To understand the nature of the dream, one must understand that everything is Akatosh. Akatosh, in the elven myths, is the soul of the universe Anuiel, which in turn is the soul of the cosmic force of Anu. Similarly, Lorkhan, judging by Vehk's teachings, is the soul of Sithis and thus the Soul of Padomay. Now, consult the text "Et'Ada, Eight Aedra, Eat the Dreamer".


Akatosh says I AM. Lorkhan says I AM NOT. They are connected twins, part of the Rebel/King duality. Akatosh's mind broke, and the Aurbis is the fragments, which with Akatosh being everything fits in with the Godhead.


The flea of assertion is Akatosh. The wolf of naught is Lorkhan. Akatosh states "This is true". Lorkhan states "Nothing is true." The next sentences describe the essential conflict between the IS/ISN'T, and describes a mindless insane beast, with traits of both gods. Judging by how it says "in the end", this beast is the result of the conflict.

As Lorkhan and Akatosh are fragments of Anu/Padomay, Anu is also insane. And as we all know, the dreaming Godhead is everything.

The Godhead is a being who is completely torn apart by the conflict. He hallucinates, and in his madness he has developed two personalities, the insane Anu/Anuiel/Akatosh who insists that reality is true, and Padomay/Sithis/Lorkhan who insists reality is false. As such, he can never find the truth. No wonder Lorkhan, a being of AM NOT, would try to create Nirn to help people attain CHIM, and thus see through the lies.The Loveletter describes a god of love as if it was an ideal state that has yet to be attained. As well, Eat the Dreamer's author appears to be in despair about reality. Note how it mentions that the fear of a singular words addition, "I AM NOT", makes creation dangerous. Zero-summing is succumbing to terror and denial, denying your own existence and thus ending it. The Godhead is a being of madness and torment, who is afraid of the possibility of non-existence which Padomay represents, and thus constantly denies it. The true goal of reality is to get the Godhead to let go of his fears, to notbe in perpetual conflict with himself but to love himself. To realize that nothing but he exists, but that it isn't such a nightmare. To know his delusions are lies but to love the lies anyway, like an author loves his stories despite knowing they are fiction. The Loveletter mentions hallucinations becoming lucid in his eyes. As he knows reality is but a dream, he can manipulate it. And when he has fallen into love, he can make existence paradise. The New Man becomes God becomes Amaranth. If the Godhead was a mortal, his state of mind would result in instant zero-summing. But when the Godhead changes so that this hypothetical mortal incarnation achieved CHIM, he will become Amaranth.

Torment runs the world, but Love can change it.

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So a person herself does the zerosumming deletion, not some whim of the Godhead (albeit using its newfound power). I hadn't thought that it'd be more along the lines of mental-existential suicide

Love is prolixity beyond the need for holding tendrils.

All ya need is love.

I was going to say that the perspective of Eat the Dreamer's author should not necessarily be taken as the only possible perspective, but looks like you've already got that. This looks pretty much spot on.

Also, Kalamari's post is making me think of the last episode of "The Prisoner."

Thanks for this

Man, this is brilliant. Kinda like 'The Godhead For S'wits'.

A childish Idealist's post-Cold War diagrams for an international society. Convention all over again. It's gonna fall, yo; and harder than before.

They do not know it yet, those millions that work, rule, and commit their countless sins out there in the cradle of all written history, but he will save them.

As you can see, salvation comes from without the "everything," so there is another out there: a Padomay. Thing about delusion/illusion is, someone needs to have seen the truth, to know everything was illusion. That someone is I, right? But if I stand outside the illusion, then I am not also the illusion, so I cannot also be everything; I must be Padomay, or that which is outside the lie, to know everything is mere lies. The truth is nothing, and the lie is everything?

So, everything must love and accept nothing as himself?

And GODHEADS are like ONIONS in GRIMHELD subgradience
breaking the MAIDENHEADS of MATRYOSHKAS unto infinity.
the travesty of PEACE by perversion SUBLIMED
EMBRACED by our deity! and in AMARANTH entwined!

"That all the Interplay is one flea..."

Completely off topic, but given Beth's recent legal stuff, even if unintentional, this line's hilarious.