The World of the Windows of Heaven

Our distant past is not what we have been told.

Long ago, our planet was re-surfaced by a violent cataclysm of water and runaway continental plate movements. Another world, richer in vast rainforests and gigantic animals, once existed on the sphere we call Planet Earth. Many today overlook evidence that men also lived there.

This forgotten world was given by the Creator God E’Yahavah to the charge of humanity’s long-lived first parents, Atum and Khuva.
Yet they were not alone.

E’Yahavah had created other beings, among them the Watchers, whose proper abode was in the heavens. The brightest of the heaven dwellers was Shining One, bard and chieftain of the Ninth Heaven. Though given vast authority in the heavenly dimensions, Shining One grew envious of the two domains E’Yahavah had kept from him-the Tenth Heaven, wherein the Creator alone dwells, and the newborn Earth.

Unable to storm the gates of the Tenth Heaven, Shining One and his cohorts penetrated Earth. In the sacred Orchard of Aeden they seduced Atum and Khuva into revolt. There E’Yahavah subdued them all, and issued a Great Curse upon the universe. Shining One was transformed into Serpent-king and banished to the prison cosmos of a cursed Earth to await the ages for judgment.

Nor were the man and woman exempt.

Everything Atum could see, measure, and touch-even the very stars-was changed. Death became the agent of natural balance in Atum’s cosmos, instead of love. The inner thought-world of the man and his wife became labyrinths of fear, confusion, hatred, and guilt. The outer universe entrusted to their care was subjected to that same upheaval: Dragons and pack-hunting wurms grew hostile and swarmed from thorny rainforests, followed by natural disasters, decay, sickness, and ultimately death.

Even so, hope remained. The Curse was actually an act of mercy disguised. Man’s environment needed to be suited to his fallen nature for humanity to survive in it. Placed into this temporal state, the Children of Atum had an opportunity for redemption that the heavenly rebels could not be allowed due to their greater knowledge and responsibility. The evil chosen by the rebel Eternals would forever consume them through ever-deepening levels of malice, while that of humankind would be cut short by mortality. Although marred by a self-destructive nature acquired in the First Insurrection, the image of E’Yahavah remained in humanity-along with a promise even more powerful than the Curse itself.

Nevertheless, the war in heaven was not finished. Shining One had left a seed of discontent to fester even in the minds of those that remained loyal-or who at least seemed to. That seed germinated among the lowest eternal order-the Watchers.

Fascinated by humanity’s ability to multiply, some of the Watchers now grew apprehensive at the idea. When Earth became full, would mankind be allowed to fill the heavens? The situation on Earth worsened every year. Wars raged and cruelty increased. Could E’Yahavah really redeem such a monstrous creature as what man had become?

A cartel of Watchers thought they had the answer. They petitioned the Creator for permission to go to Earth and civilize humanity. However, the seed of fear that Shining One had planted in their thoughts had grown to fruition. The Watchers had become obsessed with the idea of multiplying themselves through an evolutionary process that would slowly merge their kind with the human race. For this, they needed human women-which further opened the doors for an entirely new and unnatural obsession.

On Earth, one man remained who was not deceived by the Watchers. Q’Enukki the Seer spoke for E’Yahavah, and taught men laws that laid the foundations for a rapidly advancing civilization. But it was not to last.

Watchers led by Samyaza and Uzaaz’El descended to Earth against the counsel of E’Yahavah. Self-willed and self-deceived, they gave the tribes of men new laws and new knowledge-weapons and other prematurely advanced technologies for the elites that served them. Believing that they had established a Third Order between E’Yahavah and Serpent-king, the fallen Watchers became far more dangerous than even Serpent-king had hoped. Their obsessions grew, with inflated ends justified by any pragmatic means. Yet the Watchers refused to admit to themselves that they had now made a Second Insurrection, and thus become subject to Serpent-king.

Q’Enukki the Seer withstood the Watchers and their illicit offspring-the titans, giants, and demigods-powerful men and women, contorted spiritually and often physically by religious and even genetic manipulation. Q’Enukki promised that a deliverer would come for the faithful, but not until after the world had been twice destroyed-once by water, and again by fire. However, before these world-ends arrived, a Comforter would arise to lead the faithful to safety.

At the height of his influence, Q’Enukki was taken into the heavens for a new and mysterious mission. His descendants became known as the Seer Clan, and continued to spread his message across the world. In the centuries that followed, most were slaughtered for opposing the increasing religious and political power of the Watchers. Finally, a remnant of the Seer Clan retreated to the beleaguered land of Seti, Q’Enukki’s distant ancestor and father of the Orthodox Archons, which were a remnant of an older order from Atum.

Book 1, Dawn-Apocalypse Rising, begins the story of the Seer Clan Prince A’Nu-Ahki, who lives several centuries after Q’Enukki vanished.

A’Nu-Ahki grows up in the shadow of a prophecy his father uttered over him in the cradle. A convergence of signs point to the prince as Q’Enukki’s foretold Comforter…