QBLH
by
Antiope witnessed the last few days of Jim's presence in Earth's past and also showed Antiope the geography.
"That's incredible Jim. There's an entire continent missing, and John built the pyramids? But I still see no evidence of a flood."
Then Jim showed her a picture of an ark being built in the mountains, and at the same time flashed her with an excerpt from Genesis. "Oh!" she said, "that is...that is somewhat interesting."
"Simulate yourself there now sweetheart, what do you want to do? Live there and find out what happens, or just accept the fact that there is not a trace left of the civilization you have just glimpsed, except those pyramids, and return to their future, our present?"
"Can I be trapped there if I stay?"
"Many stayed and died there. No trace of them, except the remnant that survived."
"What do you know of this Noah, Jim?"
"He had no ties with our race, He is an Earth native, no crossbreeding in his blood."
"Are you sure?"
"Isis had no idea as to who he was and thought I was stupid for paying any attention to him. She thought that her empire would stay in tact once she left. Instead it was apparently destroyed."
"Why do you think it was destroyed?"
"I believe that Pharos may have destroyed Atlantis when he tried to launch his spaceship."
"How is that possible."
"Pharos did not want to come back with us. He was Morgana's child, our Helen look alike. I knew about Pharos plans for a starship; he knew the technology, but he did not understand gravitational theory accurately enough. Genie will simulate a probable scenario if Pharos attempts an unsuccessful launch."
Antiope witnessed a cataclysmic catastrophe as Genie suggested how it would be possible to trigger the transition between the two geographies. Antiope was absolutely dumbfounded after Genie's demonstration.
It would be quite easy to envision almost the complete destruction of man as a consequence of the foolishness of Pharos. Yet what of Morgana? Helen's double, but the Amazon leader of the time. Earth history did not suggest a decline of her kind. Had she survived? If any Amazon had survived, Morgana would have been one of them.
"Jim, are you suggesting that is what happened? Is this why you feel you must help Earth; because your son almost exterminated all of mankind?"
"Doesn't that link me as the cause?"
"Yes it does Jim."
"Tell no one, Antiope, for your love of me. I am tormented with the ability to travel time, but am cursed with the knowledge that I have caused and can cause great destruction by doing so."
"Oh Jim, maybe I am not so partial about going back to ancient Greece. For some reason, I don't wish to time travel anymore."
"Are you turning timid on me, Antiope? That is not like you. Where is your courage. Who else do I have but you and Helen as I make these sojourns."
"Are they absolutely necessary?"
"That's my girl. Now let's have another look at the Phoenicians; they were a great maritime empire which dominated the early Mediterranean and Black Sea regions. We shall maintain our sea base which will allow us to make time transitions unobserved by human eyes. Perhaps we can pop back to now, once in a while."
"You have strained my brain too much for me, once again, my love. Come lay with me again, and perhaps I'll let you tell me more."
"In a moment. I think I have found the link that I am looking for. The Phoenicians put aside the prevailing beliefs of other cultures in favor of less important deities who were nothing more than patron city gods born witness by ruling priest-kings. I am getting a very strong connection that this deplorable practice was being effectively countered by our early Hebrews and their belief system. "
"And what does that mean?"
"Some deeper analysis show the worship of the Phoenicians can be traced to fertility worship, a bull god, and an associated consort for the bull. This is linked to the Cretan worship."
"What does that have to do with us. I fail to see how we fit in. You intend to do some bull slaying?"
"In a manner of speaking, I suppose that I may have to."
"May have to what?"
"May have to exterminate their false religion. I can't have Earth as being a race of bull worshipping idiots."
"But bull worship died out."
"It won't be dead if we go back in time. The population will expect us to share their beliefs."
"Give me a break, Jim. We are not obligated to follow those ridiculous customs."
"Yes, but the authorities impose these ridiculous customs on their citizens."
"And they still do to this day."
"OK, Jim what do you have in mind?"
"I was thinking of instigating an elite group of freedom fighters to take up combat against tyrannical belief systems."
"I'm not sure I am catching on, Jim. Can you elaborate?"
"These Earth people may be our descendants. You and I are capable of jumping outside time into Earth's past. We know we have been involved with Earth's past at least once. Whatever we do, I doubt that we will change history. Yet I have a nature within that instinctively wants to kill the bull of the past. This nature seems to be drawing me to that particular past era."
"So you plan on slaying the Minotaur, my love. How romantic."
"Yet, there is a difference.....I can do it."
"No way Jim. Do you mean to tell me that you can slay the legendary minotaur in your future as part of Earth's past. Why that is impossible."
"Who says. Do you want to see me do it? Just to impress you?"
"Impossible, Jim. Now you are truly dreaming a little too far out for even me to believe. But I see you are serious....You can do that, on a whim?..I find that too unreal to believe."
"It is not a whim. I told you that I feel compelled to slay the minotaur, so to speak, if one ever existed."
"So who slays the Minotaur, Jim?"
"Antiope's lover, Theseus, the founder of Athens."
"And you can pull that off. No way, Jim."
"Does that mean you're not the Amazon that I abducted, and that is not my child that you are bearing?"
"Yes, Jim but these are just coincidences."
"Coincidence, huh? Or destiny?"
"Jim, you have mastered time. How can you be bound by destiny if you have all this control over time travel?"
"Unless I follow destiny, I cannot control time travel."
"Which means you do not have full control over time travel?"
"Genie is simply able to find a route through time.. I never claimed to be able to control time. I just know how to slip through the holes."
"Well then, I take it that you are going to be doing something a little more involved than simply bull slaying then."
"Yes, what I must do is going to be considerably more involved, and no you don't want to know. Just please be advised that I would greatly appreciate your company."
"Well, since you put it that way, Jim, I accept your invitation and shall be more than happy to depart with you tomorrow when you are ready to take me there. Come lay with me now."
"Well since you put it that way."