#the cosmogony

[ertrunkenerwassergeist]

I don't remember if I already asked this but please tell us about Mors' research into the Cosmogeny and the Prophecy, and what he managed to find out about Ardyn.

Ah, no, this hasn't been asked before. And this answer is not as comprehensive as I would have liked, but I've been sitting on it for long enough.

Soooooo

This little project of Mors's started when he found a Cosmogoy written in old High Lucian and it was Different. Translations didn't add up, words had changed meaning.

Mors was no linguist, so it took him quite a while, but he figured some things out. (And it was all because he knew 'morcente' could mean 'gentle', but it was the gentleness of death.)

(Shiva, Hienta, morcente nivi

Shiva, the Glacian, gentle as snow

Shiva, the Glacian, her snow a gentle death)

So what else was different?

This caused a landslide of discovery for Mors. (He hates The Pious for his religious reforms. So much was lost, but the royal archives are large and some things survived despite the efforts of others.)

From burnt and teared out scraps of parchment hidden in distant crevices he found passages of the Cosmogony that detail a story he has never heard.

[...] Bahamut, born out of bloos and sacrifice, cast his eye upon [...] brought light and healing, and plunged the [...] betraying his very purpose.

Those fragments also tell of a man. A Healer. Chosen by the Gods themselves. But context clues tell Mors, that this passage doesn't mean Somnus nor the Astrals. So who...?

[jareckiworld]

Jan Souček (1941-2008) — Cosmogony [etching, 1983]

[meirimerens]

the pathologic Kin is largely fictionalized with a created language that takes from multiple sources to be its own, a cosmogony & spirituality that does not correlate to the faiths (mostly Tengrist & Buddhist) practiced by the peoples it takes inspirations from, has customs, mores and roles invented for the purposes of the game, and even just a style of dress that does not resemble any of these peoples', but it is fascinating looking into specifically to me the sigils and see where they come from... watch this:

P2 Layers glyphs take from the mongolian script:

while the in-game words for Blood, Bones and Nerves are mongolian directly, it is interesting to note that their glyphs do not have a phonetic affiliation to the words (ex. the "Yas" layer of Bones having for glyph the equivalent of the letter F, the "Medrel" layer of Nerves having a glyph the equivalent of the letter È,...)

the leatherworks on the Kayura models', with their uses of angles and extending lines, remind me of the Phags Pa Script (used for Tibetan, Mongolian, Chineses, Uyghur language, and others)

some of the sigils also look either in part or fully inspired by Phags Pa script letters...

some look closer to the mongolian or vagindra (buryat) script

looking at the Herb Brides & their concept art, we can see bodypainting that looks like vertical buryat or mongolian script (oh hi (crossed out: Mark) Phags Pa script):

shaped and reshaped...

[qosmiq]

Azathoth's Family Tree (According to a Howard Philips Lovecraft 1933 letter) - As illustrated in the Cosmopopicon. The Cosmopopicon: Cosmogony though Mythology, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Pop Culture and more, by Ghislain Barbe, is available on Amazon, Lulu and Barnes & Noble.

Cosmopopicon (lulu.com)

[yanadhyana]

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

new theory on what The Boundary is: the doctor's body just does that

[illustratus]

[tomato-bird-art]

The primordial cow, the first man Manu and twin Yemo, who was male and female, out of whose sacrificed body and blood the earth was created and the first humans came forth

Unicorn Wars (2022) x Proto Indo European Creation Myth

[theidealistphilosophy]

It should be said at once that the completely profane world, the wholly desacralized cosmos, is a recent discovery in the history of the human spirit…for the nonreligious men of the modern age, the cosmos has become opaque, inert, mute; it transmits no message, it holds no cipher.

Mircea Eliade, The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion.

[renegade-hierophant]

Proclus’ explanation of the Demiurge in his commentary on Plato’s Timaeus.

[captainofthetidesbreath]

always really exciting to have an increasingly clearer sense of a WIP to the point that you've changed the working title

[btrcp]

genesis // prints // my patreon

[lovershell]

cosmogony, lucy ives

[queenoffishingandcookies]

Currently thinking about the Cosmogony.

It had to exist in some form, back during the time of Somnus and Ardyn and Aera - the Astrals, even if Ifrit had fallen from grace and got his ass kicked because of it, had been worshipped.

Obviously, since Aera was the first Oracle, that wouldn’t be part of it. Neither would the ring or the Crystal, or at least - it wouldn’t feature heavily, not yet.

You can’t tell me that after Aera’s murder and Ardyn’s murder, resurrections (several times over), followed by his imprisonment on Angelgard, people didn’t write of the Healer King who was declared Accursed by the Astrals.

You can’t tell me that people didn’t write of his great deeds, and how he succumbed to the cost of saving as many as he could. You could tell me how those manuscripts were burned, of if Somnus felt the slightest bit of guilt in what he’d done, simply censored - altered, to paint a favorable light on him.

You can’t tell me that that version of the Cosmogony wasn’t kept by his bloodline, even if it was quickly kept out of circulation elsewhere - or hidden and forgotten as generations passed, and the public were fed sanitized versions of the Astral War, The Prophecy, etc, etc.

Not to mention if things were regularly changed and censored according to who was on the Lucian throne, and then later - after Tenebrae and Niflheim and Accordo formed, the difference languages.

Did priestesses and priests exist in the name of each astral? Was it a law that only those dedicated to worship could read the cosmogony in the original texts, did it later have to be translated into the common dialect?

So much changed and lost, and forgotten -

Different versions kept by the royal families, by the people. Tales of previous covenants and revelations forged with the Astrals, tales of how they were honored and dishonored, not to mention the origins of the Starscourge (whether it was the meteor or Ifrit, of simply not mentioned at all), details of the prophecy, the origin of the ring and the Crystal and early Lucis - So much to work with, there.

[prairiefirewitch]

Ain’t no party

Like a Time Lord party,

Cause a Time Lord party

Don’t stop.

New Hag Happy Hour episode! Join me and Kronos for drinks and snacks and Ancient Greek cosmogony and cosmology.

Hag Happy Hour is on Apple and Spotify

#kronos #timelord #cosmogony #hesiod #theogony #gaia #nyx #eros #tartaros #erebus

[courtofthecorpseking]

YOU ONLY KNOW THAT YOU'RE ALONE NOW / YOU ONLY KNOW THAT YOU'RE AFRAID.

+outtakes under the cut!