While some may consider interaction with God in space a violation of scientific assumptions that if one leaves their origin planet, such as earth, the God of their religion’s legitimacy is cancelled. For instance, to leave earth could make void the Jewish, Christian and Muslim God because the creation story only includes one planet and its promise to eventually take believers to the next world; the kingdom of heaven. In fact, many science fiction authors have torn apart and pasted together religious motifs and events to deliver in the pages of their novels. In Evah & the Unscrupulous Thwargg the science fiction worlds have core mysteries rooted in spirituality and science. In fact, these two paradigms of thought are on a course of conflict in the book. There is so much we don’t know about our universe and its mechanics. There may still be so much that is possible with the disciplines of consciousness devoted to the spirit and spirit world.
In the System of Spirea there is the remnant of the Jesuit Order brought by humans who departed earth long ago and on the planet of Hypathia, also known as Naaheen, there was a strange yet powerful spiritual process going on that was coldly snuffed out. Evah, a descendant of that spiritual tribe, like many of her kind, post occupation, were submersed in the Jesuit’s teaching of God. Similar supernatural beings and relationships to a creation beginnings can be found in the large rift between the Naaheen beliefs and the Jesuit, whether they be chaos creation myths or ex nihilo. It is so, there are similarities between many creation myths. In African mythology we know of many creation Gods from Bumba to the shapeshifting creator Can, Faro creator of the sea, Pemba creator of the earth, even the myth of Bemba about a creator God who spoke “the word” to make creation come into being.
Alas, the stories of the Naaheen tribe have largely been lost, renamed or misrelated historically to such an extent that identifying the root deity is thought impossible (at least during the time of this book). Yet, the symbols, and phenomenon associated with her spiritual roots comes looking for Evah and she too is on a search to identify them while forwarding her journey to self-discovery. She relates to Christ as a spiritual deity, and Yahweh, and thus in her visions to see her spiritual master she sees imagery of the suffering Christ, and flies on the shoulder of a being of light one would say is surely the Hebrew God. And perhaps it is. Evah’s experience will prove the best pedagogy.
Certainly, feelings of persecution and oppressive responsibility for such a young girl make the symbols of suffering and sacrifice very real and that inner turmoil, psychologically, are naturally expected to find themselves projected into the world as well as running loose upon the inner landscape of the mind. There are other story manifestations to consider God influenced.
Evah’s people have been known as shapeshifters and that may be related to stories of Cagn who transformed to different living and nonliving objects and each form he embodied he named and thus created. In christianity too, there are instances of transformation: Christ transfigures into a glowing being, a gravedigger seems to bring a message from God and then he becomes the risen Christ. Evah’s alter ego is like smoke or a mist, and being of a people known for their relationship to the sea, could relate to Faro, creator of the sea. Evah does multiply the size of waves to land crushing size. Perhaps it is that these deities have more in common than some want to consider. Perhaps they all lead to the same mysteries.
In Evah’s world there are unrested spirits, poltergeists, and demons too. Mingling with unrested spirits brings unexpected power but poltergeists too are able to join with those like Evah, known as extuiters, and it can prove to be not dissimilar to an identity eating insanity. Demons in the interstellar hallways and sanctuary verandas are looking for a way to enter the world of the living through vulnerable people.
Of course demons and other spirits are vastly multi cultural, from the earliest South American beliefs about evil tree spirits to their widespread counterparts in the beliefs of varied tribes across Africa.
And so there is much to discover about the remaining temples and sanctuaries scattered across the spirean system. Are those temple doors on the planet Constance entrances to hell or do they have other purposes? Where does the spirit figure of the sanctuary mother come from? How and why does a stone structure on Naaheen seem to depart from the planet into unknown regions of the cosmos? For Evah, it is a daunting calling into a world possessed with the potential for incredible positivity, even benevolence, but also a darkness that may be set in motion by her own cloying inner struggles.
All of this, is a depth with terrifying spaces that would overwhelm any young girl but Evah, like us all, at some time or another must power through trials of faith, facing our inner demons and reconciling the ideology and existence of supernatural figures, in order to achieve a surviving wisdom.