The Book of Divinicus 14:3-14:9

edited by Jordan Baugher

14:3

nd upon that bed was born Lector, son of Queen Nenthe and King Jeramis.  Jeramis sent forth his armies into the land of Rome. Hearing the news of their thorough and terrible defeat, he then fled, abandoning his wife and child.

            Into the city of Duskus, farmers and citizens brought great stores of grain and water to prepare for the countersiege of the vile Romans, and it was during this time that Nenthe became a great and terrible queen, revered throughout her lands as a deadly and clever beauty.

            The general of the Roman army, General Remus, ordered his troops to enter into the walled city of Duskus through a drain that carried excrement and banana peels into the river.  After his forces burst through these iron bars, the others came into the town and spread throughout, setting fires and violating the livestock.

            Queen Nenthe was forced to entertain General Remus in her bedchamber, her person thusly adorned in the skins of the leopard.  Her breasts were as cantaloupes, and her genitals were of creeping vines and flowering plants, dripping with nectar.  He did then sodomise her repeatedly, enjoining his body with hers in unholy congress thrice times nine times, until upon falling asleep, she thusly impaled him with a spear of iron.  She then affixed his impaled body onto the flagpole on top of the castle, that his troops might see their commander dead.

            As the morning did rise upon Queen Nenthe’s lands, the invading troops retreated to Rome and the commoners did rejoice.  Fearing the reprisals of the Senators, she sent her son, now becoming a man, with a phalanx of troops, to the desert plains, where he might be sheltered from the wrath of Rome.

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uring this time, the exiled King Jeramis travelled to a neighbouring kingdom, where his name was known well indeed, for he was king there as well and possessed another wife, Queen Prisma.  Upon seeing her long-absent liege, she did then fellate him, and he did come unto her breasts, which were as cantaloupes and his issue the issue of horses.

            Hearing the news of the banishment of the Romans, King Jeramis did slay Prisma and drank deeply of the blood that flowed through her virtuous veins, and it was good.  He did then anoint her body with oils and ordered that it be buried among the thistle bushes.  King Jeramis then burned Prisma’s city to ashes, so that it might die with her, and so that she might retain her subjects upon her entrance into Heaven.

           King Jeramis proceeded to ride upon a camel towards Duskus, that he might reclaim his kingdom.  After three days and three nights of riding he did then encounter a daemon sent forth from Hell, the dread daemon Pazuzu.

            And King Jeramis interposed, “Daemon!  Why dost thou hinder my progress?”

            Upon hearing these words, Pazuzu then plucked Jeramis from his camel and quartered him, the blood of Jeramis gushing and spurting in all directions, as the issue of horses.  Pazuzu did then eat the flesh from the bones of Jeramis, and the mountains echoed and shook from the force of Pazuzu’s mighty and terrible daemon-belch.

14:5

hrough the plateaus and desert plains of the outlying lands of Duskus, did Lector journey forth with but a few loyal subjects as his guard.  And the rain did blast as fury for seven days and seven nights, drenching and chilling Lector and his soldiers. 

            And it came to pass that the rains did stop, and Lector and his men were camping on a high plateau.  The sun did then appear from the clouds and a terrible wind soon blew which blew the soldiers into the valley below, but did not blow Lector, for he was riding a sturdy ox.  Defiantly, Lector did ride toward the source of the wind.

            The Lord spoke unto Lector, “Dost thou challenge My will, Lector, son of Jeramis?”

            And he thusly replied, “I am Lector, son of Nenthe, and I follow only the will of the Lord, for he is my master.”

            “I command thee, turn thy steed around and ride into the abyss.”

            Lector did then realize that he was conversing with the Lord, and obeyed, his ox flying gallantly over the edge and into the open air, and both were laid gently onto the soft desert sand, for the Lord willed it so.

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ueen Nenthe, in Duskus, did commit whoredom with a conflagration of manservants, castrating those that dared oppose her.  Becoming bored with men, she did then commit whoredom with her maidservants, forming images of men from gold and silver and engaging in daemonic congress.

            When the Romans did finally return with an army of ten ten thousands, the people of Duskus prayed to the Lord for salvation, and the desert plains split open and swallowed the Romans, as an anaconda might swallow a young lamb.

            And the people of Duskus did then rejoice, for they had been delivered from a terrible fate.  But the Lord was not pleased, and He then sent fort a terrible plague of locusts that devoured the scarce cultivated lands and the flesh of those that ventured out of doors.  For seven years, the locusts hung over Duskus as a plague, and the people did starve but were unable to die, whilst the Queen ate pomegranates, which were of her breasts.

14:7

ector ventured on the desert plains, lost, until one day he encountered the dread daemon Pazuzu.  Lector had heard tell that this Pazuzu had slain his father, and did then vow to avenge him.  And he spake unto the daemon:

            “Daemon, I shall send thee back to the Hell from whence thou hast come!”

            And Pazuzu did laugh, for he knew that a mortal man had as much chance of slaying a daemon as a carpenter’s son might have of becoming the Lord of all Creation, and his retort was thus:

            “Lector, son of nobody, I shall violate all the openings of thine body, and when I tire of those openings, I shall carve new openings, that I might violate those as well!”

            Lector then fired arrows into the body of the daemon, but they only punctured the flesh and did not kill it.  The dread daemon Pazuzu ripped the ox from under Lector and quartered it, sending its blood in all directions, as the issue of Jeramis.  Seeing the destruction of his beautiful companion, Lector became infuriated and proceeded to hack and slash at the daemon with his iron sword, cutting him into twelve dozen pieces, his daemon blood splattering acidic, smouldering holes into the sandstone under the feet of Lector.

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n Duskus, the swarms of locusts dissipated, and the people again rejoiced, for they knew their happiness could again multiply.  After two days and two nights, there then raged a hurricane, which became a snowstorm, and it came to pass that this was a great and terrible surprise for subjects who did live in a landlocked desert.

            The snow then piled up to thirty-eight and seven feet high and then stopped, for the sun became hot and unforgiving, melting the snow in six and one hours’ time.  The heat was the heat of thirty-four and one-half Hells, and the desert did crackle from the bursting of pockets of air in the adobe domiciles of the subjects of Duskus, and the stink of the great and terrible piles of animal droppings was unbearable, and there was a burnt sulphur after-smell when at the end of that day the haze of the sunset turned the sandstone brilliant shades of pink and purple.

            At the end of these tribulations, the people did celebrate with wine and dancing, and Queen Nenthe did commit whoredom with man, woman, and beast alike, all of whom did come unto her four and sixty-seven times.

14:9

ector journeyed through the vast and terrible desert, and after two days of journeying he came upon the hut of a prophet named Elron.  Elron the Prophet then told Lector lies and did try to dazzle Lector with his tales of false witness.  Elron professed to know the nature of the stars, the nature of the Lord, and the nature of man.

            But Lector did know this Elron to be false, for Lector’s mind was not clouded by these lies.  Lector did then bind Elron to a stout tree, a rarity in these barren lands, and he did then carve open the abdomen of Elron, that his intestines might spill out and that his blood might tempt legions of giant and terrible fire ants, each the size of a man’s finger, to troop in and out of Elron’s body whilst he screamed in terrible agony and writhed in torture, begging for the mercy of death which Lector did refuse to give. 

            And Lector did continue to journey, finally coming upon a young maiden with an ass.  He then told the maiden he was a prince, and he did take her ass.  And it came to pass that he rode the maiden’s ass for three days and three nights until he came upon Duskus, and both were exhausted.