Behold Leviathan




"I placed boundaries upon her,
I set a bolt and doors,
And I said, "Thus far you shall come,
but no farther;
And there shall your proud waves stop."
Job 38: 10-11

"I'm scared Nikki," Kip said a while later, staring down into his coffee cup.

He was a slight fellow, but strong. The sinews of sleek muscles pulsed beneath sculptured calves and forearms, hinting boldly of a deceptive strength. Sitting across from on the sofa in her hotel room, he was clothed casually in clean but well worn tennis shorts and striped polo shirt carefully tucked into a trim waist. He looked every bit the professional of impeccable reputation and pristine ethics.

They had been taking about how he got into meditation in the first place.

"No; I remember now - there was a TV show I saw on Irish history and culture back in the Middle Ages, got me to thinking. Went and did some research on the Druid Culture. They were actually extremely advanced, you know - long before the time of Christ, and even before the ascendancy of the Jews. There were schools everywhere, a very sophisticated legal system, and the people were free and peaceable and quite cultured. The Druids ran it all." Then as Nikki began to show dire skepticism on her face, he retrenched.

"They weren't like you think - nature worshipers, heathens, uncultured, savages. They had schools of law and medicine and philosophy, libraries and a very fair system of justice. Druids ran it all. There were three main divisions of Druids: the leaders of worship services, the judges and the antiquarians. The Clan Cleary were the ancestral antiquarians - the keepers of tradition and history."

"And, yes, my grandfather is descended straight from Cork County, Ireland. Cleary was the traditional clan of antiquarians; or bards."

"Couldn't find many books on the subject. Yet, several alluded to many, many similarities between the Druid religion and the ancient Hebrew religion. The Druids were monotheistic, had similar customs, traditions, and similar words too. These texts claimed the Druid culture predated the Hebrew, and that the entire body of Hebrew philosophy was originally Druid!

"So instead of Moses receiving the books of the Old Testament, in a mental transmission from the Almighty, he did the much more human thing and just memorized the Druid texts?" Nikki said, and shook her head in dismay.

"I know it's outlandish and absurd," Kip replied with a smile. "Still, you can't ignore the fact that the Druids were a very advanced people, long, long ago and it's not right for modern history to teach they were a bunch of primitive country pumpkins."

Then he made one last stab. "There really was a Camelot, and a land of justice and chivalry and good deeds, is what I'm saying. Ireland really was like that, and it was not a fable at all." Well, one more try - a little humor this time. Now where's a good British BBC comeback when you need one?

"Now wouldn't that be fun! If the Irish really were the original Hebrews; and it was they who stole the Ark from the Temple in Jerusalem, all those years ago - before the Romans burned it to the foundation! Rather like a big Hatfields and McCoys feud. You take our Laws, we are going to take your Ark! Then, bring it back home to Erin! Only now, it is in the mists, up stream of a ragged loch hidden in a cave known only to the ancient Druids, now gone. They would have called it the loch'd Ark of the Covenant!"

Nikki grimaced, and Kip laughed like a hungry hyena. "Please don't tell anyone I made such a bad pun; back home they'd start calling me after O. Henry the famous punster also from Austin, Texas - O. Cleary!"