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...It was from an old colleague of mine, in southern Russian working a new dig, of Proto Indo-European tribes, he believed it would be something big. Wanted me to come out and take a look at the artifacts they had found there, claimed they had found religious writings, the pictures he sent of it made me swear. Writing should not exist that far back in time, but the etched stones that they found proved it did! A text speaking of a long-lost religion… was so excited I bounced like a kid. A week later I was flying out there, my assistant Tommy Bains at my side, we flew to Moscow then rented a car for a very long and exhausting drive. The site was out in empty countryside, there were more cattle and sheep them men, we expected to see bustling workers, but we approached and saw no sign of them. It looked as if they’d just abandoned it, all of their gear and machines left behind, there was no note, and we could see no cause, I felt nervous, unsure what I would find. After looking around for thirty minutes, I came across a large plastic case, it had the word ‘Artifact’ printed on it, like so many others left in this place. I did not know why, but I felt I had to open the box to see what it held, what I saw in there haunts me to this day, you’re the first people that I’ve dared to tell. It was a stone tablet covered in a script that I’d never seen, all alien and strange, and then, before my astonished eyes, the letters all seemed to just rearrange?! It now was many rows of English text, what I saw broke all natural laws, the first line I read, sit imply said: ‘All who read this, these are words from your god…’ My mind did reel, as anyone’s would, but I felt no disbelief, and no doubt, as if some power confirmed it was true, and there was no time for messing about. My eyes just could not be pulled away, I could hear a deep voice within, and it said: ‘I left these words so you’d know why you’re here, and what awaits us all going ahead. ‘You see evolution is the only tool that can do this in the time left to me, I’m dying and have but a billion years to give rise to the next deity. ‘This may seem utterly strange to your mind, the mere thought that an almighty can die, but I’m not the first god that there has been, I was much like you, way back in time... CONTINUES IN PART III.
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