Enitharkhepron III

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 words anarithpokher ("numberless; zero; origin") or enthikhap ("to burn") or from nitha kel-pron ("daughter of the horizon").  Her emblem is the Rising Sun; her object is the Trumpet; 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.  The Prophet Bleghet tells us that Enitharkhepron will blow the trumpet from a holy rock in Suraj to announce the General Resurrection that begins the Day of Judgment: "The trumpet is constantly poised at her lips, ready to be blown when it is time for kel-Biann to wake, and while she waits, she is overcome by sorrow and tears three times every day and every night at the sight of Hell.  And the trumpet shall be blown, so all those that are in the heavens and all those that are in the earth shall swoon, except kel-Biann waking; then it shall be blown again, then they shall stand up awaiting."  It is said that Enitharkhepron tutored Bleghet for three years in the duties of a prophet before he could receive his Teachings; she is also said to have been sent by Neziru, along with three other gods, to collect dust from the four corners of the earth, although only Athwel succeeded in this mission. It was from this dust that Madah, the first mortal, was formed.

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 Bleqhet 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.  Enitharkhepron is principally depicted as a scarab beetle with  a huge, hairy body that is covered with mouths and tongues and that reaches from the solar barque (held aloft by Samrathnu) to the sleeping-place of kel-Biann. One wing protects her body, another shields her from kel-Biann, and the other two extend east and west. A beautiful goddess who is a master of music, Enitharkhepron sings praising lullabies to kel-Biann in a thousand different languages, the breath of which is used to inject life into hosts of angels who add to the songs themselves. The scarab amulets commonly used as jewelry and as seals throughout the Two Kingdoms represent Enitharkhepron.

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 Bleqhet 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 Ghawth or Qutb, who is regarded among wabkhemesishār as the highest of the walūkelbiann, is someone who has a heart that resembles that of Enitharkhepron, signifying the loftiness of this goddess. The earth is believed to always have one of the Qutb.

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.

Among the peasants and laborers of the Two Kingdoms, a very different side of Enitharkhepron is worshiped. 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.