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The Stafford Library – Volume IV
The
Entekosiad
Mythology from before Dara Happa
by Valare Addi, Sanct, and Viatora
By Greg Stafford
and Friends
The Stafford Library: Volume IV
The Entekosiad
The Entekosiad
A collection of pre-Solar, Darsenite and Pelandan Mythology
By Greg Stafford
This Edition, with corrections, June 19,1996 originally
for Convulsion, and subsequent sales.
Dark Inside resides within this Book. We ask Dark Inside to also inhabit anyone who
would steal from this book, and to keep them awake at night if they defame it.
All contents Copyyright © 2015 by Moon Design Publications
Art: Entekos
Note the smile, which is characteristic of Dendara. Once the Good Goddess paused in the sky and looked down with pleasure upon the earth below.
Where she paused and looked, the earth shaped itself to reflect her, thereby making this frieze in the earliest, pre-human, Provarian era. Lodril himself
the strong Earth God, afterwards lifted it and brought the sacred slab of rock to the city of Raibanth, where it is today.
No rights are granted to copy this book or its material in any manner.
The Stafford Library Series
3002 – The Glorious Re-ascent of Yelm
3003 – The Fortunate Succession
3004 – The Entekosiad
3005 – The Missing Lands
3006 – Revealed Mythologies
3007 – Arcane Lore
3008 – The Middle Sea Empire
3009 – History of the Heortling People
3010 – Esrolia: Land of 10,000 Goddesses
3011 – The Book of Heortling Mythology
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The Entekosiad
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Table of Contents
Entekos, Empress of the Gods ....................................... 2
The Manuscript.................................................................. 2
History of the Text ............................................................ 3
Provaria ............................................................................... 5
The Myths........................................................................... 6
Tales of Wendaria.............................................................. 9
The Great Dance ............................................................. 24
The Three Errors ............................................................ 28
The Daxdarius Epic ........................................................ 34
The Great Warlord .......................................................... 35
High Pelanda .................................................................... 38
Pelandan Creation Myths ............................................... 38
The Oroninae ................................................................... 42
The Return of the High Gods ....................................... 47
Some Pelandan Deities ................................................... 49
Darkness and Resurrection ............................................ 53
The Myths ........................................................................ 53
Other Pelandan Tales ..................................................... 58
Hunter Tales .................................................................... 58
Mythic Time ..................................................................... 64
The Bisos Cycle ............................................................... 65
Naverian Myths ............................................................... 76
Some Other Myths .......................................................... 78
Appendix. Pelandan Ideograms .................................... 79
Appendix : Biography of Valare Addi ......................... 80
Appendix: The Path of Addi ......................................... 82
What Valare Learned ...................................................... 87
Index ................................................................................. 87
Seven Steps of the Goddess .......................................... 92
Map of the Lunar Heartlands ........................................ 94
Foreword
This is a
work in progress.
I put it together primarily for myself
as references and deep research for the Lunar novel which I
am always working on. At the request of avid T&Jers, I
have tried to put my notes into an understandable form, and
make it accessible. Input is welcome as always (send
comments or a marked up mss).
"What is this book?"
Bracketed words [ ]
throughout the text are words added
by me, Greg the Editor, to facilitate and/or shape the
reader's understanding of the text, and/or to provide yet
other illuminatory information which was not available to
Valare. The [Bracketed] text was not in the original.
- Greg Stafford
Entekos, Empress of the Gods
Entekos, the Pelandan goddess of the airs, has always been
a major deity in Pelanda, but was once a relatively minor
cult figure for the Dara Happans.
In Pelanda, Entekos is the Atmospheric Goddess, the
High Goddess of Virtue, and the planet Dendara. In Dara
Happa, Entekos is a minor goddess, a house-servant of
Yelm; while Dendara is the Emperor's Wife, the planet, and
almost nothing more.
Entekos appears on the Gods Wall, the most ancient of
all documents. She is first among the second rank of deities
(see GW, 11-1 .) Dendara is also there, separated clearly and
easily identifiable by her smiling face. Nonetheless, it is
Entekos on the GW who bears the planet which the DH
recognized as Dendara.
Thus Entekos and Dendara seem to be, or have been,
connected somehow with each other.
The earliest Pelandan mentions of Entekos seem to use
Dendara, meaning, as a title, "the Virtuous." Sometimes it is
as if Entekos, which in Dara Happan is the Goddess of
Right Air, is a title. Thus, it appears that one Pelandan
goddess became two when the cult moved to Dara Happa;
or else two Dara Happan goddesses merged when the cult
moved to Pelanda; or else an original goddess divided or
was divided into parts in Dara Happa.
This relationship was a subject of much philosophical
discussion as one of the Plentonic Debates. Unhelpful was
the Paradox Solution. Researchers discovered that Dara
Happan priestesses of Dendara or Entekos could participate
fully in the rituals of the Pelandan Entekos, but priestesses
of the Pelandan goddess could participate fully (that is,
detect the Hidden Events properly) only in one or the other
of the Dara Happan goddess' rites. (Some believe this is due
to the early Dara Happan Emperors commanding that no
foreigners could hold political or religious office within their
realms.) [This was demonically exploited by the ruthless
God Learners.]
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The Entekosiad
The Manuscript
E n t e k o s i a d means something like "Stories of Entekos. "
The Entekosiad was written by the hand of Valare Addi
after she had completed years of Travel and Journey. Valare
Addi received her reward: she went to live upon the Red
Moon when it rose into the sky. Her experience became a
model for subsequent Travel and Journey explorers. More
about her is in the appendix.
Her original manuscript is not precisely reproduced
herein. Parts are missing [because I have yet to need them.]
But the overall structure and major personages are present
here.
Importantly, Valare's original manuscript did not use
the Pelandan spellings which are shown herein. Valare was a
Dara Happan writing for other Dara Happans. She used her
own script so that the Pelandan UlEria in here appeared
originally as Uleria. (Subsequent versions recognized these
gods and goddesses as hidden aspects of their own
[relatively story-poor] deities, and used the Dara Happan
names. Thus the Turos stories herein were recognized as
aspects of Lodril in DH, and subsequently told about
Lodril.
The re-introduction of these ancient names and titles
came after the Fifth Wane, during the Reconstruction. Early
T&Jers (sometimes called Heroquesters, in the barbarian
fashion) had less access to ancient written sources than they
did to the realms. Valare, having survived Sheng Seleris'
plundering of the moon, led by example, as she had in the
First Wane, rather than through intermediaries, as had
happened before Sheng. These were the people who
rediscovered the icons of ancient Pelanda, and began to try
to understand them. (See Appendix.)
History of the Text
The original text of Valare was much copied, especially an
abridged version called "The Travel and Journey of Addi."
This was penned in the First Wane, and added considerable
text to explain more information for priestesses who wised
to use these rites.
In the Second Wane literacy passed from the hands of
the priests and nobility even to the hands of the merchant
classes. Here appeared another version, intended for both
the curious reader and the serious Travel and Journeyer
(familiarly called T&J.) It was titled "Dendara: The Life and
Rebirth." It included an incredible amount of speculation,
ill-fitted folklore, and credulity which enlarged the
popularity of this goddess. It made the T&J accessible to
many people, and simultaneously created a barrier of
delusion which kept most of them out. In that book the
Red Goddess is mentioned as a supplementary goddess who
occasionally sheds her light on the subject, but it is mostly
about Dendara.
By the Third Wane the cult of Dendara had grown to
include the popular worshippers who saw their needs
potentially fulfilled by her ancient roles. The role of the
goddess shifted, growing to accommodate those functions
within her natural grasp. The direly conservative priestesses
of Dara Happan Dendara, backed by her contemporary
pantheon, refused to allow commoners into their temples,
where none but divine or noble foot had trod for centuries.
After a century of quiet struggle, the ancient priestesshood
was filled with descendants of the New Worshippers
anyway, who relaxed the cult once again to include Entekos
worshippers as well.
The latest version of this manuscript included the
insights which could be provided by the ancient names of
the deities being presented in their pseudo-idogramic forms.
That method is used herein.
It is important to note that these stories are of two types:
those which Valare herself checked by T&J, and those
which she collected and relates. These former include only
the Wendarian and [her] modern [Zero Wane] experiences.
Experience and Knowledge
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The Entekosiad
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The Entekosiad
Here am I, Valare Addi of Estekoi.
I raise my eyes and throw aloft the sacred soil of my Grandmother, to ask for
blessings upon my hurt and humble self.
Oh Merciful One!
I have done what You said, and now I present this collection
to the sacred priestesses as You commanded.
I ask now to receive the mercy that I asked for,
and which You promised to me.
Great One!
Listeners be warned!
In Her blessed Presence, I said She was Entekos,
and held my truth against Her Truth.
I was wrong, but instead of Death
She laid this Quest upon me. For myself and Her,
I have undertaken and fulfilled Her words.
Testimonial
She told me, "When you tell of Me, Tell of your Self first. "
My Self woke when She paused upon her way, and touched my brow with her blessing finger. The Light of my Self woke then, and I looked upon the
Face of the Goddess. A terrible hunger then woke, and to quench it I traveled to the far ends of our land, and brought back these answers to share with
you.
I did what she said, and I have gone to the ancient holy places to learn the mysteries of Her Journey. I have come back here, to feed your hunger for
understanding. I can not give you the Secret, but here is the Mystery through which you can learn the Mask.
Art: Valare Addi
Cast bronze from the Early Lunar Period (c 112,300.) The original
was made by Uranafus, who needed only to see a persononce to be able
to sculpt a perfect likeness.
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