- EXT. CARRIER SHIP REAR - ORBIT - 61 W SUN PRE-MOONRISE
- One orbit done, above the terminator on mid Africa.
- (00:00 ooh+piano - Shepherd Moons/Enya)
- CENTRAL GATE CLOSES quickly …
- (00:08 piano)
- And slowly finishes … and locks.
- (00:15 ooh+piano)
- Guide-and-flood-LIGHTS TURN OFF IN RAPID SEQUENCE ….
- (00:22 piano)
- Sunlit flat-black, the ship readies to leave orbit:
- (00:29 lull)
- MAIN THRUSTERS IGNITE RED … brightening to YELLOW … WHITE, pushing the ship ahead …
- (00:34 piano high)
- Farther and faster under the engulfing canopy of stars …
- (00:45 piano lower)
- Stars creeping up over Earth's dark horizon 1 deg./14 sec.…
- (00:50 piano higher)
- SYNC: Star frame, Earth's horizon lowers ibid … revealing:
- (00:55 -meld to augmented-)
- (00:00 piano augmented - Book of Days/Enya)
- MOONRISE, RED ECLIPSED - CENTERED (CONCURRENT)
- SUPERIMPOSE (VO) HERALD TEXT QUICK FADE IN:
- "I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet,…" DAN 9:2 (KJV)
- Herald Text FADES OUT.
- (00:09 clang)
- SUPERIMPOSE TITLE:
- DANIEL'S TIMES AND DAYS, BY
- MOON, SUN AND MORNING STARS
- (00:13 voice)
- SCROLL-DOWN, ADDING PROGRAM:
- 70 years, 605-536 BC = THE BOOK OF DANIEL: Nebuchadnezzar to Cyrus 3rd year.
- 7 years, 562-556 BC, Nebuchadnezzar's insanity in the wilderness field southwest of Babylon. DAN 4
- Noon Nov. 1, 556 BC, a solar total eclipse raced down the wilderness southwest of Mesopotamia: "I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned …." DAN 4:34
- AND--
- 2300 evening and mornings of Mercury 116 days
a year of 365.25 years, 536-171 BC. DAN 8:14
- (00:43 choral refrain)
- JANUARY 170 BC, FULCRUM-CENTER OF MILLENNIAL TIME for Holy Biblical prophecy: 3500th of 7000 years.
- HOLD LAST AS HIGH TITLE. ADD LEFT COLUMN HIGH SUBTITLE:
- - THE FIRST ADVENT: THE MESSIAH -
- SUPERIMPOSE TABULATE LEFT COLUMN:
- BY LUNAR SYNODIC MONTHS (one moon, one man),
- 29.53 days … three and a half times (DAN 12:7) …
- Times Venus' 584 days (REV 22:16) =
- 165.25 years, from Jan. 170 BC, the Fulcrum, to--
- (01:02 voice, drum, crescendo)
- 5 BC Apr. Birth of Jesus -the Christ Man- son of the virgin Mary; A morning comet.
- After 9 months gestation; (MATT 1:18)
- (01:11)
- 14 months after a grand conjunction of Jupiter-Saturn-Mars in Pisces the fish. (MATT 2:1-2)
- THEN COUNT 458 months (37 years) of Christ till--
- AD 33 Apr. 3, The final cup of wine; Condemnation of Christ Jesus; An evening lunar eclipse.
- = THE FIRST DEATH (REV 20:6) =
- After 42 months of public teaching and miracules.
- (01:27 lull, easy lightens)
- SAVE TITLES, TABULATION;-- AND SUPERIMPOSE TITLE:
- - SEVEN MILLENNIA AS SEVEN DAYS. II PETER 3:8 -
- (01:31 ooh-ahh)
- SUPERIMPOSE (MULTI-VO) SCROLL-DOWN REVIEW OF GENESIS DAYS:
- MILLENNIUM #1 - FIERY LIGHT - SPACER GODS DYNASTY
- 3670-2670 BC: Egypt to Sumer: Ptah, Ra, Yhw, Adam Gjeb, Cain Abel Alorus Osiris; Enos Anu Anubis …
- * MID-MILLENNIUM - SUPERNOVA IN THE NORTH *
- Young gods kill five elders, And husband mankind…
- MILLENNIUM #2 - STORMY SKY - DELUGES AND FLOODS
- 2670-1670 BC: Noah's ark; demigods rebuild … but, Plagues, famines, god-longevity shortens; Babel …
- MILLENNIUM #3 - LAND VEGETATION - HEBREWS WANDER
- 1670-670 BC: Egypt, Exodus, Canaan; Lost Tribes …
- MILLENNIUM #4 - TIME, DIVIDED - THE JEWISH NATION
- 670-170 BC, EAST: spiral comet, Babylon Diaspora…
- * JANUARY 170 BC - THE FULCRUM - DANIEL REDACTS *
- 170 BC-AD 331, WEST: Greek, Roman control; Christ Jesus; Paul, Christianity; Peter, Church …
- MILLENNIUM #5 - FISH & FOWL - CHRISTIAN TAKEOVER
- AD 331-1331: Christian Empire Divided … Crusades…
- MILLENNIUM #6 - BEAST & MAN - THE NEW WORLD
- AD 1331-1996: Renaissance … America, Science …
- AD 1996-2331: solar system rule; the "water hole"
- MILLENNIUM #7 - GOD RESTS - THE NEW SPACERS RULE
- AD 2331-3331: interstellar with the Jehovahn ….
- HOLD LAST AS TITLE TILL SCROLL IS OFF …
- RESTORE TITLES, TABULATION. ADD RIGHT COLUMN HIGH SUBTITLE:
- (02:05 voice, drum, re-crescendo)
- - THE SECOND ADVENT: THE COMFORTER -
- SUPERIMPOSE TABULATE RIGHT COLUMN, CORRESPONDING:
- BY SIDEREAL YEARS (many stars, many men),
- 365.25 days … three and a half times (DAN 12:7) …
- Times Venus' 584 days (REV 22:16) =
- (02:14 castinets)
- 2044 years, from the Fulcrum 170 BC, to--
- AD 1875. Publication of SCIENCE AND HEALTH -the Christ Science- book by Mary Baker Glover.
- After 9 years gestation since discovery AD 1866;
- 14 years after a super-conjunction of Sun-Moon-4-planets in Virgo, Sept 4-5 1861. (REV 12:1)
- THEN COUNT 458 years of Christ till--
- AD 2333, The last ecumenical plaudit; Condemnation and legal purview repeal of 'CHRIST' SCIENCE AND HEALTH; Time Capsule opened, Mother cremated; A comet strikes the sea. (REV 18)
- = THE SECOND DEATH (REV 20) =
- After 42 years of public teaching and miracules.
- (02:48 fade)
- = THE END OF DANIEL'S TIMES AND DAYS =
- HOLD LAST AS TITLE; Program SCROLLS OFF.
- The Carrier speck is gone; the moon is re-whitening …
- (02:51 -out-)
- SUBTITLE POST-HERALD TEXT:
- "I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star." (REV 22:16)
- The Watchers.
- Title, text and credits FADE OUT …
- DISSOLVE TO:
- EXT. NILE, EAST SHORE - PICNIC GROUND - GORGEOUS SUNSET
- The senior family in predynastic Egyptian royal garb: wives conversing on the beach; Ptah, Ra, Thoth, lounging spread-eagle under a palm tree … Shw joins with fresh drinks …
SHW
- Congratulations, Thoth: You are now 1-hundred-20-years, And officially, One-of-the-gods!
- Thoth nods Thank-you.…
- Ra exuberates--
RA
- I've got another, great, idea!
PTAH
- What is it today, my golden son?
RA
- This one is -really- great!--
- (a beat, ecstatic)
- When this population of workers is a million, we'll job them cut-and-stack two million granite blocks in conic pyre-amid cased in limestone: Pack a center-hollow with hard-coal and detonate the shuttle's nuclear fuel over it:-- Limestone implodes, a gold cap balances the pressures,- The fitted granite blocks compress, concentrically amplifying a hundred times itself the implosion creating instantly, A thousand-ton diamond…!
- (grins to Ptah)
- With your permission, we'll do the prototype on your desert out west.
PTAH
- (smiling broadly, to Shw)
- Is-not Ra brilliant half the time?!
SHW
- (smiling, salutes Ra)
- Shade my eyes, Ra,- You'll set-even in history the greatest of us ever!
- It's a golden sunset for a golden family …
- FADE TO BLACK
- EXT. AFRICA TO PERSIAN RANGE - SPACE HIGH - HIGH WHITE MOON
- (00:00 ooh descent, lightly - Evacuee/Enya)
- FLOATING SCAN DOWN to Earth nightside below the stars ….
- (00:17 rain fall)
- INT. UNKNOWN CAVE, ENTRANCE - NIGHT, RAIN (916 YEARS LATER)
- LIGHTNING FLASHES.
- (00:19 thunder)
- Firelight flickers from deep inside the cave.
- (00:24 horns, noble)
- Laid-to-rest by sons, Seth (800), Enos, Enoch, Methuselah:
- Whitehaired withered ADAM (930), enrobed in animal skins:
- (00:41 strum)
- They stoop about, and kneel one-knee … their heads bowed;
- SUPERIMPOSE SCROLL-UP EPITOME (VO) WITH TRAVEL-PICTURES:
- 930 YEARS
- (00:45 voice)
- 'Adam' Gjeb bar Tefen, resurnamed, bar Yhw-h,
- Patriarch of eight generations of earthborn gods:
- Look at Adam again, and mutually …
- Centuries bereft of his sister-wife 'Eve' Nuit …
- Estranged from his sons 'Cain' who slew younger-twin 'Abel' for his identity; From childless Seth who buried 'Cain' and Eve with a terrible secret:
- From their lineal sons: for ancestricidal revolt…
- (01:10)
- LIGHTNING FLASHES: Inspired, They look out at the rain.
- Home from the Tuat oases: To see home once-more …
- Mistaken for a wild animal by Lamech out hunting,
- Now 'sleeps-forever' in the land he first knew …
- His mother Tefnuit, once Lieutenant Commander of InterSpace Forces, killed by Marduk … His father Shw killed by Enki-nun at a child's fabrication…
- And grandparents their parents, and their people…
- Whom he had not seen again these many centuries …
- (01:34)
- And stand;-- A last-ever look at Adam.
- 'Dreams' upon his early childhood spacer days,
- Their curious equipments unknown on his Earth;
- The spacer children, vaguely remembered …
- Ponderous, What became of them?-
- Where did they, go,
- Why did they stay away?
- (01:57 voice)
- They turn out, douse the fire, and retreat…
- Had they forgotten;
- Where did they come-from;
- Who were they;
- What were they;
- What had they become;
- Would they ever meet again…?
- (02:24 "mmm")
- EXT. - CLEARED NIGHT, FULL MOON, VENUS (CONTINUOUS)
- And stand at the entrance, looking out.
- What was Adam, himself:
- Why had he been placed on Earth;
- What would he become now;
- What was this world …
- What was the world before;
- What was the void between the worlds…?
- (02:49 voice)
- And roll a fitted stone to cover the cave forever:
- What Mind lay beyond the stars;
- What Spirit attended him on Earth;
- What was his Principle … of reality …
- … of harmony … of Life … of Soul … of Truth …
- Questions mounting ever more expansive, towering ever higher: A tenuous substance filling thought, overcoming the gravity of opinion;
- (03:13)
- And turn away to look over the steppe;--
- As dully satisfying as the pale red light of that typical first day that first illumined the face of the Earth,--
- Or that milky smear of luminescence on the night sky … Somewhere out there, had been a beginning he did not recall or perhap never knew:
- Adam had passed, -yearning skyward flight again- that eluded his brain full of childish knowledge:
- (03:35)
- They walk away together.
- Knowledge that seemed convincing,-- yet was empty save an occasional companion conversation.
- At last Adam was becoming a quickening spirit:
- A God-thinker,-- a God worshipper….
- (03:44 fade -3 sec. out-)
- It would be four centuries more 'til Noah noticed the water gushing-up from the ground in a deluge: as-if the fountains of the great deep had broken: Evidence that something astronomical had crashed, once upon a time, cracking the Earth, underneath.
- FLOATING, RISE: with the sky;
- Text SCROLLS-UP-OFF.
- (00:00 windwhistle - My Bitter Island/Marquisard)
- RAIN POOLS REFLECT a myriad stars;
- And hundreds of sorrowful stand heads-bowed …
- (00:05 piano)
- GRADUALLY LOOK UP … and UP … ENDLESSLY …
- A FIREBALL wanders across the clear starry night-sky …
- (00:50 talk, rhythm)
- FINAL CREDITS; traversing outer space … to planet Venus . .
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- Planet Venus atmospheric entrance … TO CLOUDY WHITEOUT …
- (04:12 end -out-)
- FADE OUT TO WHITE
- THEATER LIGHTS.
- POSTLUDES:
- (2:04 or 3:21/T-S - Lothlorien/Enya - 'exeunt')
- (3:49 - The Celts/Taliesin-Sayre/Enya - 'social')
- (4:05 - Afer Ventus/Enya - 'refreshments')
- THE END.
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