Histories

Of Rhian

Of Rhian
by Oksah
07 MM, RH 605

The Dove and Raven have asked me to pen this short missive for the keep, describing in short detail my beliefs. This is something I have been asked to convey in words many times since my arrival from the temples of Rhian where I was raised. Even now, when asked by those I call both peer and friend, I find myself at a lack of words. Many see me, the mantle I wear, my title of priestess, and believe that a summary of how I see The Mother can be translated in the span of a brief conversation. And perhaps after all my experiences, I should have something to 'preach', to 'convert' unbelievers to the right path.

Perhaps The Mother has such a path planned for another, in fact she would have to in order to strike A Balance against myself. But this path is not mine.

So when faced with those who ask, what words do I share? I find the most simple allegory I can give to my beliefs, lacking a more precise term, is an imaginary flat disc. This disc stretches in every direction indefinably and is held up in the center by a pole as thin as the disc is wide. This pole would represent The Mother, the disc, every action or event she is responsible for.

The example is further carried along by two more sets of poles and discs balancing on this original 'Rhian' disc. One set would represent The Sibling Tyrin, the other The Sibling Syrin. If the Rhian platform these two are on is not kept level, both will fall and cease to be. Therefore, the Rhian disc must be kept perfectly balanced and even at all times.

Keeping that in mind, what would happen if one of the Sibling discs would start to lean in any one given direction? For the over all balance to be kept, either that disc would have to return to its original position, or the other disc would have to tip in a complementary direction. Both the sibling discs need not be balanced, then, but still have an overall balance on the one disc that matters.

That is all fine and good, but the allegory would have to take one final step to accurately reflect the world. Rather than just the two sibling discs and poles on the Rhian platform, instead think of a balancing disc for each and every creature that has lived. Any tip in any direction, no matter how slight, must be countered by at least one disc somewhere else. The permutations grow at this level, though. For example, a single steep tip by only one disc could be balanced by several shallow ones elsewhere, but that would need to be countered with a third group, and so on.

Just as every action on this set up has and requires a counter action, likewise, every action or inaction, decision or uncertainty, requires its balancing pair. And just as a disc can either balance itself or be balanced overall by others, this matching pair may be something either in or out of one's realm of control. All this is what is commonly referred to as The Balance.

This should be enough for a casual reader to understand my ideals. Though I could spend pages and pages walking one through the innumerable proofs of logic that support these theories (and to keep a Balance, some that would disprove it) I will leave it to the reader to seek their own, if The Mother wills it so.

-Nosila Oksah, Acharya of the Circle of Khoury