The Damned Thing

There's this strange intermingling thereof geography with mythical geography, which you see happen fairly frequently in the books. And there's gnastic speculation that the original god, this one, was not really a very good god. He was kind of an unconscious, evil god, and that he wanted his creation to be unconscious, and so forbade them from developing consciousness. That idea got scrubbed out of classic christianity pretty early,. although there are remnants of it in different forms that stayed inside the story. The name of the third river is hidicel, or hedekel, i don't know. That is it which goeth towards the east of assyria. And...