Astrological Domain: Mercury
Color correspondence: White
Incense: Black Cherry
Weekday: Wednesday
On the Nature of Aellos
A wise man once said “it is pure chance that rules the universe and therefore, and only therefore, life is good,” and this is true for it is first Aellos that rules the cosmos. Aellos was the first of the gods. The domain of Aellos is of chaos and chance. The word of Aellos is the mouth of the universe. Cast an ear to the sounds of the infinite and there you will find his word. No words alone are enough, for Aellos’ nature is impossible to describe in human language.
—Anarast 2:7-12
Aellos Speaks
I am untouchable and the powers that are me are but changeless, yet are always changing. I am unknown to you in your darkest hour. I am that which you fear and that which you love. I am that which is unstoppable yet forever have I been stopped. There is no “you” within that which am I for I am within all things. There is no thing which can ail me for I am all possibilities. You have no knowledge of me yet you call my name and sing in my voices. I cannot be captured, cannot be sought, and yet hold my will unchallenged. To listen to me is to listen to white noise. I am the foundation of the all that is but it is what is beyond me that even it cannot fathom. The dark and the light cannot hold me for it is I that illuminate and I that cast all shadow. To try to hear my voice is madness yet you still try for without me thy picture is incomplete. I scream with a thousand thousand voices and yet I am silent. Beyond me is an endless thing for there is nothing beyond infinity but more infinity, therefore I am recursive. Measure me and I am immeasurable. Mimic me and you scream with the chorus of a thousand suns all crying out forever. My ale is ambrosia. Your mind cries out for relief for it cannot hold me. My mind is like a swarm of angry locusts all buzzing about in disharmony yet the noise is of a single note. My word is “aumn”.
—Anarast 3:1-20
Praise for Aellos
Oh chaotic one, dweller in the abyss, he who alone is illuminated in the pitch-dark void of liquid shadow I call to thee and sing thy praises. He who is chaos and life, he who is wisdom and power, he who is intensity and immense, be praised.
Most ferocious of the primordial ones, most jovial of the dark ones, most chaotic of the wise ones, he whose power is great, I praise thee, Aellos, he who swims among the stars.
He who tends to the aquariums of mind, he who was among the powers at the dawn of time; to you, lord of the abyss, to you be praised!
—Anarast 4:8-11
