Episode 13.
Description
No rest: Mongolians must be led across the land bridge. Rafts along the coast to California, where Murk the Trickster schemes and maims. Garuda becomes trapped in Australia. Back in the Valley, he flies high inside an upward-reaching thunderhead; he sees earth's curvature, but falls, is broken. Release from physicality.
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