Lion, Tiger, Bear | 269 available for journeys perhaps. He took a deep breath and exhaled lengthily, examining both sides of the parchment scrap. This is the finest gift I have ever known, I shall frame it in glass with French gilt in Paris. Beger added: Most of us think Alexander was frustrated with the Persian Gate south of here…as it may have only been effective at certain planet alignments and times of the year. Im assured he wanted personal contact with the gods and the greater unknown, and if he had captured this fort his wishes may have been fulfilled. The ancients knew all about this natural portal phenomenon, one not unlike tides and seasons, its only today that we struggle with the dimensional concept, a legend steeped in much fact. The Near East deserts are said to be full of them at sacred sites. Ill bet the flowered women druids traveled dimensionally with aplomb, all that Celtic Divine Feminine and whatnot, said Bea. Schafer touched his tin cup to hers. Especially at Irelands stone circles. Geophysical scientist Dr. Karl Wienert proudly added: This so-called fort must have produced immense electromagnetic power for this valley and its inhabitants, an important outpost in Prediluvian times. The mud-brick dwellings are long gone, a simple affair. We believe it was a last holdout for a group of people hiding from another group before the Fall and Flood. A high civilization hole in the wall, so to speak. Plenty of crops. Bea pointed with her fork. If memory serves, Ernst, you taught us novice Shieldmaidens that the Sons of Belial were in conflict with the positive, the Children of the Law of One. Atlantis would have been up to her tits in war in those times with dark forces, ones that embraced war, power, wealth, and materialism over benign spirituality and cosmic nature worship, you know, naked nubiles, bull rituals in temples, cornucopia food festivals, that kind of fun paganish thing. If its true that the sonofabitching Belial Boys were after a splinter group hiding from them after the artificial crystal second moon had been destroyed, etcetera, etcetera, then this place may have thrived with its power plant, fields of grain, wild game, and fresh water. Shot down, that smaller moon probably crashed near the Yucatan peninsula, said Alice confidently. Big hole in the ocean they say. Now all we have is our single hollow Moon. Beger blurted: How do you know all that? No one knows that but us, who Obviously, youre ho/the only ones, added Bernie, stacking their deck.