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[专帖]【每周更新】原版《BOOK OF CAIN》《凯恩之书》手打——The Dawn-Anu and the Dragon [复制链接]

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The Dawn

Anu and the Dragon

As with all things, it is best to begin with the beginning. The Creation. All things after it are a result of it, and the nature of it reverberates down through the millennia.

A great many mystic and tribal storytellers impart some version of this story. I am using ancient writings from the Black Book of Lam Esen. I choose this source because Lam Esen was a skilled sage renowned for his knowledge of Skatsimi mysticism and folklore. In his time, he collected vast stores of knowledge from diverse places, and had a unique genius for distilling the essence of things from a vast array of different sources.

He describes the creation of our universe in the following terms:

Before the beginning there was void. Nothing. No flesh. No rock.
No air. No heat. No light. No dark.
Nothing, save a single, perfect pearl.

Within that pearl dreamed a mighty, unfathomable spirit-the One-Anu. Made of shining diamond, Anu was the sum of all things: good and evil, light and dark, physical and mystical, joy and sadness-all reflecter across the crystalline facets of its form.and, within its eternal dream-state, Anu considered itself-all of its myriad facets. Seeking a state of total purity and perfection, Anu cast all evil from itself. All dissonance was fone. But what of the cast-off aspects of its being? The dark parts, the sharp, searing aspects of hate and pridefulness? Those could not remain in a state of separation, for all things are drawn to all things. All parts are drawn to the whole. Those discordant parts assembled into the Beast-the Dragon. Tathamet was his name-and he breathed unending death and darkness from his seven devouring heads. The Dragon was solely composed of Anu's cast-off aspects. The end sum of the whole became a singular Evil-the Prime Evil, from which all vileness would eventually spread throughout existence.

Though separate beings, Anu and the Dragon were bound together within the Pearl's shadowed womb. There they warred against each other in an unending clash of light and shadow for ages uncounted.

The diamond warrior and the seven-headed dragon proved to be the equal of the other, neither ever gaining the upper hand in their fierce and unending combat-till at last, their energies nearly spent after countless millennia of battle, the two combatants delivered their final blows. The energies unleashed by their impossible fury ignited an explosion of light and matter so vast and terrible that it birthed the very universe all around us.

All of the stars above and the darkness that binds them.
All that we touch. All that we fell. All that we know.
All that is unknown.

All of it continues through the night and the day in the ebbing and flowing of the ocean tides and in the destruction of fire and the creation of the seed.

Everything of which we are aware, and that of which we are utterly unaware, was created whit the deaths of Anu and the Dragon, Tathamet.

In the epicenter of reality lies Pandemonium, the scar of the universe's violent birth. At its chaotic center lay the Heart of Creation, a massive jewel unlike any other: the Eye of Anu-the Worldstone. It is the foundation stone of all place and times, a nexus of realities and vast, untold possibility.

Anu and Tathamet are no more, yet their distinct essences permeated the nascent universe-and eventually became the bedrock of what we know to be the High Heavens and the Burning Hells.

Anu's shining spine spun out into the primordial darkness,, where it slowed and cooled. Over countless ages it formed into the Crystal Arch, around which the High Heavens took shape and form.

Though Anu was gone, some resonance of it remained in the holy Arch. Sprits bled forth from it-shining angels of light and sound who embodied the virtuous aspects of what the One had been.

Yet, despite the grace and beauty of this shining realm, it lacked the perfection of Anu's spirit. Anu had passed into a benevolent place beyond this broken universe-a paradise of which nothing is known,and yet represents perhaps the greatest-kept secret of Creation.

Longed for, but unimaginable.

Just as Heaven cooled in the spaces above, Tathamet's blackened, smoldering husk spiraled into the lower darkness of reality. From his putrid flesh grew the realms of the Burning Hells. The Dragon's seven severed heads arose as the seven Evils-the three strongest of which would be known as the Prime Evils. They, along with their four Lesser brethren, would rule over the ravening, demonic hordes that spawned like maggots from the desiccated cavities of the Burning Hells.

Thus was how all of what we know began... In time, the Lords of Hell and the angels of Heaven met and Clashed. The battle raged unceasing, and thus would come to be known as the Eternal Conflict. It is written in the Book of Long Shadows that the eternal Conflict shall continue on forever across countless planes of existence, until further mysteries, unknown even to the angels and the demons, shall reveal themselves.

Over the millennia, many scholars have interpreted this in various ways. Some, especially in the primitive tribes who look to the sky for their understanding of the universe, view all this as literally true. They believe that Anu's spine is a physical object in the universe. That demons are born from the rotting flesh of Tathamet.

Other scholars and mystics take this less literally and perceive the telling of Anu and Tathamet's battle as an elaborate metaphor for good and evil and the constant, warring dynamic seen among the forces of nature.
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我看不懂,都是方言啊~~~~
不过这个打字的功夫真是了得,冲这个我也顶一下!
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只看该作者 板凳  发表于: 2012-03-16 23:18:34
赏析第二部:创世传说

黎明
Anu 和龙

不论什么事情,总是从开头开始讲起比较好。造物。
所有之后的万物都是它的结果,而它的本质在千万年中不停地回响。

之后的内容概要:

古老相传,关于造物的故事有许多个不同的版本。而我在这里选用的,是来自《蓝·衣森的古书》中的记载。蓝·衣森是一个出色的学者和斯卡希米神秘学家,他描述了我们这个宇宙的诞生:

在万物开端之前,是虚空。空无一物。没有血肉,没有岩石,没有空气。无热、无光、亦无暗。什么都没有——除了仅有的一个,完美的珍珠。

在珍珠中沉睡着一个深不可测的精神——即是“唯一”——名叫 Anu。他由闪耀的钻石所构成,Anu 是万事万物的总和:善与恶,光与暗,形而下与形而上,快乐与悲伤——凡此种种,都从他身上钻石水晶般的无数个平面中反射出来。

在他的梦境中,Anu 思考着他自身——那无穷多的平面。为了追求纯净和完美,Anu 把他身上所有的邪恶都排斥了出来。而他的那些黑暗面,那些尖锐而灼烧着的憎恨和傲慢,因为互相之间的引力而聚集到了一起。最终,这些黑暗和邪恶形成了一个实体,那是一只怪兽——名为 Tathamet(塔撒梅特)的一条龙。这条龙有七个头,它是 Anu 的所有黑暗面的化身,又被称为根源的邪恶——the Prime Evil(恶首)。


Anu 和龙

Anu 和龙在珍珠中展开了永无止境的战斗,不知经过了多少个纪元也不分胜负,因为两者的实力是旗鼓相当的。最后,当他们的能量都快要耗尽的时候,双方都把所有的力量凝聚起来,在下一击中,赌上一切。结果,这两股无匹的能量之间的碰撞,终于使得珍珠崩溃了,光和物质疯狂地扩散开来,是的,宇宙大爆炸,我们的这个宇宙,就这样诞生了。

所有那些漫天星辰,和联接它们之间的无边黑暗;一切我们触摸到的,一切我们感觉到的;一切已知的,和一切未知的。

万事万物,都是由 Anu 和龙 Tathamet 的同归于尽所创生的。

在这场大爆炸的爆心原点,坐落着宇宙诞生的疤痕——Pandemonium,魔域,群魔的都城。

而在魔域的混沌的中心,静静地躺着 Heart of Creation,造物之心,那是一颗独一无二的巨大宝石,它是 Anu 之眼,也即——世界之石。世界之石,所有时间和空间的基石,是联系着物理实在和广袤而无尽的未知可能性之间的枢纽。

Anu 和 Tathamet 不复存在了,他们的精华渗透到了宇宙中,各自形成了高阶天堂和燃烧地狱的基础。

在无尽的黑暗中,Anu 闪耀的脊椎停止了旋转,并冷却下来,形成了水晶拱门,高阶天堂的发源地。尽管 Anu 不在了,但他的一些共振仍然残留在着神圣的拱门之中。从那里面涌出的灵魂,是振动着的光和声音,呈现出 Anu 所有的美好——是的,他们就是天使。

尽管这个光明的领域是如此地优雅,但它却并不是 Anu 的精神的完美重现。至于 Anu,他已经飞升到了凌驾于这个宇宙之上的某个未知乐园中,而这,恐怕是造物传说所留有的最大的秘密了——令人极度渴望,但又无法想象。

就如同高阶天堂在空间上层的冷却那样,龙 Tathamet 的漆黑、闷燃着的尸骸,旋转着坠入了下层的黑暗中,它腐烂的血肉形成了燃烧地狱。巨龙的七个头,则变成了七个恶魔——其中最为强大的三个头,被称作“三恶首”。他们,连同另外四个兄弟们,共同统治着燃烧地狱,以及从龙的风干了的尸骸中,如蛆虫般无尽涌出的成千上万的恶魔们。

之后,我们知道的故事就开始了。地狱的领主们和天堂的天使们进行了永无休止的战斗,史上被称为 the Eternal Conflict,永恒之战。

千百年来,有无数谈论这些的传说和故事,某些人相信,天堂和地狱是在宇宙中真实存在的地点,而另一些人则认为,它们不过是一种叙事手法,具象化了的善与恶,罢了。

永恒之战

以下的资料,是撒卡兰姆大教堂的一份卷轴残片中所记载的。天堂和地狱之间的战争,主要发生在魔域 Pandemonium,其目的就是争夺世界之石。



世界之石决不像听起来那样只是一块石头,它是像一座山那样巨大的物体,它是 Anu 之眼,拥有无法想象的力量。

历史长河的无数纪元中,对世界之石的控制权曾数度易手。某些口述历史中显示,控制了世界之石的一方,就可以几乎随心所欲地改变客观实在,创造新的生命和新的世界。据说天使们创造出了严格秩序的世界,浸润着他们自己的理想:正义、希望、智慧、命运,以及英勇。

(注1:这分别是安格里斯委员会5位大天使的对应)

而恶魔们,则创造出了由深不可测的湮灭所驱动的混乱世界,充斥着毁灭、恐惧,和憎恨。

(注2:这分别是三恶首的对应,毁灭之王巴尔,恐惧之王大菠萝,憎恨之王墨菲斯托)

然而,不论天使还是恶魔的世界,一个也没有繁荣昌盛起来。他们有着先天的缺陷,注定会凋亡。不过,我并不知道这传说是真是假,也没人亲眼见过其它的这些“世界”。



进一步的研究显示,有个叫泰瑞尔的大天使,在世界之石的周围建造了一座要塞来保卫它。这就是我们所知道的 Pandemonium Fortress,群魔堡垒了。我将在后面继续描述有关泰瑞尔的故事,另外,我本人,曾经亲自遇到过这位天使。

“仔细阅读这些章节,亲爱的。

仔细地去了解关于他的所有事情,

如果我没猜错的话,

在今后的大舞台上,仍然还有他的戏份。”

我可以发誓,群魔堡垒是真实存在的,因为我自己就曾去过那里。它十分奇特,独一无二地诡异。根据记载,在永恒之战中,群魔堡垒交替地被天使和恶魔所轮流占领。

很久以前,一个叫作 Inarius,伊纳琉斯的天使,偷走了世界之石,并不可思议地把它从天堂和地狱的眼皮子底下给隐藏了起来。与他一起的,还有一个叫 Lilith,莉莉丝的女恶魔,和其它一些对永恒之战感到厌倦了的天使和恶魔们。伊纳琉斯成功地使用世界之石的力量创造出了一个远离战火的乐园,Sanctuary,庇护所世界,也就是我们的世界。所以说,庇护所和其它的不同,它不是由单方面,而是由天使和恶魔合力创造的。

自那一天起,永恒之战的目标,就变成了天堂和地狱对世界之石的寻找。

很多人认为,天堂和地狱是人死了之后的去处,好人上天堂,坏人下地狱,而我想要告诉你的是,天堂和地狱是在宇宙中真实存在的地点,就像群魔堡垒那样。

尽管我个人相信,人死了之后,灵魂是有一个去处的,但这不属于本书所要讨论的范畴。另外,对于我上面所讲的内容,其中哪些是神话,哪些是真相,也需要读者们自行判别。

最后这张图,就是暗黑3开场动画中,崔斯特瑞姆大教堂窗户上的绘画:




上面画的是英勇天使,因帕琉斯吗?



(本文来源:凯恩之角 作者:高铁动车侠)
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天呐,人材呀。。。