Lebor Clann Glas

1

1	Upon the dawn of the Great Age,
2	Of the Hound,
3	And of the Young Bull (4420 BCE),
4	The land of E-RE (MU),
5	Had become fat with grace,
6	Wonders from all the world.
7	Clothes and peace,
8	Civilized men,
9	Long lost the art of the hunter,
10	Become the crafty trader.

2

1	Since the time of the three BRID,
2	Fame had spread across the tribes.
3	Each embracing them as their own,
4	A thirst for the wisdom,
5	Of the Isle of Mu.
6	And the strength of women,
7	Without respite.
8	The swords of Brid,
9	Did each King seek,
10	And power of sacred gold,
11	Fashioned by priestly elders.
12	So that the tribe of ADAM,
13	Had fractured become,
14	No longer the bravest,
15	Nor fiercest reigned,
16	But women of crafty disposition.

3

1	In this age,
2	Women did rule strong,
3	And men grew distracted.
4	In the way of the gods,
5	An ancient line of Queens raised.
6	From the time,
7	Of the triple goddesses.

4

1	The Gods had seen,
2	What men had become.
3	No rule no law,
4	But pleasure and corrupt,
5	Without restraint.
6	DAGAN and (H)ADAD did consort,
7	Over the lands.
8	Rain and warmth,
9	Unending.
10	Within three Great Cycles of CYBELE,
11	From the dawning,
12	Of the new Great Age of the Hound,
13	The land became like bog.
14	So deep and thick,
15	It swallowed many a man,
16	And tree.

5

1	But crafty Queens,
2	Did not head the gods,
3	And took to boats,
4	And far places,
5	Free from the rains and bog,
6	To Islands in the inland sea,
7	They came,
8	And grew their trade and power.
9	New gods of earth,
10	And passions they formed,
11	Goddesses of love and hate,
12	Goddesses of war and fire,
13	The male gods of old no more.

6

1	To the great lands of the Amratians,
2	The Queens of E-RE (MU) did trade,
3	Their city of Nut, the goddess of sky.
4	And further north,
5	Along the great Serpent river,
6	Did the Maadi worship the powerful Queens.
7	As MA-AT goddess of truth and law,
8	To the lands of the East,
9	Of the people of UR-UK,
10	The great goddess EL-NANA (INAANA),
11	Daughter of the moon,
12	Goddess of love, fertility and war,
13	The Queens of MU were worshipped.

7

1	Of one great in age and knowledge of men,
2	Was the Queen MA-EVE (MAB),
3	Who ruled the land,
4	Four hundred cycles of the AUN (Shining One),
5	From the Dawn of the new Great Age of the Hound.
6	It was Queen MA-EVE that banished,
7	The priests and ancient wisdom of the cuilleain,
8	Till time forgotten their ways,
9	To the hills most sacred they were.
10	Exiled from the sacred land of ADAMs rest,
11	By the river BOY(NE).

8

1	Only sons then born to MA-EVE.
2	ARU, the eldest and SETU.
3	Cursed by the gods,
4	No daughter to rule.
5	For in those days,
6	No more did men hold spear,
7	Nor hunt on MU,
8	Upon penalty of death.
9	The first born of the Queen,
10	ARU the strong,
11	Is favoured a while.
12	To learn the way of the ancients,
13	The priests of the cuilleain.
14	SETU, The second born,
15	Displeases the Queen.
16	But SETU is crafty in feminine strength,
17	And survives the wrath,
18	Of the warrior Queen.

9

1	The Queen did summons the Head Priest,
2	To divine upon what curse,
3	She had no female child?
4	The priest consult the sacred grove,
5	Had A vision of some clarity.
6	He returned And did say to the great Queen.
7	If she be a goddess,
8	Then she must find a worthy mate,
9	In the ways of the Brids,
10	A king of great note.

10

1	But crafty Mab did have a plan.
2	To trick the gods,
3	And not leave the throne.
4	She commanded,
5	Her Most fearsome female warrior guard,
6	To travel across the sea,
7	And return with hostages,
8	Kings worthy,
9	Of producing a warrior Queen.
10	The most skilled women warriors,
11	Guards of the ancients,
12	Did sail across to land.
13	In the south and east,
14	To Battle armies one hundred to one.
15	No match were any man or beast,
16	To these deadly sirens.
17	To capture five,
18	Of the greatest kings,
19	Of the ancient tribes of man.
20	Five kings captured,
21	Rivers of blood.
22	For a Queen's desire.

11

1	Upon their return the Queen did consort,
2	With each hostage King.
3	The first was from the land of the Sahar.
4	Fertile plains of vast wealth and plenty.
5	But no seed did fall.
6	Within three cycles of YAH (the Gleaming One).
7	The second (King) was from the land of Amratians.
8	But no seed did fall.
9	Within the three cycle of YAH.
10	The Third (King) was from the land of Uruk.
11	Again with no seed did fall the Queen.
12	The fourth (King) was from the land of the bull mountains.
13	And with seed she took hold.
14	But could not keep.
15	The Queen did summons the head priest.
16	Consult the gods as to why.
17	She did honor their pledge,
18	And find men worthy.
19	But no Queen heir,
20	Did she bear.
21	The Priest, wary his word might be his doom,
22	Did remind the Queen,
23	But one King remained.
24	And so the Queen did consort with the fifth King,
25	A great King,
26	From the Kingdom of Arabu (Arabia).
27	A place of rich and fertile forest and lands,
28	And precious stones.
29	Within two cycles of the Gleaming One,
30	The Queen did proclaim herself in seed.
31	Rejoicing, she did command the Kings returned.
32	By the skilled female warriors.

12

1	By the ninth cycle Queen MAB,
2	Did give birth.
3	But not to a Queen Heir,
4	But to a third son.
5	In birth rage,
6	She did curse all the gods,
7	And seized the child,
8	Tearing its limbs apart,
9	And eating its flesh.
10	Upon seeing his mother and Queen,
11	SETU did seize the Queens sword,
12	And cleave his genitals,
13	Onto the floor.
14	The enraged Queen MAB,
15	Upon seeing his act,
16	Did proclaim,
17	Not upon the gods,
18	But blood of men,
19	I have found my Queen heir!
20	From this point,
21	SETU shall be my successor.

13

1	The Queen then did order,
2	Her Women warriors,
3	To find the priests of the Cuilleain,
4	And kill them all.
5	But ARU upon hearing what had transpired,
6	Did rush ahead to warn them.
7	When the captain of the women warriors told the Queen,
8	She did curse the name of ARU.
9	That from this moment,
10	He shall be known as ARYO,
11	Meaning stranger in his own land,
12	And none shall give him aid.
13	Upon death,
14	She did order one thousand men,
15	To be slaughtered like cattle,
16	Bathing in their blood.
17	And upon each year,
18	A new born child,
19	To be slaughtered,
20	And eaten,
21	Upon the altars of the ancient gods,
22	As curse to their (the gods) treachery,
23	In honor of ancestor MOT,
24	The God of the underworld and shadows.

14

1	For saving the priests,
2	And honoring the Gods,
3	The Cuilleain did train ARYO,
4	In the way of war and battle,
5	In the way of wise counsel.
6	And the smiths of the priests,
7	Did fashion a great sword,
8	Greater than any in all the ages,
9	For this sword was blessed by the gods,
10	And this sword was made by living gods,
11	A sword for a king of kings.

15

1	Upon his twentieth year,
2	ARYO did leave hiding in the south of the Isle,
3	With a band of priests,
4	To the eastern lands.
5	Queen MAB had sent word,
6	To each King,
7	In each land,
8	That but one who gives aid to Aryo,
9	Shall be slaughtered.
10	And so Aryo found no rest,
11	Nor quarter.
12	Battle after battle,
13	Land after land he came,
14	In peace but to find only war.
15	The ranks of his camp grew in number,
16	Till no army, not even the great woman warriors of MAB,
17	Could match their fighting skill.
18	They became known as the Aryan,
19	Strangers from their own lands,
20	But conquerors of all.

16

1	Queen MAB upon hearing,
2	Of the campaigns of ARYO,
3	She did send SETU and her woman army,
4	To seize him.
5	She made SETU swear and oath,
6	That ARYO not be harmed.
7	For in her dark heart,
8	A pinch of pride,
9	At the bravery and blood spilled by Aryo.
10	But SETU grieved at her change of heart,
11	Did hatch his own plan for his brother's doom.
12	He did send him a sword of Brid,
13	The sword of Queens,
14	That his mother was greatly ill,
15	And that he had earned his birthright.
16	ARYO agreed to meet SETU,
17	Under great cedars,
18	In the land of the while cliffs,
19	Upon the Eastern Gulf of the Inland Sea.
20	But SETU did trick his brother,
21	And did break his solemn oath to a sacred Queen,
22	And did thrust a secret blade into his brother.
23	ARYO, did cleave SETU,
24	With one stroke of his sword,
25	That the head of SETU,
26	Did fly from his body and over the cliff,
27	To never be found.
28	But before ARYO gave up the ghost,
29	To his captain ARYO did give his sword,
30	And made him swear,
31	To bury him at this place of his doom.
32	For this was now his home.
33	And Upon this place,
34	To make a great city,
35	Of knowledge and wisdom,
36	For all the world.
37	The captain did so swear.
38	And ARYO did name him AB-RA-MU.

17

1	In honor of ARYO, AB-RA-MU did found a city,
2	By the white rocks and the cedar forest.
3	The resting place of his King.
4	And did name it Ebla.
5	No greater city of ancient times,
6	Did wisdom shine more,
7	Than the great towers of Ebla.

18

1	Upon hearing of the death of her sons,
2	The treachery of SETU,
3	The Queen did tear her clothes,
4	And wail through empty rooms.
5	She summonsed the head priest,
6	Of the Cuilleain,
7	And pledged he bind a high curse,
8	That her son SET shall never rest.
9	To be cast out,
10	Forever in the underworld.
11	And with the curse done,
12	Queen MA-EVE (MAB) did take her own ancient sword,
13	And cut open her breast.
14	Thus the last of the Great Queens,
15	The goddesses of the ancients was no more.

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