8 myths
Each story names the sources it was written from.
Pharaoh's daughter hung jewels over the bed until they looked like stars. Solomon lay back. The morning offering waited in the court.
Ninus carved his dead father Bel in stone. Prayers to the statue earned royal pardon. That is how idol worship spread across the world.
Psalm 19 says day pours speech to day, and the rabbis turned that into a chain: Joshua's miracles handed forward to Deborah, and Deborah's to Barak.
Alexander offered gold for a statue of himself between the sanctuary and the Holy of Holies. The High Priest offered him a generation of children instead.
An old priest strikes the king's officer at Modin and hands his sons a war no army can win, and one son frees Judea only to fall on a deserted field.
After Jerusalem falls, Baruch sees a cloud pour Adam's black waters and Abraham's bright ones. Ramiel names each flood until history itself becomes weather.
Ash clung to the hills. He closed twenty volumes on eighty-three names, ending with a man chosen by lot who did not know the rites.
Manetho wrote that eighty thousand lepers were driven out of Egypt. Josephus read the story in Rome and pulled it apart, question by question.
