Lebor Clann Glas

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1	Upon the death of the last Queen of ER-E (MU),
2	Some three hundred and ninety cycles of AUN (4030 BCE),
3	From the dawn of the Great Age,
4	Of the Hound and Bull,
5	The holly priests did form a council.
6	Eight of the finest and wisest,
7	Eight of the most worthy,
8	To rule the sacred Isle.
9	To Protect rule of law.
10	To Respect and seek wisdom.
11	The gods to keep the balance.

2

1	To hold in check the darkness of men,
2	The Holly did banish,
3	All weapons of death,
4	From the sacred Isle.
5	So no King, nor captain,
6	No guard nor smith,
7	Could hold sword nor spear,
8	On most sacred of soil,
9	Without incurring the most high of curses.

3

1	Upon the death of ARYO,
2	AB-RA-MU did become a great king.
3	Upon founding of Ebla,
4	From all the known world,
5	Came trade and wealth,
6	Knowledge and skill.
7	Ebla did become the center of the world.
8	But AB-RA-MU was exceedingly old,
9	And had not yet fulfilled his final oath.
10	He did make his eldest son swear,
11	A pledge to the gods,
12	That a great tower of learning,
13	Be built in Ebla.
14	That all the tribes of man,
15	May speak with one tongue.
16	He named his son ISH-MU-EL.
17	A light of a new covenant.
18	And ISH-MU-EL did honor,
19	His fathers' word.
20	A great tower of learning he made.

4

1	Of the languages of Shem,
2	All come from but one end.
3	The city of the white rock.
4	The city of Ebla,
5	The spoken language of the (H)U-MAN,
6	And the written language of Eblaite.
7	From Eblaite came Cuniform and Hieroglyph.
8	From the tongue of (H)U-MAN came Saharan, Egyptian and Ugaritic.
9	From Eblaite, came Akkadian, Ugaritic and Caananite,
10	And the tongue of the ancients of the (H)Ibiru.
11	Then came the languages of Hatti, Cythian, Dravidian and Aramaic.
12	From Aramaic came the languages of Syriac, Ge’ez and Safaitic.
13	From the Safaitic came Sabaean and Hasaitic.
14	From Aramaic and Akkadian came Moabite and Edomite and ancient Persian.
15	For none of the languages of Gnosis were yet borne,
16	The languages of Gno of Greek, Etruscan, Gael, Catalian, Lydian, Phoenician and Sanskrit.
17	Nor did the language of Latin yet exist,
18	Until the Persians and Yahudi exiles did corrupt Etruscan.
19	Nor did the language of Hebrew yet exist,
20	Until the Persian priests sought power over all languages.
21	Thus, from Ebla is borne the release of wisdom,
22	And from Memphis under Ramses and then Babylon came corruption.

5

1	Of all the languages of the sons of Aryo,
2	The (H)U-MAN by one name.
3	But one deep well exists.
4	From the motherland of Éire the first tongue,
5	To the lands from which came the Gaul,
6	To the lands from which came the Anatolians,
7	Then the lands of Indus and the Brahma Brehons,
8	Then the lands of the Galatians, the Persians and Greeks,
9	To Rome herself and all her childrens’ tongues,
10	Heritage to the Cuillean once was sung.
11	In truth, you see,
12	All has but one history.

6

1	Yet the covenant of ISH-MU-EL,
2	Was not one in agreement,
3	With the Council of the Holly,
4	Upon the sacred Isle.
5	For the elders,
6	Prideful and intoxicated with power,
7	Did see such wisdom,
8	As reserved for worthy men,
9	And the gods.
10	So priests did send warning,
11	That such a tower of learning,
12	Would tempt the gods,
13	And bring our doom.

7

1	But ISH-MU-EL did not sway.
2	For in his heart,
3	All knowledge was for men,
4	Not a few chosen.
5	Yet upon this time that all the tribes,
6	Had heard and learnt one tongue,
7	The gods of the heavens,
8	Did conspire to scatter man,
9	Back to stone and fire.

8

1	Upon nine hundred and forty cycles of AUN(ON) (3480 BCE),
2	From the dawning of the Great Age,
3	Of the Hound and young Bull,
4	A new God came into the sky.
5	Usurping all but the most ancient gods,
6	A terrible tail did it reveal.
7	The crows claw of death.
8	For upon this unearthly omen in the heavens,
9	Came great death.
10	The lands of the mighty Sahar Did shake.
11	A mighty ball of fire,
12	Did cleave the land known as Fezzan.
13	Fire, smoke and dust.
14	All the forests burnt.
15	From West sea to east sea,
16	Water turned to poison.
17	Land turned to sand,
18	Sand turned to glass.
19	Men and animals alike,
20	Turned to ash.
21	Across the lands of the great Araba (Arabs),
22	Great thunderbolts and fire.
23	Forests and all living things to ash,
24	The mighty river of KUWA(IT),
25	Drained of life.
26	The mighty river of KAR(UN),
27	Reduced to dust.
28	And all around black rock fell to earth,
29	From the heavens of the gods.
30	Across the lands of the bull,
31	All but dust.
32	The Great culture of the Anatolians,
33	Destroyed in one instance.
34	The inland sea did burst its shore.
35	The great serpent river did overflow.
36	The MA-AT and Amratians scattered.
37	The cities of URUK destroyed.
38	Great warrior kings,
39	Without a people or a city.

9

1	Not a land or a people touched,
2	But for the sacred city of Ebla,
3	And the sacred isle herself.
4	The gods spared no fire and smoke,
5	Nor darkness that followed.
6	For within a single cycle of the Gleaming One,
7	Day was night, All was black.
8	Men once who were sculptor and scribe,
9	Became like shadows.
10	Tearing and clasping for a few crumbs,
11	The gods of the underworld did roam once more.

10

1	The exiles of the once great tribes of the Sahar,
2	Descended into the lands of the Ma-at and Amratians.
3	All men were like wild beasts.
4	The men of Ma-at could not compete.
5	With the power of the Sahar,
6	The men of the great Serpent river,
7	Did move east.

11

1	The exiles of the Anatolians,
2	Travelled east,
3	To the lands of Ebla,
4	And south the great lands of cedars.

12

1	The exiles of the once great,
2	And fertile lands of the Araba (Arabs),
3	Moved north and east,
4	Into the ancient lands of the Ubaid,
5	And war ensued.
6	The scattered tribes of the Uruk and Ubaid,
7	Did not have the fighting strength of the Araba,
8	They themselves were pushed further east,
9	And Took the lands of the Indus.
10	Making themselves a new home.
11	While the Araba settled into their new homeland,
12	Which they called AK-ADIA, new lands.

13

1	Upon the great darkness,
2	Came the great forgetfulness.
3	Men forgot how to be builders,
4	Forgot how to be farmers.
5	Robbers and thieves they did become.
6	No order of law.
7	In their stead came merchants of doom,
8	Men of trickery and fables.
9	A thousand superstitions,
10	Arose amongst the exiles,
11	Most strongly,
12	That this was punishment.
13	For man obtaining the wisdom of the gods,
14	Untouched, the tower of Ebla,
15	Was taken stone by stone,
16	To rubble.
17	For ignorant men,
18	Feared the wrath of gods,
19	Upon such wisdom,
20	As knowledge and writing.

14

1	Some rejected the gods of the heavens,
2	As the gods of the underworld,
3	Of ancient times arose.
4	Human sacrifice,
5	The eating of human flesh abounded.
6	Wherever a scribe or a teacher,
7	Did survive the darkness.
8	Beastly men and women,
9	Did seek them out.
10	Tearing and Eating their flesh,
11	To appease their gods,
12	Of ignorance and fear.

15

1	The Holly Ones of the Sacred Isle,
2	Spared by the Gods,
3	Did see such sign,
4	As proof divine.
5	Such wisdom Held tightly,
6	To precious few.
7	Their temples secure,
8	By countless slaves.
9	Initiation chambers made,
10	By willing hands.
11	No need then to save,
12	Widow nor orphan.

16

1	Upon the darkness,
2	And return to winter,
3	A single priest named E-SUS,
4	Did brave the journey,
5	From Ebla and the land of Levi,
6	To the sacred Isle,
7	Into the chamber of high priests,
8	To Appeal to reason,
9	And kind of heart,
10	To old wizards corrupted by power,
11	Bathed in priceless tribute.
12	DE-DANA most senior priest,
13	Did reject the young priest.
14	The plea of E-SUS,
15	Not to intervene,
16	With the gods quarrel with man.
17	For what heaven has started,
18	Let no man withstand.
19	A priestly plan of no account.

17

1	DE-DANA forbid E-SUS to speak of the world afar,
2	On fear of exile and banishment as Cuilleain.
3	A most grievous curse,
4	And no more for four years,
5	Did he speak,
6	Until a night of restless sleep,
7	A vision came of a serpent,
8	Eating itself without restraint.
9	Troubled he sought counsel,
10	From GAU-EL an old master smith and priest,
11	Who fashioned the sacred metals.
12	He did tell E-SUS of great portent,
13	Such vision held.
14	But E-SUS ignored and returned to study.
15	Yet upon the darkened night,
16	Set up on hill,
17	The wind did whip a howl,
18	As if to call him by name,
19	And why E-SUS did not follow,
20	The call of the gods.
21	But again the priest did ignore the wind,
22	The gods quarrel,
23	Not his to contest.

18

1	Then upon the great day of Yule,
2	E-SUS did stand for prose.
3	Upon ancient temple stones under darkened sky.
4	And before he could but utter a word,
5	A break in the blanket exposed,
6	A ray of light upon his face.
7	The great council yelled in awe and fear,
8	As E-SUS did proclaim a duty.
9	To take the wisdom of the holly men,
10	And save the tribes of man.
11	But hardened hearts these old priests,
12	With such wonder they did reject,
13	And called E-SUS into exile,
14	At southern shores.

19

1	But GAU-EL upon hearing the signs,
2	Did set a course,
3	Within six cycles of YAH(EL).
4	The greatest artisans and smiths,
5	Of the cuilleain did work,
6	Until GAU-EL called for E-SUS.
7	Upon the presence of E-SUS,
8	GAU-EL did speak.
9	For no more shall weapons of war,
10	Be the tools of Holy men,
11	But the power of word.
12	No more shall shadows of the underworld,
13	Rule by blood and death,
14	But great monuments to the gods.
15	By which man shall ever know,
16	The covenant of gods.
17	By what magic E-SUS called?
18	For ignorant men have eyes.
19	Whereupon GAU-EL produced eight young priests,
20	All with shaven heads in white robes,
21	Upon their heads a white skullcap,
22	And upon their white skullcaps,
23	Each a Great cylindrical cones of gold,
24	Upon which guilded all the wisdom of the Holly,
25	The most ancient of priests,
26	Discerned for all time.
27	Around their necks hung an ornamental cartouche,
28	Of the finest gold and jewels,
29	On which the great gods and wheel displayed,
30	And in their right hand,
31	Staffs of wood and gold.
32	These be your sword,
33	The finest artisans,
34	Masons and scribes of the Holly.
35	No army, no king,
36	Shall withstand the power of divine truth.
37	With these words,
38	E-SUS did shave his head and beard,
39	And did adopt the robes and cone hat of the eight.
40	Thereafter the nine left the sacred Isle,
41	Upon their journey.

20

1	Upon hearing of what GAU-EL had done,
2	The council did banish him,
3	To the great hill of YAH in the sacred BOY(NE).
4	And did decree that E-SUS,
5	Henceforth shall be excommunicated,
6	From his sacred homeland,
7	Never to return.

21

1	The first lands that E-SUS did see,
2	Were the ancient brothers of the Iberians.
3	Upon seeing the sacred Nine,
4	Their white robes,
5	Their golden cone hats,
6	All men embraced and cried for joy.
7	For the gods as saviours had arrived.
8	Not one stone, axe, or weapon,
9	Was held in anger.
10	Prostrate in fear and awe,
11	Within short time,
12	Order returned.
13	A small band raised,
14	And three new boats.

22

1	The second lands that the sacred Nine did see,
2	Were the Islands of the Great Eastern Sea.
3	The Isles of the triple goddesses Brid,
4	Upon seeing the three ships,
5	And the great priests,
6	All men dropped their clubs,
7	And bowed to the gods.
8	There, great monuments to the gods were erected.

23

1	The third lands the sacred Nine did see,
2	Were the ancient lands of the Maat.
3	Upon seeing the priests,
4	The people did prostrate (themselves),
5	And ceased war.
6	Order was restored,
7	In each land, in each place.
8	Great monuments were made,
9	To honor the gods,
10	And remind man,
11	Of a divine covenant.

24

1	But not all the gods were pleased.
2	While their names were honored,
3	Their knowledge,
4	Most sacred knowledge,
5	Was given unto all men.
6	Upon leaving the land of the great serpent river,
7	To travel east,
8	DAGDA and LIR did consort,
9	And a howling storm did scatter the boats.
10	And blow the priests westward,
11	One boat did land upon the shores of the yellow land,
12	To the east of the Iberians,
13	And the priests did bring the people into order.
14	Travelling inland to the land of great forests.
15	The other two boats were blown out of the eastern sea,
16	Into the great sea.
17	E-SUS and his boat was blown,
18	Upon the shore of the land of the shadows,
19	A land of savagery.
20	The ancient lands of the exiles of MOT.
21	The other boat was blown for days westward,
22	Until the priests near giving up the ghost,
23	Did land upon fertile shores,
24	Of the crescent gulf,
25	And did bring order,
26	To the lands of the OLME and MAY(A).

25

1	Seeing E-SUS and two priests,
2	The shadows were fearful,
3	But as beasts,
4	Their hunger overpowered their fear.
5	They did not submit to the priests,
6	Herding them to their most sacred place.
7	The plain of SALU(M).
8	And the mountain of bones of man.
9	There, muddy men of great superstition,
10	Eyed upon the priests.
11	The priests with their cones were pushed,
12	To the centre of the ring of dirt and ageless blood,
13	As a fire was lit to consume.
14	But at the point which was to be their doom,
15	A crack in the darkness did appear,
16	And the rays of AUN did shine upon E-SUS.
17	And the priests to his side,
18	And upon striking their golden cone hats,
19	Did send blinding rays out to the shadows.
20	Never before had these men seen such magic,
21	They scattered and fell.
22	Submitting to a power greater than death.
23	E-SUS and the priests did establish order,
24	To the land of the Britanni,
25	And upon this ancient place of blood and sacrifice,
26	Did commence the greatest monument,
27	To the ancient gods,
28	So that no human of this Isle or any other.
29	Upon its gaze,
30	Could be in doubt,
31	Of the power of the gods.

26

1	But for all that E-SUS had accomplished,
2	For all that he saved,
3	E-SUS never again,
4	Rested upon the land of his fathers.
5	For an ancient priests word ushered,
6	Is a sacred bond.
7	Never broken.
8	So he passed,
9	Some say,
10	In the new land of the ancient Ubaids,
11	Upon the streams of the Indus,
12	Revered even as a new god to the end.

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