The Spider's Tale: The Story of the First Life of N’Keedoo

By J. B. James

The Spiders Tale, Book One, is the first of four novels
spanning the last 26,000 years revealing the four lives of a
Neanderthal / Cro-Magnon hybrid named NKeeDoo. Book One
tells of NKeeDoos first life and details how he was born, his
childhood, how he became a godling and his escape from the
genocide of his Neanderthal brethren by our ancestors.
The reader is in for a treat of thought - provoking epic
proportions.
Enjoy, if you will.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Aug 7, 2013
• ISBN: 9781483654225

J. B. James

The Author is a grumpy old misanthrope who lives in the front range of the Rockies in Colorado. He hasn’t quite made up his mind on whether or not his species, Homo Sapiens, deserves to survive.

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The Spider’s Tale

THE STORY OF THE FIRST LIFE OF N’KEEDOO

BOOK ONE

A novel by

J. B. James

Copyright © 2013 by J. B. James.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Rev. date: 06/17/2013

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CONTENTS

AUTHOR’S PREFACE

TRANSCRIPT

INTRODUCTION

THE CLOWN

HOW I COME TO BE

HOW I AM NAMED

HOW I COME TO BE THE CLOWN

HOW I COME TO BE CAST OUT

HOW I COME TO BE SAVED

INTERLUDE ONE

THE TRIAL OF ZAKAL, MIKORI CREEDCORE FIELD AGENT

HOW I COME TO BE HEALED

DEDICATION

This book is for you, Zach and Alex: Without your loving

support, unflagging encouragement and

consistent disdain for your

father’s self-indulgent foibles, I might never have

discovered this story within myself.

This is my loving legacy to you both.

It is also dedicated to your mother, Gail,

who provided the lion’s share of the better genetic

material and significantly more than half the parenting that

produced you two magical creatures.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The author hereby acknowledges and expresses his gratitude to

all those who participated, for good and ill,

in the formation of his strange mind and moral character—

from his biological and adoptive parents (both sets now passed),

to the several teachers who took a personal interest

in a confused, hurt and angry boy,

to the man who unselfishly trained him in his original profession,

and to the several men and women who were instrumental in the

recovery and redemption of a man in a hopeless

state of mind and body.

All but one consistently attends (or attended) to the Power Within.

The author also is deeply grateful for the financial and emotional

support of his sisters Mary Ann and Virn;

his brothers Marshall and Tom; and his late friend Jim

during the creation of this work.

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AUTHOR’S PREFACE

This book is the first in a series of four novels recounting successively each of the lives of the main character—a Neanderthal/Cro-Magnon hybrid named N’KeeDoo. This ‘First Life’ reveals his origins and the major events of his childhood. In doing so, it shows how and why the Neanderthals met their end (except for N’KeeDoo): Our ancesters genocidally murdered them.

Book One also reveals the larger conflict between a federation of alien species seeking to protect the development of homo sapiens and an outlaw alien species who are out to enslave mankind as soldiers in their imperialistic interstellar war against ‘the good guys’. As such, this first novel is speculative science fiction. The following novels are better described as speculative historical fiction.

Near the end of Book One, N’KeeDoo is saved from the slaughter of his people by a race of pacifist alien arachnoids and begins his transformation from a superstitious primitive to a brilliant, but still relatively savage, leader. By means of the time dilation effect of very fast, but sub-lightspeed space travel and other believable technologies (no faster-than-light space warping and no time travel, except for moving forward in history through the time dilation effect), N’KeeDoo begins a succession of ‘lives’.

In Book Two N’KeeDoo is brought twenty thousand years into his future (over five thousand years in our past) to become the character known as the wild man Enkidu in the story we know as The Epic of Gilgamesh. The parts of the Gilgamesh poem involving Enkidu are here retold with a few twists and turns. The reader may want to briefly review The Epic of Gilgamesh before Book Two is issued in order to be aware of the differences in the two stories.

In Book Three our central character is brought over four thousand years forward to become the most revered prophet of most Hebrews: Elijah. Like N’KeeDoo and the wild man Enkidu, Elijah is big, hairy, angry and scary. He is attached to some of the most interesting adventures in the Old Testament which are found in Kings I and Kings II of that tome. The twists and turns in this retelling are a bit less radical than those found in Book Two. Again, the reader may want to review these biblical books to see the differences between those books and Book Three before it is issued.

Book Four has N’KeeDoo brought forward around eight hundred years to the time of Jesus the Christ to become John the Baptist (also big, hairy, angry and scary). This book is a very radical retelling of the events of that time and may be considered, if the reader will, a new alternative gospel. If the reader is a fundamentalist of any of the three Abrahamic religions be warned that your worldview is likely to be severely challenged.

The central themes of the four books taken together are the roots of and the danger of psychotic religiosity, which the author considers to be the primary problem of our time.

J. B. James, June, 2013

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TRANSCRIPT

The following transcript is a faithful but necessarily loose and condensed translation of a debate that occurred over 27,000 Earth years ago. The participants are high commissioners of an organization that has existed in its basic form for over 300 million Earth years. The reader may think of it as the Commission for Life Emergence and Direction. This Commission was—and remains to this day—one of the most powerful advisory bodies within the Comity of the Spiral Arm, the governing entity of all interstellar relations in this arm of the ‘Milky Way’.

This translation is revealed here—as, indeed, the entire following text is revealed—so that you, the species that calls itself Man, may know your peril.

Dofu of Wakeeroot: The Commission is in session to consider the erasure of what many here believe to be a botched Emergence—that is, the allegedly gene-damned dominant hominids in the Centauri sector. There are also those among us who have argued that such an erasure would be a rash and irresponsible action, not to mention immoral. The first issue we will consider is whether or not this hominid species is, in fact, gene-damned. If alignment is achieved on this, we will then consider the method of erasure.

NuKod of Mikor: Chairman Dofu, as all here know, we Mikori have been the assigned agents observing this hominid species for over 300,000 revolutions of their planet. We have recorded their emergence into sapience due to their obvious promise as an eventual contributing species within the Comity. We acknowledge that many of their breeding lines have been gene-damaged as a result of the direct interference of the outlaw KOBU, but we argue that this damage is not sufficient to determine a ‘damned’ classification. Many of their other breeding lines are either undamaged or only marginally adulterated. The species as a whole is not beyond salvation and they have demonstrated exceptional adaptability and resourcefulness in their survival on one of the most predator-filled planets in the Arm.

Cam-da-kaat of Nandereet: It is their adaptability and resourcefulness that would make them dangerously effective soldiers for the KOBU. If they are not eliminated they may well become a verminous infestation threatening our entire civilization. The Commission has a responsibility—nay, a duty—to protect us all from this potential threat.

Bugammagub of Nezen: Cammy, my friend, you say that they may well become and you speak of this potential threat, but all evolved intelligence is potentially dangerous. Are we now going to start throwing asteroids based on potential alone? I think we should give the Mikori a chance to turn these hominids around. There will be much time before this ‘potential’ comes close to being a reality.

Cam-da-kaat: There is precedent, Buggy, old buddy, for erasure based on potential and on the very planet these hominids inhabit. Long ago, this Commission, despairing of any likely possibility that the then dominant reptilians would develop into peaceful intelligence, deliberately decided not to intervene when it was discovered that a large asteroid was on a collision course with the planet. We didn’t ‘throw’ the asteroid, but we might as well have.

Bugammagub: As we all know, the Comity and therefore this Commission, was going through an age of arrogance back then. Almost all of us agree that that arrogance was in error, even though collectively unconscious. Are we now, seeing our arrogance, going to actively act on it? Are we now to make ourselves no better than the Kobu? Let’s give these hominids and the Mikori a chance.

Nukod: We Mikori have only acted as observers and, as you know, Bugammagub, we are pacifists. How are we to effectively oppose the highly aggressive KOBU?

Bugammagub: Ironically, while the rest of us must avoid acting on our arrogance, you Mikori must act on yours. You are also an adaptable and resourceful species. Find a way.

Nukod: And if we cannot?

Cam-da-kaat: Well, we’ll have to start looking for a likely asteroid.

FIRST LIFE

The following conversation and further conversations on the same band, although deemed secret by the United States Central Intelligence Agency, were intercepted by a MIKORIAN stealth auto-satellite in geosynchronous orbit over the western hemisphere in the year 2003 (earth dating). These conversations are included in this document so that no aspect of the revelation of PROJECT REDEEM remains hidden from the hominid species, Homo Sapiens, which this narrative is intended to reach.

May the star-mothers enfold your species in love and enlightenment.

ZakAl

MIKORI Envoy

DEPUTY DIRECTOR: Sir, I’m on the base in Nevada. We appear to have a situation here—in fact, the situation of all situations. Is this line secure?

DIRECTOR: You should have asked that before you revealed your location, but yes, we happen to have an ultra-secure connection. What’s up?

D.D.: Sorry, sir. You’re right. Except it isn’t exactly what’s up, sir, but more in the nature of what’s come down.

D.: Get to the point—and skip the ‘sirs’.

D.D.: Right, s . . . . well, anyway, about forty-five minutes ago a craft unlike anything we’ve seen landed on the Area strip. It wasn’t picked up by any of our detection systems, including the two satellites that cover the base—it just seemed to ‘materialize’ when it landed. At least a dozen missiles were thrown at it and every one of them fell to the ground without detonation. The craft taxied right up to the bunker entrance and this man-size spider-like thing stepped out. Some idiots from Security started firing at it, but the bullets all just fell to the ground, like the missiles. After someone with authority finally got the men to stop shooting, the creature spoke in some kind of amplified voice and you wont believe what it said.

D.: Well?

D.D.: Sorry, sir . . . . it would be best if you heard this directly. I’ll connect the audio feed; listen:

[SPIDER: "Howdy, dumbasses. Is that anyway to treat the most important high mucky-to-muck you’re ever likely to meet? Give me a mucky-to-muck of your own to talk to and be quick about it. This Prince of the Stars—and I don’t mean the Hollywood type—has a schedule to keep. So, get your butts moving—NOW!"]

D.: That Texas drawl would make the President blush. I think I like this Prince.

D.D.: I happened to be on the base checking out