36 myths · Page 2 of 2
In a roaring market Elijah refuses the scholars and points first to a prison warder, then to two jesters who buy Paradise with laughter.
Johanan carried three loaves down the road and broke them for a starving crow and a starving dog. He paid a ransom to put a doomed fish back in the sea.
The worst king's soul meets a sword that swings between fire and ice, then takes the silver ceiling of paradise's second chamber for the penitent.
Moses will not cross heaven as a guest. He interrogates Nuriel, counts the guarded thrones, and presses the prince who cannot measure his own garden.
Deep in Paradise a luminous tree blossoms with unborn souls, and one ripe soul loosens from its branch to fall toward the world it will ache to leave.
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.
