\n\n\nYou know, I should compose a Biblical paraphrase. Sell each book as an e-book for $1 or summat. There\u2019s probably enough post-Christians out there ready to re-embrace it as heritage mythology, like the Renaissance with the Greek/Roman legends.
In the beginning there was nothing, so God made everything.
On the first day all was darkness, so God made light, and it was day, and else was night.
On the second day all was one, so God divided it, sky above, world below.
On the third day the world was blank, so God raised up the earth, and made it flower, and else was sea.
On the fourth day the sky was empty, so God made the stars, and the sun, and the moon, and set them in their place.
On the fifth day the world was still, so God made the birds, and the fish, and loosed them to fill the sky, and the sea.
On the sixth day the earth remained, so God made the beasts. Finally God made men, and gave them his form, and gave them the world.
On the seventh day God was satisfied with what he had done, and rested.
And *immediately* after this is where it starts getting tricky - I want to incorporate extra-biblical Christian mythology, specifically the angels and the War in Heaven, but where?
If I’m going with Lucifer as the garden snake, and trying to maintain chronology it’d have to be wedged somewhere in Genesis, but hell if I’m a stickler about chronology the angels would need introducing either before or within the 7 days of creation but that’s too iconic to fuck with.
Other possibilities include:
Adversaries - mythologizing the notion that angels were syncretized in from another religion by introducing them in the context of the Exodus or Babylonian captivity. Draw on Ezra, Isaiah, maybe even Revelations?
Fall - after telling the creation and garden stories from God’s perspective, retell them from Lucifer’s, essentially incorporating Paradise Lost in the middle of Genesis. Would set up a theme of dualism that could be promising but also could become a chore to keep servicing.
Cain - jumble them in with the nephilim and the other weird pre-flood shit, intimate that the flood was a divine reboot Titans/Olympians style
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