Pt. XIX: Matches Made in Heaven (or Hell?)
Jack explained to Caitlin, Kim and Sal his activities regarding the 'locusts.'
Araqiel, Kakabel and Penemue have been frequenting a certain establishment, The Horny Devil. One of the real hotspots in Reno, even the casino crowd likes to show their faces.
"I have been unable to follow the three to wherever they call home. They seem to just disappear in the forest. I followed them into the Tahoe National Forest and south to the Hell Hole Reservoir where they just simply vanish. I can’t seem to find them until they show up again at The Horny Devil."
"You girls have a singing gig at The Horny Devil beginning tonight. I hope you've been practicing. By the way, the name of your group is Aphrodisiac.
"OK, Jack, I'll bite," Caitlin interrupted, "why Aphrodisiac?"
"Because I suspect these 'locusts' are using more than just their apparent extraordinary charm to seduce these women who mysteriously disappear. So be careful what you put in your mouth."
Caitlin frowned and gave Jack a strange look. "I don’t like the moniker Aphrodisiac. How about something a little more biblical? How about Job’s Daughters" ‘eh? Job 42:13, ‘He had also seven sons and three daughters.’ (Verse 14) ‘And he called the name of the first Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Keren-happuch.’ (Verse 15) ‘And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job …’ Now them’s some hot babes!"
"Well," Kim suggested, "let’s vote on the name of our band. I’m for Job’s Daughters. I’m Jemima but I don’t do pancakes. No wait, I’ll do a ‘pancake’ with Caitlin and Sal."
The three girls began to giggle hysterically much to Jack’s irritation. "Hey, this isn’t funny business. Get serious. Your lives could be in danger. We have no idea what happened to the women who mysteriously disappeared. They could be being eaten by maggots and worms at this very moment.
"Don’t try to scare us, Jack," Caitlin snarled. "We’re big girls and we can take care of ourselves. You are probably in more danger from this murdering Lilith than we are from a few biker stud muffins. The worst that might happen to us is that we’ll be fucked silly and fall in love. You could lose your best friend, you know, your dick."
"OK, OK, I get your point," Jack reluctantly agreed with a smirk, "How about Blow Job Daughters? I’m kidding, I’m kidding. Job’s Daughters it is. Now let’s get back to business."
The three girls and Jack discussed various possibilities at length why the three
‘locusts’ spent so much time in the forest, hunting for who knows what. Jack mentioned the big-game rifles they purchased again. Caitlin retold her Roger the Scotsquatch stories but Jack didn’t laugh.
"Jack," Sal asked, "do you, I know this is going to sound really weird, but do you think there is some supernatural element involved here?"
When Jack merely shrugged, Caitlin took it as her responsibility to answer Sal’s question.
"Sal, I already gave you a possible explanation. The Nephilim, the fallen angels, came to earth 6,000 years ago, mated with human women and impregnated them. That’s why God caused the Flood, to destroy the mutant offspring generated by the union of supernatural beings and the daughters of Adam. Notice I said daughters of Adam. Other women walked the earth long before Adam’s daughters."
Jack practically shouted, "Caitlin, I’m going to take a nap if you are going into another of your religious diatribes."
"Shut up, Jack!" Sal shouted back, "I want to hear what Caitlin has to say about this. Please continue, girlfriend."
Jack interrupted, "While Caitlin is babbling, how about you three getting out of that Jacuzzi and getting dressed. I’m having some fake identification made for you three. We need to go get your pictures taken. I used your real first names on the driver’s licenses and other stuff."
Caitlin, Kim and Sal got out of the Jacuzzi, toweled off and began to dress while Jack watched. They looked at him like they wanted him to leave but he said, "What’s the difference, I’ve seen all three of you naked anyway."
Kim, Sal and Caitlin fetched the black leather vests, matching fancy fringed chaps and other accessories Spike had so willingly provided. As they dressed, Caitlin provided the explanation Sal had requested.
"Mainly for Jack’s benefit, I’ll repeat some of what I told those two Jehovah Witnesses." Caitlin looked at Kim and Sal with disdain. "What the fuck, did you think I was joking?
"To repeat Genesis 6:4, "There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose." The ‘sons of God’ were the angels, who in this case are also known as the ‘giants.’ The Hebrew word for ‘giants’ is Nephilim, the fallen angels.
"Eve and her daughters and their daughters were not the only women around who got banged by the Nephilim. Adam and Eve were created about 6,000 years ago, if you believe the bible. The man named Adam was not created on the sixth day, he was created on the eighth day, when in Genesis 2:7, ‘ … the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.' Or as Esdras put it in 2 Esdras 3:5, ‘And gavest a body unto Adam without soul which was the workmanship of thine hands and didst breathe into him the breath of life, and made living before thee.’
"This soul gave Adam capacities, potentialities, that man did not have previously. Included was the potential, not the promise of eternal life. This is the point in time when religion, civilization, agriculture and history all began. Adam was the first farmer, for as Genesis 2:5 states, " … there was not a man to till the ground,’ and then God created Adam in verse 7, a man named Adam according to an accurate Hebrew translation.
"Agriculture was the single decisive factor that made it possible for mankind to settle in permanent communities. People living in tribes or family units then didn’t have to be on the move continually searching for food. Once people could control the production of food, their lives changes completely. Mathematics, as one example, was an outgrowth of agriculture as people studied movements of the moon, sun and planets to calculate seasons.
According to Vita 22:2 it was actually the archangel Michael who taught Adam agriculture. Again, the most important commodity produced by agriculture was civilization. Up until that time, man moved from place to place hunting, fishing and picking wild berries. Descendents of Adam who soon migrated to Egypt, Sumeria and Phoenicia inventing writing. This was the beginning of history.
"On the sixth day, In Genesis 1:26, "So God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them." This was long before the man named Adam of Genesis 2:7. Humans have been on the earth for much longer than 6,000 years, but not the man named Adam, not if you believe the bible. Genesis 5:1 says, "This is THE BOOK OF THE GENERATIONS OF ADAM." Right, the generations of Adam, genealogy. If you believe the detailed genealogy of Adam as stated in the bible then he did indeed exist about 6,000 years ago, and was created on the eighth day. Think of the men and women created on the sixth day as what we will have if scientists are able to clone humans. If scientists can duplicate souls, they might start replacing their own early in the game, right after most of the preachers and politicians. No offense intended, Sal. No soul has ever been found during an autopsy. Only God can create souls, like he did for the first time in the case of the man named Adam some 6,000 years ago. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it."
"No offense taken, Caitlin," Sal said pensively. "You know, your ‘theory’ does make sense and seems true to the bible. Anybody thinking with their big head knows there have been humans around much longer than 6,000 years. The Spirit Cave Man they found just west of here, buried in a shallow grave in a cave near Fallon, is 10,630 years old, so they say. His partially mummified body was found 60 years ago, but anthropologists didn’t begin to understand the ramifications of this discovery until recently. Some also say he does not resemble Native Americans, but rather could be a people who were present in North America even before the ancestors of the Indians."
"Hey," Kim added, "several articles appeared about Spirit Cave Man appeared in the
Las Vegas Review-Journal
a few months ago. His remains rested in a wooden box at the Nevada State Museum for more than 50 years. New dating technology revealed his true age to be 9,400 carbon-14 years, or 10,630 of our years, just like you said, Sal. Spirit Cave Man is the oldest mummified remains and the third oldest set of remains found in North America."