Enitharkhepron (I)

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.

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.

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.