9 myths
Each story names the sources it was written from.
God dictated the words let us make man, and Moses stopped writing. Heretics will read that and claim there are two powers, he said.
A prophet stood in the Temple court wearing a wooden yoke on his neck. Another prophet walked up, tore it off him, and smashed it in front of the crowd.
The flood began and ended on the same calendar day. Noah counted the mirrored year from inside the hull, and the bow held judgment on a leash.
After the flood God sets a war-bow in the cloud, point turned from earth, so Noah's shaking household can trust the world will not drown twice.
Noah opens the ark window a last time; the dove finds home and does not return, while covenant waters fall or rise with the mark Israel keeps.
Elijah brings a great sage to Rabbi Shimon, who asks only whether the rainbow has appeared, then refuses a face heaven still needs to warn.
A heretic laughed at bones becoming dust. Ami told of a king who ordered a palace from empty air, then from mud.
In a palace no one else may enter, a thousand halls deep in longing, the Messiah weeps and waits for the sign that his hour has come.
The ram's blood ran into a hollow the flood had scoured. Noah went down on his knees and buried it before his sons could eat.
