FORWARD

Hello, dear reader, my name is Dr. Friedrich Dire. One of the foremost BeeSheep scholars, and primary translator of the Dire 42-A, 42-B, and 42-C tablets, as well as the Hawthorn Scroll, and the Liber Camporum. These texts have been translated in their entirety so that the modern public may have access to these documents. 

As a scholar, I feel my first duty is to obtain knowledge, and my second duty is to share it.

Many of my academic cohorts have criticized my work on the BeeSheep narratives. The collection of works was discovered in the basement of the National Museum of Kabul in the 1990's.

I have done extensive work on the documents, spanning most of two decades, and have yet to find any indication of forgery or fabrication. The tablets and manuscripts in question appear to, in every sense, date back to a minimum of 1957 BC. They give us incredible insight into the language and knowledge of a variety of people groups from that time.

While we see several words attributed to ancient Mesopotamian language, we also get words and themes found prevalently in ancient Hebraic literature, as well as ancient Babylonian literature. This means that this is a cross cultural narrative, told by an impressive collection of authors and scribes from a variety of times, places, and cultures.

I too have engaged in a cooperative effort. I would like to thank a friend, and storyteller, H.M. Johnson, who assisted me in the compilation of these stories, their narrative direction, and for doing the technical work to bring this book to life, and to you, the reader.

The BeeSheep narratives, while often incredible and fantastic, are represented as an accurate account of the world, and of the events that take place. Understand that many of the ancient peoples viewed our world in a very different way. Their understanding was not simple, as many often think, but rather deeply artistic and complex.

The example that I often use when teaching my students is the difference between a photograph and a painting. One could photograph and paint the same landscape, and yet while they both depict the same thing (A thing that is physically, and literally there) we would never say that a painting and a photograph are equal. A photograph is much like the modern view, a simple, unbiased image of what is.

But with every stroke of the brush, the painting represents not just what IS, but what it MEANS to the painter. The Book of BeeSheep isn't just something you read. Its something you experience. Do so with an open mind, and I will meet you in the meadows one day.

– Dr. Friedrich Dire, BeeSheep Scholar