Mojo’s Commentaries on the Mythic Dawn Commentaries — Part II

Answers are liberations, where the slaves of Malbioge that came to know Numantia cast down their jailer king, Maztiak, which the Xarxes Mysterium calls the Arkayn. Maztiak, whose carcass was dragged through the streets by his own bone-walkers and whose flesh was opened on rocks thereon and those angels who loved him no longer did drink from his honeyed ichors screaming “Let all know free will and do as they will!”

Volume 2 starts off with a bang here. We have some names and words here that, despite my best efforts, I’m afraid I have come up short on definitions.

First we will start with ‘Malbioge’. After some hunting I found some references to Malebolge, the 8^th circle of Hell from Dante’s Inferno. Here there are ten pits or trenches for sinners to be punished. This can relate to the idea of Mundus and Mortality being a prison to be escaped from rather than a gate to transcendence.

“Maztiak” is another name that I cannot find much on. But, we see “Arkayn” in reference to Maztiak. Could this be a relation to Arkay and the cycle of Life and Death? Absolutely, especially when considering the Malebolge connection in Dante’s Inferno as well as the idea of Numantia and eternal service to Dagon.

Another connection that might be made is Lorkhan. Perhaps Maztiak is a mortal name of Lorkhan in a previous Kalpa; this would fit as Lorkhan conceptualized the idea of Mundus and mortality, thus could be considered the “jailer-king” and those that drank in his ichors screamed Padhomeic ideology. Personally, I like the Arkay connection more; but I believe this has merit on it’s own as well.

“Let all know free will and do as they will!” — Nice little bit of Crowley stuff thrown in at the end. Nothing crazy to add to this, but I love finding Crowley references in TES.

Your coming was foretold, my brother, by the Lord Dagon in his book of razors. You are to come as Idols drop away from you one by one. You are exalted in eyes that have not yet set on you; you, swain to well-travelled to shatterer of mantles. You, brother, are to sit with me in Paradise and be released of all unknowns. Indeed, I shall show you His book and its foul-and-many-feathered rubric so that you can put into symbols what you already know: the sphere of destruction is but the milk of the unenslaved. I fault not your stumbling, for they are expected and given grace by the Oils. I crave not your downfalls, though without them you might surpass me even in the coming Earth of all infinities. Lord Dagon wishes you no ills but the momentous. And as He wants, you must want, and so learn from the pages of God this: the Ritual of Want:

This Volume just doesn’t get any easier. Mankar implies that the initiate will lose faith in the false gods of Mundus. He further implies that the initiate (or the order itself) is destined to break the stranglehold these idols have on the Mundus and it’s inhabitants.

the sphere of destruction is but the milk of the unenslaved.

Here Mankar further perverts the definition of Padhomeia (yes I made this word up) from simple change or chaos to Dagon’s own sphere of destruction, thus implying that the extreme side of change (destruction) is the only path to transcendence.

Whisper to earth and earth, where the meddlers take no stones except to blood, as blood IS blood, and to the cracking of bone, as bone IS bone, and so to crack and answer and fall before the one and one, I call you Dragon as brother and king.

Now this is interesting. We see almost the exact same passage in Vivec’s dialogue during his trial:

As lord of the middle air I bless these proceedings to earth and earth, where the meddlers take no stones except to blood, as blood IS blood, and to the cracking of bone, as bone IS bone, and so to crack and answer and fall before the one and one, I call you Dragon as brother and king, flame-faced, turgid, accounted, crowned in hours, see this as wanted and so to write, set letter, set in time, and I call you Wife, sister and queen, hole and throne, wet, spending, moan’ed before marriage, see this as wanted and so to wed, led-to-loved, set in never, GO DOWN AE ALTADOON DEN, for trailed it is in slime we make our babes and the walker heeds no mock of dirt, until you, until you, there, I call you there, I call you Proud One, brother-by-death, worker, admonisher of waiting ones, the takers of wage without, beaten, unmoved, willed to rise by morning, see this as wanted and so to build, bricked and mortared, set like walls, and there so set as hearth, by whose heat I call you Rain, maiden unmade, bled, untouched and so to red ever, unto the earth, as egg IS egg, see this as wanted, and so to shower, red unruined, set in wonder, BIRTH AE PADHOME, as I call you Wrapped In Rags as self and self, as handheld summer, grinding wise, all our chieftains turned to crops, RKHET the Taker now took, for this is wanted, set your seven swords, sensible if left for dead, SEE NOW GHARTOK AE SALOMET, so shall I call you Womb-Ridden, spoilt spiller, sister-whore, come and come, match black swallow of these, the running monies, whose vendors lay playing golden, star and city, all of one to your only bed, because this is wanted, IS want, and so to swell them, set and entered, SEHT AE DWEM, I call you Wounded as my war brother, speared and thrown down, STENDR, rebuilt like mercy, lake-faced and lamp’d, spoke in water, this is wanted, give it grace, set in stillborn heavens, AE, I call you Lock-step, math athlete, theorem-teethed biter, grand answer, stay skyward from your line, symbol-gutter, this is wanted, set sequence, may you trace it for them with string, grim engine JHNAL AE THE EARTH AM, through Eight I bless it EARTH AM AS EARTH AM

I honestly have no idea what to say about this. Rather than ignore it, I figured I would include this since I noticed the cross-over between Mankar and Vivec. If anybody has any insight on this, I would greatly appreciate the information on this as well as the rest of the ritual.

“Enraptured, he who finally goes unrecorded.

Recorded, the slaves that without knowing turn the Wheel.

Enslaved, all the children of the Aurbis As It Is.”

Let’s look at this in reverse.

• Mortals born in Mundus are inherently bound to their mortal ‘prison’, living their lives according to the status quo.
• They are recorded, bound to the medium they are recorded upon: Linear history, bound to the hub of the Wheel.
• Enraptured, or filled with delight are those that finally go unrecorded; or those that break free from the Mundus and join Mankar in his Paradise.

All in all, this Volume is quite complicated and esoteric. It’s very difficult to decipher in a meaningful way. For this reason, I have decided to continue writing a “Part” for each Volume as well as a fifth “Part” to tie them all together. As always, I would appreciate thoughts, corrections, conversation and ranting in all shapes and forms.