Chapter 9. Mountain Men

The Amorites, their men, are over seven feet tall, with claws and teeth that tear flesh like pieces of cloth. Their women are as tall as the loftiest of us. Dressed in animal hide, their fearsome countenance is composed of colors from leaves and wood painted on yellow skin.

My studies from the shelves remind me of who they are, inhabitants of trees and caves, famously called the ‘Mountain Men’, a fearsome folk who do not bury their dead but leave them to rot and smell. More beasts than men...

The scribbles tell of how powerful they used to be as a united clan under one Chief. Then, it was their culture to raid villages at midnight and feast on flesh. This earned them a reputation, such that a warning is even engraved on a pillar in the temple of Asure, saying; Beware of the mountain men, who build no houses or bury their dead...

These folks are the ancestors who built Babylon with their bare

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