June 08 - Enlightenment
Character Name: Lilith
Origin: Mythology
Word Count: 472
Character’s LJ: the_dark_mother
Rating: PG-13
When I was cast out of the heavens, banished from the side of Him that created me, I wandered alone through the formless lands. My heart was heavy with grief and longing for that which I had lost, and my soul wept at the silence that thundered in the air around me. All alone I walked until I reached the shores of the Endless Sea. There I dove beneath the inky waters to dwell for a time in the strange gardens there, learning the true measure of the powers I command. I raised great and wondrous gardens, birthed my great children and planted the seed of Jehovah amongst them. And it was not enough.
For though I created marvels and birthed the great leviathans, my gardens were not unto the Garden of Eden, my home for which I longed. The fruits of that Garden have always been the sweetest, and always will be even though they are no more. I wandered for seven times seven years visiting the gardens of the other Elohim, who are called by countless names among the children of Seth. There was feasting and rejoicing where my feet led me, yet all of it was as a hollow reed. It was the fruit of Jehovah's Garden that I craved and, though magnificent and rich in their bounty, none of the other gardens held such fruit as that from the Trees of Life and Knowledge.
I returned to Eden. There I gained the love of Lucifer, the Morning Star, and he gifted me with the mantle of night; which is another tale for another time. In due course, I learned the secret of the trees by bending my ear to the earth. "How do you come to grow?" I asked and the living wood of that tree answered, "From the seeds numbering seven times seven." I thanked the Tree of Life and from it swallowed seven of its fruits, for each fruit held seven seeds. Next I went to the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and repeated my question. That tree did answer me the same, and once more I thanked it and did swallow seven of its fruits.
But I was not alone. Unbidden, Eve came upon me. In that meeting, events spiralled out of our control, and jealous Jehovah as filled with wroth as He ever was, cursed us all. In His rage was the garden destroyed. The trees were blasted unto ashes and never shall be again.
That I could not germinate the seeds of those trees that I had carried within me in the True Earth, even above the slaying of my children at the betrayer's hand, is the greatest failure I have ever known...
...yet my eyes remain open to the knowledge of good and evil. In turn, I shall Enlighten others.
Origin: Mythology
Word Count: 472
Character’s LJ: the_dark_mother
Rating: PG-13
When I was cast out of the heavens, banished from the side of Him that created me, I wandered alone through the formless lands. My heart was heavy with grief and longing for that which I had lost, and my soul wept at the silence that thundered in the air around me. All alone I walked until I reached the shores of the Endless Sea. There I dove beneath the inky waters to dwell for a time in the strange gardens there, learning the true measure of the powers I command. I raised great and wondrous gardens, birthed my great children and planted the seed of Jehovah amongst them. And it was not enough.
For though I created marvels and birthed the great leviathans, my gardens were not unto the Garden of Eden, my home for which I longed. The fruits of that Garden have always been the sweetest, and always will be even though they are no more. I wandered for seven times seven years visiting the gardens of the other Elohim, who are called by countless names among the children of Seth. There was feasting and rejoicing where my feet led me, yet all of it was as a hollow reed. It was the fruit of Jehovah's Garden that I craved and, though magnificent and rich in their bounty, none of the other gardens held such fruit as that from the Trees of Life and Knowledge.
I returned to Eden. There I gained the love of Lucifer, the Morning Star, and he gifted me with the mantle of night; which is another tale for another time. In due course, I learned the secret of the trees by bending my ear to the earth. "How do you come to grow?" I asked and the living wood of that tree answered, "From the seeds numbering seven times seven." I thanked the Tree of Life and from it swallowed seven of its fruits, for each fruit held seven seeds. Next I went to the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and repeated my question. That tree did answer me the same, and once more I thanked it and did swallow seven of its fruits.
But I was not alone. Unbidden, Eve came upon me. In that meeting, events spiralled out of our control, and jealous Jehovah as filled with wroth as He ever was, cursed us all. In His rage was the garden destroyed. The trees were blasted unto ashes and never shall be again.
That I could not germinate the seeds of those trees that I had carried within me in the True Earth, even above the slaying of my children at the betrayer's hand, is the greatest failure I have ever known...
...yet my eyes remain open to the knowledge of good and evil. In turn, I shall Enlighten others.