3.2 Stolen Knowledge

Nahash wasn't very chatty. Zara spent most of the ride back to Anur thinking about the strange story she had been told under the Yew tree, still struggling with her beliefs about Lemuria, Unicorns, Families and Medel, thoughts that He could possibly be a lie had just never even entered her mind before.

         "Do you worship a Creator god?" She broke the silence after a while.

         Nahash smiled as she popped the oldest question of all time. "Sure" he replied. "In my own way…"

         "How?"

         He searched for the right words, Gens were sometimes difficult to explain things to. "We just don't all subscribe to a single god like you do in Atlan" he explained. "We have our own beliefs based on our ancient knowledge and inner understanding of it, some of us believe the Creator gods are the Planets, some believe the Creator Gods were the Anunnaki, some believe it's Netu, and some of us believe the Creator god is inside us all, Netu's life magic, the Phoenix Flame. Life itself."

         "Life itself?" Zara pondered his odd answer with growing amazement, they were free to imagine their own Creator god? It seemed so strange, as if the whole 'god' idea was so much looser than she had really understood it to be.

         "We are all lit by the Phoenix Flame" he was full of conversation now, "even Atalon has a Phoenix Flame" he assured to Zara's surprise. "I imagine he has managed to thoroughly disconnect you all from it's power?"

         "How do you mean?"

         Nahash gazed up at the bright blue sky. "All the planets are there, even if you can't see them... They too are beings, they too have energies" he replied. "Regardless of whether or not you believe they are gods, as they move in the heavens their energies affect the energy throughout the universe, even inside of you. And just as the planet's energies affect you, so does your energy affect the planets. We are all one great orchestra of energies and vibrations, our ancient ancestors understood these energies, they channeled their powers and built a Golden Civilization with them. They knew how to use the good energies and balance the bad."

         "The Solarians?"

         "Yes" Nahash smiled.

         "They built the Crystal Temple?"

         "Yes. Atalon never understood the real powers of crystal or the pyramids because he was taught Stolen Knowledge, regurgitated and translated by uneducated self proclaimed gods, therefore he's afraid of the Phoenix Flame because he can't control it" Nahash explained. "That's why he forbade the ancient knowledge of the skies, teaching only the Panthers for his own personal power and control."

         "Stolen Knowledge…" Zara pondered the concept, understanding now why the panthers lived their lives hidden away from the rest of society.
         "The words Phoenix Flame were omitted from the Origian language" he explained. "It was renamed as Light Serpent and the scientific texts omit any connection to either the truth or the engineers who harnessed it."

         "Light Serpents?" Zara was lost to the connection as he mentioned, Light Serpents had been a supernatural mystery in Atlanean Mythology since history began.

         "Yes" Nahash assured. "There is much we don’t know. We were fortunate to have Sapparu teach us his wisdom, but he too was forever seeking the Knowledge. It’s what we do so as to defend ourselves from the Archons."

         Seeking Knowledge was something they did to defend themselves? It seemed absurd! Wasn’t all the Knowledge already in the text books? Nothing made sense but at the same time, Zara could see the enormous divide, they all could, yet no one ever asked why or how it came to be. She was learning that even though the Lemurians lived a humble life, they were powerful inside, free from the invisible chains of thought that had tormented her mind, regardless of whether a society deemed them wrong or right.

         The clop, clop, clop of the horse's hooves were hypnotic, Zara found herself succumbing to free thought herself, in search of her own answers from within, concluding, it was the secrecy that troubled her the most. Nolan knew and understood the secrets of the astronomical symbols on the building plans in the office, everyone knew that he spoke a language they never understood... Everyone simply accepted it without asking why. It was like the code in the red folder reports, secret codes that only certain members of society could understand.... Everyone simply accepted it without asking why. And what about Nel, making the Conditioning Forecasts! Astrology was another language she wasn't privy to, a language that she didn't understand… Everyone simply accepted it without asking why!

         Now she was wondering why she had never questioned all the secrecy more deeply, it wasn't as if she hadn't noticed it. Like everyone else, she had simply accepted it without asking why! Then she reflected upon the times she almost did… Like the time she wanted to ask someone about the hair dye but didn’t dare… Like the moment she felt the urge to charge through the crowds like a maniac to save Orien's life...