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Christ's second coming motivates several characters during the civil war battle of fredericksburg. They assure the bloodbath of December, 1862, is the biblical armageddon, and that confederate general Stonewall Jackson will be revewaled as Christ come again. The Apocalypse also figures in 2nd Century Asia Minor, where a certain Montanus believes he is the incarnation of God the Father, and that his two female disciples form a new Trinity, who will orchestrate the world's end. The ears unite first by a magical talisman, which is thought to have healing, resurrecting, and prophetic properties; and second, by a demonic girl who first appears on the battlefield.