12 myths
Each story names the sources it was written from.
Abraham had already divided the animals. Evening had not yet come. The bird told him the fire on the heights would eat him too.
Adam and Eve stood embracing under the tree, and something with a man's hands and twelve wings stood between them, holding out the grapes.
Abraham looked into the picture God held open. Cain's hand was already rising, and Azazel stood in the field as if he had never left Eden.
The birds had not been cut. At sundown the angel set Abraham on the pigeon's right wing, and the smoking field dropped away under his feet.
On the way to heaven, Azazel appeared and tried to turn Abraham back. The angel Iaoel gave Abraham the only words that would work.
They swore they would sanctify the earth in bodies. God named the pull that would take them. Shemhazai wept for his sons' meals, not the rain.
An unclean bird landed on the split carcasses and told Abraham to run before the fire took him. He stayed, and learned how long the age had left.
The High Priest drew lots over two identical goats. One went to God and one went to Azazel. The second goat went to the edge of the world and was destroyed.
Two hundred angels swore an oath on Mount Hermon and descended. Azazel taught weapons and cosmetics. Four archangels bound him under the desert.
A girl named Istehar asked Shemhazai for the Name that lifts a body into heaven. She spoke it and never came back down to him.
Shamchazai and Azael descended to prove angels could master the earth. One hangs in repentance between the worlds; the other became a name in the desert.
Two hundred angels swore an oath together on Mount Hermon. Azazel taught men to forge blades and women to paint their faces. Raphael buried him upside down.
