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STAR SCROLL PROLOGUE




A Word From The Author




Star Scroll is an epic novel that transcends the boundaries of historical fiction, science fiction and fantasy genres. The setting for the novel begins in the Archipelago of Svalbard in the Artic Ocean where the hero, Joshua Blackwell, is taken back 36,000 years in time.

The plot takes the reader on a long southern journey through ancient Europe and Africa where an inevitable confrontation takes place between the forces of good and evil. Like the works of J.R.R.Tolkein and C.S.Lewis, my novel is steeped in geography, astronomy, myths and legends, and Biblical analogies. A strange mixture to be sure, but one which I hope you will enjoy and be challenged by.

The Introduction and Prologue, which I have chosen to be made public here, are stage setters for a fantasy plot. If I receive enough interest, I may choose to make more available at a later time, so please be sure to make comments in the Guest Book.

I have decided to make a number of links and pictures available that should help eleviate some initial confusion as to geological and astronomy related content. The purpose of the Introduction is to raise archeological questions and interest. Likewise, the fact-packed Prologue's purpose is to lay a foundation of information which will be important to your understanding and enjoyment.


BOOK 1


“He stretches out the North

over empty space,

and hangs the Earth

on nothing.” Job 26:7


Introduction



“Matthew, we found something extraordinary here today at Kiriath Arba!”

The excitment of that telephone call still echoed in Dr. Matthew Renicky’s ears as he drove his land rover south along a dusty road that stretched endlessly through the Libyan Desert of Northern Sudan.

Matthew was an American of Jewish descent who had migrated to Israel along with his family shortly after the Yom Kippur War of 1973. An excellent archeologist in his own right, his father had honed his young son’s skills while excavating a wealth of "tels" throughout Israel and the Negev.

His father sent him on to three doctrates in the fields of Middle-Eastern archeology, astronomy and architecture. Dr. Renicky and his archeological colleagues had been excavating a remote site in Sudan for ten grueling months in the District of Kordofan about 100 miles northwest of El Obeid.

Matthew had reluctantly left the comfort of the Nile River Valley after it had suddenly altered its parallel course with his road. The new river course radically shifted 120 degrees in direction and then began to recede in his rear view mirror. Like the significance of his archeological find, his southwest-turning desert road quickly carried him in the opposite direction of the famous serpentine valley.

A reputable magazine sponsor had fully funded the costly dig in anticipation that Matthew’s seasoned archeology team could quickly uncover evidence needed to identify the architects of the ancient site--whom everyone certainly thought to be Egyptian. However, during recent months, sand storms and soaring heat had slowed progress considerably.

Matthew had been forced to drive all the way to Aswan, Egypt a week before to meet with his sponsor’s representatives. They had been threatening to terminate the project if no significant progress was to be forthcoming.

Just about the time he had been convinced they would pull the plug on all his hard work, an unexpected call had come in for him over their conference phone from Muhammadu Tunkara, his field supervisor. Matthew could not have planned the interruption any better, for the momentous call had provided him with exactly the right information he had needed to extend his sponsorship for yet another year.

“The latest sand storm has uncovered what appears to be the head of a sphinx-like complex on the distant outskirts of the site,” said his field supervisor in his thick Gambian accent. To Matthew however, his voice sounded more like a comforting foghorn to a ship lost at sea.

“Matthew, the complex is not Egyptian. It is older... much older than anything we have ever found,” continued themuffled voice of the speakerphone in the meeting room of silent, wide-eyed faces.

“The sphinx or griffon, or whatever it is, has four faces, Matthew!”



Map of the Earth's Sea Floor





Prologue

"Fountain of the Deep"


“The waters are hid as with a stone,

and the face of the deep is frozen.” Job 38:30


The Archipelago of Svalbard sits high in the Arctic Ocean about 600 miles north of the Scandinavian Peninsula between longitudes ten degrees and thirty-five degrees east, and latitudes seventy-four degrees and eighty-one degrees north. The two main islands of the group are West Spitsbergen and North East Land which have land areas of 15,075 and 5,610 square miles respectively.

Map of Svalbard


The islands are geologically adjoined to the Nansen Cordillera along the arctic sea floor. The cordillera is a fractured basaltic ridge that penetrates deep within the arctic circle. It runs like an ugly stitched scar around the eastern sea-shelf of Greenland and through the middle of Iceland, and then it finally stretches southward down the entire length of the Atlantic Ocean as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

Global Seafloor Topography

New Global Seafloor Topography From Satellite Altimetry


The same great basaltic ridge system continues on around the southern tip of Africa before pushing northward toward the Arabian Peninsula. However, it does not end there, for it turns sharply southeastward again all the way around Australia and New Zealand before swinging north in a wide arc along the western coasts of the Americas until reaching the barrier of the Aleutian Islands off the Alaskan Peninsula.

Looking like the borough of some titanic centipede, the great fractured basaltic ridge system has gradually pushed apart all the present continents of the planet through Plate Tectonics and Spreading Center Volcanism.

Because of the fact that the Archipelago of Svalbard sits in such close proximity to the magnetosphere of the Earth’s North Pole, along with the unlimited supplies of convection heat and natural radioactive decay from the nearby Nansen Cordillera, the remote island of North East Land was specifically chosen for the site of a time portal.

"Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Science Team"

"The Solar Wind Magnetosphere Coupling"


The Cheruvian High Council of the Vegan Star System felt it imperative to open a Fountain of the Deep portal within a secluded geyser-fed cavern on the isle in order to open a time passage as far back as the withdrawal of the most recent interglacial period approximately 36,000 years ago.

Long eons before that chaotic time frame, the massive subcontinent of Laurasia had been geologically transformed into what would later become known as North America, Europe and Asia to the migrating tribes of humanity. As big as mighty Laurasia was, it was only part of an ancient supercontinent called Pangaea--from which all the modern continents and their surface dwelling creatures first originated.

Map of the supercontinent of Pangaea


Laurasia had been slowly transformed through the glacial sculpturing of many oscillating ice ages stretching back into hundreds of millions of years in Earth’s history. During that process, plate tectonics pushed apart the sibling subcontinents that sprang from Gondwanaland along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. They would later become known as Africa and South America.

Likewise, the southern shores of Eurasia underwent a violent collision due to continental drift by the northward-moving Australian-Indian Plate. As a result, the African Plate caused a traumatic change along the Great Rift Valley of Africa. The active rift valley is still in the process of breaking off the Horn of Africa into the Indian Ocean--just as was done to the Island of Madagascar along the Mozambique Channel and the Arabian Peninsula running parallel to the Red Sea.

The Cheruvian time portal in North East Land was set into operation by utilizing the Earth’s gravitational field and its strong northern magnetosphere. The time device combines the energies of upwelling convection heat and natural radiation from the basaltic ridge, which are conveyed through superheated geysers, with the sun’s fusion-generated solar wind. The simultaneous manipulation of these four basic energies of Earth, Wind, Fire and Water enables the Cheruvian time portal to transit the Time-Space boundaries.

The Fountain of the Deep’s doorway in the distant past is covered by a great refractor made of glacial ice. The frozen hydrogen-dioxide refractor directs, focuses, and magnifies solar wind gusts called auroras. The sources of the shimmering auroras are violent, magnetic sun-storms which emit charged particles of electrons and protons into space at up to one-third the speed of light. The charged particles of the solar wind that intercept the Earth leak into the northern magnetosphere and are funneled into the atmosphere to create the phenomena called the Northern Lights.

A solar wind tunnel was forged from iron-nickel meteorites and was encased within the frozen geyser well which spewed forth from the thermal depths of North East Land upon the 4500-foot peak of Mount Norsdon. The peculiar Neanderthal inhabitants of the Valley of Ingdom, who received the Cheruvian instructions and performed the monumental task, named the time portal the Fountain of the Deep.


Beneath the protection of Mount Norsdon’s peak, the deep fjord-valley of Ingdom sits like a garden oasis. The unique valley is shielded from the island’s many fjord glaciers and has access to the frozen Norwegian Sea to the south. The high fjord ridges on either side of the valley block out the deadly arctic winds and low temperatures that would destroy its fragile environment.

The ancient, fertile Valley of Ingdom is kept perpetually warm by thousands of steaming hot springs. At the north end of the seven-mile long emerald valley, the circular wall of Ingdom Castle rings the broad base of Mount Norsdon like a colossal stone crown.

The birth of the garden valley was as curious as its delicately balanced ecosystem. Mighty Ing Bootes, the first monarch of Ingdom, rallied the refugee Dwarves and Elves of Laurasia after they had been driven into the arctic regions by the invading Rephaim Giants and Cromagnites of Gondwanaland. The little people might well have been completely exterminated had it not been for the miraculous appearance of the hot spring valley below Mount Norsdon.

The watchful Cheruvian guardians of the Vegan Star System had been responsible for providing the remnant Laurasian’s with a small haven of rest. The Cheruvians opposed the Draconians of the Thubin Star System, whose strongholds were also located high in the central northern stars.

The Draconians had ravaged and then deserted their former home planet of Earth many millions of years before the Cheruvians regenerated it. After humanity was given dominion over the planet, the Draconians returned and genetically procreated centaurian-like beings to combat the humanoid races for control of the planet.


For many centuries, the Neanderthal Dwarf and Elf tribes of Ingdom had successfully guarded the unique time-gate against every Gondwanaland invasion from far south of the equator. However, during times of great magnetic disturbances among the stars, new armies were sent forth by the Earthbound Draconian Wizard, Gorn. His diabolical armies repeatedly marched upon Ingdom in order to capture the Fountain of the Deep.

The Draconian Wizard’s dark obsession had always been to crush the meek folk of Ingdom and then penetrate the only known time portal to future Earth. Numerous battles had been fought over the portal through time which had resulted in many mythological legends and fables among the Ingdomites, Cromagnites, and Rephaim Giants--and even the albino Hobgoblins of Subpangaea.

This is what Benthor told his nephew, Joshua Blackwell, during his third visit to future Earth. For you see, Benthor is a Dwarf. He is not just any Dwarf, mind you, but King Benthor of ancient Ingdom. He came to inform Joshua that his ancestor, mighty Ing Bootes, was the first of the great Dwarf kings of Ingdom.

Ing made the decree that a great wall be built around the base of Mount Norsdon in order to protect all future access to the gift of the time portal. Plentiful caves and deep caverns under the catacombed mountain provided Ingdom with an immense fortress-city with thermal heat.

The fertile, glacier-fed valley enabled the former hunter-gathering nomads to produce cultivated food crops each year despite their short summers. Every year, migrating herds such as mammoth, bison, caribou, and musk-oxen, as well as flocks of maritime birds, entered the long green valley of the Pishon River to feed and bare young in the warmth and rich fauna of the garden valley. The Great Ice Sea beyond the south bay also provided the valley with a plentiful assortment of aquatic game.


Mighty Ing had also been the first king to be given personal access to future Earth by the Cheruvians during a critical stage of the horrific Rephaim Giant War. Also guided by a vision while he slept, Ing later relayed instructions to his best blacksmiths to forge a great hollow tube made from collected Phaeton meteorites found in the glacial till at the southern end of the fertile valley.

The heavy nickel-iron meteorites had come from the core of the Draconian-destroyed planetoid of Phaeton many millions of years before. The black meteorites were melted in refining volcanic-furnaces deep under Mount Norsdon and were meticulously forged into a cylindrical tube twelve hands in diameter and forty-eight oxen shoulders in length. Elf hatches made of conductive, alloyed-gold were overlaid with the refined metal of the meteorites and then were placed on each end of the portal tube.

The heavy Phaeton tube was then slowly hoisted up the slopes of Mount Norsdon with block and tackle and large teams of domesticated mammoth. With great bravery, the ancient Friends of Ing climbed the magnificent Window of Heaven and slid the Phaeton tube down into the steaming well of the Fountain of the Deep.

Wooly Mammoth

Joe Tucciarone's Dinosaur Art (all rights reserved)

Ing had been told by four-faced, Vegan guardians that the time-shifted opposite door would emerge mysteriously within a future Svalbard mountain cavern during key aurora transition periods which they would control.

The ancient king’s subjects, the Friends of Ing, had placed two platinum Dwarf locks within each golden Elf hatch, for no one made better locks than the Dwarves. A key to fit those locks had been forged of the finest blue Dwarf-steel and was to be used only by the ruling Dwarf or Elf kings during times of dire emergency. Ing was the first king of Ingdom to travel forward in time to bring back a man of great renown from the future whom the Cheruvians had Called to protect the time portal.

Likewise, it had been King Benthor, who many centuries later during the Druid-Hobgoblin War, had placed the blue key on a golden chain around his neck and had slid bravely through the shimmering kaleidoscope of the Phaeton tube to lock both hatches behind him.

Alone in an alien, futuristic world except for unseen Cheruvian messengers, Benthor set out to find a man named David Blackwell. The chosen man of great renown was to be found in England, the Land of the Lion and was to be Called to return with him to Ingdom in order to defeat the terrible siege of the subpangaean Hobgoblins.

David Blackwell complied and later gave his life along with the Elf king, Baldur, in the ensuing thirty-six moon war. However, he had been invaluable in his efforts to save Ingdom from sure defeat. During his brief stay in Ingdom, David Blackwell had fallen in love with the beautiful Dwarf princess, Cassi--who was King Benthor’s sister.

They had been permitted to marry, and Cassi gave birth to a baby boy eight moons later, but she died tragically in the grueling process. The large boy was named Joshua, according to his father’s wish, and the young lad spent his first four years of life in Ingdom Castle as the adopted son of the Dwarf regents, Benthor and Miomi.

The newly comprised Elf Senate, whom King Benthor had agreed to temporarily share rule with after King Baldur’s death, forced him to banish young Joshua back to future Earth through the time portal. Joshua and the late Elf king’s daughter, Celia, had formed a very close friendship which worried certain influential members of the Elf Senate.

Fearing that the two children might grow up to marry one day, the Elf Senate narrowly voted to have the tall boy removed from Ingdom. Benthor reluctantly returned to future Earth a second time and arranged for the child to be raised in America, the Land of the Eagle, but at a time later than his father’s birth in England.

However, after the passing of only a mere 180 moon-cycles of peace in Ingdom, another Draconian horde crawled forth from the southern Crater-Fen of the evil Draconian. Spy reports had filtered back from Gondwanaland of an army of Hybrid Imps led by Gorn’s top lieutenant, the Deinonychusaur, Bale. The Imp army had been given orders to conquer Ingdom at all cost and to secure the Fountain of the Deep for the Draconian conquest of future Earth.

Ingdom did not fear the Imps alone for their mountain castle was quite formidable and was protected on all sides by natural elements. However, a small southern spy of King Benthor’s had reported that the Imp commander wore a neurological war-helmet that posed a great threat to the ancient world’s balance of power.

The Cheruvian High Council feared that Bale’s war-helmet would tip the delicate scale of power in Gorn’s favor. If their fears were correct, then the safety of Earth’s future would be in grave jeopardy from the intergalactic Draconian League who had long sought to take back the dominion of their home planet by force.

Instructed by Cheruvian guardians, King Benthor returned to the future for a third time to find the banished son of David. Benthor sought for him in the Bull City of Durham, in the Land of the Eagle--for only the son of the renowned Herculonian, David Blackwell, could fulfill the ancient Ingdomite star prophecies of the Vegan Song of Mazzaroth.


The Song of Mazzaroth is a prophetic star scroll whose key of understanding is the Circle of Precession. The stars in themselves have no particular power over the Earth, it is merely the perspective of their positions through time in relation to Earth’s northern magnetosphere that predict the historical battles between light and darkness which are still raging over dominion of the planet in the heavens above.

The following account is the legend of Joshua Blackwell. This epic book contains the exploits of how Joshua Blackwell and his remarkable Friends of Ing fought a small portion of the great circle of battles depicted in the complex prophecies of the Song of Mazzaroth.

This is the legend of how the Friends of Ing attempted to thwart the immortal Draconian League who have long sought to control the gate of their Cheruvian enemies and to sit alone upon the high places of the North.




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