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Cüréthañ:
The World to him, who sings my song,

for I am the Font, the Spirit of the Deepest Deep,

and mine is the first heart to beat your blood.

The World to him, who sings my song.


I, Imimorul, fled the Heavens,

so much did I love the brooks that chirrup,

the high mountains that hiss,

the myriads that bolt through this blessed hair,


The World to him, who raises up rooves in the Deep.

I, Imimorul, did flee the Starving [sky], so much did I fear the Heavens,

the wrath of those who were wroth, who would forbid my love,

of the myriads of the World.


The World to her, who kindles her fire in the Deep.

I, Imimorul, did cut from my hand my fingers,

and from my arm, my hand, and from my body, my arm,

and these pieces of me I did place in the wombs of Lions,

so that I might dwell content in my own company.

And I became One-Armed, Imimorul, the Unshielded.

And you were as children to me,

the form of Gods as the issue of Lions, sons who would father nations,

and daughters who would mother the myriads of the World.

And I sang to you such songs as are only heard in the highest of Heavens, and nowhere in the Hells.

We did weep together, as we sang, for woe cares not for names or glory only that skin blackens for bruising, breaks for blood.


The World to him, who sings my song.

The World to him, who finds me in the Deep.

The World to him, and woe.


Bakker, R. Scott. The Unholy Consult: Book Four of the Aspect-Emperor series (Aspect Emperor 4) (Kindle Locations 10786-10792). Little, Brown Book Group. Kindle Edition.

Thoughts?

Woden:
Beautiful.

And weird. The creation of the Nonmen is worrying me. I always thought that they were simply a natural evolution of some kind of hominid, but now I have my doubts (and the same goes for the earwan humans).

Who/What was Imimorûl exactly? Fallen god? Demon? Protoinchoroi?
Why his obsession to not to be seen by the starving sky?
How did he make the Nonmen? Tekne?

Or maybe it's all just a nice and plain piece of mythology and nothing more.
The creation of a race from the pieces of a god/titan reminds me the norse creation, how the gods used the parts of Ymir to make the cosmos.

H:

--- Quote from: Woden on July 25, 2017, 09:21:03 am ---Who/What was Imimorûl exactly? Fallen god? Demon? Protoinchoroi?
Why his obsession to not to be seen by the starving sky?
--- End quote ---

Well, as I read it, there the Heavens and then there is the (Starving) Sky.  While they are related, they are not the same.  I think the Heavens are the actual Outside, the literal place where the gods dwell.  The Starving Sky is a euphemism, I think, to denote the (sort of) interface by which the gods see through into the world.  So, the Sky isn't the gods, but since it's the place through which (it seems) the gods can view the world, the Sky is Starving, because the gods hunger.

So, when Imimorûl claims to flee Heaven, he is fleeing the judgement of the Outside.  When he flees the Starving Sky, he is fleeing the god's view.  Presumably, by the glossary entry bearing his name, he might have been among the first to speak sorcery and so garner the Mark.  As such, it makes a good deal of sense why he would want to avoid the gods and the Outside.

Woden:
Good point.

And what do you think about the grisly creation of the Nonmen?

Yellow:
The description of him cutting off his appendages reminds me of the God creating the Hundred (as per Bakker on Westeros). Wonder if they're linked. The Lions may be Ciphrang who took on the "principles" (eg fertility) and became the Hundred.

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