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A/THEOGONY
A hundred thousand and twenty four moreGather in depths of soil and skyGods fled the rupture’s darkening oddsConceal themselves from the sultan’s eye The first walls raced across the terrainCleft the earth and split the landsWrangling green gods in rigid linesAnd animal gods in prison bands We must take action the sun lords criedPrevent the…
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THE GODFEARING SHALL BE AMIDST GARDENS AND FOUNTAINS
The exegesis of the Qur’anic verse: {But the godfearing shall be amidst gardens and fountains}, Surat al-Hijr. Most people think that Paradise is a place distinct from this mundane one, somewhere up in the heavens beyond the reach of satellite eyes and probing rockets. Or maybe it’s on a distant planet sphere, or maybe even…
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THE SIFRIYYA ORDER
The fragment was revealed in the heresiography of Sheikh Malak Ibn Abi Sahib, itself little more than a fragment whose original was lost in a fire at the Baghdad National Library in October 2004. The lines are attributed to a mysterious and possibly fictional figure known as al-Samara’i: And thus the one is transmuted to…