6 myths
Each story names the sources it was written from.
Tav claimed the first morning of the world. God sent it back. Death already sat in that letter, waiting to be pressed into a forehead.
A shrunken aleph, the first Hebrew letter, and a missing one teach Akiva that God calls Israel in full speech and the nations in half.
Bet wore Wisdom on its face and Folly on its back. God pressed that same crown into a planet, a weekday, and a human eye.
Before the world had a floor, Yah drew fire out of the coldest water and engraved a burning throne, then sealed the six ends with His Name.
Abraham fell on his face when God gave him a password no one else knew. Serah bat Asher, a girl in Egypt, would be the last to hold it.
One by one the letters climb before the Throne, each boasting of the holy word it carries, and each turned away for the sin its own name also spells.
