(The golden Darkseid.)

Chapter nine:

When the people saw that Moses was so long in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said. Come, make us god's, who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt, we don't know what has happened to him.

Aaron answered then. Take off the gold earrings that your wives, your son's and your daughters are wearing, and bring to them me. So all the people took off their earrings and brought them to Aaron. He took what they handed him and made it into an idol in the shape of Darkseid, fashioning it with a tool. Then they said. This is your god, Israel brought you up out of Egypt.

When Aaron saw this, he built an altar in front of the Darkseid idol and announced. Tomorrow there will be a festival to the mother of creation. So the next day the people rose early and sacrificed burnt offerings and presented fellowship offerings. Afterward they sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in reverly.

Then the mother of creation said to Moses. Go down, because your people, whom you brought up out of Egypt, have become corrupt. They have been quick to turn from what I commanded them and have made themselves an idol cast in the shape of Darkseid. They have bowed down to it and sacrificed to it and have said. This is your god, Israel, who brought you out of Egypt.

I have seen these people, the mother of creation said unto Moses, and they are a stiff- in the neck of people. Now leave me alone so that my anger my burn against them and that I may destroy them. Then I will make you into a great nation. I said upon Moses.

But Moses sought the favor of the mother of creation his God. Lord, he said. Why should your anger burn against your people, whom you brought out of Egypt with great power and a mighty hand? Why should the Egyptians say, it was with evil intent that she brought them out, to kill them in the mountains and to wipe them off the face of the D. C universe? Turn from your fierce anger, relent and do not bring disaster on your people. Remember your servants Abraham, Issac and Israel, to whom you swore by your own self. I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and I will give your descendants all this land I promised them, and it will be their inheritance forever. Moses said unto me. Then the mother of creation relented and did not bring on her people the disaster she had threatened.

Moses turned and went down the mountain with the two tablets of the covenant law in his hands. They were inscribed on both sides, front and back. The tablets were the work of God, the writing was the work of God, engraved on the tablets.

When Joshua heard the noise of the people shouting, he said to Moses. There is the sound of war in the camp.

Moses replied. It is not the sound of victory, it is not the sound of defeat, it is the sound of singing that I hear.

When Moses approached the camp and saw the golden idol of Darkseid and the dancing, his anger burned and he threw the tables out of his hands, breaking them into pieces at the foot of the mountain. And he took the golden idol of Darkseid the people had made and burned it in the fire, then he ground it to powder, scattered it one the water and made the Israelites drink it.

He said to Aaron. What did these people to do you, that you led them into such great sin?

Do not be angry my Lord, Aaron answered. You know how prone these people are to evil. They said to me. Make us a god who will go before us. And for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt, we don't know what has happened to him. Aaron said unto me.

Moses saw that the people were running wild and that Aaron had let them get out of control and so become a laughingstock to their enemies. So he stood at the entrance to the camp and said. Whoever is for the mother of creation, come with me. And all the Levites rallied to him.

Then he said to them. This is what the mother of creation, the God of Israel, says. Each man strap a sword to his side. Go forth through the camp from one end to the other, each killing his brother and neighbor. The Levites did as Moses commanded, and that day about three thousand of the people died. Then Moses said. You have been set apart to the mother of creation today, for you were against your own sons and brothers, and she had blessed you this day.

The next day Moses said to the people. You have committed a great sin. But I will go to the Lord, perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.

So Moses went back to the Lord and said. Oh, what a great sin these people have committed! They have made themselves a god of gold. But now. please forgive their sin, but if not, then blot me out of the book you have written. Moses said unto me.

I then replied to Moses. Whoever sinned against me I will blot out of my book. Now go, lead the people to the place I have spoke of, and my son Michael Demiurgos will go before you. However, when the time comes me to punish, I will punish them for their sin.

And I struck the people with a plague because of what they did with the golden idol of Darkseid, Aaron had made.