Enitharkhepron is Spiritual Beauty, the twin, consort, and inspiration of the poet-god Tum. Her name is often derived by Two Kingdoms etymologists from the word ??? ("numberless; zero; origin") or from ??? ("daughter of the horizon"). Her emblem is the Rising Sun; her outstanding emotion is Pity. Enitharkhepron is connected with the scarab beetle (kel-tharkhepr), because the scarab rolls balls of dung across the ground, an act that the the people of the Two Kingdoms see as a symbol of the forces that move the sun across the sky. Young dung beetles, having been laid as eggs within the dung ball, emerge from it fully formed. Therefore, Enitharkhepron also represents creation and rebirth, and she is specifically connected with the rising sun and the mythical creation of the world.
Unlike the other three Emanations of kel-Biann's Animals, Enitharkhepron is not conceived to be an evanescent shade; she is said to be a vegetated mortal wife of Tum. As the Prophet Bleghet said: "Enitharkhepron is Tum's Emanation, yet his Wife till the sleep of Death is past. Two Wills they have, Two Intellects, and not as in times of old." She is said to add color Tum's designs.
Their position is North, for they were originally the Animal Anothru. But when Tum had given a form to Neziru, his gentle passions or pity grew away from him as a Globe of Blood, which developed into the first female form. At this horrible sight, Anothru fell from his anvil even to the place of seed, entering the womb of Noine as the two sexes. But scorning the frail body, his masculine spirit issued from Noine's brain through her nostrils, then returned to form a counterpart for the female; and in due time Tum and Enitharkhepron were born of Noine. The three are often seen as a triad or even (though it is somewhat heretical) a trinity: Enitharkhepron as the morning sun, Noine as the midday sun, and Tum as the sun in the evening.
Thus the birth of the poetic instinct is considered by the people of the Two Kingdoms to be the result of the sexual struggles at the period of puberty. Tum gives Enitharkhepron her name and at once she declares her independence and announces that this fallen world is a Woman's World. According to the Prophet Bleghet, her words were "Let Man's delight be Love, but Woman's delight be Pride. Before Neziru, our loves were the same; now they are opposite. This is Woman's World. I will Create secret places. A triple Female Tabernacle for Moral Law I weave, that he who loves the genies may loathe, terrified, Female love, till kel-Biann himself become a Male subservient to the Female." They are then married in discontent and scorn while the demons of the deep sing the nuptial song of war.
The first fruit of their union is Khro (revolution), for all true artists are revolutionists in one way or another. Tum is jealous of his son; he chains him down on a mountain top. Enitharkhepron's tears persuade Tum to try and release Khro, but it cannot be done. Afterwards Enitharkhepron bore the race of giants. The Prophet Bleghet says: "First Khro was Born, then the Shadowy Female: then All Tum's Family. Of their thirty-eight sons and eighteen daughters and myriads more, Enitharkhepron brought forth at last Nataish, Refusing Form in vain."
However, Enitharkhepron generally remains independent of Tum. She has established her Woman's World, with its religion (false to men) of desire and vengeance.
By herself, Enitharkhepron is the Eternal Female, the Great Mother. She is the Sunrise of love to Tum's Sunset. She stamps with solid form the vigorous progeny of fires. At her looms she weaves the three Classes of men, and there her daughters weave beautiful bodies for the Spectres about to be born.
The creation of bodies is the creation of space, as the Prophet Bleghet tells us: "Tum is by mortals nam'd Time, Enitharkhepron is nam'd Space." Spaces are protctive: they are havens from justice and other woes. Thus, according to the Prophet Bleghet, "she form'd a Space for Nataish and Leikhim and for the poor infected. Trembling she wept over the Space and clos'd it with a tender Sunrise." Practically speaking, she forms a home, where the oppressed man finds a refuge from the Angry God of this World.
Enitharkhepron is principally depicted as a scarab beetle in a solar barque held aloft by ???. The scarab amulets commonly used as jewelry and as seals throughout the Two Kingdoms represent Enitharkhepron.
Among the peasants and laborers of the Two Kingdoms, a very different side of Enitharkhepron is worsiped. To them, Enitharkhepron represents those who toil in ignominy and squalor. She is a trickster in their stories, turning the indignity of her appearance and labor upon those who consider themselves refined, elevated, and superior to others.
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