282 myths · Page 10 of 10
The water still ran off their clothes. Behind them chariot wood floated. Ahead lay a desert with no bread. They opened their mouths and sang.
A man hardens his face against one who has seen the chariot. Heaven answers with dark eyes, erased lineage, and trumpets thrice each day.
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.
A newly dead man reaches the gates of Gehenna (afterlife of judgment), where a fierce angel decides who is scorched and who is spared across seven descending.
Pharaoh hung Egypt's gold on the horses and rode them into the sea. In the pit every other fallen king found company. Pharaoh did not.
Each night a man's soul is handed to God like a pledged cloak and faithfully returned at dawn, yet it still answers for every sin the body commits by mistake.
The rock had no seam. Israel put its mouth to the stone and drank honey. Then oil ran from flint, and the nations would not give one coin.
At the end of days the nations are tried beside their idols, and when the carved gods fly out of the flame, angels go up after them with chains.
Nobody betrays a marriage until a spirit of madness has taken the room first, and God waits at the outer gate where the laughing stops.
The sun rides sheathed with a pool of water breaking its heat, the sea halts at wet sand, and one day God takes the sheath off.
Understanding knew the truth already and still refused to rule, so Satan was sworn in as plaintiff and the eyes of God entered as witnesses.
They sat with the death penalties written out and picked the heaviest one on purpose, and then the injured party asked to be charged first.
