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away from her. When Gavin turned sixteen, he left the OMEGA 4 EAST City and
travelled to the southernmost part of the continent where three huge highlands surrounded
a lush valley that was the city of Pomperaque, in Lower Phoride. He made his home on
the highest mountain and changed his name to the name of the mountain and became, for
the city of Pomperaque, a great oracle. A seer and a prophet whose visions always came
to pass. He never seemed to die or grow old; he never had a wife or children, abstaining
from all sexual contact. He kept himself pure in mind and body, while he prayed to the

one great Living God, to which the majority of Twentieth Century man prayed.
The years passed, then in 2630 C.E., Hosea married his fifth and final wife, Margaret,
who in 2635 C.E., gave birth to twins, Richalé and Dioneza.
The following year, Margaret died trying to give birth to a premature baby that also died,
and two years after that, Hosea was killed in an electrical mishap. During the subsequent
years, the twins grew and each had entered their own peculiar studies. Dioneza studied
telepathy and when she turned fifteen she was asked to join the OMEGA operations
Council as a reward for her progress, unsurpassed by anyone of her age. She, like Hosea,
kept the title "BLUE" from her name.
When Dioneza received her appointment to the council, the Canon Di'Vaticanus returned
from his forty-nine year trek in the wilderness of the Northern Continent.
He was eighty-eight years old but he only looked like he was approaching forty. He met
his pretty half-sister and immediately began having sexual designs on her, wanting to
procreate with her and to have her carry out many of his strange requests.
With her telepathic ability, she saw into his mind and knew exactly what kind of a man
he was. She saw in his mind the memories of the forty-nine years that he spent away from
Omega 4 EAST city. She had seen that he studied ancient prophesies and obtained his
fulfilment from history but she also saw the destruction of his spirit with his fall into
accepting all forms of depravity, especially those of a sexual nature. She had seen his
encounters with men, women, children, animals and all manner of mutated freaks -- all in
his attempts to reach total spiritual awareness. After Dioneza had asked a friend to be her
protector, the Canon turned to hating her and cursed her with a violent death. He had no
problems finding other diversions. Young companions he desired came to do his bidding,
and soon he had the young Janis Topler beside him, wherever he went.
Janis soon became pregnant with his child and eventually gave birth to him in mid-2651
C.E.
Soon, thereafter, Janis was banished from the city and Canon took the boy into his care,
baptising him as Canis Topler. In late of that year the Abbess Mariot, from the Abbey of
Our Holy Virgins, brought to Omega 4 EAST an eleven year old girl, with a story about
finding her as a baby during a sojourn at a distant Hermitage. It was a beautiful baby girl,
wrapped in elegant and costly cloth, and resting within a cradle overlaid in gold.
She had named the child, Sunshine, since there was the glow and light of life which
shone from the child's face. She now had brought the girl to the city to have the child
tested.
It was a brilliant child. She could not speak, however, and this bothered the Abbess
Mariot. She also wanted an explanation for the child's speedy growth. At eleven years of
age, the child already had the appearance of a full grown woman.
Canon lusted after her.
Soon, Sunshine gave birth to the Canon's son. He was called Daey and he proclaimed the
boy as the long-awaited Saviour. He pronounced that the new promised millennium had
finally begun. This was the new age of humanity; the year he called "ONE".
Canon compiled a book of Laws that he had told everyone was given to him by the great
God, Himself. He called the book "The Canon's Laws", and announced that with his
receipt of this book, that all which had occurred in the "pre-history", had never happened:
"The Past is nonexistent. This is never to be questioned, and no investigation is permitted
to be conducted, in pursuit of the question of history. History begins with "ONE". Only

that which, henceforth, occurs from the year ONE will be recognised as history. Death,
by torture, is the punishment for this Law's transgression."
(CANON 3:18)
This passage was of the first of Canon's Laws: These Laws, to be followed to the letter,
were to be punishable upon