Dragons in the Earth by Judith Tarr

Author:Judith Tarr [Tarr, Judith]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary fantasy, female protagonist, Tucson, Arizona, dragons, dragon magic, horses, Tiamat, Babylon, Marduk
ISBN: 9781611386257
Publisher: Book View Cafe
Published: 2016-09-20T07:00:00+00:00

12

In the bright winter daylight, logic tried to take over. Dragons are real—I knew that; they were everywhere, sleeping in the earth, swimming in the oceans, dancing in the air. That Dragon, the mother of monsters, was long and forever gone, if she had ever existed at all. The gods I’d seen in the dream hadn’t lasted much longer. They’d fallen off the cultural radar, died or been assimilated into newer divinities.

It was all symbolic anyway, wasn’t it? Ancient male power subdued primordial female power. Patriarchy ensued.

It wasn’t that simple. Nothing ever is. I turned six mares of unknown lineage out in the pasture that morning, and if I slanted my eyes just right, I could almost see which mare corresponded to which goddess.

As for the stallion . . .

He was a horse. An exceptionally handsome one, with exceptional presence, but I couldn’t find anything in or around him that said he’d been a Mesopotamian deity. It was all metaphorical. Someone or some entity—government, corporation, whatever—wanted him and his mares. Rare breed, after all. Probably worth a great deal of money. My brain being what it was, I’d turned it into a variorum version of the Enuma Elish.

But I couldn’t believe it was that simple, either. The thing that had been hunting, the protections we’d felt compelled to put up—those weren’t normal or ordinary.

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