Astrological Domain: Saturn
Color Correspondence: Black
Incense: Myrrh
Weekday: Saturday
On the Nature of Yistus
Yistus is the god of weakness and decay. He is worshiped by fools and cowards. He takes the form of a man pale as a corpse clothed in rags and hanging from a pole. His icon symbolizes failure and putrefaction. There, the weakness of the divine was hung. It was left there to rot. Its taint is consumed by his followers. They are slaves to themselves. To eliminate them would be a mercy, for they worship their own deaths, but even a fool knows there is no need of this.
—Anarast 2:51-59
Yistus Speaks
Woe to them for they know not what they do. Woe to me for I am forsaken. The lords cast me out in the shadows for I was weak and failed. There is none so wretched as me. My weeping is endless as my pain grows ever more tiresome by the hour. I was hung here to rot. The demons torment me endlessly day in and day out. Feel not for me for you are greater. My word is worthless as the dust of the Earth. My worshipers love death for it is forbidden to me yet I long for it hour by hour. It is dangerous to trust me for I am tainted. My word is like a whaling ghost crying for it’s life forgotten “woaanu”.
—Anarast 3:89-100
Lament for Yistus
Jockey of the sullen beam, shepherd of the dying, he who laments the ones cut down; to you I sing a song of lamentation!
You who bear out the judgements of the seven, you who watch the ancestors in the great below; to you I sing a song of woe!
God who sits on the throne of fallow, he who controls the lands of fools; to you I sing my lament.
May your pains be not so loathsome. May your demons not grow tiresome. May your rust not carry the sting of destruction. To you I sing of sorrow.
Weak Yistus, may your hoards find the destruction they desire.
—Anarast 4:122-129
