283 myths · Page 10 of 10
Solomon put a vampire spirit to work cutting stone at the Temple. Then he handed it his seal ring and sent it to fetch the king of the demons.
Sand stuck to wet ankles and children coughed salt. Behind them the sea had closed over chariot wheels, ahead lay a desert with no bread. Israel 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.
At the Red Sea God knotted every Egyptian horse to its rider, and in Sheol (the underworld) He let each drowned king be comforted while Pharaoh lay refused.
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.
God fed Israel honey pressed from bare rock and oil from flint. Then the nations poured a cup, and the wine moved in them like a serpent.
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.
