The Tides of Nemesis (The Windows of Heaven Book 4)
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THE
TIDES OF NEMESIS
THE
TIDES OF NEMESIS
Book 4 of The Windows of Heaven
A Novel Series by K.G. Powderly Jr.
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Dedication
For my late wife Dianne. Thank you for suffering with me, and teaching me what it really is to love.
For Pastor Robert Hall, thank you for modeling what you teach.
For all the folks at CSFNM, thank you for your encouragement and friendship.
In loving memory of Brian Wiegel. I miss your wit and energy.
Special thanks to Rob and James, for all your work.
For the Promised Seed—the suffering servant, wonderful counselor, mighty God, and the once and future King who waits to welcome us at Time’s End
Acknowledgements
Chapter epigraphs appear from the following books with thanks and respect:
All Bible quotations not from the King James Version (KJV) or Revised Standard Version (RSV) come from any of the following versions and will be identified accordingly:
o New International Version (NIV) © 1973 by New York Bible Society International
o New American Standard Bible (NASB) ©1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975 and 1977 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Ca.
o New King James Version (NKJV) © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc.
Graham Hancock, Fingerprints of the Gods, © 1995 by Graham Hancock, Crown Trade Paperbacks, (citations used with permission)
Early Midrash citations: Legends of the Torah, circa 200-500 CE
Slavonic Enoch (2 Enoch) Translated by W.R. Morphill, M.A.
John Woodmorappe, Noah’s Ark: A Feasibility Study, ©1996 ICR
John C. Whitcomb and Henry M. Morris, The Genesis Flood, ©1961 by Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Co.
John D. Morris Ph.D., The Global Flood of Noah’s Day, article available at icr.org
David C.C. Watson, Myths and Miracles, ©1976 by David C.C. Watson
Kurt P. Wise, Faith, Form, and Time (Broadman & Holman 2002)
Francis A. Schaeffer, How Sould We then Live? The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture ©1976 by Francis A. Schaeffer
Most people don’t realize that in terms of numbers of fossils 95% of the fossil record consists of shallow marine organisms such as corals and shellfish. Within the remaining 5%, 95% are all the algae and plant/tree fossils… Thus the vertebrates (fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals) together make up very little of the fossil record—in fact, 5% of 5%, which is a mere 0.25% of the entire fossil record. So comparatively speaking there are very, very few amphibian, reptile, bird and mammal fossils, yet so much is often made of them…. Furthermore, of this 0.25% of the fossil record which is vertebrates, only 1% of that 0.25% (or 0.0025%) are vertebrate fossils that consist of more than a single bone!
…In any regional area where vertebrate fossils are found, there is a general tendency for these land animals to be higher up in the rock strata sequence on top of the strata containing marine organisms. This has been interpreted by evolutionists as representing the evolutionary sequence of life from marine invertebrates through fish and amphibians to the land-based vertebrates.
However, this same observation can be more reasonably explained by Flood geologists as due to the order of burial of the different ecological zones of organisms by the Flood waters…. On this basis then we would probably not expect to find human remains in the early Flood strata, which would contain only shallow marine organisms. The fossil record as we understand it at the moment certainly fits with this.
—Andrew A. Snelling Ph.D.
Where are all the Human Fossils?
Creation 14(1):28–33, December 1991
Table of Contents
The Major Characters
Previously in The Windows of Heaven…
Prologue 1
Chapter 1: Tiamatu 5
Chapter 2: Migrations 29
Chapter 3: Maneuvers 59
Chapter 4: Muhet’Usalaq 79
Chapter 5: Week 99
Chapter 6: Chasm 121
Chapter 7: Stolen Time 137
Chapter 8: Subduction 157
Chapter 9: Shock Waves 175
Chapter 10: Ocean 193
Chapter 11: Infiltration 219
Chapter 12: Soundings 239
Chapter 13: Shroud 259
Chapter 14: Prism 279
Chapter 15: Fire and Ice 301
Chapter 16: Vineyard 329
Chapter 17: Prophecy 345
Epilogue 362
Appendix: About Global Flood Theories and Noah’s Ark 366
The Major Characters
A’Nu-Ahki a.k.a. Nu: Rightful heir of the Seer-Prince Q’Enukki, and builder of the ocean vessel Barque of Aeons; father of Iyapeti, U’Sumi, and Khumi by Na’Amiha, and of the twin daughters, Uranna and Tylurnis by his long-dead first wife—the biblical Noah. (See Books 1, 2, and 3.)
Avarnon-Set: A titan of Lumekkor, ambassador, military commander, and master of the industrial Guild of Tubaal-qayin; the secret mentor of Archon Tarbet. (See Books 1, 2, and 3.)
Belkrini: A descendant of Q’Enukki, and leader of a radical Seer Clan sect, which has built a cavern city beneath the northern mountains of Akh’Uzan to prepare for a World-end of fire.
Farsa: One of the “Hollowers”—a young hedonistic community of forest dwellers in the hills above Upper Akh’Uzan, sister of Moon-chaser, and former companion of Tiva. (See Book 3.)
Henumil: Father of Tiva and Yargat. Chief Dragon-slayer/priest of the branch of Q’Enukki’s clan that believes the Sacred Relics will protect the Valley of Akh’Uzan from the coming World-end, be it of fire or water; arch-enemy of A’Nu-Ahki, and instigator of the Seer Clan’s revolt against their rightful elder, Muhet’Usalaq son of Q’Enukki. (See Books 1, 2, and 3.)
Iyapeti a.k.a. ‘Peti: Eldest surviving son of A’Nu-Ahki, and husband of Sutara; the biblical Japheth.
Khumi: Youngest son of A’Nu-Ahki, and Tiva’s husband; the biblical Ham.
Lumekki: Father of A’Nu-Ahki; the biblical Lamech of Seth’s line.
Moon-chaser: Informal leader of the “Hollowers,” and discoverer of the “Seer’s Button” hallucinogenic mushroom that put the people at Grove Hollow in touch with the mysterious “Helpers” of the “Wisdom Tree;” older brother of Farsa, and a former companion of Tiva. (See Book 3.)
Muhet’Usalaq: Firstborn son of Q’Enukki the Seer, and rightful Prime Zaqen of Akh’Uzan; grandfather of A’Nu-Ahki; the biblical Methuselah.
Na’Amiha a.k.a. ‘Miha: Second wife of A’Nu-Ahki, and mother of his sons, sister of Tubaal-qayin the Great, who founded the Dynasty of Steel and became the second Emperor of Lumekkor; the Naamah of Genesis 4.
Pandura: High Priestess of Aztlan, a techno-sorceress engaged in genetic engineering, mind control, and weapons research for the titans Psydonu and At’Lahazh; grandmother of T’Qinna; the Pandora of Greek mythology.
Psydonu and At’Lahazh: Chief titans of Aztlan, a nation vying with Lumekkor for “super-power” status; the Poseidon and Atlas of Greek myth.
Q’Enukki: The Great Seer of Akh’Uzan. Ancestor of the Seer Clan, and prophet of the Q’Enukkian spiritual renewal, who was taken bodily into the heavens and did not see death; father of Muhet’Usalaq; the biblical Enoch.
Samuille: Q’Enukki’s “Watcher” companion on his heavenly journey.
Samyaza: A fallen Watcher worshipped in the lands of Assuri and Ufratsis; the “Shemhazai” or “Semjaza” of Jewish legend, and “Shamash” of Sumero-Akkadian myth. Samyaza is the rival of the fallen Watcher Uzaaz’El, and author of a terror campaign against Lumekkor and Seti (which includes Akh’Uzan, land of the Seer Clan). He is also spirit-husband of Uranna and Tylurnis (‘Ranna and ‘Nissa), the lost daughters of A’Nu-Ahki.
Satori: Father of Sutara the wife of Iyapeti.
Sutara a.k.a. Suta: Wife of Iyapeti the son of A’Nu-Ahki.
T’Qinna a.k.a. Pyra: Wife of U’Sumi the son of A’Nu-Ahki, and former Temple priestess of Aztlan who helped A’Nu-Ahki and U’Sumi escape from the Temple laboratories of Pandura in Book 2, The Paladin’s Odyssey. She is granddaughter of Pandura; the Pyrrha of Greek mythology, who survived a world-destroying flood with her husband Deucalion in a giant wooden box.
Tarbet: Archon of the Orthodox Children of Seti (which includes the Seer Clan), a religious and political leader under the thumb of Lumekkor, and the titan Avarnon-Set’s useful idiot. Tarbet is scion of a dynasty that replaced Q’Enukki, the rightful heir of the Archonate, after Q’Enukki vanished bodily into the heavens. (See Books 1, 2, and 3.)
Tiva: Wife of Khumi son of A’Nu-Ahki, and daughter of Henumil.
Tsulia: Wife of Moon-chaser, and childhood friend of Tiva. A spy working for Archon Tarbet, Tsulia tracks the strange phenomena at Grove Hollow associated with Moon-chaser’s mysterious “Helpers.” (See Book 3.)
U’Sumi: A’Nu-Ahki’s middle son, and husband of T’Qinna; the biblical Shem.
Uggu: Titan Emperor of Lumekkor, and brother of Avarnon-Set; son of the fallen Watcher, Uzaaz’El and the pre-Flood giant “Og” of Jewish legend as well as the Greek mythical king Ogyges. Not to be confused (as the Jewish legend is) with the post-Flood “Og King of Bashan.”
Uranna and Tylurnis a.k.a. ‘Ranna and ‘Nissa: Abducted daughters from A’Nu-Ahki’s first marriage, who came to sympathize with their Samyaza Cult captors, and eventually became First Wives of Samyaza himself. (See Books 1, 2, and 3.) A religious movement in Assuri came to center on them as the “Daughters of Heaven.” (See Book 3.)
Uzaaz’El: The fallen Watcher behind the power of Lumekkor; the “demon Azazel” of Jewish legend. Originally partnered with Samyaza in an attempt to redeem the Earth for themselves, Uzaaz’El has since broken with Samyaza, and engineered the latter’s demise as a political power, but not as a religious force, “Father” of Uggu and Avarnon-Set. (See Books 1, 2, and 3.)
Yargat: Older brother of Tiva, wife of Khumi. As son of the priest Henumil, Yargat has become chief of the local order of acolytes in Akh’Uzan. Yargat sexually abused Tiva from when she was a small child until she ran off to Grove Hollow, where she met Farsa, Moon-chaser, and Khumi.
Previously in The Windows of Heaven…
Our distant past is not what we think.
Long ago, a violent cataclysm of water and runaway continental plate movements re-surfaced our planet. Another world richer in vast rainforests and gigantic animals once existed on the sphere we call Planet Earth. Many overlook evidence that men also lived there.
The Creator God E’Yahavah gave this forgotten world 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. 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 to revolt. There E’Yahavah subdued them all and issued a Great Curse upon the universe. He transformed Shining One into the Basilisk and banished him to the cosmos of Earth to wait out 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 a labyrinth of fear, confusion, hatred, and guilt; while E’Yahavah subjected the outer universe entrusted to their care to a matching upheaval: Dragons and pack-hunting wurms grew hostile and swarmed from thorny rainforests, followed by natural disasters, decay, and ultimately death.
Even so, hope remained. Although marred by a self-destructive nature acquired in the First Insurrection, the image of E’Yahavah remained in mortal humanity, along with a promise more powerful than the Curse.
Nevertheless, the war in heaven was not finished. Shining One had left a seed of discontent to fester even in the minds of those who remained loyal—or who at least seemed to. That seed germinated among the heavenly order known as the Watchers.
Fascinated by humanity’s ability to multiply, some of the Watchers grew apprehensive at the idea. When Earth became full, would the human race expand into the heavens? The situation on Earth worsened every year. Wars raged, and cruelty increased. Could E’Yahavah really restore the monstrous creature that 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. 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.
One man remained on Earth not deceived by them; 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 the Basilisk, the fallen Watchers became far more dangerous than even the Basilisk had hoped. Their obsessions grew, with inflated ends justifying any pragmatic means. Yet they refused to admit to themselves that they had now made a Second Insurrection, and had thus become subject to the Basilisk.
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 E’Yahavah destroyed and restored the world
twice—by fire and by water. However, before these World-ends, a Comforter from E’Yahavah A’Nu would arise to lead the faithful to safety.
At the height of his influence, Q’Enukki vanished into the heavens to fulfill a new and mysterious mission. His descendants, the Seer Clan, continued to spread his message across the world. In the centuries that followed, the fallen Watchers slaughtered most of them for opposing their agendas. 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.
Dawn-Apocalypse Rising began the story of the Seer Clan Prince A’Nu-Ahki, who lived centuries after Q’Enukki had vanished.
A’Nu-Ahki grew up in the shadow of a prophecy his father had uttered over him in the cradle. A convergence of signs pointed to the prince as Q’Enukki’s foretold Comforter from A’Nu.
A’Nu-Ahki found his own seer gift after the giants of the Samyaza Cult slaughtered his wife and family while making war on the Lumekkor Empire. The Seer Clan found itself trapped between these two antediluvian super-powers clashing in the thorny rain-forest mists.
But not all of A’Nu-Ahki’s daughters were killed. The giants took Uranna and Tylurnis as concubines to the Samyaza homeland of Assuri. The “Century War” followed, while the Seer Clan became a vassal of Lumekkor. To keep some independence for his people, A’Nu-Ahki entered a political marriage with Na’Amiha, sister of Tubaal-qayin the Great of Lumekkor.
Over time, the Seer Clan grew complacent in the political protection purchased by A’Nu-Ahki’s marriage. Yet they rejected A’Nu-Ahki as A’Nu’s Comforter because he had broken taboo by marrying a woman raised in Lumekkor, which all but worshiped the hated Watcher Uzaaz’El.
The war raged, until a giant comet blazed as a warning sign that even those outside the Seer Clan could not easily ignore. E’Yahavah visited A’Nu-Ahki with a vivid apocalypse. Everywhere on Earth, society reinforced the evil in humanity and undermined good. The Watchers, who had come to civilize men with presumptuous noble intentions, had fallen to the same seductions faced by men. Chaos and tyranny resulted. In one-hundred and twenty years, E’Yahavah would send a cataclysm to end the world. Only those who followed the Comforter of A’Nu would survive.