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The Prophecy of Zarah



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The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the early part of the 20th century is one of the most important episodes in the field of Bible scholarship. They have been studied and transcribed for decades, so it was quite a shock when an unnoticed Hebrew text was found in the collection. The theology of this text, apart from references to Sheol (the abode of the dead) and the primordial chaos monster Leviathan, is quite unlike anything found in the Qu’mran community, the Bible or the Ancient Near East as a whole. Here is the entirety of the text, as translated so far:

This is the vision of prophetess Zarah
revealed to her in the dark of a dead land
and written in the dust of a blind moon.

There are Things that were tamed in the beginning of the cosmos
and chained by the stars
which were placed in a sigil of five dimensions
in the tongue of a formless race which was ancient
before the elements.

Their servants were condemned to the mirrors,
to serve as reflections until the sigil of stars
comes undone.
At that time their Masters will return
and the one called Leviathan will drown the stars
in his ichorous waters.

The Gods of man will be as mortals
and those who knew life after death will suffer
as the living.
Blessed are the godless.
Blessed are those for whom death is extinction.
All the host of Heaven and Hell will alike
be tormented by the returned Ones,
whose hatred has festered for millions of years
as the burning stars chained them
beyond the attainable World.

The Reflections will creep from the mirrors and waters
to cackle and sizzle in a tongue without reason:
and they will catch mortals and drive them to madness
and those will be lucky:
for their Masters will come and they will not allow
the salvation of Madness.

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Time will die before them and their reign will be timeless.
Reason will be slaughtered and space will be senseless.
Black stars will hang in the sky choked in ichorous waters.
The Gods of the mortals will be feeble before them
and no law will be left but the whim of the hateful,
the Things that were chained when the cosmos were formed.
Blessed are the dead who know nothing.
Blessed are those who did not trust Salvation
but had faith in extinction at the dust of the body.
These are the only ones who are spared.

All of this I, Zarah, have seen in the dead land,
and inscribed in the dust of a blind moon.
It has been revealed to me in Sheol,
and been made known to me in the Pit.
And it has been shown to me that writings from Sheol
will be seen in the land of the living
as the chain of the stars become weaker.
As the sigil comes closer to breaking, the

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It should be noted that the translators make the ridiculous assertion that more writing appeared from the start to the completion of their reconstruction of this text, and indeed that vague impressions of letters have already formed below the last sentence, which now ends at “the”. This should be taken as a highly unprofessional attempt at explaining away the slow process of translation. The grisly suicides of, as of this writing, two of the original translation team, should likewise be ignored.

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107 thoughts on “The Prophecy of Zarah”

  1. Yes, this story is glorifying atheists. I’m a Christian. I’m not offended. Y’all shouldn’t be either.

    Have an ice day.

  2. Cordyceps sapiens

    Rereading this six years later, I really appreciate how butthurt all the people who think I’m an atheist got.

    For the record: I’m not named Sarah or an atheist, but I am pretty pale. “Zara” (זארה) is Hebrew for “stranger”. Obsidian mirrors existed in the general Mesopotamian area for thousands of years before the intended time period of this, although only in the hands of the upper classes- the class any female who was literate would almost certainly belong to. The diction was absolutely not supposed to resemble King James’ holy book: it was “translated” by moderners, and written while I was reading through the NRSV text of the Oxford Annotated Bible.

    I got paid 50 bucks for this by a Lovecraftian ezine, even though I made it clear in the submission that it had already been published on the defunct pre-wikia creepypasta.com. Don’t know who ported it here when that went down, but I appreciate them. :) This is no classic, but a few people got it, and that’s all I need.

  3. Devil's Advocate

    I liked it. It wasn’t creepy, or scary. I put it with all the other “apocalypse” stories I’ve heard. Mildly entertaining, and fantastical.

  4. I cannot even begin to say how much of a waste this is,but then again,it’s just a atheist’s idea on ”the world and whats to come” so why should I pay any attention to it?

  5. Just want to help..TLS

    Kinda funny but to whomever is reminded of Lovecraft by this: It is based on the prophecies of ancient Mesopotamian peoples, such as the Sumerians, Zoroastrians, etc. Lovecraft had an early fascination with the Middle East, however the things he wrote about were too similar to recent discoveries on the ancient cultures aforementioned than were available widely in the twenties.
    Mr Lovecraft knew something.
    In fact he frequently sited influence from his dreams. So make of that what you will.
    I’ve been living in a place and a life that sees most of this as a reality, Someday you may hear my stories here too. Or elsewhere. I wish only to help. If it peaks your curiosity, dig deeper. Be careful. Be ready, Because shit may hit the fan soon should we fail here…
    I am not trying to appear self important. I’m just different. And I want to do all I can to help all I can in the time I have. Understand my goal and my seriousness.
    After all, I’m only trying to help.

  6. I happen to quite knowledgable about biblical things and can speak and write Hebrew fluently (modern stuff anyway, classical still needs work), and in my many years of work I have never come across this excerpt or mention of it… ever. A quick look on the internet only brings up stuff related to this page.

    With that I mind, I have a feeling that this is all made up.

  7. As the sigil comes closer to breaking, the beasts come into view.
    As I lay here dying, I see the gods come down to greet me.
    As I see them coming near me, I see that they took the form
    of you pitiful humans.
    As I start to close my eye, and stare into the night, I see
    the beasts starting to break free.
    As I greet the Masters with open arms, they suddenly dissapear.
    As I lay there dying, with a knife through my chest, I feel
    relived to have met the Master in which I hope to meet again soon.
    For I am the great Zarah.

  8. I really enjoyed this one due to it\’s lovecraftian feel. I like that it\’s saying the gods exist but are feeble in comparison to these old ones. I\’ve always liked the idea of a being so maddening that it would push God over the edge. And it\’s a nice touch that the best possible fate is annihilation. The mirrors thing and the way the final paragraph goes I didn\’t like but it\’s still made me think. Puts a whole new spin on Pascals wager no?

  9. More of a Theist than Atheist

    I’m pretty sure “Blessed are the godless” is just another way of saying the popular Internet phrase “WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW?”. Obviously, we are going to be killed by the Burger King.
    So to all you Anti-Atheists, Atheists, I’m not sure who is complaining at this point: Get that stick out of your ass and stop assuming it’s some thinly veiled attack on religion.

    Though, overall the story is okay for the semi-Lovecraftian style. Just not creepy enough.

  10. @ The brown stain, obviously a Christian, accuse all other religions, or the people who choose to follow their own thing, on your own time.

  11. The ichorous waters of his ichorous waters were ichorous waters…bad grammar, little bit of spelling. First half is decent, but then gets repetitive and bland. Would not go back for seconds.

  12. tl;dr

    Too wordy and long, the spacing was annoying, what I saw of the storyline seemed silly and conjured up on the spot

  13. The people who complain about this one because they are so obviously offended are seriously just pathetic.

  14. Christian here. Wasn’t really in the least offended. Mostly a lot of lolwut moments in this one. But still, I’ll give this one a B for effort.

  15. The brown stain on the wall

    Obviously written by an athiest, please keep your religion (Or lack thereof) to yourself.
    0/10

  16. Religion, in my opinion, is utterly pointless. That said, If religion makes you happy, then by all means, continue believing. Everyone has the right to believe what they want. Nobody should try and force their beliefs upon other people. It was said earlier that “Not everyone can be right.” But, personally, I don’t think we have a clue about anything. I would change it to “No-one is right.”

    Fear the Darkness

    -Nex

  17. Aw c’mon, forget creepy, you’re telling me this came out of the Dead Sea Scrolls and you didn’t even try to make the language more Biblical?? Read the Apocalypsis. The language used there is obscure and difficult, and you can’t understand half of what it says there. That’s what makes it awesome.

    Here, you got half-assed Lovecraftian “Ones” who will come to kill God. AND Satan.
    …seriously. Even if this wasn’t trying to be creepy, it sucks as prose.

  18. Very awesome concept. The prophetic language seemed kind of forced and it would have been nice to have more description of the malevolent beings, but the idea as a whole makes up for it.

    9/10

  19. i have a feeling that mngamojemo is a fat, pale atheist named sarah who pretends her name is zarah and sits in her room all day, typing out pathetic poetry.

    This.

    QFT.

  20. what a very good pasta i like it very much. and no i dont believe myself to any religions, gods and whatnot but i like this pasta very much

    also thought out that the reason why the translation ends up like that may be because maybe they translated some word to “candlejack” or something. ya know maybe he kidnapp

  21. ok…look. shut up about all the religion vs. atheist shit already its gettin really old. also i have studied mythology, legends, and religions all my life. leviathan in anything is always god of ocean no -uber almighty ,eat the almighty christian god, pmsing god of space-

    also sylar12 revelation is almost crystal clear. it basically says ‘fuck you all you you should have listened, here comes jesus on a white horse with an army of angelz, heaven is now a kingdom on earth.

    and i find any religion to be poinless cause they copy off each other at least one time in their 300 billion years they’ve been around

    the only religions i actually hate are sciencetology (its seriously a joke) and the big bang theory.

    also i kno about ichorous waters ;-) i sail em everyday

  22. i always hate it when people say “Revelations.” its Revelation. there is no S at the end.

    also, from Mike:”I’ll never get over the huge gap between people when it comes to creepypasta. No matter what the pasta, someone will absolutely love it, and someone will sit there and nitpick and bitch about how awful it is.”

    … people are like that with everything. not just this site.

  23. Gotta say it kinda lost me as it went on, but I do kinda like the idea of everyone who believes is punished, kinda of like a reverse psychology of Christianity. Believe in me and you die, in all reality, your belief has just caused you to be cursed to madness when they come for those who fail to live their lives on their own terms. ;)

  24. Actually, Sylar12, I have read Revelations. Seems pretty meaning filled to me. But that’s only because I, amongst many others, know how to understand that symbolism is predominant in that book.

    Oh, and I was writing about the pasta – that it was one of the more illogically based stories I’ve ever read, that is.

    Lastly, if we’re supposed to be writing about the story, then why are you arguing back at me? You only had to say that myself and the others weren’t writing about the story, yet you went as far as saying that Revelations has less meaning than the pasta. Nice hypocrisy there, sir, LOL.

  25. death to all believers
    death to all religion
    death to all priests of religion and the like
    death to world leaders
    death to you
    death to us
    DEATH is all that remains
    there is no god
    jahwe, satan, shiva, christ, allah all ideas, demon-fetishes of the enslavers – burn them at the stake
    Overhead of the brotherhood of the serpent
    A.W.E
    Germany – RULE.

  26. Lawlz – scroll up and look at the comments. I admit the story could use work- a lot. I was merely commenting on the pitiful comments of some of the others. I assume the comments section was made to make comments on the actual pasta, yet you and others continue to blab on about religious and atheist arguments. Also, read Revelations. You will find less meaning in it than you will in the pasta above.

  27. “So let me get this straight: you’re best off thinking that this world–fulll of war, corruption, disease, famine, poverty, bigotry, genocide, violent crime, and pollution–than to think that there might be anything better?”

    Since the main conceit of the story is that the afterlife will eventually consist of eternal Lovecraftian torture, yeah, you’re better off thinking that this world is all there is, in the universe where this is not a work of fiction.

    The Essenes, a major sect which would have been around in the time period of this story, were Yahwists who did not believe in any sort of afterlife. Neither did most of the writers of the Old Testament. That being said, how is pro-Atheism the only possible message of this story? Learn2historyofyourownreligion.

  28. Sylar12 = lawlzy, focus. Don’t listen to him unless you’re ready to lol real hard.

    Yes, all these stories are fake, but at least they’re better-written. It wasn’t just about shunning historical documents, but really about that it wasn’t logically written. It wasn’t good. Now, stop being a fool, lol.

    kfnnnp – You know who’s lawlzier than Syler12? You, sir. You made my day, and I thank you for the lolz.

    See, not everyone’s belief is not fine. Clearly, you need to adapt to reason – I like what was said earlier about everyone not being right. Example – theories of the afterlife include nothing happening, heaven happening, hell happening, life re-starting, etc. But, notice that nothing happening /and/ any of these others can’t be true. Notice also that being reincarnated /and/ going to a heaven or a hell or simply laying still in the dirt can’t be true. With all due respect, I think people are too silly and afraid to search for the truth, ’cause they’re afraid they’ll be horribly wrong if they do explore other religions and hear other peoples’ beliefs. You know what’s more considerate than keeping what you believe to be absolutely true and life-saving to yourself? Spending your every waking minute trying to share that truth with other people. Ever watched a video called Gift of a Bible on YouTube featuring Penn Jillette, a famous and steadfast atheist? It’s good. You should watch it. Maybe learn a thing or two about actually caring enough about people to share your beliefs. :)

    Lolz. Gotta take a breather from all the lolz here.

  29. ….Are you people seriously disparaging this story on the account of it isn’t real? You do realise that NONE of the stories on creepypasta are real right? The story was not the best, but wasn’t too bad either. The fact that you’re mocking it because “it’s fake” just proves how moronic you really are. Good work mngamojemo- these morons probably don’t even know what the Dead Sea Scrolls are. :)

  30. Lawlz at the Voice of “Reason.”

    Troll eatin’ good here.

    Lawlz here!

    Grabbin’ lawlz!

    Lawlz.

    Also, this prophecy is too lawlzy to be a good prophecy. Come on, nihilistic forces more powerful than an all-powerful God or his little rascal of an angel Lucifer?

    Boy, you be trippin’.

    And that, sir, is lawlzy.

    And yes. I’m doin’ it for the lolz.

  31. So let me get this straight: you’re best off thinking that this world–fulll of war, corruption, disease, famine, poverty, bigotry, genocide, violent crime, and pollution–than to think that there might be anything better?

    Sorry, but this pasta seems more like emo ramblings than a genuine attempt at being scary.

  32. Yes, someone has to be wrong, but everyone has a right to choose their own religion, and I happen to believe religion of any sorts- even lack of it- is a personal thing, and you should keep opinions on it to yourself. No matter what religion (or lack thereof) a person belongs to, they shouldn’t try to convert everyone around them.

    So yes, all I want you to do is accept that not everyone believes the same thing as you, and everyone’s belief is fine.

  33. I’m undecided. I think if it’d been done differently, I would’ve liked the concept of text writing itself to herald the coming of some unseen murderous force.

    But the means you used to deliver this message were .. boring. You should’ve just written a single sentence instead of writing all of that translation, because it would’ve saved me the life I wasted on your story.

    It could’ve read “Bad shit is coming, the”

    Story improved.

  34. this pasta is better than the last, but thats like saying this pile of shit is better than the last because it doesn’t have corn in it

  35. Hi! Is it such an unusual thing for a pasta to suck that when people say “HATED IT” that you accuse them of being close minded atheist-haters?

    Really this was just uninteresting. Instead of coming up with an actual ending the writer copped out with two short paragraphs of story for a long translation that was extremely hard for me to sit through, hoping for a rewarding ending that never happened. I love the noncreative cop-out ending..

    “Oh BTW the creepy translation has no conclusion cause TRANSLATOR DIES the end”.

    Lame. The best part of this once glorious site is now officially the links. Are we fresh out of creepypasta people?

    I would be nicer but I haven’t read anything interesting here in awhile.

  36. suckysuckysucksuck
    pitiful excuse for a pasta.
    i found a new prophecy
    “in the near future some a stupid writer will make a gay pasta about a false prophecy”
    holy **** it came true!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  37. I’ll never get over the huge gap between people when it comes to creepypasta. No matter what the pasta, someone will absolutely love it, and someone will sit there and nitpick and bitch about how awful it is.

  38. Non-Easily-Offended Christian

    kfnnnp – not true, I just don’t always comment, lol. Besides, if you believe in something, then you think it’s true, and so shouldn’t be afraid or ashamed to make that known to others around you in the hopes of shining Truth on them as well, yes? It’d make poor Believers out of those who said nothing and let the misconceptions go by unchallenged.

    What do you want us to do, say, “Oh, everyone’s belief is fine, and nobody’s wrong. My God isn’t the only God.” Nah, that’d be wrong on two accounts – one, being a Christian involves monotheism; two, not everyone’s belief can be right, since any monotheistic religions specifically forbid the worship of multiple gods/beliefs.

    Someone’s. Got. To be. Wrong. :)

  39. As much as I love the phrase “ichorous waters”, it packs too much of a punch for you to get away with using it twice.

    Also, for something that’s supposed to by Christian Apocrypha, or at least something from that time period, it doesn’t read like it. At points it even seems anachronistic (correct me if I’m wrong but I don’t think they had mirrors).

  40. These comments sound like they were all written by 13 year old emo goth chicks who cut themselves but still go to church on sundays and half-believe in Jesus to make their parents happy.

    You guys are mentally handicapped if you can’t see the merits of this story; it’s like because you had some idealistic objection to the premisses being raised you went into anal defensive mode that prevented you from gaining any enjoyment out of an interesting and thought provoking pasta.

    This has a lot more to do with nihilism than atheism. Atheism still adheres to natural law, but this is like ending of everything and going beyond classical science to do it. If anything she’s more on your side than atheists are, because atheists don’t think your god exists at all. She’s saying that he does, but he is going to get completely eviscerated.

  41. Okay people, I’m gonna douse this ember before it erupts into full-fledged warfare. This is jsut a story that someone wrote, it is not some recruitment attempt by aetheists to damn you all to hell, it is not a challenge to your religion or lack thereof. So enough with the aetheism vs religion thing okay?

    Personally, I thought it was better than the last one, but still pretty dull. I’ll say 4/10

    In hindsight, I realize that nothing I say will stave off the attempts of trolls or idiots, so there will more than likely still be more posts from posters like the non-easily-offended-but-overly-smug-christian. In closure, please do not feed the trolls

  42. Pretty lame shit, kind of like a ritual pasta with no ritual. Or story. Just the ending when you do something wrong.

  43. I like how when it’s those who do believe in god that are spared, no-one complains, but if it’s an atheist being spared, you all take up arms against the author.

  44. Non-Easily-Offended Christian

    Yeah, it’s not that it was necessarily badly written, but that the story didn’t really make all too much sense – Atheists believe in naturalism, and these “Ones” seem to be a bit beyond supernatural. Also, why would they be blessed if they’re just going to suffer with the rest of us? There is no joy to take in being right about one’s own destruction that I can see, unless you’re just a very, very bitter person.

    In which case, I say to you – lawlz.

  45. …Well, I liked it. Could be because I’m an atheist, though. Nice change from the “You’re going to hellll!” I get so often.

  46. SuperDannyGlover

    Enjoyed it, much better when compared to the last one of course. In general it was a solid pasta. More effort went into this then a lot of others.

  47. Meh. I started out well, with commenting on an unknown text as part of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and even earned some brownie points mentioned Sheol and Leviathan.

    However, it lost alot of its punch by (as has been pointed out) trying to sound like an ancient religious text yet sounding more like something about to happen in Innsmouth. If reworked a bit, would probably grab the attention more. Alot of “prophets” saw all kinds of weird shit in visions that they described in incredible detail. I think it was the growing vagueness of the Things, Reflections, etc. that made it a bit weak.

  48. I couldn’t get past the tired cliche of “OMG teh evil reflections they will kill us alls!!1!”

    Certainly a unique writing style, but the hackneyed premise completely ruined it.

  49. I couldn’t get past the tired cliche of “OMG the evil reflections they will kill us alls!!1!”

    Certainly a unique writing style, but the tired premise completely ruined it.

  50. Blahblahblah.
    Lovecraft’s pickings.
    Ungodly things not meant for human minds to comprehend, things larger then our existance as a species, things older then your mom, yeah, moving on.

  51. WELL I LIKED IT – Halfway through I was in awe, except i thought it was saying those with gawds would be spared, my mistake… but even though i was in awe it is complete bollocks and people should not be taking it so seriously :)
    good pasta

  52. crusherXofXdreams

    I read the first paragraph and lost intrest…I want something scary…like paranormal activity…***** movie.

  53. I like how everyone assumes writer is a hardcore Atheist when the creepy part only hits home if you believe in an afterlife.

    A: no shit it contradicts religion. It says so right in the intro.

    Very much liked this pasta.

  54. I guess it’s an interesting IDEA, if I can get past the fact that it doesn’t sound like anything out of the bible/religious text so much as it sounds like something out of modern-day sci-fi. And that it contradicts religion.

    But then I guess writing to sound completely like most tradional religious texts is extremely hard right?

  55. Total let down.

    I expected better due to the previous pasta. Better than the last one, but I think this pasta is a bit undercooked, yes?

  56. Armageddon Saint

    I’m loving the easily-offended commenters on this. I’m a Christian, yet I enjoyed this pasta…possibly because it creeps me the fuck out.

  57. Seeped in that thick coating of hopelessness and inevitable annihilation of Earth and the mewling human race, something that I love oh so much.

  58. Thought it was pretty good, gives that feeling of hopelessness and inevitable annihilation which I love oh so much.

  59. Last one was admittedly not great, but that doesn’t make this one good. You can compare one handful of poop to another and one may be better, but in the end you’re still just holding two handfuls of poop.

  60. i have a feeling that mngamojemo is a fat, pale atheist named sarah who pretends her name is zarah and sits in her room all day, typing out pathetic poetry.

    1. Devil's Advocate

      Of course it’s a fake prophecy? It’s a story. You didn’t read it on Wikipedia or a credible ancient text translation project website. It’s on Creepypasta, for entertainment. I was entertained, therefore it did it’s job.

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