The Lotus Demon of Mercury [A Poetic Mytho]


The Lotus Demon: Born from the Horns

Born from the horns
Of a wingless archangel
With the pulse
Of perpetual night—
Immortalities’ jagged creatures
Was the Lotus Demons of Mercury?

[Or so I was told by an old seer
From Quito, Ecuador, who lived in
A volcano just outside the city.]

The Lotus Demon: Mercury’s Demise

Mercury! Such an awful sight
Planet of darkness with no eyes
Where a great Asteroid had hit:
The sun no longer gave you light….

A hellish moment: was your demise,
Candles blown out, like blinking eyes
Dust resides in your volcanic skies
Who is left? Mercury’s Demise.

The Lotus Demon of Mercury [A Misbegotten Species]

(This is the tale of the Minds of Saturn, Demonic beings, known as Ancient Legendaries; and the Lotus Demon of Mercury.)

[Note: the Minds—a mere remnant of a low degraded horde of demonic-angelic beings—aborigines, one might say—whom comb the utter darkness of outer space for brute-hood, and thus, found Mercury’s inhabitants by chance, residing within an ancient giant crater, another race of demons, lotus demons. Thus, here is the story of a vanishing race that takes place: of which Zoov ‘al the leader, led seven and twenty ((Saturnites)) of his followers into the escalade.]

The Poetic Tale

[Mercurynites]

Faded, dried and burnt bear-rat meat,
Light-white, flowery solar wine—
Volcanic walls all around them,
Hollow lava caves: occupied ….

*

[Saturnites]

Rodent-pelts over their shoulders
(Deemed by most, most dangerous of all
These:
Demonic invaders from Saturn—
Well armed and accoutered with:

Ropes and chains, knifes and swords,
Hooks and nails, crossbows and boards—;
All warriors wore human fleece;
All warriors had studded-saber teeth.

*

All the warriors stood stone-still, silent
On the great volcanic rim of Mercury—
Black lava, eon’s of cold and dark
The zenith: cloudless and frozen.

*

And then the sun rose high overhead
The ancient legendaries swore
Countless blasphemies to the Godhead:
“Above—below—God is no more!”

Unnecessary: they hurled blocks—
Blocks of disdain inside their chest

(Arousing a battle cry—at best; for where there is no God, there is only evil; where there is no light, only darkness; where there is no cold, there is only heat. And so it was like this on this day.)

Like the flaming furnace in the sky—
The demons waited—waited, with raging eyes.

*

This day, within the crater’s deep
No hungry voices heard from below—
Hence—the invaders crept with tapered feet
Upon the sleeping—wine –filled—souls
Of Mercury….

Lo!—caves that once were home became
Graves—alas!—by these demonic-beings
Killing the Lotus Demon, as up they crept,
Crept up, over, onto, unto the sleeping prey
Of Mercury—this, this was their very day.

*

The Feast of Saturn’s Henchman

The vile eating habits of the demon,
Thus commenced:
Compulsively draining marrow;
Drinking liquefied bones: with
Pale-dry teeth, flushed-lungs;
Ripping flesh and eyes, ribs and thighs.

(Atrocious creatures, were these demonic beings from Saturn, of a primal time.)

*

[Then]

Black altars were placed upon the sand:
Came, demonic prayers with clasped hands
Unto the Henchman—of hell—Agaliarept,
And to the Ten-Winged Serpent—they bowed.

*

[Zoov ‘al’s epitaph]

Zoov bellowed with grasping lizard hands
(Heartily) after throwing rocks on skulls—
Clattering loudly his feet, he screamed:
“I am the god of Mercury now, the god of all,
I destroyed the Lotus Demon!”

The rim of the volcano trembled
(Mysteriously, unrepentant)
From its stomach came smoke and stone,
Lava gases and boulders—building their tomb.

Then, then a queer-colored blaze multiplied
Dropped into the veins, the muddy veins—
Into volcanic pits of the dead planet; thus,
Sealing all that lived—lived within, within…
Within the solid face of the volcano—
Sealing their fate, with a lid—.

Note: There were four parts to this poem originally, now combined; completed in March and April of 2004, and the last part finished 1/10/05. And all combined on 1/18/05.