1.       I was Orion bound

          With a stop-over at

          Way Station Twelve.

          When at Traveler’s Hall,

          A Meeting was held

          As tradition spelled;

          Any traveler, with a

          Tale to tell, owns

          Traveler’s Hall, and

          The attention of all.

2.      The Traveler told

          A tale of old, of Time

          And Deeds forgotten.

          Of human stock was she

          And of indeterminate age.

          She loomed and filled

          The Hall, even when

          Barely five feet tall.

          Her voice tolled as

          A whisper from a

          Thousand trees. The

          Sound went around and

          Around in my head

          Abound; I hear her still.

3.      The Milky Way, she said,

          Was a Galaxy that

          Held a Yellow Star

          Around which

          Nine planets dwelled,

          And from where

          Human-kind spread,

          But not originate.

          A Yellow Star like any

          Other, but for a twist

          Of fate Dimension Three

          Was inter-played.

          And thus, the cause for

          Human-Kind was made.

4.       From other Dimensions

           They came to settle

           The second Earth.

           All, but a few have

           Forgotten; the Aesirs,

           The Vanirs, the Ymers,

           The Dwarfs, the Troll,

           And the Elves.

           Old friends and foes are

           Barely remembered myths.

5.       The First Dimension

           Vanaheim held,

           And there are no

           Other planets where

           The Vanirs dwelled.

           Silver of hair

           And skin. Round

           And shimmering they

           Can appear like their

           Fog-shrouded planet.

           As the ‘The Shining Ones’

           In some places they

           Be known, and to

           Human-kind as Foos.

6.       In the Second Dimension

           Twelve planets turned

           While a Red Star burned.

           Twelve planets with life

           All teeming. The fairest

          Was Midgard, a sister

          To Earth. The Portals

          Between Midgard,

          Vanaheim and Earth were

          Well traveled paths.

          When on Earth only

          Ape-kin trod; and Earth

          The only garden the

          Third Dimension rowth.

7.      The battles between

           The Ymer, the Trolls and

           The Planets Twelve,

           Midgard and Vanaheim went

           On for untold Time.

           But, this was not

           The cause of Ragnarok;

           From another dread

           They all fled. Thus,

           The tales of Norse myths

           Are few, and mixed with

           Facts and fiction.

           Because fanatic fane

           Destroyed the diction:

8.       Hidden most foul was

           The fact that the Aesirs

          Was a Matriarch. One

          Other Thing has to be

          Understood that Time

          Between Midgard and Earth

          Does not run smooth.

          When on day on Midgard

          Has run, ten years on

          Earth will be gone.

9.      The ‘Gods’ battled on,

          And Surtur’s Fire

          Ran wild; sore did

          Not heal, and

          Monsters be born.

          From the outer and

          Inner planets, through

          Midgard to Earth

          They fled and settled

          Where Earth was most

          As home lit. Thus,

          Men from the worlds of

          Twelve became the

          Seeds of Human-kind.

10.    From here, the Traveler

          Said, the tale

          Will be what is known

          To me, since from

          Aesirs blood I be.

          In vain they battled

          The Scourge, who’s blood

          Did not flow red,

          And little else is known

          About that ancient dread.

          From Midgard the word

          Did come:

          In days of three

          The Final Battle will be.

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11.    What beheld on Earth

           Odin kvaeld.

           His Raven two were

           Micro-robots

           Of the finest geld,

           And the android

           Heimdahl all knowledge

           Of the Aesirs held.

           With Freja, Odin spat

           Over the way his

           Seeds he spread.

           Odin, with Heimdahl’s

           Help, the foundation

           To our race he laid.

12.     Scolded Odin, Freja did,

           Why he still the

           Aesirs' seed among

           The Ape-kin spread.

           They, Odin replied,

           Are what we once were,

           And their children

           Our descendants will be.

           Once, men from Midgard

           To the outer and

           Inner planets spread,

           And as different races

           They seemed, before

           To Earth they fled.

13.     Eight planets have

           Fallen, and Asgard

           Is no more.

           In days of three

           The enemy will be

           At Midgard’s door.

           With Haid, I have

           The future seen.

           Ragnarok is near!

           And, Time has run out

           For the Aesirs.

14.     Loki is bound, and

           'Down Under’ he will stay.

           The Thunderbirds, the Rising Sun,

           Will fight till done.

           The Serpent’s Tooth will

           Rearguard be, but no help

           From Yahweh-to busy he be,

           Playing God to his clones.

           Odin, do not judge him,

           Freja soothed; valiantly

           He and his kin fought,

           And remember; the only

           One left is he.

15.     I will not, Odin

           Replied, a God

           To my descendants be.

           Then Ida, last of

           The Healers and a

           Bio-chemist to boot,

           Did what Odin bid;

           Memory in the Double

           Helix hid, to freed

           By Words of

           High technology. Some

           Future he or she

           Will know what

           The Aesirs really be.

16.     On Earth for thirty years

            They prepared for the

            Battle to be. If Midgard

            Is destroyed, Odin bode:

            Dimensions will erode,

            Portals explode, and

            The Earth with water be

            Covered when the Isbridge

            Implode. Not one Noah,

            As the myths do tell, but

            Nine, one for each of

            The kin from the worlds

            Where the Red Star

            Shined, for Human-kind.

17.      As we know, Human-kind

             Survived.

             About Midgard nobody knows.

             But grieve I do for the

             Elves, Gnomes, and for

             My trees that talked

             And for all the

             Myriad life-forms

             That Midgard wrought.

18.      On Earth, in the Past,

             The question was

             Asked: How long since the Flood?

             When Eighteen thousand,

             Two hundred and fifty

             Years on Earth went

             By; only four years

            On Midgard have passed.

            When one hundred and

            Forty-six thousand

            Years on Earth have gone.

            Thirty years on

            Midgard has flown.

19.      Earth may have forgotten,

             But, if any survivors

             Under the Red Star dwells;

             Then, Ragnarok still

             In their mind is held.

20.      On Earth, in nineteen

             Forty-five released

             Again was Surtur’s Fire.

             The Name for Surtur’s Fire

             On Earth Nuclear Fission be.

             Yes, the ancient weapon

             Long Banned in this Galaxy.

             The long range sensors

             On Midgard blazed,

             When Earth’s background

             Radiation raged.

             For the next sixty-seven Years

             A flap of UFOs all over

             Earth appeared.

21.      This record is the last

             To be known of Earth.

             Here my tale from a

             Story to a mystery birth.

             These are the questions

             I pose: What happened

             To Earth in the

             Twenty-First Century?

             Why is Human-Kind spread,

             As Gypsies, all over this

             Universe? With not one

             World to call their own;

             And where lie

             Earth and the Milky Way?

22.      The applause thundered.

             Bravo, bravo, all said;

             This was indeed a tale

             Worthy of Travelers’ Hall.

             Except the listener of

             Human-stock, overwhelmed

             They were and still they be.

             For they knew this was

             More than a Tale;

             This Human History be!

23.      The Traveler bowed. And

             As she passed me by, I

             Looked into her eyes and

             Found a Wicca of Old.

             One who’s mind has

             Travelled Time. One who’s

             Past and Future lives

             Are of memory supplied.

24.      I bowed with lotus hands.

             Acknowledged me as kin

             Did She. Me, a dabbler

             Poor, but with enough blood

             Of old to know; that both

             Blessed and cursed be she.

Eric Stell Euchnu. Scryer, Way Station 12, Orion Route.

Loc. 06/08/91. - Gal. 06/08/215991.

(Old Earth, ca 4391 AD)