Time Of The Demon by Ian Taylor & Rosi Taylor

Author:Ian Taylor & Rosi Taylor [Taylor, Ian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Gumshoe Books - A Next Chapter Imprint
Published: 2019-08-22T16:00:00+00:00

Back in her flat, Jan willed herself to work at the laptop. The wall clock raced around to 9.15 p.m. She finished the High Barn piece and sent it to Russell without checking a single word. Then she turned her attention to a much more burning issue–she smiled at the choice of adjective –the identity of Ashtar.

Eventually she tracked him down in several ancient demonologies. However, he wasn’t known as Ashtar, but as Ashtaroth. According to the majority of the demonologies, Ashtaroth was a demon in the form of a man with feathered wings. Although she hadn't noticed any wings, she had the overwhelming feeling that Ashtar was a mere projection and that Ashtaroth's true form was something else entirely.

After further investigation, she came across an image of Ashtaroth on an obscure internet site—a fiery demon with immense feathery wings and malevolently leering features. She was taken aback, shocked by what purported to be his true form. She read the following: He giveth true answers of things Past, Present and to Come.

Well, she thought, that much is true–to a point. She continued reading: He can discover all secrets. He appeareth in the Form of an hurtful Angel. She studied the demon's image again and found it impossible to believe that anything but malevolence could come from such a being. And who then was Ashtar but the demon himself in the form of an hurtful Angel?

After more assiduous searching on the Internet, she located some recent comments: Ashtaroth: One of a number of powerful ancient demons. Ranked near the very top of the demonic hierarchies of the ancient world.

She had the impression that these were characters or powers that had been around forever in various forms and guises. She suddenly realised that this was where the need to offer sacrifices stemmed from. In a creation inhabited by capricious gods and manipulative demons–assuming you could tell which was which– human beings had to spend most of their days placating one and paying off the other. A real balancing act.

Forget about the monotheisms, she thought. This ancient world had never gone away. She’d just encountered one of its senior representatives! And if these characters had been around forever–and if they’d constantly been visiting us in their strange lightforms–so much for ufology being a recent thing.

If Greg was here now he could doubtless provide her with references from the Old Testament or the Bhagavad Gita, which would confirm her new thinking.

She continued searching and came across another piece which described the demons' preferred physical locations: They inhabit, from preference, the abandoned places of man, unlike benign spirits that dwell in places of traditional sanctity. Demons will invariably cause injury; benign spirits, if approached respectfully, will not.

She realised that there were two different forces at work here—the good guys in the sacred springs and hilltops, and the villains in the abandoned quarries and post-industrial wastelands. If Ashtar was really Ashtaroth, not just a minor spirit dressed like a Roman senator, her investigation of the strange light in the field had attracted top-level otherworld attention.

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