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The garden between records

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01storyEzekiel · The chariot vision02researchAncient Text Research Kit03storyAt the threshold of Kesh · The temple hymn’s conclusion04storyA Vessel on a White Lotus · Amoghapāśa05storySamuel · The source of the voice06storySpeech that went unheard · Vāk and understanding07storyWind, Dust and the Body · An Incantation of Ningirim08storyMoses · Fire in the bush09storyElijah · After the fire10storyA Voice from the Depths · Jonah11storyJacob · The place he did not know12storyThe empty space · A wheel, a vessel and a room13storyJacob · Tell me your name14storyKena · That through which15storyThe yaksha · Power that is not enough16storyWho knows the beginning · The hymn of origins17storyThe Waters of Nun · Book of the Dead18storyZhuang Zhou · The butterfly dream19storyForm and Emptiness · Heart Sūtra20storyThe Kālāmas · When you know for yourselves21storyThe ending of hostility · Pairs22storyThe cessation of suffering · What can change23storyDiscern and choose · Thought, word and deed24storyMusa · Where the two seas meet25storyThe Plant That Could Not Be Kept · Gilgamesh26storyAfter the Flood · Gilgamesh and Genesis27storyNachiketas · The third boon28storyThe unborn · The body and its dweller29storyA Weapon That Can Be Recalled · Mahābhārata30storyThe Stayed Hand · Abraham and Isaac31storyJob · Before explaining32publicationSuffering is not a required course.33storyAn explanation is not pain relief.34storyWhat Shall I Bring? · Micah and Hosea35storyWho sinned? · A question on the road36storyTo follow · To save and to lose37storyLife within me · No longer I38storyThe transfiguration · A voice from the cloud39storyAre you Elijah? · Three Gospel testimonies40storyWords on the Gates · Deuteronomy41storyElijah and Elisha · On the other side of the Jordan42storyThe seven seals · Who can stand?43storyThe image of the beast · Breath and a name44storyThe river and tree after the end · After the visions of judgment45storyAt the foot of Sumeru · Four mountains46storyMani · The name Maitreya47storyWait here for Maitreya · A dialogue48storyBuddha Mani · The Moon God49storyA place by the water · The garden between records

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At the foot of Sumeru · Four mountains

Book of Giants · Sogdian fragment G · M7800/I · R1–19 and V1–19

[…] the helpers who were in the heavens are all seized and bound. And these angels themselves descend from heaven to earth.

Two hundred demons see these angels, [are frightened(?)] and tremble. They take human form and hide. Then the angels separate the humans from the demons, place them to one side and [set] guards over them.

Those […] born […] one another […] themselves […].

And those who were born of them […] are separated from the demons. One half of them, from the east, and the other, from the west, are led along the slopes of four great mountains, to the foot of Mount Sumeru, to thirty-two cities. The Living Spirit prepared them for them from the beginning. And they call [this place] Aryan-vezhan.

And these people remain with their former instruction(?) and other […] do […].

[…] angels […] and enter into battle with the demons. [And those] two hundred demons fight a fierce battle with [the four angels]. […] and the angels—fire, naphtha and [sulphur(?)] […].

Reading notes

The angels first separate the humans from the demons and lead them towards the prepared cities. The battle with the demons begins after this separation.

Sumeru, the four mountains and the thirty-two cities describe the world within the story. This fragment does not preserve the outcome of the battle.

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