Song of Norsun

Zule

 Below on this page is Part 2 of a science fiction story called the Mosy Saga. In Part 1, Tara the Ta began making plans to depart from her home in Eland. In my imagination, Eland was located in the highlands of what we know as the Caucasus Mountains. Tara has a vision of the future which includes Mosy, although it is a clone of Tara who will be with Mosy in the future in a land far to the south that we know as Egypt. In Part 2 (below), Tara has a discussion about Mosy with Pokam, one of the replicoids who helps to maintain the seemingly fragile bloodline of the Ta.

Tara's most recent vision of the future revealed to her that she will found a new tribe of the Ta in a new land to the south, but spreading Ta genes involves not only migration, but also biological warfare. Her husband Zule's body acts as a source of deadly viruses that can spread to other humans. Those deadly viruses have been designed by Interventionists to serve as a way to depopulate the lands that are to be colonized by Tara and her descendants. 

Potina

The Ta are the genetic and cultural descendants of Trysta, the Asterothrope. Tara also has large numbers of gene patterns derived from other human variants, such as the Kac'hin, one of the human subtypes designed to have telepathic abilities. Tara's body also contains sophisticated nanotechnology that allows her mind to link into the Bimanoid Interface, providing her with access to the Sedron Time Stream and information from the future.

 Norsun. Tara must build a new homeland in the southern land of Norsun with the help of her husband Zule and Zule's other wife, Potina (show in the image to the left). Zule (see the figure above) designs musical instruments such as flutes and harps. He takes advantage of the skilled craftsmanship of the replicoids who mine metal ores, smelt copper and arsenic, and craft fine, durable wires from alloys of copper and arsenic. The replicoids are also masters of woodworking, textile weaving and dying and they help Zule make decorative bronze clothing accessories for his wives to wear. The events of Part 2, below, continue immediately from the end of Part 1 when Tara explained to Zule and Potina that they were wedded. The three spouses proceeded to have a long, celebratory love-making session.

Visions of Norsun (Part 2 of the Mosy Saga) (Part 1)

Tara during a ritual bath
just before departing for Norsum.

Tara was rather lost in the pleasures of her first time making love to both Zule and Potina at the same time. She was joyfully sliding her tongue along Potina's hot genitals while also continuing to push Zule's big erection as deep as possible into her allzaurish. Tara could not help but compare the sensations provoked by Zule's penis to those that were created whenever Ila's big equine penis was inside her allzaurish.

Potina had begun singing and now Zule called for a Rep to bring his lyre. Thyl, one of the Rata House replicoids was quickly there beside the bed, handing the instrument to Zule. Tara was so used to having Reps close at hand, she did not immediately pay attention to the replicoid. Zule stroked the instrument and began to play his lyre so as to accompany Potina's singing.

Thyl leaned close to Tara and whispered, "May I be of assistance?" From Thyl's perspective, there was shortage of sex partners in the bed. Thyl also knew that Tara had made the long trip from Ida House to Rata and the girl must be tired. Tara was the only one working, so it seemed polite to enquirer if she needed help.

Tara glance at Thyl from the corner of her eye and realized that she was trying to do too much. For a moment she wondered what role to assign Thyl, but there was usually no need to explain anything to the Rep. Tara stopped her licking of the stiff glans of Potina's clitoris and told Thyl, "You give Tina another orgasm while I take care of Zule."

Thyl quickly grabbed Porina's legs and turned her genitals towards the side of the bed. Thyl slid her fist inside Potina's wet vagina and began massaging her genitals with powerful thrusts of her artificial tongue. The replicoids of Eland usually maintained their human appearance, but in order to provide maximal sexual stimulation to Potina, Thyl rearranged the nanite components of her tongue, shaping it into a form that through long experience Thyl knew could be used to quickly bring Potinal to sexual climax with a satisfying orgasm. At the same time, Tara began vigorously riding Zule's erection while playing with her own stiff clitoris and nipples and also joining in with Potina's song.  

Potina bathing with Tara

Potina was singing a silly ditty about the challenges of dealing with her two lovers at the same time. Tara already had some of Zules sweet semen in her front vagina, but she was intent on getting the full effects of his potent sex hormones by getting him to now ejaculate into her back vagina; the allzaurish that was a special genetic and nanite-generated feature of the Ta.

Before Thyl was called into the bedroom, Potina had sung:
"I brought my lover to our bed
After she told me we were wed.
She took you deep inside
and took you for a ride.
Now, since I'm your bride,
I thought she'd be polite,
but no! After she came
it was just more of the same
on your penis she held her ground
Ta simply turned herself around
and took some more delight!
I must complain, it is not right!
She's got vaginas front and back!
sexual appetite she does not lack
so everything takes twice as long
and that's why I sing my song.
Now, I don't want her to be quick,
she takes sweet time my clit to lick..."

At that point Zule began playing along with his lyre. Potina continued singing:
"Plucking strings while I sing,
the Rep and her tongue do their thing."

Tara began singing along, accenting Potina's verses...
"He'll pluck you next and make you ring,
don't ignore what this cute Rep is offering."

Thyl the Rep with Pokam

Thyl knew exactly how to sexually stimulate Potina and quickly pushed her to another climax. When Potina caught her breath, she continued,
"My new husband should not be doubting,
yes, that's two orgasms for me and counting."

Zule ejaculated again and Tara's allzaurish responded to the sex hormones that were in her husband's hot semen. Tara continued pushing Zule's erection in and out of her back vagina and in so doing she spread the clytykynyn to every part of her allzaurish. Tara achieved another orgasm and slipped into an orgasm trance as she sang out in ecstasy: "Another Ta vision is before my mind!
To Norsun I'll go with Zule to find
The site of the home we will share
but I see two residences for us there.
One is a large, comfortable home
where Zule will often work bronze alone
The other is a high palace for Potina
where she will rule as Norsun's leader."

Now another Rep named Pokam came into the bedroom carrying two more lyres, one of which was handed to Thyl. The two replicoids began playing along with Zule, creating a harmonic melody that matched Tara's rhythm of sliding Zule's penis in and out of her dripping allzaurish. Tara finally pulled off of Zule's erection and briefly she licked the soft skin of his penis and swallowed some more of his spicy semen. 

Potina could no longer wait. She pushed Tara to the side and mounted Zule. Zule never paused his lyre playing while Potine began vigorously massaging her own vagina with his hot, hard penis. Potina continued the song asking Tara:
"Ta, how can your vision be true?
Zule will go south with only you?"

Potina and her palace.

Under the effects the sex hormones inside her two vaginas and her mouth, Tara's telepathic abilities were amplified. Making use of the Bimanoid Interface, Tara was able to look into the mind of her replicoid copy who was inside the Eternity space-time bubble. Tara had no understanding of the existence of her replicoid as another independent thinking being, but during Tara's intense orgasm trance, that replicoid was a source of information about Tara's first journey to Norsun. 

The replicoid copy of Tara had previously Viewed the future be means of the time travel equipment in Eternity. Now, Tara continued singing and describing her vision of the future to Potina and Zule...
"Listen, Tina, my lover, I know you will find
when pregnant, for your health, staying in Eland
is wise, so you'll be safe here and left behind
while Zule and I visit the places I've described."

Potina was intrigued by the idea of a future palace in Norsun. She asked Tara, "What will there be for me to rule when we live in Norsun?"

Tara was now spread across the bed. Lying on her back with her eyes closed, she touched her big erect Ta-style clitoris with her finger tips and told Pokam, "Get your big penis inside me... now!"

Pokam set down the lyre he was playing and made his nanite-generated clothing begin to disintegrate. He had never previously made love to Tara, but he was well aware of her preferences so he inflated his penis, shaping it so as to perfectly fit Tara's anatomy and provide her with pleasure. As Pokam began thrusting his erection in and out of Tara's slippery vagina, she stimulated the glans of her clitoris with her trembling finger tips and continued her 'Song of Norsun'...

Tara riding Ime.

From Eland, our homeland fair,
Tara and Zule, a wandering pair,
To distant Norsun, a journey, we dare,
The road of bronze, under boundless air.

On Ime and Mot, the bronze trail leads,
Through hilly terrain, the quest proceeds,
Hoof falls echoing with every stride,
Off to unveil Norsun's mysteries, we ride.

Zule, the lyre's gentle caress,
Crafting tunes, our hearts confess,
Instruments of joy, he brings to life,
Amidst those hills, our love runs rife.

In lands to the south, we make our way,
Rushing towards Norsun by night and day,
Fast where El's children have never been,
Into a new world, a mysterious scene.

At that moment, Potina achieved an explosive orgasm and cried out in joy. Tara was finally jolted out of her orgasm trance and she luxuriated for a moment in the pulsing splendor of her clitoral erection. She was tempted to ask Thyl to come lick her glans, but Potina had turned herself around and now astride Zule in reverse orientation, Thyl set down her lyre and began playing with Potina's clitoris.

Tara glanced at Zule and he winked at her. He asked, "So Tina will give birth to my first child?"

Tara knew that Zule and Potina would both assume that in about a year, she would be pregnant with Zule's child. However, Tara knew that was not true. Potina would eventually give birth to Zule's first child, but that was still five years in the future, after they had moved to Norsun. Potina's first child would be fathered by her step-father, Prov. Tara had no desire to disrupt their wedding celebration by explaining this fact. 

Potina and Osy the
black mountain lion

Tara was well aware that Brita had a challenge in juggling her two husbands, Prov and Sasp. Often, when Brita needed to make love to both of her husbands in the same sexplay session, she invited Potina to join the fun in the master bedroom. Thus, it was no real surprise that Prov would impregnate Potina. Tara told Zule, "Yes, I have seen that in the future." 

One of the images the Tara had seen drifting in the mind of her replicoid was a view of Potina with a large black lion. Sometimes black mountain lions were seen in the hills of Eland, but this vision was confusing and jumbled together in her mind with other visions of the future that Tara had experienced. Tara had recognized the location of the vision scene; a high pass not far from the great mountain, El. Tara knew the name of the lion: Osy. Tara tried to describe her vision of Osy to Potina...

"Eland's hills and valleys are vast,
Mark! Creatures from the distant past,
The beasts of many lineages untold,
Into tales of their stories, our hearts enfold.

Each night dark, each day glows,
Stories and songs begin to flow,
Tales of Eland's black cats of grace,
In the high cool hills they find a place.

The lion I've seen is dark as night,
In this blackness a soul takes flight,
With quiet step this baby was found,
In a vision, it is homeward bound.

Tara in Norsun after osy's death.

So, explain that, dear lover, if you may,
As we journey through night and day,
From Eland's high hills a new call,
In this ancient land, where legends fall."

Tara fell silent, but Zule continued playing his melody for the song. Tara recalled a vision from years previously. Now she understood that vision as being her older self, in a wooded glade, attendant to the burial of the great black lion Osy. Potina was in gloomy mourning for the loss of her feline companion. Tara turned her thoughts away from that sad scene of the future.

Tara and Potina were gazing into each others eyes as they both now gently rocked on a big hot erection. Zules semen continued to ooze out of both women and Tara kept rubbing the semen on her stiff glans and her erect nipples. The sex hormones from the semen stimulated receptors in Tara's skin, keeping her very sexually aroused. 

Now Potina took up some of the slippery semen and rubbed it on her erect nipples. She told Tara, "Yesterday, Prov went off to hunt a lion that got into our flocks."

Tara asked, "A black lion?"

Zule shook his head and relied, "Nobody saw it. We only found two dead animals, dismembered by a lion."

Ime and Tyn in Norsun.

The vision of the lion fled from Tara's mind. Mostly her "memories" of the future concerned people and horses, not other animals. Tara knew that while living in Norsun she would become involved in breeding horses: the local horses of Norsun and the horses that she, Zule and Potina would bring with them from Eland. The new breed of horse would be significantly larger than even the largest Eland horses such as Ime.

Tara had seen visions of the forests of Norsun and was vaguely aware that she would devote much of her life to nurturing those forests. The Rep had long been gardening trees in Norsun, but caring for the forests would become a consuming interest for Tara.

Tara knew that the house where she would live in Norsun with Zule and Potina and their children would be a growing thing, lovingly built and expanded by the Rep who were skilled woodworkers. There was some problem with the forests that would be solved with the help of the Rep. That solution apparently involved the same wire-making technology that Zule and the Rep used to make the metal strings for the lyres and harps that Zule designed.

Suddenly Tara realized what she had seen in an old vision from her youth. The Rep would craft and deploy wire shields that would protect young trees from grazing animals, facilitating the maintenance of the beautiful forests of Norsun. In surprise, Tara laughed at the idea.

Potina was still playing with her nipples and enjoying how Thyl was licking her genitals. Zule's erection was still hot and hard inside her body. Potina glanced at Tara and for a minute watched in fascination as the Ta played with the big pink glans of her clitoris. Potina licked her lips and asked, "Why did you laugh?"

Potina with a bronze torq

Thoughts of the spectacular bronze working industry that would exist in Norsum flashed through Tara's mind. There was no point in trying to explain the complex process by which the Rep would mine vast amounts of copper and arsenic and manufacture endless lengths of wire. Tara suspected that even in the future, she would never be allowed to see all of the details of that manufacturing process. In the past, she had seen Zule and Pokam at work, hammering and shaping wires for the lyres that Zule built. Tara told Potina, "You will command an army of the Rep, armed with bronze weapons and..." Tara paused, uncertain about how to describe the wheeled wagons she had seen in her visions of the future. 

Rather horrified, Potina asked, "We will have war in Norsun?"

"No, I have not seen that." Tara tried to express the peaceful nature of their future lives in Norsun, "The Rep army will be so formidable that none of the southern tribes will dare fight. You will rule over a time of peace, trade and gifting."

Now Zule chuckled and asked, "What sort of gifting?"

Tara told Zule, "Your wife Tina will not only shower you with orgasms, my husband, but she will exchange gifts with the tribes of the south. Delegations will arrive at Potina's palace and then cart away the gifts. Wonderful constructs of bronze, silver and gold. In fact..." Tara now understood something that she has first seen in a vision years previously. Just as Zule now has two wives, Potina would have two husbands. A prince from a powerful tribe to the west of Norsun would become Potina's second husband.

Potina about to exchange a tired
horse for a fresh horse.

Once again, Tara did not want to tell either Potina or Zule about this aspect of the future, not during this wedding night celebration. Tara tried to change the subject, "I will become a breeder of horses. Those horses will become the means to quickly spread messages from one end of Norsun to the other." 

Tara had long been in possession of a future memory of Potina exchanging horses at stations maintained by the Rep. Now that old image made sense. Potina would often travel across Norsun, meeting traders and serving as the frontier face of Norsun.

Potina knew of the Ta habit of having sexual encounters with their horses. Potina commented, "You are already a breeder of horses."

Tara did not want to have to explain to her husband that she could make use of the sex hormones in horse semen to shift her mind into a state receptive to a vision of the future. Tara told Potina, "Some things are better left unspoken."

Potina nodded. "Sorry." She reached down and patted Thyl's head. The Rep was diligently licking the stiff glans of Potina's clitoris and stroking her hot wet labia. Zules big penis was sill inside Potina's vagina. "Thyl is giving me loose and quivering lips."

Tara almost commented on the joy that Potina took in making love to her step father, but just then, Tara thought she could here Prov calling, "Who is in the house?" She signaled to Zule to stop strumming his lyre and asked, "Did you hear that?"

Quickly reassembling their nanite-generated clothing, Thyl and Pokam hurried out of the bedroom. Zule, Potina and Tara more slowly pulled on some clothing and then went to greet Prov.

Tara and Potina in Norsun.

Near the main entrance to Rata House, Thyl and Pokam were gathered at the feet of Prov. Prov was pulling off his damp clothing. It was gently raining outside. Potina told her father, "Welcome home." When Thyl and Pokam moved aside, a black lion cub could be seen a Prov's feet. The small animal could barely open its eyes.

Prov explained, "I found this cub after I killed its mother. Now, caring for it is my responsibility." 

Tyle brought a bowl of goat's milk to the lion cub. Potina told Prov, "We have heard of this cat from Tara."

Prov looked at Tara and asked, "A future vision?"

Tara nodded. "I believe I have seen this animal when it has grown... at least I have seen Potina with a lion companion in Norsun."

Prov asked, "In Norsun of the south?"

Potina took hold of her father's arm, "Tara has seen our future! Zule, Tara and I will journey to Norsun." Potina quickly told her father about her wedding to Zule and Tara. "Both Banduy and mother have approved the marriage."

Prov nodded. "I'm pleased that Banduy has finally accepted the facts. Does this mean that you three will be moving to Norsun soon?"

Tara shared her vision with Prov, "No, we will continue living in Eland for five more years. After all, we are still quite young."

"By the laws of our tribe, you are adults. But I would worry if you were to hurry off to Norsun... alone." Prov glanced at Pokam.

The Rep said, "They will not go alone. These three will always be accompanied by Rep."

Tara at age 40 in Norsun.

"I'm pleased to hear that." Prov took hold of Thyl's arm and said, "I am weary. I must sleep." He took the Rep to the master bedroom. Potina and Zule went to the bedroom that they had shared for years. Tara was tempted to go along with Potina and Zule, but she was still haunted by some of the information that had come to her from the mind of her replicoid. Tara looked at the cub, now asleep on a blanket beside the bowl of milk. She took the hand of Pokam and led him outside.

 They went and sat beside the horse corral where they had a good view down the Rata valley where Tara expected Brita to arrive with her little caravan. She asked Pokam the Rep, "So, have you also seen the future?"

The replicoid replied, "I stated a fact. The Rep will always attend to you and your family." Pokam tried to slip his hand between Tara's legs and resume making love to her, but Tara crossed her legs. 

Tara said, "You can tell me the truth. I am Ta. I know that you Rep are replicoids, some form af artificial, manufactured life."

"But you can never discuss that truth with others of your tribe."

"Why not? What secrets do the Rep hide?"

Pokam explained, "There are some among the Watchers who don't want any Rep on Earth. We must be careful to hide our presence on this world. We work very quietly."

Tara asked, "And Mosy is part of your work?"

Pokam nodded. "But ask me for no details. I will go with you to Norsun, but no further. When you are in Egypt, you will have another helper... her name, Caz."

Potina about to meet Caz.

Tara excitedly said, "Caz! I have seen her in my visions of the future. I've seem her in Norsun, with Potina."

"Caz will teach you all about Egypt and Mosy. You two will share several lives together, so do not be in a hurry." Pokam put his arms around Tara and kissed her, trying to distract her from her worries about the future.

Tara saw that Pokam had his lovely Rep penis erect and pointing at the sun above. She could not resist straddling him. With their arms tightly wrapped around each other, Tara still could not calm her mind. "I feel like I have known Caz before... somewhere, somehow..."

Pokam laid Tara down on the soft wet grass. A warm gentle rain continued to fall. By branching his nanite-built penis, Pokam was able to fill both of Tara's vaginas with his hot organ. "You have known her in past lives also. She has been training you for many centuries."

Caz the replicoid.

As a Ta, Tara had been trained to view the flow of human civilization across century-long time periods. She suspected that Mosy would live in the far future, more than a thousand years in the future. "I can't understand this... how a plan can unfold across the centuries."

Pokam was slowly and methodically massaging Tara, working her towards the bliss of orgasm. "You think too much, my love. There is nothing wrong with going slow. Enjoy every minute."

Tara had long held tight to a vision of the replicoid that she now knew as Caz. Tara suspected that Caz was already in Norsun, preparing for the arrival of Tara, Potina and Zule. Finally, she decided to let that go and she surrendered to the sweet love making of Pokam.

Next: Part 3 of the Mosy Saga.

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Tara of Eland

Mosy brings the law.

 As explained in my previous blog post, I've been designing a new science fiction story that is set in the distant past and which concerns the Reality Change that converted the Ekcolir Reality into the Buld Reality. This new story can be viewed as a continuation of past stories such as "Ereus 20k B.C.E." (from 2017), The Lakum Intervention and The Phasian Knot. I've decided to begin the story of how Mosy was targeted by Interventionist agents by describing events that took place on Earth about 5,000 years ago when a young Earth woman (named Tara) became aware of how the events of Mosy's life could be altered so as to put an end to the Ekcolir Reality.

During the early years of her life, Tara had no idea that she would have to leave her homeland. Tara grew up in the area around what we know as Mount Elbrus in what Tara knew as "Eland". Sadly, "Eland" is a rather goofy mis-translation of a word from a lost language that originally referred to a folk hero known as Eolir.

Tara the Ta (Part 1 of the Mosy Saga)

Tara and Ila

As part of learning to control her ability to see the future, Tara often took advantage of opportunities to find isolation in the high hills of Eland. On such an occasion, Tara awoke from a dream about the future and knew that her life had changed. She would not be getting any more sleep that night. She crawled out of her tent and looked at the stars; they told her that it was still well before daybreak. The moon was already down behind the mountains to the west but the summit of El, the highest snow-covered mountain to the north, still seemed to glow in the setting moonlight. Redish and seemingly alive, El seemed to lurk behind the trees that protected her high campsite from the wind.

Ila was instantly there beside Tara, rubbing his face against her. Tara knew that Ila was thinking about apples. They had come to harvest apples from the orchard of Idari which had first been cultivated by one of Tara's distant ancestors. Tara began to bind Ila into his leather harnesses and she told him, "We'll grab a few apples but then, haste! In a dream I saw my aunt and cousins from Rata... I must speak to Brita before she sees mother..."

Hyhy the bryg'Dra

Ila recognized the word for "apple" and impatiently "waited" for Ila to finish buckling on the harnesses. Tara continued, "Enjoy the fruit of Idari, my friend. After we move south, we will never know their sweet taste again." Tara walked to the edge of the orchard and began pulling apples off of a tree. Tara was thinking about her most recent dream vision, in which she saw into the future time when she would depart from Eland and then live out the rest of her life in a distant place: the southerly region of Norsun.

While Ila ate, Tara wandered through the orchard, checking on the young trees. Each tender young tree was protected by what Tara thought of as a tree guard. As a Ta, Tara had been taught that these tree guards were an important import from Norsun; a type of wire mesh that protected the plant from grazing animals. With practice, Tara had learned how to resonate her mind with the Tree guards, allowing her to perceive them an a fine network of wires. 

In reality, each tree guard was a sophisticated system that used nanotechnology to generate and release chemical repellents that protected the trees from both insects and the herds of deer that roamed the highlands. Also, the nanite components of the tree guards acted to channel moisture to the roots of the trees and they produced heat when tender buds were in danger from frost. To the eyes of an unsuspecting human, the tree guards might be perceived through peripheral vision as a fuzzy mist, but upon closer inspection by most Earthling, the nanite components of the tree guides were programmed to shift their shape and strive for invisibility.

As a Ta in training, Tara had been taught by her aunt Brita to unfocus her eyes and use her telepathic mind to perceive the shifting swarm of nanites the formed each tree guard. Now, under star light, each sapling seemed to be caught up in a faintly glowing network of nanites. Tara was delighted to walk among the faintly sparkling orchard, vaguely wondering about the mystery of nanites, but her mind was in flames, burning with the startling revelation of the future that had arrived in her dream vision.

Hy the Rep

In the quiet of the night, Ila rather comically made a loud crunching sound as he bit into each apple. Tara could not stop herself from fantasizing about the idea of taking a few minutes to engage in sexplay with Ila. Tara's mind was like a maze, full of twisted memories from both the future and the past. In one of her dream-generated memories, she had spoken to Ila. In that dream -was it from the past or the future?- Ila had revealed his true form to Tara and "he" had explained that "he" was actually an hermaphroditic brag'Dra named Hyhy. Hyhy was a replicoid, composed of nanite components and able to take on any convenient physical form.

In that dream vision, HyHy had shifted "his" form and took on the physical form of a human woman. Tara knew that sometimes Hyhy appeared among the people of Eland in the form of a Rep named Hy. However, as Tara's lover, Hyhy had -so far- only appeared to her and engaged in sexplay while using the physical form of the horse Ila.

In her dream vision of Hyhy, Tara had made love to the brag'Dra beside a pool in a desert oasis. Tara was vaguely aware of the idea that there were great deserts in distant lands, but having grown up in Eland, Tara had never actually experienced desert conditions. Tara suspected that in some future time she would visit a desert and at that time Ila would revel his true form to her. For now, Tara was content to occasionally slip off into the hills and engage in sexplay with Ila, who was quite gentle while thrusting his big penis into Tara's back-side vagina, her allzaurish.

As a Ta, Tara had never questioned the fact that she had two vaginas. That was convenient for her lover Ila, but all part of the larger mystery of how she was fed by nanites and her bodily wastes were removed by nanites. Tara had never defecated or urinated; she thought of her allzaurish only as an organ for the generation of sexual pleasure, which is what it had been carefully designed for. Similarly, Tara did not doubt that at least some of Hyhy's six breasts had been designed specifically for sexplay.

The Idari and Rata valleys.

After Ila had eaten his fill, Tara led him down slope from the orchard and into the glacial moraine of the Idari river valley. When the sun brightened the sky, Tara climbed up on Ila and pressed him to trot. She had not ridden Ila since two years previously when she had begun her growth spurt into adulthood. Luckily, their journey that day was all down hill so Tara only felt a small amount of shame in riding Ila. "I'll make it up to you... somehow." 

For a time, Tara lost herself in the pleasure of rubbing her genitals against Ila's hairy back. With her long hair constantly tended by nanites, it had never been cut and now she sat on a soft cushion of her own hair. While she was recovering from her second orgasm, they reached a bend of the river. Tara jumped to the ground and let Ila drink. She dumped a sack of apples out on the grass beside the river. When Ila began to eat, she saw that he had an erection. She massaged his penis until Ila ejaculated. Tara caught the ejaculate in her hands and then ate it. While Ila ate more apples, Tara bathed in the river. Then she dressed again and led the way down the valley towards the location where she had foreseen meeting her aunt. Another semen-stimulated vision passed through Tara's mind, confirming that the party from Rata was precisely where Tara expected it to be.

Tara had to guide Ila away from the home of her parents. "I need to speak to aunt Brita, but you'll be home by this evening, my friend." In her thoughts, Tara adjusted that; replacing "friend" with "lover"... but she had vowed to never speak of the Ta practice of using the sex hormones from horse semen as a way to stimulate Ta telepathic powers. Now the sun was high in the sky and finally Tara saw her relatives coming up the trail. Tara told the horse, "It is Alay and Paya!" Her two cousins had seen Tara and were running towards her. When the two young girls were within reach, Tara threw her arms around them. After a flurry of childish kisses, Tara boosted Paya up onto Ila's back. 

They continued down the trail to where her aunt Brita and her cousin, Rawa, were leading the pack animals up the trail. Alay told Tara, "Rawa told us you were coming."

Brita, Rawa, Alay and Paya.

Tara asked her cousin, "Did Rawa say anything about Ila?" Tara let Ila again drink from the river. Paya jumped down and ran with Alay towards their mother. 

Paya called to Rawa, "Ila is here, too."

Rawa called to Tara, "No, I did not tell them that you were eating Ila, ah, with Ila." This was the talkative Rawa that Tara never knew how to deal with. Fortunately Alay and Paya could not imagine the sexual relationship that Tara had with Ila.

Rawa and Brita deployed their pack animals along the bank of the river where they could drink and then they hugged Tara. When Rawa kissed Tara on the mouth, they became telepathically linked. Their thoughts swirled with the sensations of their memories of recent orgasms and the spicy taste of Ila's semen and that of Rawa's husband.

While Tara and Rawa slowly pulled their tongues out of each others mouths, Brita asked Tara, "Have you told your parents?"

Tara had seen in Rawa's mind that Rawa had also received a recent dream vision and knew that Tara had selected her own husband. Tara replied, "I have not. I need your help. If you bless the union then my parents will finally accept it."

Brita told Rawa, "Take the children and the animals on ahead." As soon as the little caravan was on its way, Brita told Tara, "There can be no doubt in what you saw?"

Banduy

Tara explained, "My mating with Zule is the least of it. I must take him out of Eland and away to a distant place... far to the south."

Brita took hold of Tara's arms and demanded, "You are claiming the Min Orne?"

"Yes, this will be the Min Orne. But even that is nothing!" Tara lifted herself up on her tip toes and told Brita, "I have seen far into the future. Our mind powers... the powers of Ta... are needed far away, far in the future. It will be many generations before my mission is complete." Tara faltered, then resumed in a quiet voice, "I think I am immortal."

Brita was stunned. "Immortal?"

I have seen myself in a future time... I don't even know how to explain what I have seen..." They began walking up the trail towards the home of Tara's parents. Tara tried to explain her dream vision. "I will have many husbands, but eventually I will meet a man named Mosy. That is... my life, my task. I must change the fate of Mosy and... the whole world."

Brita was struggling to accept that the prophesy of the the Min Orne had arrived during her lifetime, in the form of Tara. She wondered: was immortality possible? Brita laughed nervously and suggested, "Maybe you have been eating too much horse semen."

Tara laughed. "Too much? Is that possible?" As part of her training as a Ta, Brita had tutored Tara on the art of semenphagy. There was something in semen that amplified the telepathic abilities of the Ta, making it possibly for the Ta to share memories and thoughts and even have visions of the future.

Brita reminded Tara, "If you depart from Eland for the Min Orne, then I will have to make Rawa the Tarawa. You will lose the thread of Ta."

In the future that Tara had seen, the thread of Ta moved with her, to the south and away from the land of El. However, Tara could not bring herself to say that to Brita. "Do what you must with your daughter, but do what I need you to do with your sister. Zule must be my husband... I have seen it... Zule is my husband." She added in her own thoughts: Zule has always been my mate.

Tara in Norsun

Brita shook her head, causing the sunlight to shimmer on her dark flowing hair. Tara had seen herself in the future, but she had never seen herself with dark hair. It was a feature of her tribe that the children often had golden hair, but then their adult hair darkened, as had been the case for Brita. 

Brita had raised her sister's son, Zule for the past five years. "Banduy is not going to want to hear this." Brita could telepathically sense that Tara's emotions were burning like fountains of sparks and the girl was enthralled by her dream vision of the future. Once again, Brita tried to imagine how Tara had, at a young age, discovered for herself the importance of the hormones in horse semen. Normally a Ta was not initiated into the art of sexplay with horses until the age of twenty, but Tara had begun to engage in equine semenphagy before the age of fifteen. Brita had done her best to provide sexual training to Tara, but she feared that Tara often could not control herself and frequently over-dosed on the potent hormones in Ila's semen.

And what could be said about the tale Tara had told... how a mysterious woman had haunted Tara's dreams and inspired Tara to engage in sexplay with Ila? Now everything that was odd and unprecedented about Tara made sense..... she was to make the prophesied journey to Norsun.

Now they were coming up the rise out of the flood plain and towards the house where Tara and Zule had grown up together. Brita saw her sister, Banduy, drawing water from the well for the animals. 

Tara's mysterious initiation.

Brita could clearly recall, five years previously, being asked to take Zule and raise him as her own. Tara was at that time already being trained by Brita to become a Ta. Tara had admitted to Brita that she and her brother were lovers. Now, Brita was re-living in her thoughts her act of telling Banduy that Tara and Zule seemed to match the ancient prophesy of the Min Orne. Banduy had said, "Save your breath, Bri. I don't believe those old superstitions." And more importantly, Banduy simply could not deal with Tara's powerful telepathic abilities which were particularly evident and usually exhibited after having sex with Zule.

Brita had not argued with her sister. In her case, Brita simply did not want to imagine a future in which Tara would leave Eland. So Brita had conspired with Banduy to keep Tara and Zule apart. Now Banduy called to Tara, "Why so few apples?" She was holding a half-full sack of apples and a half dozen empty sacks.

Tara hugged her mother and explained, "I had another dream." She gathered together the unused apple sacks, feeling no shame for not completing the mundane chore that had provided her an excuse to visit the remote orchard. It was only in isolation from the noise of other human minds that Tara could efficiently tune her mind to the mysterious flow of information from the future.

Banduy glanced at Brita who said, "We need to talk."

Banduy instructed her two youngest children (the boys Dale and Ook) to work with Alay and Paya to finish preparing the cookout dinner that had been planned in anticipation of the arrival of Brita and her children. Banduy took Tara and Brita into the cool sub-floor of the house. Brita immediately got to the point, "Tara has received the Min Orne."

Banduy lit an oil lamp and then looked back and forth between Tara and Brita. She placed a hand on Brita's head and closed her eyes. When in physical contact, the two sisters could share a week linkage of their minds. Slowly, Banduy said, "You seem quite certain."

Potina and Tara

Brita allowed her sister to sift through her thoughts. Rawa shared Tara's dream vision last night. They both saw the destination of the Min Orne: the place foretold by Trysta: a distant village in the land called Norsun.

Tara asked her mother, "Where is Phry?"

"Your father was called off to the vineyards. There is some problem or debate over the sugaring."

Tara continued, "He should be hearing this, but I will tell you first. I have seen the future. Zule is my husband and we will travel to Norsun and make that our new homeland."

Banduy hung her head and quietly wept. After a time, Tara asked, "Mother, will you give us your blessing?"

Banduy wiped her eyes and asked her own question. "How can I give you to your brother? I have already wed him to his cousin, Potina."

Brita explained, "Zule and Potina are lovers, but I have never wed them, so Zule is still available to Tara. And remember, Tara and Zule claimed each other long ago... before you tried to create a match of Zule to Potina."

Tara proclaimed, "I have seen it; Potina will be like my sister! She will travel the Min Orne with Zule and I." Tara had seen herself as the Ta of Norsun and knew that she would give Potina to Zule as his second wife. In fact, it was Potina who would give birth to Zule's first child, soon after their arrival in Norsun. However, Tara did not want to explain any of those details to her mother. And there was even more swirling in Tara's mind; the idea that Potina was like Hyhy, an alien creature with extra breasts. Pushing that absurd dream vision away, she simply told her mother, "I have seen it; Potina will be happy in Norsun with her husband."

Brita said, "Then it is settled. And now we can celebrate." She left the house and went to help prepare the dinner.

Banduy and Tara put an arm around each other and slowly went up the steps. Banduy asked, "How far is it to Norsun? Will we be able to visit?"

The Three Seas; west, east and south.

Tara knew that the answer was "no", but she said, "From here to Norsun is about as far as the distance between the two seas, but Norsun is on the bronze highway, so travel is not difficult."

They stepped out into the late afternoon light. Banduy looked at Tara's young face. "You are still a child. I can't believe you are going away."

"Relax, mother. It is five years until the Min Orne. Now, let's eat... the children are hungry."

 Banduy took hold of Tara's hand and held her back from approaching the cookout. "Will you ever be able to forgive me? I tried to control your fate for my own selfish reasons." Banduy had grown up jealous of her sister Brita and had come to view Tara as her great accomplishment in life. With some telepathic linkage to her daughter during the pregnancy, Banduy had named her Ra. Then when Ra had begun speaking sentences at six months of age, Banduy had begun thinking about the prophesies of Trysta and had renamed her daughter to Tara.

But then Brita had gone through a similar pregnancy and named her daughter Rawa. There had always been a mysterious connection between the minds of Tara and Rawa and it quickly became clear that the two little girls could share dream visions. Now Tara told her mother, "You have always loved Rawa like she is your own daughter. She will always be here with you and she will be the next Ta of Eland." Tara wondered if she would be able to maintain any linkage to Rawa's thoughts after she moved to Norsun.

Now Tara's grandparents arrived from the family's vegetable gardens along with a large number of workers who had spent the day preserving and storing food in jars. Pla came to hug first Banduy then Tara. Pla placed her hands on Tara's face and asked, "What is wrong my child?"

Tara opened her mind to Pla, but they could only really share thoughts if they were sharing an orgasm. "I've just told Banduy... I will be the one to undertake the Min Orne."

Tara and Potina on the Bronze Road

Pla glanced over her shoulder at Banduy then told Tara, "She is taking it well. There is no doubt?"

Tara replied, "After dinner I will share my vision of the future with the whole family, but now let us eat." Tara had been too excited and nervous all day to even think about eating. As a Ta, she had no physiological need to eat. Nanites constantly attended to her biological needs, bed her and cleaned her body. But after having sex with Ila, Tara always ritually bathed. Now she forced herself to eat with her family. 

Watching the workers as they tended the grill and served food and drink, Tara reflected on the fact that in her dream vision she had seen workers at Norsun, but none who she recognized. Still, those workers had the distinctive look of the worker class. As a Ta, Tara knew something of the origin of the workers who had always served the families of Eland. Legend had it that they were a gift from Trysta, the first Ta of the far past. The people of Eland called these workers the Rep.

The Rep were like slaves, but they never complained. The Rep lived in their own camps, close to the houses of the families of the tribe of El. The Rep never complained and seldom had to be told what to do. As the seasons changed, the Rep simply did the work that needed to be done. During the dinner, some of the Rep had taken turns, singing the ancient songs. 

The sun had left the sky and the children were playing in the hay field to the side of the fire pits. The Rep were clearing away the remains of the feast and feeding the many birds, cats and dogs that lived in close proximity to Ida House. Tara felt sad that she would have to abandon her life at Ida House and her way of life in the Ida valley, but she was also excited to know that she would be the prophesied one to undertake the Min Orne.

As the sky darkened and the stars emerged, they danced behind high clouds that were moving in from the west. The young children were laughing and playing erotic games in the grassy field among a cloud of fire flies. Pla told her maid to bring the children back to the central fire. Alay, Paya, Dale and Ook came running to Krys who gave them sweets. Then Krys rose to his feet and spoke so that all could hear. "Rawa has told me about her recent vision." He gestured towards Rawa and said, "Tell everyone what you told me."

Potina and Tara at Norsun

Rawa walked around the fire and as she walked she told her vision. "Last night, while I slept, El opened my eyes to the future and I saw that Tara, Zule and Potina will leave us! They will journey to the land of Norsun. I saw Norsun as it will be in the future... full of Zule's children and their children and..." Rawa stopped walking in front of Tara. "They will spread our horses to the south lands where..." Rawa had seen a vision of horse-drawn chariots, but she had not really understood what she was seeing. Having lived her life in the mountains of Eland, Rawa did not understand the usefulness of wheeled vehicles.

Now Tara stood up and hugged Rawa. Tara told her family, "You must now call Rawa by a new name... Tarawa. Yes, I will go away and so I will not be the next Ta of Eland. Five years from now I will depart from Eland and Tarawa will become the next Ta of Eland." Rawa, now proclaimed Tarawa, sat down beside her mother. 

Tara raised her hands above her head. "I have seen the future. My children will be born in Norsun, far to the south. Fear not! In the past, other folk of Eland have departed and gone on similar journeys. They are still out there, spreading the ways of El and Ta to the rest of the peoples of the world." Tara knew of two other past 'Min Orne', one that went to the northwest out of Eland and one that went northeast.

As a Ta, Tara also knew that as people moved out from Eland, they also spread death. Tara knew that her body carried death that would spread to people of the south. In her vision of the future, Tara had seen that her descendants would fill the lands that were depopulated in this way. However, this knowledge was only for the Ta. Tara lowered her hands and began to undress. "Yes, I now claim my husband, Zule. We married each other long ago, but now Banduy has conceded the match. Zule and I are now wed! Let any man who thinks otherwise claim me now!" Tara took of the last of her clothing and stood naked and glistening in the firelight.

Jyct the worker and Tara at Norsun

Rawa jumped up and replaced Tara's soft goat-hair shirt around Tara's shoulders. "I have known you as my lover, but now I give you to Zule."

Pla brought Tara her skirt. "I have made love to you, my child, but now I pass that duty to Zule."

Tara pulled her skirt back on and looked at her mother who was again weeping. Slowly Banduy got to her feet and handed Tara her jacket. "I taught you how to achieve orgasms, my daughter, but now I concede that your sexual pleasure and the seeding of your future family is a task for Zule, my son." Knowing that sometimes brother and sister could not produce children, Banduy added, "May you have many happy children."

Krys returned to his feet and announced to the group, "Knowing of Tara's great love for Zule, I have have never carried out my fatherly duties and I have never had the pleasure of sexual intimacy with Tara." Krys placed a hand on Tara's head. "However, I wish you well my dear-"

Krys fell silent as a group of five workers, two male and three female came forward and finished dressing Tara. One of the female workers, Jyct, said, "As is our duty, we of the Rep have often made love to Tara. We will always be here for you, my love, whenever you need some care and attention." Each of the five workers kissed Tara rather passionately. For a moment it seemed as if Jyct was going to undress Tara again, but then she pulled her hand out of Tara's skirt and returned to her place in the shadows around the fire.

Tara was eager to go to the Rata valley in search of Zule. She asked her aunt Brita, "Will I find Zule at home?"

Brita nodded. "You should. I left him and Potina in charge. Sasp went to help with the wine making and Prov is hunting a mountain lion that got into our corrals. But surely you are not heading for Rata right now? Wait until morning."

Tara and Ime

Tara could not wait. She said goodby to Banduy and then went to the horse corral. She told Ila, "I'll let you rest." She went to one of the newly bred, large brown stallions. "Let's go Ime... out into the night." Tara harnessed the large horse and led Ime down the trail towards the confluence of the Idari and Rata rivers. Tara discovered that she was very tired, but she was also excited to be on her way to find her husband. She began fantasizing about riding on Ime or having a wheeled vehicle to ride in. She had seen many varieties of carts and chariots in her dream visions of the future, but they were all impractical for narrow mountain trails. The sky became overcast and she dared not burden Ime with a load.

Trudging up the trail through the Rata valley, Tara and Ime finally came to the house where Brita lived with her two husbands, Sasp and Prov. By tradition, the people of Eland paired off, but the Ta was always allowed to have more than one husband. A noisy chicken announced Tara's arrival and while she was feeding and watering Ime, Potina came out of the house. She told Tara, "I thought the lion was back."

Tara and Potina embraced and got into some heated kissing. Now in close contact, the telepathic minds of Tara and Potina began to resonate. Tara could not stop herself from thinking about the mysterious vision -from the future?- of Potina in which Potina had the physical form of a bryg'Dra. In that dream vision, Potina had explained, "This is our true physical form, Tara. Yes, when on Earth we are made to have the form of Earthlings, but that is a trick... forcing our bodies into an un-natural shape."

In the dream vision, Potina had bared one of her lower breasts and explained, "These lower breasts are for sexplay. They produce sex hormones like clytykynyn. Try some!"

Potina's true physical form.

Tara had gently sucked on Potina's nipple and swallowed some of the silky secretion. The effect of Potina's secreted sex hormones was similar to those of the hormones in Ila's semen. Tara's emotions had swelled and then she and the bryg'Dra version of Potina had made love. Tara discovered that Potina was an hermaphrodite and their lovemaking led to Tara experiencing Potina's erect penis in both of her vaginas.

All those visions flashed quickly through Tara's mind. Once more, Tara was left wondering if her own true physical form was that of a bryg'Dra hermaphrodite. Tara finally pulled her mouth away from Potina and said, "I have to tell you something."

Potina nodded. "Why else would you be here? Did you really walk all night?"

"Yes, I left your mother at Ida. I've had a revelation."

"What was in your vision?" Potina placed both her hands on Tara's head. "I can sense that your mind is burning with wild emotions."

Tara reached up and took hold of both of Potina's hands and they interdigitated their fingers. "I've always loved you, since I was very young."

"And I love you, too. I enjoy making love to you, but am I in your dreams?" Potina laughed. "Surely you did not walk all the way over here tonight to provide me with a sweet orgasm."

Atarte and Tara

Tara explained, "We are going to become very close. Even closer. You and I must become a team."

Potina laughed again. "I've told you... you can make love to Zule any time you want to. You don't need to worry that I'll tell your mother."

"Don't worry about Banduy. In my vision I saw our futures. We will live together as Zule's wives. We are going on the Min Orne. I saw that you will give Zule his first child, a boy... his name, Ked."

Potina began to laugh, but saw that Tara was serious. Tara added, "Banduy has recognized that I am Zule's wife. And now, I make you his second wife."

Potina asked, "Can you do that? My parents have resisted..."

"We are going to form a new tribe... a southern tribe of the Ta. I've seen our future. You and I will each have many children."

"You have seen your children?"

"Some of them. My first born will be a girl, Atarte... she will become the husband of Ked."

"Come, we must tell Zule." Potina led Tara into the house. With Potina's parents gone, she and Zule had made use of the big bed in the master bedroom. Zule was there, still sleeping. Potina lit a lamp and Tara could see that Zule had a magnificent erection. She said, "How convenient." Tara and Potina sat down on either side of Zule and began putting little kisses on his erection. 

Zule, Potina, Tara and Atarte

As was the case for some men of Eland, Zule had been born without a foreskin. He awoke and saw Tara. He lunged for Tara and noticed that Potina was there, also. He kissed Tara and then asked Potina, "What is going on?" In the past, when Tara had come looking for Zule and a chance to defy her mother and make love to her brother, Potina had never been around, having gone off to leave Zule and Tara alone together.

Tara told Zule, "My husband, you are going to have to get used to dealing with both of us... all the time."

Potina added, "Your mother has finally agreed that you and Tara are mated."

Tara put an arm around Potina. "And I have made Potina your second wife. It is done."

Next: Part 2 of the Mosy Saga.

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Enoch the Ek'col

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As mentioned in my previous blog post, I've been reading journal articles that make use of gene sequencing to explore the movements of ancient peoples in the Near East. One such study is "The Genomic History of the Bronze Age Southern Levant". 

 Southern Levant. The authors of that study (published in 2020) concluded that the genetic data indicate: "Almost all individuals can be modeled as a mixture of local earlier Neolithic populations and populations from the northeastern part of the Near East."

human mobility patterns (source)

 Here is a quote from Isaac Asimov: "The human way of life has always been subject to drastic and more or less irreversible change, usually (or, as I believe, always) mediated by some advance in science and/or technology." (source; "The influence of science fiction") I've previously imagined that there was an extra-terrestrial source of cultural knowledge from Interventionists that was centered on a teleportation terminal at the eastern end of the Black Sea.

Genetic history of the Southern Arc (source)

I like the idea that regions around the Black Sea were early sites of domestication of horses, development of wheeled vehicles, wine making, innovations in pottery and techniques for smelting ores and crafting metal objects. It is also suggested in the Torah that Abraham's family lived in Harran; thus he can be viewed as part of the general movement of peoples in the direction from the northeastern part of the Near East towards Canaan.

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Another interesting biblical character is Enoch. For my science fiction story about "Mosy", I want to depict Enoch as being an "immortal" replicoid who is in charge of training the Interventionist agent (originally an Earthling named Tara) who will alter the life of Mosy and in so doing end the Ekcolir Reality. In my imagination, Enoch was an important part of a breeding project on Earth that selected for Ek'col and Asterothrope gene patterns, allowing for use of the Bimanoid Interface. Originally, while on Earth, Enoch "was constantly with God" by means of the Bimanoid Interface, then was taken to Observer Base and met his replicoid.

It is interesting to speculate about the meaning of "Egypt" at the time of the story of Moses. I'm intrigued by the idea that Egyptians had a long history of interacting with "Asians". For the ancient Egyptians, was there ever really a defined border between Africa and Asia?

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The image to the right is meant to depict Egypt around 1600 BCE during the time when the Hyksos controlled northern Egypt.

From the Bingbot: The suffix "mose" in the names Dedumose, Kamose, Ahmose, and Thutmose is derived from the ancient Egyptian particle "mose," which means "born" or "son" ¹. For example, Kamose can be translated as "son of [Ra's] majesty," Ahmose as "son of the moon" or "the moon is born," and Thutmose as "son of Toth" ¹. The name Moses, which is similar to these names, is also believed to have originated from the Egyptian word for "child" or "son," which is rooted in the verb "to beget" ².  Source: Conversation with Bing, 8/4/2023 (1) Moses' Hebrew name was given to him in Egyptian?. https://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/89130/moses-hebrew-name-was-given-to-him-in-egyptian. (2) Joseph Knew First: Moses, the Egyptian Son - Interpreter Foundation. https://journal.interpreterfoundation.org/joseph-knew-first-moses-the-egyptian-son/.

Harran and the Kingdom of Mitanni (1500 BCE, see)

Here is another take on the origin of the name "Moses": ' ... the first great Hebrew leader whose name has come down to us. It is important to notice that his name, Moses, was Egyptian. It is simply the Egyptian word “mose” meaning “child,” and is an abridgement of a fuller form of such names as “Amen-mose” meaning “Amon-a-child” or “Ptah-mose,” meaning “Ptah-a-child,” these forms themselves being likewise abbreviations for the complete form “Amon-(has-given)-a-child” or “Ptah-(has-given)-a-child.” ' (source, page 350)

biological warfare (image source)

Reading accounts of Egyptian history for the first and second "intermediate" periods has made me skeptical about the idea that the eastern Nile river delta was ever really anything more than a conquered foreign territory from the perspective of Upper Kingdom Egyptians, similar to the Sinai and Canaan. An even more dramatic possibility is that Egyptian contacts with foreigners in Lower Egypt resulted in a type of biological warfare that shaped Egyptian history. Before "civilization" was brought to the Nile river valley, adjacent lands were full of life. I like the idea that relentless human deployment of grazing animals combined with practices like ore smelting and forest clearing eventually resulted in desertification, trapping Egyptians in complete reliance on river irrigation.

Egypt in the time of Abraham as depicted in Asimov's Guide to the Bible.

Another feature of the Abraham story from the Torah is the idea that Abraham's family practiced inbreeding. Abraham married his half-sister, Lot was depicted as fathering children with his two daughters, and descendants of Abraham were depicted as traveling long distances in order to marry family members rather than marry any of the local girls in Canaan. 

first-cousin intermarriages

 Recently, an ancient-DNA study detected high rates of inbreeding in ancient Aegean populations. For my science fiction story, I imagine that inbreeding was required in order to maintain high levels of Ek'col and Asterothrope gene patterns among a select group of people who could then utilize the Bimanoid Interface during Interventionist missions.

For my fictional account of Mosy, I want to include to idea of some ancient people (those carrying large numbers of Ek'col and Asterothrope genes) having a cultural practice of keeping "natural gardens" and struggling against invasive pastoralists and the ecosystem-altering effects of their lifestyle. 

I don't mind depicting such "natural gardeners" as being guided by Interventionists who are working to maintain a few unusual gene combinations in a small population of Earthlings. When needed, those "interventionist agents" can be used to adjust the course of Earthly history.

end of the last glacial maximum

 What if there was a small group of people living in southwest Asia after the end of the last glacial maximum who were the tool of Interventionists? In the Ekcolir Reality, that "tribe" received a special gift from the Ek'col and the Asterothropes: an appreciation for the need to conserve native species and natural resources. 

The question is often asked in time travel stories: what information from the future could be sent into the past that would have a profound impact on the course of human history? Maybe when the Ekcolir Reality was being crafted, the most important idea from the future was the concept of conserving Earth's biodiversity. Sadly, that spirit of conservation was not always able to successfully compete against other forces that led to environmental degradation. However, in the Ekcolir Reality, the Interventionists were somewhat more aggressive and that made European culture in that Reality somewhat different than what we have known here in the Final Reality.

New York City Reef (source).

 The "paradox" of the Ekcolir Reality was that even with Interventionist efforts aimed at limiting human damage to the planet's ecosystem, early contact with space aliens (the Fru'wu) triggered catastrophic global warming and sea level rise.

Next: part 1 of the Mosy Saga

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