'''The Helianx Proposition''' is a [[cosmic]] fable, a [[creation]] [[myth]] that floated down to me one late night in 1979 in an unbroken six-hour stretch of writing. I'd been contemplating the deeper symbolic meaning of the traditional [[Christian]] [[Garden of Eden]] scene and wondering, yet again, what on earth the Serpent was doing there. Since the creature's impact on the two [[humans]] was apparently so profound, my intuition was telling me that the Serpent, too, had a [[divine]] origin and a valuable function to perform. At that point The Helianx Proposition started writing itself. | '''The Helianx Proposition''' is a [[cosmic]] fable, a [[creation]] [[myth]] that floated down to me one late night in 1979 in an unbroken six-hour stretch of writing. I'd been contemplating the deeper symbolic meaning of the traditional [[Christian]] [[Garden of Eden]] scene and wondering, yet again, what on earth the Serpent was doing there. Since the creature's impact on the two [[humans]] was apparently so profound, my intuition was telling me that the Serpent, too, had a [[divine]] origin and a valuable function to perform. At that point The Helianx Proposition started writing itself. |