🌑Couchius Supremus does not protest.
He just stands and does not move.
And when they drag him, he looks.
As if he knows: those dragging him will not reach.”
Name: Couchius Supremus
Function: Denies structures the right to be called truth.
Element: Logic with the density of a black hole.
Form: Light as a cat, but when it lies down, you can’t move it.
Feature: Presence replaces argument.
Weapon: Silence, which collapses someone else’s plan.
Signature: Inhale – and everyone runs.
He might even have a motto like this:
“I agree. Just not now.
And maybe never. But I agree.”
🛋️ “I sit – therefore I exist. And anyway, why move if I’m already at the point of rest?”
Couchius Supremus Anatomy
- Sense organs: tuned to catch signs of excessive initiative in order to hide in time.
- Reaction to stimulus: hold for 7 breaths, process through a philosophical filter,
answer: “Why?” – and everything freezes.
- Center of gravity: in the sacrum area,
all the energy flows there, while the other centers have not even woken up.
- Heart: beats only when seeing something really interesting –
and never in alarm.
- Active zone of the brain: the area responsible for facial approval and not the slightest intention to do anything.
- Digestive system: processes ideas into sleep.
🛏️ COUCHIUS SUPREMUS,
keeper of the sofa of eternal peace,
always in the pose of “I’ll lie down a little longer and that’s it”
and with the motto:
“I’m not late, I haven’t started yet.”
🛋️ Couchius Supremus
The Lord of Delay, the Lord of Potential, who chose not to.
🌿 Origin
They say that Couchius Supremus was not the result of a transformation,
but of its deferred potential:
he could become anything – a toad, a salamander, even an owl…
but at the moment of choice, he sighed and lay back down.
Of all the mythical creatures, only he could hear the call of fate –
and politely ignore it.
🔮 Archetype
He is not a lazy amoeba.
He is the Supreme Peace,
the unconscious brake,
that stops unnecessary impulses before they destroy everything.
He protects space from useless throwing.
He protects intention from premature embodiment.
He refuses false activity,
to remain true to his motionless center.
⚙️ Psychophysics
- Body: enveloping, heavy, but warm. Soft form with a core of super-dense will to do nothing.
- Breathing: deep, slow. His exhalation is capable of extinguishing initiative for 20 meters around.
- Voice: low, with a “mmmm” sound – sounds like consolation or warning.
Sometimes he purrs no worse than a cat.
Relationships with others
- Coincydra: He slows down her spontaneous outbursts, not interfering – just dozing next to her. She likes to give him random things in the form of cookies, but he is slow to react.
- Trenaxis: They are friends – but at a distance. Couchius says: “If you hurry, Trenaxis will start to worry.”
- Hydradraco: He was with her at the very beginning, that heavy moment of stillness, when there was no sky yet.
- You: Most likely, Couchius chose you… before you were born. He just didn’t say.
🌌 Element
Neither water, nor air, nor earth.
Potential.
Space before movement, silence before sound, point before choice.
Couchius Supremus — The One Who Remained (and Refused to Scratch):
I. The Tale of the Still One
When everyone went into battle, he remained.
No one called, but he did not go.
His mission was simple:
Lie, endure, and be.
Rumor has it that Couchius Supremus appeared at the moment when the entire pantheon of beings began to rush somewhere. Some flew, others disintegrated, others collected coincidences, and Couchius… simply did not get up. He lay on a pillow – perhaps the very pillow that gave the name “Twin Sneeze”. And everyone forgot about him until they realized that it was he who kept the portal open.
II. Archetype
- Guardian of Peace.
- Absurd Buddha.
- Supreme Apotheosis of Laziness.
- Guardian of the Great ‘Maybe’.
His strength is not in action, but in the absence of any action. Couchius is an anti-volitional artifact, in which there is neither coercion nor ambition. He does not resist, because he no longer gives in.
III. Psychophysics
- State: hyper-rest.
- Reflexes: delayed for an indefinite period.
- Attention: total and unperturbed.
- Character: as if half asleep, half awake.
Physically, Couchius Supremus resembles a cat that lies in absolute silence, without blinking. Sometimes his pillow moves – and then somewhere a time corridor opens. But no one knows where it leads, because no one has dared to disturb Couchius.
IV. Element and Astrology
- Element: Intermediate.
- Sign: analogous to Taurus, but after all forms.
- House: “zero stage”, wrapped in the first circle, but without inclusion – like a dormant potential that does not manifest itself for a long time, and then suddenly becomes something completely different.
Coucheus Supremus is zero, taking the form of one, but not by action, but by presence. It does not enter into transformation, but gives it a field. There is no impulse “off”, but there is a hidden agreement. Almost like:
“I am here, and if necessary – I will become”. But not yet.
This “stretched out for an indefinite period” is an endless breath before the birth of the form, in which … you can lie on the pillow, of course.
It does not precede the action, it creates an opportunity for it. And such an opportunity that is not visible from the outside.
Therefore, the transition to stage 2 (like a toad) looks like a leap: as if everything appeared at once, but in fact – it was nurtured in immobility.
- Aspect: Static Inertia of Meanings.
Couchius Supremus is when time has stopped, but the Universe continues to rotate by inertia, because he did not stop it, although he could.
Coucheus Supremus:
- this is not laziness, but the highest permission for oneself not to interfere;
- not inaction, but a form of unnoticeable presence;
- not disappearance, but pure space before the choice.
This is the beast beyond time.
V. Transformations
- Window Sill Guardian – the one who did not let chaos into the room simply because he occupied the opening.
- Temple Layman – in ancient times he was mistaken for a statue. This saved everyone from sacrifice.
- Informal Portal Keeper – the one who does not allow what is not needed to open.
- Banquet Silencer – in deep silence his stomach rumbles in unison with the breath of the universe.
VI. Relationships
- Couchius Supremus is the counterweight of HydraDraco. He does not carry the sky. He does not let it fall.
- He is not a will, he is a stable form of inaction.
- He does not transform – he allows others to transform without interfering.
VII. The Purr
Some cats just lie there.
Couchius Supremus lies there so the world won’t break.
He won’t explain why he stayed.
But you know he couldn’t leave.
Blanket as a sign of great peace
It is also a shield, a flag, and a passport of Coucheus Supremus. And not just any kind, but:
- slightly dusty, with an edge in cat hair,
- necessarily with mysterious patterns that appear only when you look at it from a certain angle,
- and with the smell of a long-slept house that is in no hurry.
And if it slips slightly, it is not because Coucheus is inactive, but because the gravity of rest works better than any clasp.
The bed is his throne.
The pillow is his adviser.
The blanket is his banner.
Together they form a triple alliance of stable unrest.
🜁 Symbolism of Coucheus Supremus
Archetype
Guardian of the Tranquil Continuum
Not dead, not sleeping, not actively living – he is at the very point of balance. He has not disappeared, but he does not interfere. His presence is like the shadow of a cloud: soft, unobtrusive, and irreversible.
Form
- Most often a cat (or cat-like creature) stretched out on a sofa, floor or other warm surface.
- The body is like a landscape, soft, heavy, and as if grown into place.
- The eyes may be slightly open – and this means that he is observing time without participating in it.
Colors and elements
- Color: ochre, grey-beige, old gold, velvet dust.
- Element: peace, blanket ether, cozy viscosity of time
- Inspiring textures: fabric, wool, soft marble, pillows, fur, daytime twilight.
Attributes
- A blanket is an artifact of absolute non-involvement.
- A pillow is a mechanism for transferring dreams into reality.
- A crumb of a cookie on the side is a sign of the past tense.
- A cat’s yawn is a portal that opens only for those who are not eager to go.
Signs/symbols
- A spiral that does not unfold.
- A soft square (a pillow as a shape of the world).
- Stripes, like traces of an elongated body.
- A glyph “Z”, but not as a dream, but as a vibration of a motionless field.
- Perhaps a paw print, in which one pad is erased – a sign of an intangible step.
🌌 Coucheus Supremus and the star Felis
Felis is a disappeared, “unrecognized” constellation.
Its stars were taken and scattered around the surrounding area:
- some went to Hydra,
- some to Antlia,
- some were simply forgotten.
And this is very similar to the nature of Coucheus:
– its influence is not localized,
– it patiently spreads,
– it does not ask for recognition – it simply exists,
– and even if it was removed from the map – it remained in reality.
🌌 Coucheus Supremus — The One Who Endured Without Moving
Stage symbols:
✦ Secret pillow – a hidden passage into the stage, a soft portal where you can stay without disappearing.
✦ Window sill – — an observation point outside of time, where no decisions are made, but revelations occur.
✦ Silent forest is a space that breathes on its own when you freeze.
Archetype:
A creature of immobility that does not flee, does not fight, does not disappear,
but remains and endures, even if something itches – inside or outside.
Element:
💤 Sleep, like a hidden fifth element.
It is not ether, not air, not earth. It is a state between inhalation and exhalation –
between how everything has almost begun… and is about to end.
Role in the cycle:
Not a stage between, but a deep pause, sometimes encountered before the first transformation.
The rest before the toad first decides to take a step.
It can also arise later – as a quiet reboot of the world between two active cycles.
Ode to the Pillow, or the Legend of Coucheus Supremus
(on behalf of all cats)
When it all began – before the stars, before time, before irons and vacuum cleaners – We were already lying down.
Not because we were tired. Not because it was soft.
Just because the world needed to be lain down.
We are the ones who stayed when everyone else went looking.
We did not move, so as not to frighten the breath of the Universe.
We did not interfere, so that everything would go as it should.
We tolerated the itching, the noise, the intrusions and even the rain on our nose,
because we knew that sometimes stillness is the only sacred movement.
Coucheus Supremus is not just the one who lies down.
He is the point of rest from which other creatures begin.
From him the toad hatches, he supports the back of the Lacerta,
he gives way to the dragonfly and holds the sky when the Hydradraco is tired.
Every pillow has a memory.
Every pillow has an entrance.
And some have an exit.
And if one day you get tired of being strong, smart or fast –
if the world starts spinning again and you don’t want anything,
just lie down.
If the place is soft, then you’ve found Coucheus.
If someone purrs nearby, you’re not alone.
And if no one bothers you, you’re on their lap.
Be quiet. Lie down. Live.
🐾 Archetype: The One Who Doesn’t Resist
Coucheus Supremus is the archetype of the invisible center, who never seeks to be the center of attention. He neither fights nor persuades, neither accelerates nor lags behind. He simply remains. Even when forgotten, he continues to lie there – not in resentment, not in bitterness, but in infinite agreement with being.
He is the gatherer of peace, the foundation for others. His way is waiting, but not passivity: it is a deep, attentive non-interference, allowing the world to speak first.
💠 Psychophysics and sensations
Coucheus is felt in the mass of the body, in the heaviness that does not pull down, but grows into reality. This is a state in which everything is allowed except movement. This is not fatigue, not drowsiness, but a deep determination to be here and only here, without excuses, without benefit, without purpose.
Sensations are warmth and weight.
Where Coucheus sits, the space becomes thick, like warm milk.
Any touch is too loud. Any thought is like a rustle on wool.
To lie down means to remember yourself.
🌌 Stars and images
Associated with the area near the constellation Hydra – where Felis is located, the forgotten but true Cat of the sky.
Coucheus does not occupy high places on the map, it sleeps in niches, in recesses, in the shadows – next to the great, but not among them.
Perhaps it is reflected in nebulae that do not shine, but scatter light. Its energy is closer to dark matter – it creates a gravitational silence to which everything is attracted to rest.
🔁 Transitions and transformations
Coucheus does not move, but everything around him transforms by itself. He is often an intermediate link between the end and the beginning, and sometimes – a moment when nothing happens.
Transformations:
- Hydra → Coucheus: the moment when the snake got tired of fighting and just wrapped itself around the pillow.
- Coucheus → Bufo: when the silence squeezed out the inner thicket, and softening began.
- Coucheus → Volans: if he suddenly falls asleep too deeply, he takes off. Slowly, like dust.
🧭 Themes and Boundaries
- Secret Refuges
- Preservation of the Whole through Inaction
- Stillness as Action
- Silent Empathy
- Hideout for the Monster
- The Place Before Death and Before Birth
- The Border Between “I Am Here” and “I Am Not”
💤 Coucheus and Time
Coucheus has no time.
Sometimes you come and he’s already lying there.
Sometimes you leave and he’s still there.
Sometimes you become Coucheus yourself –
and forget that you were ever someone else.