38 myths · Page 2 of 2
Angels wore men's forms, giants rose hungry, and the earth filled with blood until kin ate kin and the flood waited.
Outside Eden, Adam begs for lost wisdom. The angel Raziel opens a heavenly book, reads aloud, and leaves the first man shaking on a burning bank.
Metatron sat writing. Elisha thought he saw a second throne. When he died, fire burned on his grave until a cloak covered it.
Cain walked east with a mark that kept him alive. He would not turn. Years later another man put his feet on the same unused path.
The sixth heaven had no ranks on the faces. Then the two angels lifted Enoch into fire, and his knees would not hold.
Michael leads a living man up through heaven after heaven to a palace of crystal, past the chained stars, to the day when time itself burns out.
The giant sons of the Watchers dream of a flood that erases their kind and send Mahaway winging to Enoch to beg mercy heaven has already refused.
Enoch had stood before God's face, and no human eye could survive what that did to him. So an angel white as snow pressed ice into his skin.
