Beginning-I

From the Great Chief �mv�linq�ngi, uMD�li, and L�rd of All Things, came f�rth River Time and N�thingness - and River Time, being inflamed by desire f�r N�thingness, engendered the P�re, the F�res of the Serpent, and from the ashes of a great combat, came N�n-havah-n�ma, who f�rmed the heavens and the earth. In Time, many of Th�se-we-do-not-see were b�rn into the w�rld, and Ma was not al�ne.

The Bef�re All Bef�re

Of the Time bef�re Times; of the Thing bef�re Things

1:1 - In the Deep there is n�thing but a great d�rkness and an abyss of c�ld w�ters. The d�rkness, it is t�ld, had it's being in the shad�w of the P�ram�unt Chief, who is named �mv�linq�ngi: that is "Bef�re Everything".

1:2 - In the Depths of the Abyss, beneath black w�ters that r�iled and heaved in the d�rk, slept An�ma, but she had not yet bled, and her w�ter had not yet br�ken.

1:3 - The Chief pondered the w�ters, and peered into his Shad�w, and it became as it were a Reflection, and the longer he gazed, the m�re did he see and perſeive, and s� the Chief gave names to the features that he saw, and grouped them together, th�se that seemed akin.

1:4 - But Wisd�m h�lds that the map is not the territ�ry, and thus it was that �mv�linq�ngi gave to the Tides p�rtions of his Will, and began to conv�rse with them. And these are kn�wn, by th�se who c�ll themselves wise, the P�wers and the Prinſipalities: the Um�yar of the Supreme Being.

1:5 - But the Shad�w remained, and An�ma slept �n.

1:6 - And s� it came to p�ss that these P�wers, greater and lesser, were given to remove and dwell beside the Great Chief �mv�linq�ngi in the Kraal of the Th�se-we-do-not-see, which looks �ut �ver the w�ters.

1.7 - From �mv�linq�ngi great kn�wledge came to the Um�yar, and they were in �we of his wisd�m, and they gave praise to their Chief.

The Kraal of Heaven

Description of the village of the tribe of the gods, and it's c�unſil. The Fire of Tale-telling.

2:1 - The Kraal of the P�ram�unt came to contain a great h�st, and each of the spirits of the Deep that came f�rth thereto, and that would h�use therein, was given a fair dwelling, and was j�ined to �ne of the Nine Inhlangane�o, the Chiefly guild-halls. Therein each was initiated unto that guild that might make profitable ends of the various pr�pensities, acquired, and elemental, of each nascent Nature.

2:2 - Within their Inhlangane�o, the Tides of the Um�yar are tut�red and ment�red by their L�rds, the Chieftains of the Guilds, who are the elders of the Kraal, and cl�sest in c�uncil with P�ram�unt Chief �mv�linq�ngi.

2:3 - Thus enf�lded, titles and ranks of f�rmality were given to each acc�rding to his �r her stature (f�r it has long been clear to all who study the matters of the Unseen Realms that the Um�yar, like the Endhr�, descendants of the Bantirrim, the Second Men, and s� too the M'moatia, are of male and female - their �rigin the sweet w�ters and the salt w�ters that were at first an undivided conf�sion within the primaeval Deep - but which �mv�linq�ngi had divided).

2:4 - Thereafter, there was a new kind of meeting of the spirits within the Great Kraal - a new f�ld of the Tides - and they came to learn much of each-other, and delighted in their likenesses and their differenſes.

2:5 - �ut of this divine arrangement, the wills of the heavens begun then to perſeive such of their purp�se as they were wont to reſeive - though n�t all.

2:6 - But the Um�yar did dwell in that plaſe by the Supreme Law of the P�ram�unt Chief, and it was good.

The High Summons

The High Summons, leading to the pr�ſession of the Chief: the coming to the thr�ne of all the gods of the ſelestial regions.

3:1 - N�w when all those of the Deep who would come f�rth had done s�, and the h�sts of the Kraal of the P�ram�unt Chief had swelled to numbers unc�unted, and nigh all Chiefly Pr�pensities were enjoined to a sub�rdinate Chief and to his Inhlangane�o, it came to p�ss that all the dwellings of the Kraal were delivered of an High Summons. The P�ram�unt Chief n�w called all his Um�yar to himself, and in the presence of all, would shew them a new Thing.

3:2 - There was to be a great pr�ſession, burdened of High f�rmalities, and als� feasting, merriment, music and dancing. After this, it was voiſed ab�ut, a great and m�ment�us Unveiling would foll�w.

3:3 - But bef�re the grand pr�ſession, the greatest among the sub�rdinate chiefs, the L�rds of the Guilds, by the command of �mv�linq�ngi, held each a sep�rate and s�cret conclave with their guild-fellows, to which even the l�wliest servant was invited, and there pr�p�unded the parts that each would play in the great proſeedings to come.

3:4 - Nonetheless, the full purp�se of P�ram�unt �mv�linq�ngi was revealed to none.

The Elder Thing

4:1 After these conclaves, the booming voice of the Great Chief called �ut "�ht-�mha!", and beh�ld: with him were cloistered his cl�sest chiefs, and accompanying them were the Guild-l�rds and the R�yal messengers.

4:2 In the great silenſe that followed, absent then �ven of Im�na-Sh�, the W�ters trembled, and An�ma-Teſn-ut� answered from sleep.

4:3 Not �ven the great gods of earth could claim to have witnessed first hand this meeting of the Supreme P�wers - never mind the eyes of men - nonetheless there is much conjecture �ver the things there sp�ken. Few deny h�wever, that there, behind the veiling mists of D�rkness and Obscurity, the Eight Faces and the Nine conv�rsed and conſeived of a great plan.

4:4 Im�na, some say - bef�re he gained his full dominion - afterwards spake the silent words of the thought of �mv�linq�ngi, and conv�yed his L�rd's utter-most desires to th�se present, but withheld his utter-m�st h�pe.

4:5 Many agree that it was this meeting that deſided the F�undations of the Agenſy of Flesh - of the f�rms of Mother-Matter; of the d�mains of the Unkul�nk�l�, Sky-Father; of the agencies of the Scepter of the Lion, King of the Sun; of the mirr�red W�ters of Triple-Moon, and her writhing Serpent; of the Mother of the Spring and her lovely daughter, the Maiden of the Flowering Fields - who would come to be lost to the Sky, and gain a famous name upon the Earth.

4:6 And it is said that all shivered as the shadow of Time betrayed its Coming in the rippling of the Veils that obscured the faſe of the Supreme.

4:7 The f�nal Tr�th flashed across the hidden eyes of �mv�linq�ngi, and the Fate of the W�rld Unb�rn was sealed. Im�na b�wed, but kept silent.

4;8 �mv�linq�ngi then raised his hand, and at this, all th�se present joined hands, f�rming a great ring encircling the Chief. All then b�wed to him, after which Im�na and Kal�nga entered the Ring, and stood bef�re the P�ram�unt. These two Great Old Ones then shook hands, and each gazed into the faſe of the other. They left the Kraal then by sep�rate paths, in �rder to muster the H�uses of the Um�yar.

4:9 The Grand Pr�ſeeding had begun.

The Preſession Begins

The Great Pr�ſession, with the elders leading, and the hosts of heaven gathering in train.

5:1 - N�w the Great Pr�ſession set �ut from that place at which the P�ram�unt Chief had first looked �ut �ver the w�ters. This plaſe is as a great preſipice, and from the abyss the r�ilings of the w�ters of the Gulf hissed as as it were a nest of coiling serpents.

5:2 - Then the P�ram�unt Chief, High L�rd �ver all in the Great Kraal of the Heavens, turned, and abandoned the void, f�r the deep c�ld of it fr�ze his heart.

5:3 - Thereafter, together with nine of his chief Elders, he made his way by sl�w and winding track towards the appointed plaſe of the First Great Ind�ba.

5:4 - N�w this was a wide hallow in the center of the Kraal, where stood the thr�ne of �mv�linq�ngi - The Stool of G�ld - that relic held m�st in reverenſe of all things within the Kraal, after the P�ram�unt himself. If any there were that might attempt to r�move it �r to take possession of it, his eff�rts would prove vain, f�r there is n� thing in the w�rld to be f�und as heavy as the Burden of the G�lden Chair of mD�li.

5:5 - And s� these highest of the L�rds and Ladies of the Great Kraal, foll�wed their King thither, through its' gate, and by m�andering path traversed its' nine regions, which are the plaſes of residenſe of the Um�yar, and from these dwellings the Tides p�ured f�rth in unc�unted multitudes, and each took their plaſes in the gr�wing train of the Chief.

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Translated from the remnant writings of �rpherischt, themselves apparently copies of the recovered n�tes of an ancient sage, whose name is f�rgotten, evidently an amateur scholar of the syncretic mythologies of the 6th Age.

Notes:

1.1: �mv�linq�ngi [ He of many names ]

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