The First Tablet

The Second Book of Vovfen

Chapter 1

I am Vovfen, husband of Emalō, and I come now to finish the record which I started. Emalō has done very well in writing the teachings of the temple, and in this I revel. For she believes she is not strong in writing, nevertheless, she has proven, at least to me, that Aiylōhyme has given her this talent among many others, and I am quite blessed to call her my partner. But she desires no adoration, so I shall continue with my account of our journey to the land of Byirkenhōl. 
For it was that we camped round about on the seashore for the space of many months. And in that time, we lived off fish and crabs and all manner of life. And it was also that we spent much time going up in Sydeir in the temple we fashioned. And this was pleasing to me, for I had watched this people grow from wicked and bloodthirsty to among the most righteous on all the earth. And I reveled in my Aiy because of it. Praise be unto Aiylōhyme, I say, for their work of many miracles has not ceased, and it is still today even as it was for father Hennen. For Hennen saw many great and mighty miracles which I cannot list here. Nevertheless, so great was his faith that he truly led his people from bondage. And as it was for Mōzius, so it was for Hennen, for his people were in peril and the Aiylōhyme delivered them through miracle. And now it also is with this little people I have come to love. For they were filled with much wickedness and hostility towards me and my people. Nevertheless, Aiylōhyme has touched them and softened their hearts insomuch that they are a pure and whole people. Even like unto the people of old times. And they have no poor among them, for they have all things in common. 
And now I write concerning my seed and the remainder of the seed of Hennen. For the Aiy have made it known unto me of some future day in which they shall live, for I watch the children of Ahzheil play in the grass, a delightsome and happy people. But I foresee that it shall not always be so, for Aiylōhyme have showed me of a coming disaster that should scatter my people and all the people of my kinsmen. And I see that this calamity shall strip from all our seed, my seed and the seed of my kinsmen, nearly all light and truth, and they shall become as they were a loathsome and a wicked people full of anger and hatred towards their neighbor. And their neighbors they shall slay with the sword in order that they might increase their wealth. And they shall steal from the slain as if they were a grave robber. They shall go forward upon the earth as if they were locusts and kill any who should cross them. And this they shall do because of that calamity which shall befall the land in those days. 
And they shall fashion Vofdenaz and Friggō into gods of war and death and shall carry their names into battle while the opposing nations shall carry the name of Yeshua into battle and all shall be in commotion at that day, and all gods who were once our Aiy shall be crafted into idols of massacre. Yeshua's shall be a name of conquest. Thūnoraz shall be a god of heathens, Vofdenaz a name of murderers. And when all this, it shall still not be enough, for even though we worship the same creator that the people of Yeshua shall worship, for of a surety Yeshua has visited us and we call him Thūnoraz. Yet, while we worship the same Holy Ones, the children of Yeshua shall win the conquest and shall put my people to death save they forsake the name of Thūnoraz and take up the name of Yeshua. Oh fools! Know you not that they are one in the same? Know you not that we have not crafted the name of Thūnoraz from our minds, but that he has visited us? We are his people and his children, and he is our Aiy. And I testify that Thūnoraz is the name that we have given that Yeshua, who dwelled with the people in Aiyesholames. I say that he has walked with us, too. None are special save they claim. Yeshua has walked with us, and in our tongue, he is Thūnoraz. Is there any error in this? Whyfore, oh people, do you force us to forsake the name of Thūnoraz for Yeshua? We know his name, for he walked with us. And more, even after nearly two hundred years since he ascended to Athalaz, he does still do work among us. Have I not recorded that he visited in all his power the people of Ahzheil? I did. Go back and read it! 
Why then do you purport to worship a different, more powerful god than we? They are one in the same. And even though his is a gospel of peace, you shall turn it into one of hatred and anger, death and destruction. And with this false god of war, you come to make war with my people and wipe them out. And with this false god of war, you go too unto the children of Lehaiy and slay them. Do you not know that they, too, worship Yeshua the Messiah? I proclaim that he has come to them as well, and let my words be a witness for it. For if Yeshua has come to us, then he has also come to his other disciples, and are the children of Lehaiy not his disciples? 
We have sent envoy unto the lands which they have inherited, and I say they worship Thūnoraz, and we worship Yasheweh. And they call him Yasheweh, and we call him Thūnoraz, and he has come to us both. 
And we have also sent envoy to the people of the far steppe, for they are our kinsmen. And though they have a different name than Thūnoraz, so too do they worship the one Aiy who is this Yeshua who lived in Aiyesholames, and he has been to them the same as he has been to us. 
Now, I say, you wicked gentiles, has Yeshua ever walked among you? When he came to us, he proclaimed that he would visit the Gentiles in spirit only. Therefore, how can you force us to forsake Thūnoraz when you carry only the witness that he walked among the Yahūdi? Do you not understand that you carry the witness of the Yahūdi and not your own? How do you go around like conquerors proclaiming him yours when he has never done any work among you? 
I say it is good that you have the witness of the Yahūdi. Here, have this witness as well and use it as a condemnation against your wicked practices. But I see that you won't take it. My descendants will show you these tablets, and you will burn them as so much dung. How dare you? You came unto us and burn our witness because you carry with you the witness of the Yahūdi? How do you have authority to cast our witness away when you have received none yourself? I desire to read the writings of Rōmwas! Where is it? You have none, for you have forsaken it. Do you not think that Thūnoraz Aiyseir would have visited you had you been righteous? We have beheld you, great gentile assembly, and we have seen your ways. 
You slay the prophets of Thūnoraz and kill the seers of Aiylōhyme. You take from them their records and burn them in their sight. You cast them out as dung, and when we send prophets to cry unto you, you gather armies and nations to do war against us. You go to war with us not for the simple pleasure of conquest, but to stamp out the righteous. And so too will it be with the proclaimants of Yeshua in that day. You shall understand that we carry with us his seal, and you shall desire to stamp it out. 
Oh, you evil and wicked people! I see that these tablets which I write will be destroyed by your hands, nevertheless, Aiylōhyme is more powerful than your hand, and in some future day, they shall come forward, and will be a condemnation unto you, for the blood of my people has cried unto Athalaz as did Bethasdr's before us. 
We are not alone, and this record shall be the resounding sound of a Carnyx before battle. A great Carnyx that will tell you of our coming. And I prophesy that you will feel it in your bones as your forefathers did before you. For the legions of Rōmwas have marched into our forests and subdued our people under their sword and taken from us our religion for theirs. In these days, the sound of the Carnyx marked our doom, for we were subdued, but I see that in the last days, this Carnyx shall sound and will be the battle cry of the triumph of our people, for we shall finally overcome the oppression of our conquerors. And we will walk no longer as a vagabond but shall be restored. Aiy.

Chapter 2

And it came to pass that I, Vovfen, after helping guide this people unto the North Sea, departed for a time back unto the land of my fathers. And I brought with me Emalō and my mother and her sister. Farzhid had found a wife among the children of Ahzheil also, but declined to come, staying with her family for a time. We traveled directly west along the coast, and after many days of travel, the wall came into sight, and I knew that we had returned. 
And upon our return, we were met with my father and his sealed brother and all the others who had left for the mission in Scythia save for that one who journeyed off by himself, for he had no companion and to this day we know not where he went, for he has never returned. 
Now, upon our return, for we were the last to arrive, a great council was held, and in it, the deeds and miracles and visions which were had among the missionaries were recorded, and this book was set aside with the other records we possess. Therefore, it is that I scribe these tablets out of birch which I have hewn and dried by my own hand, for it suffices me to know that my deeds are recounted in the council have been recorded. 
Nevertheless, I have somewhat that I would say, for the Aiyseir do prompt me to write, for I know that many of the records of our people shall be lost despite our overprotection of them. For the day will come when nearly all this people shall apostatize and forsake their Aiy save but a few who shall go into hiding. And when that day comes, there will needs be a restoration, for we know that the world shall utterly forget us, for the combinations of Lōk which are still led by Hrōdi and Sert to this day shall seek with all to wipe us from the earth. And in this, I see that the vast majority of our records shall be lost and destroyed, these tablets included. Nevertheless, Aiyseir Aiylōhyme is merciful exceeding mercy and the matter that shall make up many of these records despite their physical destruction will be taken up and preserved unto the great and last day insomuch that they shall be brought forward again as if they had never been destroyed. And Aiylōhyme will cause that all the words of this people shall be heard again and the world shall know that even though they may try to destroy the faithful in Aiy, they can never be victorious, for Aiylōhyme is glory everlasting and the agents that council in the dark can do not against the Mighty Burning Ones, for their power extends into all the realms, both seen and unseen and lo an agent may seek to destroy the people of Aiy, nevertheless, Aiy is more powerful and that agent cannot succeed. 
It is for this reason that I write these tablets, that all may know concerning us, that we walked and talked with Thūnoraz as did the people of Lehaiy as did the people of the Steppes and the people of the cold north areas and to the south and the east and the west and the isles of the sea, and the hidden parts of the earth, for Thūnoraz is not the Aiy of a single nation, kindred, tongue, or people, but the Father of us all, and we walked with him as he walked with the Yahūdi. Know it! I lie not, and if I lie, then I am nothing, for Aiylōhyme has forbidden I do such, therefore, I lie not. 
And I proclaim that inasmuch as he has walked with us, so too has he caused us to write many things, even though many of these things shall be destroyed or locked up. Therefore, I do two things, the first I shall do is add four more of our important works unto these tablets, and those are: The Book of Prophecies and Visions, The Little Book of the Seers, the Book of the Dead, and the Book of Promises and Covenants Made unto our Fathers. And these shall be but an abridgement, for I could not write all that is contained therein. And I also give a complete list of all the records which shall be destroyed according to the prophecies of the Peacemaker. And this seems to me good, for I know that the Aiylōhyme may preserve these records unto a day when all shall be made new. Therefore, I give a list that those who seek to take up this work may know which records to ask the Aiylōhyme that they might translate. Therefore, I bid all farewell, until we shall stand together at the judgement bar of Aiy, and you shall know that I was required to write these things by his hand. Therefore, judge not incorrectly, for you shall see me at that day along with all of the other descendants of Szvemaz which had become Vyaneir. Until that day. Aiy. 
The complete list of records has been withheld from this translation.