8 myths
Each story names the sources it was written from.
The Ark traveled three days ahead of the camp and burned the snakes out of the road. The gold cherubim on its lid had the faces of boys.
Adam stood east of the garden and watched a blade of fire turn without a hand. Two keepers breathed. The path behind them was not sealed.
The doorposts were still shaking when he decided he was a dead man. Then one of the burning ones came down at him carrying a pair of tongs.
Bezalel of Judah bent over acacia in a camp that had just melted gold into a calf. Assistants could make hooks. The ark he would not give away.
A dead soul faces Adam at Machpelah, the flaming sword at Eden, and the climb toward Arabot where the righteous become angels.
Adam asked for the fruit that would let him live forever. The angels wept and still drove him east, under a sword that would not hold still.
Night after night the Shekhinah, the Divine Presence, descends to the empty Holy of Holies, calling for the husband who vowed never to leave her arms.
Moses stepped into the finished Tent, and a Voice that could shatter cedars narrowed to a stream and entered no ear in the camp but his.
