He who does not allow you to fall into the eternal everything.
Name
Echemorax β
from Greek αΌΟΞΞΌΟ ΞΈΞΏΟ (secret keeper) and lat. morari (to linger, to dawdle).
He is the one who keeps what has not been transmitted.
They say there is a creature in the stratosphere above the sky, either a bird or a tiny lump of metal,
with a beak like a heron,
with eyes like a dragonfly,
and a tail like a tangled cord of memory that dangles behind it, clinging to someone’s abandoned diary.
Echemorax flies in at the quietest moments.
When thought fades,
desire disappears,
and even the thirst for meaning dissolves in white noise.
It lands somewhere inside, not on the shoulder,
but right on the edge of a neuron,
and taps with its light beak on one point:
remember, you are still here.
Echemorax: The one who pecks the tail
He is the noose at the end of the sentence.
Every time you decide: “that’s it, I’m exhausted”,
he appears to ask:
“Are you sure that’s it?”
And not out of spite.
But because if you say “that’s it” too early,
the world will fall silent.
He reminds you that you are an unfinished book.
You are an endless sentence with a comet at the end.
He is not against rest.
He just knows:
You are not made for immobility.
Archetype: Echemorax – A creature responsible for the heaviness of emptiness in the mind.
But also for survival in it.
Keeper of unfinished messages.
The spirit born from residual traces, weak signals, undelivered letters and shadows in unopened rooms.
Echemorax does not live in the present. Its home is in between: between thoughts and words, between deaths and memories, between leaving and coming. It knows too much, but none of it is its own. It is like a letter without an envelope that was accidentally read.
It dwells in places where someone forgot what they were going to do, where words were bitten and left unsaid, where a glance was averted at the most important moment.
Echemorax is neither a messenger nor a teacher.
He is an island of reality that keeps you from turning into fog.
He does not pull,
he does not say “forward”,
he does not offer a past or a future.
Only a gentle signal:
now. now. now.
His archetype is non-movement,
but also non-forgetting.
He is the one who does not let the simulation disappear, even when nothing else happens in it.
Psychophysics
Echemorax is felt as a slight pressure in the air – as if someone is standing behind your shoulder, but not breathing. Sometimes as a strong feeling that you have forgotten something important, but you cannot remember what exactly. Or as a sudden desire to finish writing something, to answer someone, even if you do not know to whom and why.
In the body – often in the form of trembling in the wrists, itching on the tongue, or heaviness in the eyes, when you read the same thing and cannot move forward.
When Echemorax is around, you feel:
- a slight vibration in the center of your head or on the back of your head – as if someone was gently touching your brain from the inside, trying to wake you up;
- a strange “tingling” in your fingers or ears – as if thoughts were preparing to return, but could not find the route;
- sometimes – a feeling that someone is holding you by a string and not letting you go into the unconscious.
It is difficult with him – because he does not let you disappear, even when you really want to.
π₯ Elements and astrology
- Element: Air + Emptiness (but not Water – it’s not about emotions, but about memory)
- Sign: Gemini on the border with Pisces (Mercurian non-thought)
- Houses: 12th (borderline oblivion) and 3rd (flashes of random clarity)
- Stars: Alpheratz (chain) and Sadalsuud (chance in hopelessness)
- Planet: retrograde Mercury on the node
- Symbol: empty envelope, seal, whispering shadow, old note without a name
- Constellation: Raven (Corvus) – a bird that brought bad news, but never delivered it.
Possible Transformations
Echemorax can be a precursor to:
- Phoenix – if he still finds someone to pass on the message to and completes the cycle.
- Scorpiodrakos – if the pain of unsaid things turns into poison.
- Couchius Supremus – if he decides to just stay and pass on nothing more
- Coincydra – if his random whisper starts a chain of coincidences.
It does not transform itself, but prevents:
- the transformation of Wisdom into Emptiness
- the transformation of Intellect into Paralysis
- the transformation of Consciousness into automatism
- the transformation of the Self into nothing
It is a threshold, not a path.
It cannot be passed.
It is either present or forgotten.
π Link to the chain
Echemorax is a link without meaning, but with a function.
It is needed so that the chain does not crumble where you do not remember why it was.
It is the βsaveβ button pressed in the fog.
Name: Avenyctis
(from Latin βavenioβ – I am returning, βnyctoβ – night, β-isβ – as in a creature)
A creature of restlessness.
The point before returning, when you do not know why.
*”I’m not falling.
I’m just not moving.
No one is holding me. No one is calling.
I know – if I want, I can get up.
But I don’t know – why.
The world is dark, but not scary.
It is not closed, not hostile, just…
There are simply no doors.
Or they are all the same.
I loved, I remember.
But I don’t miss.
I know. But it doesn’t make me happy.
I remember. But it doesn’t call.
I can. But it doesn’t push.
… Until doubt appears.
It scrapes like the wind,
it sounds like a voice,
it is light, like a flash over the darkness.
– What if?
And that’s enough.
I move.
Weightlessness cracks.
Interest, like a weak current, runs along the spine.
I don’t know what’s next.
But it doesn’t matter anymore.
I’m searching again.
Which means I’m alive.”*
