:: TIARZECATAR :: THE THIRTEEN SONGS ::
:: THIRTEENTH SONG :: FERXAOCATAR :: THE SONG OF FERNAL SPEAKING ::
Achir, the Triple-Gendered Child, comes to the Waters of the Middle Place, swims to the base of the tree Mintxac and finds a door which s/he enters and descends to the Underworld Garden. There s/he encounters Ferioxe who whispers the First Words of Fernal Language into hir ear: io to fer – "Hail Pristine Nature!" – Achir is delighted at this. From there, Achir climbs until s/he reaches Perozon, the nightingale in the highest skies, simply to hear its music. Perozon whispers the Second Words of Fernal Language into Achir's ear: o fa a fer – "I am Afer!" – Achir is delighted at this.
Finally Achir returns to Earth, stands barefoot upon the ground and whispers the Third Words of Fernal Language: imexaonua to – "I speak the First Word!" The Earthly Garden erupts in joy from this, and from every part of the garden, blessing serpents called Biaisai emerge to bless the Garden with fertility and happiness. Achir then forges the characters of the Fernal syllabary from these serpents, make magic, laughter and song as he does so. The song closes with his magic, laughter and song rising outwards from the centre and filling the cosmos, resonating with Afer's own magic, laughter and song.
io to cai, the elegant Achir comes to the Waters of the Middle Place, Achir swims in the Waters of the Middle Place, seeing that a doorway in the trunk of the Mintxac tree, in the warm dark of the Underworld, roots and branches of the Mintxac tree in the bright light of the Heavens, leaves and trunk of the Mintxac tree, in the barefoot joy of the Earthly Garden seeing that Enoha erupts into joy at these words, and so we who have emerged from semen and milk, here in the sheltering World Tree, |
io to cai - "Hail Delight!" (Achir realises that through his actions, |
