[...] trinity
="lsts lst1">•hearing/="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listening is closely linked to ominous experience (the bell's toll, the wolf's howl, the thunder's rumble)


some passive surrender to vague faith
any sug="trms">gestion of intuitive-experiential awareness (gnosis)

subject caught-between

sitophobia ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the fear of eating anything
aquaphobia ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the fear of drowning everywhere

="large lg2" stl="font-size:111%"> between lamenter and euphoriac

islamic insistence on the concealed (unseen face of God) ='lgc'>==> profuse dissension, variance, discord, agitation (in="trms">finite faces)

lohe mahfuz
the guarded tablet
quantification
institutionalized record
universal ="trms">finitude

="lstsrd">1. artifacts of hell
="lsts lst2">◦camphor ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> link between the demonic and the aromachological (mastery of the psychological effects of fragrance)
="lsts lst2">◦chain ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> experience of ligatures, cords, shackles
="lsts lst2">◦nail ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> impalement potential
="lsts lst2">◦stones ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> crushing effect
="lsts lst2">◦drink boiling water (hamim) and filth (ghislin)
="lsts lst2">◦devils force-feeding them Zaqqum
="lsts lst2">◦demons were placing fiery bits of corpses into their mouths
="lsts lst2">◦ichor was dripping from their tongues ='lgc'>--="ppl">Mohaghegh='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ichor ="trms">interestingly refers both to the mythic substance that runs in the veins of pagan gods and the putrid discharge that oozes from fresh wounds
="lsts lst2">◦hell-dweller='lgc'>: scorpion, ideal killing-machine, back-biter, poisoned tips
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>***nonstop leaking of the inward outward='strcls'>***
="lstsrd">2. body parts of hell
="lstsrd">3. topographies of hell

Mohammad's night-journey's hellscape, vivid orchestration of space
='lgc'>[...='lgc'>]in one direction, a “river of bile, blood, worms, and fire='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] boiling together, putrid and revolting” alongside another “black and rippled with fire='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] growling at itself with clamour and terror”

experimental cuisine (="trms">demand a certain oblique consciousness from the participant)

angel physiognomy (multi body, collective chant) ='lgc'>~= under="trms">world scorpions
atonal angelic larynx ='lgc'>==> non-harmonic, anarchic, cacophonous image of the heavens (='lgc'>--="ppl">Mohaghegh='lgc'>='lgc'>--> divinity as noise)
="lsts lst1">•prophetic ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listener (body became organs of hearing, ="trms">schizophrenic audition of شش جهت six directions)

wind of barrenness
rih al ‘aqim (from the ="trms">species of criminal wind bad-e dabur, God sends it to destroy things)
="lsts lst1">•blows throughout the placeless realm
="lsts lst1">•particular condition of absence (in taxonomies of ruin and chasm)
="lsts lst1">•their moon-like faces
="lsts lst1">•innumerable

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">veil='lgc'>: transcendent invisibility, receptacle of competing back="trms">stories (of shame, conspiracy, superiority, covert, elite)

galleries of self-covering demonic beings

Gabriel='lgc'>: angel of revelation (oversees='lgc'>:)
="lsts lst1">•khasf خسف sinking into the ground
="lsts lst1">•maskh مسخ dis="trms">figuration of features


astigmatism (a type of refractive error, retinal tearing)
cartographical layerings



(="ppl">Mohaghegh ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading a Babylonian nocturnal prayer)

(old) god ='lgc'>[divinity cults of ancient ="trms">worlds='lgc'>]='lgc'>: signposts of an extra-human ="trms">imaginary ='lgc'>==> consciousness trespass beyond itself

="large lg1" stl="font-size:124%"> in the face of the night's obscurity (when the all-seeing shuts its eyes)
="trms">pastoral life turns murderous (at dark)

signaling the absence of fairness...
b="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lurring of omni="trms">science...
delay of verdict...
aimlessness of quest

="lsts lst1">•blindness to fill the void of divination
="lsts lst1">•wandering, detour, or stillness to fill the void of odyssey


Sin
moon-god
="lsts lst1">•enigma (“he whose heart cannot be ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read”) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">epistemic
="lsts lst1">•futurity (remote='lgc'>: “could see farther than all the gods”) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> temporal

="trms">somnolence خواب و بيدارى
='lgc'>==> branches of nonsense ="trms">pervade (disbanding of the herd)

(cypress سرو) tree
inspector of ="trms">cosmological space


in theo-terrestrial plane='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. alluvion='lgc'>: the wash or flow of water against a shore ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> inundation
="lstsrd">2. alluvium='lgc'>: a de="trms">posit of clay, silt, sand, and gravel left by flowing streams in a river valley or delta ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> detritus ='lgc'>[residuum alone is left to control the universe='qstn'>?='lgc'>]


Ishtar
guardian of prostitutes
surrounded in myth by death and disaster
goddess of contradictory connotations and forces (fair play ='and'>& enmity, etc,)


Lillith (derived from the Akkadian lilitu='lgc'>: evening creature, specter, or ="trms">monster)
kidnapping sleeping ="trms">children

(="trms">according to the Babylonian ="trms">cosmology) night requires (non-identitarian) gods capable of abomination (backstabing)
="prgrph">-recognized by their tangible outlines as actual constellations in the night sky
="prgrph">-related to the more expansive domains of ="trms">animality, vehicles, and objects
="prgrph">-emanate from a perceptual faculty closer to the ="trms">child's ="trms">imagination of cloud-shapes (='lgc'>=/= ="trms"nttrm="search">archetypal meaning)


Tiamat
primordial goddess of the salt sea, darkness, chaos, and creation
from the time of permanent nightfall
a destroyer-deity and yet whose sliced body parts form the heavens and earth
re="trms">presented as unconscious, reckless annihilation and yet also holding diabolical intelligence
bathed in eternal blackness and yet known as “the g="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listening one”


Girra
dystopian potentials of ="trms">technological invention
figure of wicked logos (undoing words)
(leader of the terrible)


non-="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical and equally nonhumanist devotion to the artificer (="trms">apparatus)

cosmic bal="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listics='lgc'>: ="trms">scientific field of mechanics concerned with the launching, propulsion, flight, and effect of projectiles (="trms">trajectory and impact)


nocturnality and contagion

snakes and dragons of constellations

paradox (the ="trms">beast)
="trms">instrumentality (the builder)
unleashing (the despoiler)


death-spell
نابودی ="trms">gesture of ='strcls'>*extispicy='lgc'>: ancient Mesopotamian practice of ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading ="trms">animal organs (often a sheep's liver) spattered upon a wall's surface
="prgrph">-a discipline involved less with knowing than with watching



The Egyptian ="trms">Book of the Dead
philosophy of night, dusk, shadow

egyptian night-deities
="prgrph">-with astounding ="trms">narrative-theoretical flexibility
="prgrph">-some slither, hunch, fly, or remain seated
="prgrph">-not residing on Olympian heights but rather in the subterranean below
star-covered nude woman
cow arching over the earth
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> night does rule from transcendent distances but rather envelops (or swallows) whole the existent into its gut (or uterus) ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- di="trms">gestion='qstn'>?='lgc'>]
='lgc'>[="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics:='lgc'>] (away from) patriarchal gaze ='lgc'>--into='lgc'>='lgc'>--> maternal stomach

="large lg3" stl="font-size:111%"> Khonsu
="lsts lst1">•bloodthirsty (eating the organs of royal opponents)
="lsts lst1">•merciful ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[its creative epithets:='lgc'>] ="trms">traveler, embracer, pathfinder, defender, “He Who Lives on Hearts”
one who resembles his own waning moon

Nephthys
tied to the night of the soul's ="trms">traversal
sepulchral
(endow pharaohs) with the vision for “that which is hidden by moonlight”

Apep ='lgc'>=/= Ra (the light-god)
giant sea-snake said to ="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lurk again in the primordial gloom
evil lizard, ='strcls'>*="trms">world encircler='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•defeating Apep='lgc'>: base="trms">material outputs (spit) ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> elemental properties (fire) ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> man-made weaponries (lance, knife) ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> fetishistic physiologies (the left foot) ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">sympathetic magic (tearing apart of effigies


="large lg4" stl="font-size:110%"> (sectarian logic='qstn'>?)
desire for clear reactional ="trms">materiality ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= sadistic or ="trms">paranoiac serial killings='lgc'>]

teratological and semi-demonological turn
="trms">interjecting thingness, fiendishness, and ="trms">monstrosity into our midst

night='lgc'>: inde="trms">finite de="trms">finite ='lgc'>='lgc'>~=> nihi="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listic force of closure

(from) orthodoxy ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> dramaturgy


="large lg5" stl="font-size:144%"> (="ppl">Mohaghegh's theory of) fanatical sovereignty in pagan thought ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ultimate keeping ='and'>& violation of the law ='lgc'>~= obsessive form ='and'>& apocalyptic formlessness
(reconciling) ='strcls'>*the toxic dialectics of ="trms">presence ='and'>& absence='strcls'>* behind every theo-political order ='lgc'>: gods walk among us in immanent ambush, hiding in night's open view (of many faces, masks, tongues, robes, tastes, proportions, and ="trms">gestures), adopt in="trms">finite visages, apparels, pseudonyms, and dialects ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= monochrome ="trms">trappings of daily identity='lgc'>]


Ahriman ='lgc'>=/= fire-god
omnimalevolent side
first destructive spirit
twins of the primeval choice
='lgc'>==> crises of perception
dwelling in non-being
shape-stealer
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