1135 To Seti’s outrage, L’Mekku of Lumekkor takes Tzuillaeha, an under-aged cousin, as a second wife besides Udaha, after killing Tziullaeha’s brother in a duel. Song of L’Mekku (Genesis 4:23-24).
1136 Tzuillaeha bears Tubaal-qayin to L’Mekku. After giving birth, she drinks the Concubine’s Root for the next 565 years, until she desires another child in her old age.
1142 Seti confirms on his deathbed the seerdom of Q’Enukki. Aenusi becomes Archon. Q’Enukki sent back to Salaam-Surupag with the promise that he will build Seti’s Megaliths when he comes of age.
1152-1182 Q’Enukki studies astronomy and mathematics. He invents a decimal number system that uses zero. Sexigesmal ciphers remain common.
1182 Q’Enukki earns his sage scrolls. The Sacred Academy in Sa-utar invites him to teach. Tubaal-qayin studies physics, mathematics, prophecy, and astronomy under him until 1197.
1197 Tubaal-qayin learns the smelting of copper, gold, and orichalcum at Sa-utar. He builds the smithy of Bab’Tubila in the Parn Gap.
1199 Q’Enukki develops a theory of planetary attraction, and invents the telescope.
1201 Tubaal-qayin discovers tin, and smelts bronze. He honors his father’s alliance with Seti, and builds a great armory that sells swords to both his father and the army of Seti’s Commonwealth. Relieved, Archon Aenusi declares Tubaal-qayin the “Father of Metalsmiths,” and builds a monument to him at Sa-utar.
1203-1210 Q’Enukki constructs Seti’s Sphinx on the Aeden Pass with bronze cutting tools and moldable kapar stone. Some say that at this time he makes his first visit into the Sacred Orchard.
1209 Adiyuri is born to Iyared and Baraqa at Salaam-Surupag.
1210 The Oath of Samyaza on Mt. Ardis. Flying lights appear more frequently, as women mysteriously disappear in Lumekkor and Balimar. The Iya’Baalim first report strange cattle mutilations in Y’Raddu.
1211-1225 Q’Enukki supervises the construction of the Gate of the Rising Sun on the large island north of Zhri’Nikkor.
1213 Aenusi, desiring to strengthen ties with Balimar, admits Ardisu Glory supporters into the Upper Family Council.
1215 Tubaal-qayin secretly forges iron at Bab’Tubila.
1218 The Watchers Samyaza and Uzaaz’El declare themselves openly over Ayur L’Mekku, and visit L’Mekku and Tubaal-qayin. L’Mekku refuses to treat with them, but Uzaaz’El shows Tubaal-qayin how to build a hotter forge and alloy carbon steel without his father’s knowledge.
1221 Tubaal-qayin II ‘Lu’Anaq’ is born at Bab’Tubila.
1226 Q’Enukki returns to Sa-utar to find Priesthood and Council divided between “Orthodox” and Ardisu Glory factions. He prophesies the doom of Seti, and warns that a great shadow spreads from the heights of Ardis. Aenusi repents, and purges the First Council. Balimar revolts.
1227 Aenusi dispatches an army to Balimar under Khae’Nani, but Balimar routs the superior numbers of the Archon’s army using iron swords supplied by Tubaal-qayin. Diplomatic relations with Lumekkor strained.
1234-1258 Q’Enukki constructs the Gate of the Setting Sun. He leaves Fasturi son of Seti there as steward. Lumekkor rises as a world power as Seti begins to decline.
1260 L’Mekku calls Tubaal-qayin’s sons the Dynasty of Steel. Iron forged at Sa-utar, but of poorer quality. An arms race begins, although relations remain outwardly cordial. Balimar becomes a vassal of Lumekkor.
1270 Q’Enukki returns to Salaam-Surupag, and weds Aedana.
1287 Muhet’Usalaq born at Salaam-Surupag to Q’Enukki and Aedana. Q’Enukki declares the name of his son as his first public prophecy.
1318 Birth of Urugim and Guidad to Q’Enukki and Aedana.
1323-1339 Birth of Q’Enukki and Aedana’s remaining children.
1330-1340 Lumekkor colonizes the eastern seaboard of the Northwest Subcontinent. The Archon’s Channel Fleet clashes with Lumekkorim raiders. Aenusi forced to surrender the Central Channel ports when Lumekkor’s army pushes southwest.
1340 Aenusi dies; Khae’Nani becomes Archon. He begins a naval campaign to restore Seti’s control of the Central Channels and inland seas.
1353 Birth of Kunyari to the house of Adiyuri.
1357 Q’Enukki dwells in Aeden 3 months before the Sacred Tree.
1360 Uzaaz’El inspires the Temple of Ardis. Fathers in Lumekkor first offer their daughters willingly there to the sons of A’Nu.
C. 1375 on Hairy, deformed giants appear in the vales of the Kharir Ardisu. Although shunned as monsters at first, by 1420 it becomes clear that the Temple of Ardis is the source of the strange creatures. By 1450, the giants gain public acceptance in remote parts of Balimar and Lumekkor as local legends, and then heroes. The Watchers begin to fan out.
1400 on The Watcher Samyaza leaves Ardis, and penetrates Assuri.
1440 Q’Enukki retreats with his sons to the Valley of Akh’Uzan, and builds the monastery. Muhet’Usalaq marries Edina.
1460 Birth of Isha’Tahar in Assuri.
1462 The Temple of Ardis openly advances its claims of divine-human inter-breeding with the birth of the titan Uggu to one of the priestess-wives of Uzaaz’El.
1474 Lumekki born at Akh’Uzan to Muhet’Usalaq and Edina.
1480 Q’Enukki’s heavenly journey. Guidad invents printing press.
1487 Q’Enukki vanishes into the heavens and does not return. Muhet’Usalaq and the sons of Q’Enukki become seers and continue their father’s work. They and their descendants, the “Seer Clan,” abandon Akh’Uzan for less secluded places like Salaam-Surupag, Kush, and Sa-utar.
1488-1889 Q’Enukkian Renewal: The sons of Q’Enukki spread their father’s teachings across much of the world, winning multitudes in far off places, but also increased opposition from the Watcher cults and their servants. Eventually persecution becomes universal and more violent, until it forces the Seer Clan to retreat into various enclaves that are then rooted out and destroyed, one by one, until a remnant returns to Akh’Uzan in 1923.
1500 Samyaza seduces Isha’Tahar and makes her his Queen.
1535 Death of Khae’Nani, Maha’Lahl-aey’El becomes Archon. He reverses his father’s foreign policy, and begins to fritter away Seti’s strategic holdings on the advice of Adiyuri’s “Moderate Orthodox Bloc.” Seti’s Civilization fades substantially as a world power.
1541 Rakhau is born in the house of Kunyari at Sa-utar.
1554 Avarnon-Set is born to one of Uzaaz’El’s priestess “wives.”
1655 Lumekki marries Bhat’Aenusa of Balimar. Corsairs take the Gates of the Rising Sun and start the Zhri’Nikkor War. Lumekki is called up.
1655-1680 Lumekki fights in the Zhri’Nikkor Campaign off and on. The Archon sporadically suppresses the teachings of the sons of Q’Enukki.
1656 A’Nu-Ahki born at Salaam-Surupag. Lumekki prophesies that his son is the Comforter of E’Yahavah A’Nu.
1664 Birth of Tubaal-qayin V ‘Dumuzi.’ Q’Enukkians massacred in Lumekkor and Y’Raddu. Empire of the Warlord Queen Aertimissa begins.
1671 Na’Amiha born at Ayur L’Mekku to L’Mekku the Conqueror and Tzuillaeha, who dies in childbirth.
1680 The Archon’s forces permanently pulled out of Zhri’Nikkor. Assuri abandoned to the Samyaza Cult.
1681 Death of L’Mekku, Tubaal-qayin I “Iron-hand” becomes Emperor of Lumekkor. He has a vision of Uzaaz’El, saying that, “Kingship has now moved to Bab’Tubila according to the divine pattern that began in Y’Raddu.” Uzaaz’El slowly moves Lumekkor’s culture away from the influence of Seti’s Code, back toward the bitter roots that began in Nhod.
1690 Maha’Lahl-aey’El dies; Iyared moves to Sa-utar and becomes Archon. Muhet’Usalaq becomes Salaam-Surupag’s Prime Zaqen.
1690-1922 Iyared reverses the policies of his father, but finds the Council and people evenly divided between the Orthodox and pro-Ardis “Enlightened Coalition” centered in Khavilakki and Balimar.
1703 Death of Udaha. Q’Enukkians purged from Dudael.
1705 Tarbet born at Sa-utar to the hou
se of Rakhau.
1717 A’Nu-Ahki marries Emzara of Sa-utar.
1718 Iyared censures the “Enlightened Coalition” for promoting fertility worship in Khavilakki. The Coalition breaks ties with Sa-utar, and begins to build a new Temple at Ayar Adi’In. The Temple of Ardis secretly throws in its technical support. High Priest Gununi of Ardis appoints his son Duruvanu to advise the new Temple in a propaganda war against Iyared.
1728 Tubaal-qayin I builds a wood-burning steam engine without Watcher aid. Aertimissa gains hegemony on the southern landmass.
1743-1785 Lumekkor—Y’Raddu War: Tubaal-qayin I, seeking to restore Lumekkor’s roots in Y’Raddu at the urging of Uzaaz’El, invades Mataq despite his half-brother Iya’Baalu’s warning not to destabilize the region. Tubaal-qayin I killed in battle at Unicorn Pass in 1756. His successors, Tubaal-qayin II ‘Lu’Anaq’ and Tubaal-qayin III ‘Gal’Anaq’ die in battle in 1764 and 1777 respectively. Q’Enukkians massacred in Y’Raddu.
1785 Na’Amiha the sister of Tubaal-qayin betrothed to Tarbet of Sa-utar. Defeat of the Y’Raddu city-states at the Battle of Lake Mataq.
1786 Na’Amiha goes to Sa-utar under supervised betrothal, where Tarbet rapes her. Rakhau and Kunyari pay her a large sum, and allow her to break off the engagement. Knowing that Lumekkor is depleted after its war with Y’Raddu, Na’Amiha stays silent to keep the peace.
1813 Tubaal-qayin V ‘Dumuzi’ harnesses quickfire. 2nd Battle of the Central Channels: Sa-utar is cut off from its Far West Colonies when it loses its last strategic ports in Far Kush. Near and Far Kush, with the Kush Islands, cease paying tribute to the Archon, and become Lumekkor’s vassals.
1839 Tubaal-qayin Dumuzi creates the first self-propelled chariot.
1846 Prometu steals the secret of quickfire for the Far West.
1853 Tubaal-qayin IV assassinated. Tubaal-qayin V ‘Dumuzi’ becomes Emperor of Lumekkor, and last of the Dynasty of Steel.
1889 Massacre of Regati for refusing Samyaza’s Law. Guidad killed. Urugim escapes. Q’Enukkians retreat to Salaam-Surupag and Sa-utar.
1921 Council of Ayar Adi’In: Khavilakki openly joins the Temple Alliance of Uzaaz’El. Muhet’Usalaq and A’Nu-Ahki go to Sa-utar. Riots break out at Sa-utar when Iyared refuses to treat with them. Muhet’Usalaq orders Lumekki to execute Plan Leviathan.
1922 Iyared splits the inheritance on his deathbed between Adiyuri and Muhet’Usalaq, and confirms A’Nu-Ahki as the Comforter from E’Yahavah A’Nu. Adiyuri swears the Oath of Iyared, and becomes Archon. Samyaza invades Salaam-Surupag, and sparks off the Century War (1922-2136). The Leviathan debacle causes Emzara’s death, and the taking of Uranna and Tylurnis into captivity by Samyaza. Death of Urugim at Paru’Ainu. Haunted Lands exodus. A’Nu-Ahki kills the great wurm.
1923 A’Nu-Ahki is married to Na’Amiha of Bab’Tubila.
1959 Birth of Pandura to Gununi by Qora at Ayar Adi’In.
1989-2041 Pandura is a novice priestess at Ayar Adi’In, where she becomes acquainted with Tarbet during his secret visits and with Epymetu during his advanced training under Gununi and Duruvanu.
1993 Samyaza’s Truce: A’Nu-Ahki meets Isha’Tahar.
2001 Epymetu goes to the Western Colonies to construct new Temple laboratories. Prometu rehabilitated and sent with him.
2017 Firefall raids on Akh’Uzan. Lumekkor develops aerodrones.
2041 Epymetu completes Temple City with support of Watcher Tse’Us-Psydonu. He foments a rift with Ayar Adi’In and seduces Pandura into joining him. Klyeto recruited from the Gate of the Setting Sun. Tse’Us-Psydonu names Klyeto High Priestess. Slaughter of Far West patriarchs.
2042 Birth of the titan Psydonu at Epymetu’s Temple City.
2083 Klyeto seduces her titan son, and becomes pregnant by him. She bears At’Lahazh, and renames the Western Colonies Aztlan after him.
2086 A’Nu-Ahki goes to Iglat-Meldur. Capture of Inguska.
2102 Death of Adiyuri. Kunyari becomes Archon.
2123-2135 Psydonu builds the Polar Tower of Thulae.
2133 Battle of the Haunted Lands Passes: Lumekkor makes a massive armored assault across the southern Haunted Lands passes into central Assuri using new glakka oil-burning Pentacorn all-terrain armored chariots. Uggu encircles Satyurati, while Samyaza Cult forces retreat to the inner fortresses. Iya’Baallim tricorn cavalry invade from Nhod.
2136 Meldur and Assur’Ayur besieged. Sons of Samyaza surrender to Tubaal-qayin Dumuzi, who establishes the garrison fortress of Dumuzida. Century War ends. Apocalypse of A’Nu-Ahki on Mt. N’Zar.
2148 Psydonu completes construction of Psydonis for Klyeto.
2156 Birth of Iyapeti. Astras invented in Lumekkor.
2158 U’Sumi born at Akh’Uzan. Birth of Sutara to Galkuna.
2176 Birth of Pyra T’Qinna at Epymetu’s Temple City in Aztlan.
2179 Birth of Khumi.
2185 Tiva born in the house of Henumil.
2190 Aztlan engineers plagues against Aertimissa with disastrous results. Conquest of Aertimikkor by Aztlan’s proxies.
2193-2202 Aztlan Revolt: Epymetu, Prometu, Psydonu, and At’Lahazh form consortium of industrial, Temple, mining, and military cartels. Troops loyal to Lumekkor disarmed. Prometu captured by Uggu and tormented to death at Kaukis Ardis (2195-2205). Mnemosynae joins Council in 2200.
2195 Kunyari excommunicates sons of Q’Enukki over the literal World-end dispute. Kunyari falls sick and dies. Rakhau becomes Archon.
2206 Elyo perfected at Epymetu’s Temple City. Epymetu killed mysteriously. Pandura becomes High Priestess of Northern Aztlan. Klyeto High Priestess of Psydonis. Initiation of Pyra.
2207 Aztlan assails Lumekkor. Seer Clan Regiment sent to Balimar under Avarnon-Set. U’Sumi and A’Nu-Ahki captured.
2208 Aztlan invades Far Kush. Pyra helps U’Sumi and A’Nu-Ahki escape. Muhet’Usalaq cedes Paru’Ainu to the Archonate. Death of Edina. Lumekkor’s Fleet blockades Thulae. Aztlan War ends. Tarbet and Pandura renew their acquaintance on the armistice ship. Khumi meets Tiva and leaves his father’s house. Samyaza assails Aeden, and is defeated.
2209 “Daughters of Heaven” revive the Samyaza Cult.
2210 A’Nu-Ahki begins Barque of Aeons. Colossus dedicated.
Glossary of People &Terms (Updated for Book 3)
The definitions are often in relation to the story—some are fictional, others connect with either real biblical history or ancient mythology.
A’Nu-Ahki – Seer-Prince of Salaam-Surupag and later Akh’Uzan, the biblical Noah.
A’Nu – The person of the Creator God E’Yahavah residing in the Heavens; which describes God in his most vast, beyond human ability-to-know sense. The contraction A’Nu loosely translates as heaven, and so the name of A’Nu-Ahki (in the story) means Heavensent Comfort. The biblical name Noah means simply rest or comfort. My attempt to fictionally reverse-engineer Sumero-Akkadian theo-historic revisionism (their “sky-god” was called Anu or An) may prove incorrect—though it is reasonable, as scholars with far more qualification than I have suggested it as a hypothesis. Nor is it an attempt at mix paganism with Judeo-Christian theology, since the Sumerian Anu is revisionism, and my story clearly defines its own terms on this matter. Since I view Genesis as history, and the implications of Babel are that we all come from common stock, it is not unreasonable or blasphemous to expect Sumer to have revised the meaning of earlier names to misuse them in their polytheistic mythology. History is full of such examples. The dignified El Elyon of Melchizedec and Abraham was 500 years after Abraham depicted by Ugaritic Canaanite inscriptions in less-than-flattering terms. The Canaanite tablets still presented El Elyon as the in-name-only head of their pantheon even in redefined form, nevertheless. In no way do my novels imply that the Sumerian Anu and the Hebrew YHWH are the same divinity. Rather, they suggest that maybe the polytheistic Sumerians (or perhaps their immediate predecessors) corrupted earlier names and terms from an entirely different Noahic theological tradition. It would have been easier than trying to use divinity
names that people found foreign.
Abyssu, the – The original massive water sphere from which all other elements and compounds were formed through gravity compaction-induced nucleosynthesis on creation days 1 and 2. The etymology of the English word abyss traces back through the Greek word abusso to the Sumero-Akkadian word absu. In Sumero-Akkadian myth, the absu was the subterranean fresh water abyss that housed their earth god, Enki. The Sumero-Akkadians personified the absu as the consort of the ocean-water abyss monster-goddess Tiamat.
aerodrone – A fixed-wing aircraft that functions by the same aerodynamic principles as modern airplanes.
amphiptere – A non-crested winged dragon that fed on carrion. Fossil remains of this creature today are called Dimorphodon.
Archonic Orthodox – Those sons of Seti that remained faithful to the Archons after Balimar, and then the sons of Khavilakki broke away to follow the Watcher-influenced “Ardisu Glory” religious factions. (See chronology.) Archronos – The unique title of the divinely created first man and archon. Later corrupted to Chronos, an early Greek god (father of Zeus) who devoured his children, and had to be overthrown, with the titans, by Zeus.
Assuri and Assurim – The pre-Flood Assyria mentioned in Genesis 2, and its people. The similarity with the post-Flood Assyria is only in name.
astra – A faster, more advanced aerodrone with turbine impeller engines.
At’Lahazh – Prominent titan in Aztlan—remembered in Greek myth as Atlas, King of Atlantis.
Atum-Ra – The biblical Adam, which devolved much later into an early version of the Egyptian creator/sun god Ra, who was the eldest of the gods, and ruled during the idyllic “First Time” of Egyptian myth. Though connecting Adam with Atum-Ra is a fictional device, the ancient god-kings of pagan myth have too many commonalties to be coincidental, and may be faded deified memories of our much longer-lived early fathers.
Basilisk, the – Oldest and chief of the heavenly rebels of the First Insurrection. The Serpent of Eden.
behemoth – The superlative form of behema – the biggest and most magnificent of all grazing animals. The description of this creature in Job 40:15-24 resembles most a sauropod dinosaur. (Hippos, elephants, and all other large modern herbivores do not have large “cedar-like” tails but little dinky things—see the Bible passage.) cockatrice – A chameleon pack-hunting wurm, the fossils of which are today classified in the Velociraptor, Utahraptor, and Deinonychus family—used synonymously with the words basilisk and wurm if referring to the animals.
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