FROM:
THE WATCHER'S BOOK: The Book of Tales:
Shay called out, “Yo stranger, is there
something wrong; something you need?” Suddenly to his shock the cloaked man
burst into flames. There was no fright, no crying out or any reaction of pain
from the stranger. The man kept walking
down the stone road as though nothing had occurred. Several steps later, and still he continued walking
down the road, albeit consumed in fire. There was no reaction from the torched
man to the shock of the farmer Shay.
Shay ran to the stranger to help put out
the fire. He called out, “For God’s sake man – let me help you!”
In that moment the roaring figure of the
burning man was utterly extinguished. The only remaining form was filled with a
boiling, wisp of smoke. As the farmer
approached and stopped, the once figure of a man calmly turned to face the sure
footed farmer and said, “For God’s sake”? Yes, yes you may help. Stand still oh child of man and know before
whom you are now standing for it is I myself; Illuva, the One and Always. I am
that one you feared most, and in a lifetime have come to know the least. I call
you, oh child of man to go and tell them who have corrupted the deeds of my
name and they are warned to turn from their wicked ways!” With that the smoke form
was gone before the wide eyes of the poor farmer. Shay stood all alone on the road.
Rising from where he had been bowed in
prayer, Shay realized he had just seen a vision. Many wagons and people were passing along on
either side of the stone road, going to and from both cities. Looking down at the place where he was
standing, Shay saw that the very pave stones were deeply scorched. Passerby’s stared at him strangely. One called out, “Fool, stop burning things!”
Forgetting all else he returned home back to
Mithar. Upon telling what happened to
him to his wife; Anya said, “You are very gifted and a blessed husbandman, but
why would the Creator manifest himself so and speak to a poor man like you and
not unto the king?”
“Because,” came a voice from the door way,
“of your humility, my friend.” It was
Olma the candle maker.
“Forgive me for not having yet purchased the
supplies as you requested,” Shay said.
“It is alright,” replied the merchant. Entering the home upon Shay’s welcoming, Olma
continued, “So, this visionary figure of yours called himself ‘Illuva’?”
“Yes,” Shay did not back down, as his
conviction grew, “Would you accompany me along the wall-stone road to see for
yourself the place of meeting? I did not
burn the pave stones nor did another man melt them on that way.”
“I do not know who burned them either, for
all we have is your say so, and others will call you mad or a dreamer, perhaps
both,” Olma said disbelieving. Adding, “It is just a curious thing you call the
Father of All as opposed to one of the Vala. I mean-”
“If you believe me or not is no care to me,
I simply shared my experience. If it
makes you happy or offends you, that is no matter to me. As me – and my wife, we shall praise Illuva
as the One and Always, for he far exceeds any of the Vala whom he sang into
being. They were his children and we his
grandchildren. The Vala made us but we
were only gifts back to him from them! Amazing
as those angels are, they should not be worshiped as Illuva alone should be,
for he is God!” Shay said as Anya
embraced him.
Olma replied, ‘I am not offended by the
faith of your experience, Shay. Not
everyone has had your vision. I have not
had such, but you tell it as you wish I only give you caution is doing so.”
Olma smiled and left the home, disbelieving in his heart.
Two weeks later Olma and another man,
Vethdema by name journeyed together from Mithar to Lindol for a council meeting
to strengthen trade between to two cities. Olma relayed the story he had overheard
the farmer Shay telling his wife, and he asked Vethdema what he thought of the
matter. As Olma was talking, the two of
them came upon the very melted place of which he spoke. The pave stones, that once made up the first outer
wall of Mithar were deeply scorched. The
two men stopped where they stood.
Before Vethdema could speak in turn, there
suddenly came shaft of light from heaven bursting through the clouds. Everyone along the road stopped as well to
gaze upon the wonder, for in that moment a flaming stone was hurled to the
ground below. Out beyond the road beside
Vethdema, the ground burst open wide with fire leaving a gaping hole twice as
broad and deep as a wagon! From the pit’s
dying fire a pillar of black smoke rose up.
Before everyone, the boiling pillar of smoke took to shape of a man, not
its form.
From this brief story beginning, other versions were added and expanded to about the character Shay, the poor farmer who 'saw God'. In, The Book of Priests, the Priesthood claimed him as the forerunner of Vethdema, the first declared priest. Yet, later it was the first Elder-Lord High Priest, Vethdema who had Shay killed for speaking against the King Vendumar. Still, in The Book of Prophets, it is expanded that he was the forerunner of Kashon, the first declared Prophet.
FIRST spoken by Shay and often quoted: "Mighty are the scales that balance either way in the hands of God; who knows the heart of man." ~Mereith to Fayendar.
From this brief story beginning, other versions were added and expanded to about the character Shay, the poor farmer who 'saw God'. In, The Book of Priests, the Priesthood claimed him as the forerunner of Vethdema, the first declared priest. Yet, later it was the first Elder-Lord High Priest, Vethdema who had Shay killed for speaking against the King Vendumar. Still, in The Book of Prophets, it is expanded that he was the forerunner of Kashon, the first declared Prophet.
FIRST spoken by Shay and often quoted: "Mighty are the scales that balance either way in the hands of God; who knows the heart of man." ~Mereith to Fayendar.
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