Yesteryear Fiction

Mneg’ia, Mother of the Abyssal Depths
Aid of the Mother (Calling to)
Transcribed from the original by L. Abraham Armitage, PhD

(Plate 4, Object 39: site C)


Note: This plate depicts a series of natives prostrating themselves before the bloated, headless body of Mneg’ia (credited as mother of the abyssal depths - roughly transliterated from a much larger true name which reflects a certain womb-moistness, a heat and the rough-sliding of spines along the throat of a raw cervix.


Mother! Mneg’ia!
Mother! Mneg’ia!
Bring forth the birth of the dead
Bring forth the demons of your loins
Bring forth the demons that tear
Bring forth the demons that slice
Bring forth the demons that slash
Bring forth the demons that crawl
Bring forth the demons that slide
Bring forth the demons that stride
Bring forth the demons which devour
The walls between the now
And the future
Bring forth the future
Bring forth the future
Bring forth the now
We are the future
In a ring of demons
The future
Serving
The now1


1. Beneath the frieze and the passage, a tiny line inscribed into the monolith at site C proclaims:

Call to the future: it is not deaf
Sign (glyph) to the future: it is not blind
Become the future: it is--

(the rest of the passage has been irrecoverably damaged by chipping of the stone.)

It is interesting to note the natives’ preoccupation with time, specifically with the future. Another passage recovered from a possibly related artifact echoes this with the broken triplet:

Hail Goddess of Demon Abyss (Mneg’ia?)
To return, return
When the stars are right


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