile.

Then the woman gathered seashells, and she opened them, and out of them came living things of every kind to fill the land.

So the sun caused living things to fill the Earth, and he said, "It is not good for the woman to be alone." He told her to take one of the arrows that had slain the bull and throw it into the sea. And there man emerged.

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