Episode 15.
Description
A long schooltime of simple labor, and Shimmer walks the earth, teaching, watching. He is a goose, he is a woodland pool. East of Varanasi, beside the River Ganga, the magus Imhotep meets himself walking in a garden. Old Kingdom Egypt travels back in time to stabilize Gangetic society. Imhotep, Zoser, and the pyramids of Egypt.
The Indus red with blood. The nephelim are allies underground. Murk causes misery for centuries. Shimmer, Old Shiver, and a third spirit rage across the earth for twenty-nine years. Only the kindly are left alive. Shimmer sleeps. Ahalya visits. Shimmer is taken back past the beginning of...
Published 10/28/08
A cataclysm on Sumatra; half the people of Asia are killed. Simple lives and the legend of the pastoral idyll. The high tower that would not let itself be built. Life with Sita, life with swallows. Murk returns to desecrate the Indus, but nothing can be done, so a life of healing shared with...
Published 10/28/08