37 myths · Page 2 of 2
Levi ben Sisi arrives in Simonia as the academy's star. Pride sits down with him. When the questions come, his mind is empty.
Jephthah vows a life and will not lower himself to annul it. Pinchas will not walk to an ignoramus. Between them a daughter is lost.
Sisera counted nine hundred iron chariots as invincible armor until rain and stars turned his pride into a swamp of broken wheels.
Solomon swore he could gather wives and stay true. Moses swore hard cases were his. Heaven answered both with a case that would not bend.
Adam had canopies of precious stone and a heel that outshone the sun. He still ended as dust. At the table a man set his cup down, wine still sweet.
Hasmonean searchers find one stamped jar of pure oil in a wrecked sanctuary, light the Menorah (the lampstand) anyway, and watch one day of fuel hold for eight.
Babylon's court sages plotted to destroy a seven-year-old, so the king blindfolded him and marched an army past to expose the fraud.
