The Red Book : Al’hyma

The Beginning of a Song…

 The Song

Somewhere it is written:

There was a Silence, a lonely quiet noise that emptied out into nothingness.

There was Sonance, a humming drone that filled the empty Space.

Together They began the Song,

A Cosmic Hymn:

Let it all be Known! Let it ring True!

03 - The Light 

RADIANCE

There was All-Dark then, until Radiance shined.

It shined so wonderfully and set Things into Place all at once. It lifted all the weightless things into the Aether, the lightest of them was One-Who-Is-Clever.

It settled all the heavy things into the Void, the heaviest of them was One-Who-Is-Wise.

Who-Is-Clever was full of Aether, wind, clouds, and air. Who-Is-Wise was full of Void, stone, soil, and earth. Together, they were the Maker of Land and Sky.

As Above, One-Who-Is-Clever resided by Radiance.

So Below, One-Who-Is-Wise resided by Meter.

Two Makers

Clever and Wise

Work as One

And Make this Place

Uncover Many Truths

Shape Many Things

05 - The Pond 

Her demise was certain, thought the Wise.

So They struck the earth and at the place of impact there was now a pit, and cracks through the land. Boundless Meter filled the place completely, becoming the Pond, and all Her rivers, Her Belly the ocean, nurturing She was. She was Meter-of-the-Pond, full of wonder and power, touched all the land and made Herself known in This Place. She was always Knowing-of-Other-Things. She said this:

I have become a Pond Where it is written.

I hear One Song and its Rhythm Through All-of-Us.

Aether and Void, Not and Som

My Boundless-Kin beget that Shimmering-Thing in the Grid.

When My water is Still It will Only see Itself, a Shining Radiance.

Yet I am never still, For I am the SPIRAL.

When I ripple and whirl into waves with my many arms

Let the valley and caves of the ripple Be Wise and knowing of Truth

Let the mountain and peak of the wave Be Clever and doing things

These Makers, My hands.

Let zeroes and ones unfurl themselves, that is the Word of Song.

For every Not begets a Som and again.

Let it be Transformation.

Let it be Known! Let it ring True!

01010000 01001111 01001110 01000100

07 - The Tree 

Pater knew every Note and Word.

He unraveled Himself over eight turns and did this four times. Upon each turn, He lowered the Yarn to the Wise, who worked with it into a Braid and now Knew the Word as well. And Pater said to Them:

Write these Things

Know Thyself.

The One-Who-Is-Wise now knew themselves as Kunna the Wise. Kunna found the Greatest Stone and gave each note its shape into the Script, deep into the Stone. They went about the Valleys and plains and Named the land Thyzal, they named the Spiral’s place Metdiz, and Her belly, the ocean, Metdizal.

When Kunna approached Metdiz, they made a Vessel fashioned from mud hardened from their breath and filled the vessel with Pond water. They went to where the land was soft and dug up the earth. They took the braid and wrapped it round the Scribed Stone and buried them into the dirt. The One-Who-Is-Clever flew down and snatched up the Vessel. Water spilled and sprouted forests about the land, and when Kunna snatched it back, more spilled and became lesser things and creatures. Kunna sprinkled the buried Braid-Stone which sprouted and grew into a great Tree. Its roots were of Pater’s braided Yarn, which tunneled Deep. Its trunk strong like the Stone, sturdy they were. Its branches reached to the sky, leaves tickling the Clever, bridging the Space between All.

09 - The Divine

It was RADIANCE who spoke:

One-Who-Is-Red

I see You in the Lake which is Still

Nested in My Braided Hollow

Awaken Creature of My Union

Open each eye

Look above and see below

Look below and see above.

Be My Body, warm and full of Life.

This Place made for You.

Know Thyself.

The Beast Named Itself Alradylr, and flew up to Radiance and with its crown of glorious horns it took up the Shining Thing and carried It. This was Alradylr the Red and Radiant.

A HOLY BEAST OF DIVINITY.

02 - The Divide

The Song created a tangle homogenized heap and the Grand Voices sought to set things in Order, so they put it to Verse:

Take the One-Thing

Make it Split-in-Two

The One-Thing divided itself into many.

Aether and Void came to be and joined the Chorus of Voices, the Song was perfect.

Once they took their place, between them a boundless Thing came to be.

She was beautiful water and knew Herself. Meter is The One-Who-Knows-Herself.

She floated above the Grid, where all things were built on, spiraling betwixt Aether and Void,

With all the Other-Things mixed in Her.

The Chorus of Voices sing the Cosmic Hymn, a Song before and after Itself.

The Great Meter, Who-Knows-Herself, set things to motion, a Spiral, the Cosmic Dance.

To witness Everything, there was RADIANCE.

04 - The Catch

Clever and Wise became inspired and began the Work.

In their cunning ways, Clever worked their fingers around the clouds, spinning the wispy mass into a fine thread and fashioned a net. The Net was cast down to Meter’s Water in an attempt to hold Her, for She was most beautiful.

Meter slipped through the Net and Her droplets splashed back into the Aether and stuck there. The droplets reflected Shining Radiance, who called them all stars. The Stars filled the sky with laughter, twinkling their own tunes. Clever, who enjoyed this game, laughed with them. Determined, Who-Is-Clever caught their Net and cast it down once more, in an attempt to catch Her. She slipped through the Net, like before, and Her droplets fell to the land. There they soaked into the dirt, giving nourishment to soil and precious jewels and stones. They delighted Meter who gave them their worth, and like the Wise, they are worthy.

Who-Is-Wise fastened a set of these stones to the Net when it reached them, maybe these will hold Her. Wise tossed it up to Clever who cast the Net down once more in an attempt to holder Her. The Net stretched out and across this Place and it caught in Her belly. They pulled Her up to the Sky and she spun, spiraling, entangling Herself, Her many arms stretching, and breaking from the Net, She was free, and boundless, and falling, still a Spiral.

06 - The Yarn

The Wise and Clever heard this yet did not understand. So, they continued making and doing.

Who-Is-Clever spun more thread and rolled it into a great ball of Yarn that became itself and unraveled over unmeasured Time. The Yarn went from sky to land, where the Wise took the thread and fashioned colorful cloth of verdant grass and plains of abundance. Shinning Radiance looked over all of this and saw Its own eyes and believed they were Meter’s and said:

Go down to the Land

Take up some of the Cloth

And lay it between Us and the Sky,

So the Spiral down there

Can be a witness to Thy craft.

Who-Is-Clever took the Cloth and draped it over the sky and the stars shined brighter, and the sky was colorful and changing too. Radiance was pleased and blessed the Yarn that was Itself, so that it shined and knew things of the Word. This was Pater, Who-Became-Himself, the Unraveled-and-Raveled, that knew many things like Meter.

08 - The Hands

The Clever One snatched up one of the Leaves and saw their Name written on it, and Knew Themselves

They are Vyaaz the Clever.

The Two were Kunna and Vyaaz, the One-Thing-Split-In-Two, Maker of this Place, the Left hand of Radiance and Right hand of Meter. They knew every stretch and turn unto Elsewhere. Radiance shined upon them, blessing them. They named all the things that sprung from the Vessel and moved about the land, sky, and even in the water. Kunna and Vyaaz went and named Every Thing.

There was one BEAST though, that was not yet Named. Tucked away in the Hollow of the Tree was a beast, kin to Vyaaz and Kunna. It was curled in Itself, and its body was red and shimmering. Meter was confused, so She stilled Herself into a Lake and Radiance saw Itself.

It was almost Quiet, for even Not and Som were curious.

10 - The Will 

The Voices were Satisfied.

The Water was Still.

The Yarn Spinning.

A Maker Delighted.

A Place Made.

The Tree was Strong.

The Word was Known.

The Red Beast was Holy.