Limbo by Anthony Milhorn

Author:Anthony Milhorn [Milhorn, Anthony]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-03-04T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 4

Rakinos stood looking out over the production floor, his intelligent red eyes tracking every movement of every person down there as each one went about their tasks in creating the most recent version of Wolf's Bane. He had tweaked the formula in the last two days, finding hidden answers to the stability issues that had been plaguing the chemical bonds. It was that enzyme and the triple helix DNA and it's...unnaturalness...that Rakinos was thinking on. As it turned out, the unique enzyme inside of MacGregor's blood also repaired those bonds and enhanced them. That trait and its results were unheard of in chemistry, either inorganic or organic.

Rakinos had spent many hours wondering just when and where it evolved in the history of their species and it was in fact the source of the naturally occurring carbon fibers that made MacGregor's bones and teeth so dense and practically unbreakable. As for the triple helix DNA and hell, even the enzyme itself, having explored rational and logical options, Rakinos's mind had slowly began to turn to things that most considered allegorical at best, mythological if one was being civilized, of things that were, scientifically speaking, heresy.

Part of him began to entertain the idea that perhaps it wasn't something that evolved naturally, that it was rather something introduced artificially at some point in ancient history. There were stories, of course, rumors and legends that dated back to the earliest creation myths of many of the planet's cultures, stories of ancient powerful beings coming from the skies to bestow knowledge, civilization and even war upon the world's people. Surprisingly and somewhat ironically he mused as he watched, many of those legends centered around Sirius, the Dog Star. In ancient China, it was known The Heavenly Wolf. In Assyria and Akkadia, it was known as the Dog of the Sun. In what was once Chaldea, now modern-day Iraq, it was known the Dog Star that Leads.

More interesting, North American tribes shared similar cosmologies. The Seri and Tohono O'odham tribes of the southwest describe Sirius as a dog that follows mountain sheep, while the Cherokee paired Sirius with Antares as a dog-star guardian of the Path of Souls. The Skidi tribe of Nebraska knew it as the Wolf Star, while further north, the Alaskan Inuit of the Bering Strait called it Moon Dog. Sirius, as it turned out, played a role in many creation myths and "dog people" legends around the world.

Then of course, there were the Dogon people and the Cherokee. They and their cultural histories were some of the most interesting ones of all. To the Dogon, their gods came from a planet that orbited Sirius as well as its neighboring stars. They were gods of an ambiguous nature that seemed to prefer hiding and living underwater, but that they brought with them knowledge and agriculture and religion. Their knowledge of the Dog Star still baffled scientists. The Cherokee on the other hand believed in a separate type of people, called the Wolf

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