Mount Abaddon

Every year at a certain moment, the earth and sun orient themselves so that the desert sun waves enter the dusty cauldron of Mount Abaddon, a volcano lost since the beginning of time in the deep Sahara, and illuminate the searing edges of a huge, flaming, seething creature. The few who have ever stood encased in dust on the crater’s lip at that moment describe a sight not seen but burned into their deepest retinas, and they shiver as they relate it. For they are the only ones to have seen that most ancient of evils, the great serpent, Satan.