20:2
“Then priests required payment to enter. Later they required the correct ancestry. Finally, during a drought, children died outside while the guarded water remained clear.”
The Book of Diesel · Gospel Threshold Edition v4.5
What is history and what is fiction?
Open reconstructionThe chapter is literary theology rather than recoverable event history.
Historical anchor
The parable is original; Zoroastrian traditions strongly value water and ritual purity.
Fiction boundary
No ancient source is claimed for this story.