Interlude Three Page 8
Josh: It isn’t as big a deal as you think! Beings that can take human shapes are found all over the continent. Once I made the decision to seek them out, I managed to track down almost two dozen.
I’ve met some historians who think they were common here by the Mediterranean once, but had a big migration east some time in the past thousand years. Wherever they’re found, they are not human, and you can’t take them for human. It’s as if . . . remember how the scriptures say humans were formed?
María: Of course. The Lord made our bodies out of dust, and then breathed souls into us.
Josh: Exactly.
These Beings have bodies. That’s the easy part. Anyone can make a sculpture.
And I did. But I’m not the Lord, so I can’t make a soul.
To quote the psalms: all he is, is dust in the wind.
So he literally created a Being? How fascinating
Wait…they should have the Hebrew word of life somewhere on their persons! Good Yahweh, they’re golems!
YES. You’re a genius (and so is Erin obvi)
If I’m a genius, then Don Rickles is a Mau-Mau fighter pilot.
That’s it?! A Kansas song?!!
What a…super…reference, truly a…natural.
So… They were commonly found amongst the Jewish communities that had mystic traditions? And the “massive migration” would refer to the search for Eretz Yisrael?