“Therefore you must not, in every case at least, take the higgledy-piggledy whale statements, however authentic, in these extracts, for veritable gospel cetology. Far from it.”

Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

Begin with a set of words you love. Pluck them out of their condign places; pile them in a heap; get out the paring-knife. Flense syllable from syllable, motif from motif, apposition from apposition. Reduce them to their bones; suck out their marrow; pin them together anew, different. This is not immersion; hardly enlightenment; an irrepressible fascination all the same. For where else will one find a sketch-timeline of the Histories, and an attempt to map their reflections onto the world we understand, and an intendedly exhaustive catalogue of dicta touching on every subject of note which the canon of Kennedy and Bevan and their sometime collaborators has thrown up, be it an Hour, or an adept, or the very idea of dream? May it be of use, somehow.

By curatorial decision, the project is dead. I pursued it out of love; it taught me much that I needed to learn; I would be a prideful fool to continue it. Hic requiescit in pace.
-A. Winifred Lockwood, Librarian Serpentine
This 21st of January, 2024.

What is Without, Within: Index to the Index (Draft of 24 January 2023)

ENTITIES

  • The Carapace Cross
  • The Dead
    • Lok Kahuli
    • St Nympha
  • Dragons
  • Empousai
    • Echidna
      • Echidna’s Creations
    • Kleidouchos/Frau Schlüssel
    • Marinette
    • Medusa
    • Morgen/Mme Matutine
    • Sulochana
  • Hierarchy of the Mansus
    • The Know/Adepts
    • The Long
      • The Barrowchild
      • Burzghash
      • Cassius the Thoman
      • Coseley, Julian
      • Ferninshun of Oreol
      • Glamore, Hubris [?]
      • Hokobald of Pocsind
      • Ibn Al-Adim
      • Iyavogos
      • Jesus of Nazareth
      • Kurenai
      • Matthias
      • Mek
      • Ninegala of Lagash
      • Para, Son of Aaron
      • [A Renegade Knock-Long]
      • St Tryphon
      • Westergren, Lars
      • Yivni, Melerai
      • Unnamed Grail-Long
    • The Names
      • Ahad and Daha
      • The Amethyst Imago
      • Baldomera
      • Ghirbi [?]
      • Kanishk
      • Names of the Elegiast
        • Miss Naenia
      • Names of the Forge
      • Names of the Grail
      • Names of the Velvet
        • Kitling Ripe
        • The Nameless Name
      • The Sage-Knight
      • Striges
      • Vak [?]
    • The Hours
      • 0. The Moth
      • I. The Watchman
      • II. The Velvet
      • III. The Malachite
      • IV. The Thunderskin
      • V. The Mother of Ants
        • St Agnes of Bohemia
      • VI. The Witch-and-Sister
      • VII. The Colonel
      • VIII. The Lionsmith
      • IX. The Elegiast
      • X. The Beachcomber
      • XI. The Meniscate
        • Moon-Touched Places
      • XII. The Sun-in-Rags
      • XIII. The Horned-Axe
      • XIV. The Madrugad
        • The Cindered Tally
      • XV. The Red Grail
        • Enticements and Torments
      • XVI. The Wolf Divided
      • XVII. The Vagabond
      • XVIII. The Sister-and-Witch
      • XIX. The Flowermaker
      • XX. The Forge of Days
      • XXII. Snow
      • XXVII. Crowned Growth
      • †? The Egg Unhatching
      • † The Flint
      • † The Seven-Coils
      • † The Tide
      • †? The Wheel
      • † The Sun-in-Splendour
    • Hour-Spawned Entities
      • The Lionsmith’s Creations
        • Cats
        • Labhites
          • Fallen Labhite (Marrakech)
        • Skaptodons
          • Orsolina
      • The Mother-of-Ants’ Children
        • The Great Hooded Princes
          • The Jekadu
          • Arun Peel
        • Serpents
    • Hour-Touched Entities
      • Antaeans
        • Duffoure the Elder
        • Duffoure the Younger
        • [The Exile’s Mother]
      • Fivegoers [?]
        • Vasil
      • Ghouls
        • Dominykas
        • James Colin Murphy
    • Hügelkinder
    • Ordinary Humans (Presumed)
      • Tante Adeline
      • Alexander the Great
      • Arrettrez
      • Ashlag, Yitzchok
      • Ayrshire, Fionna
      • Azenaten, Damaon
      • Bancroft, Lord Francis
      • Bechet, Olympe
      • Berton, Ottavio
      • Blackwood, Sereno
      • Blaine, Meredith
      • Blockley, Michael
      • Von Brandt
      • Brodnax
      • Burial, C.G.
      • Chaima, Lalla
      • Chaima, Navil
      • C.R.O. D.
      • [Dancer Benefactor M]
      • [Dancer Benefactor F]
      • Darcy-Evans, Nathaniel
      • The Dark Gentleman
      • Didius Julianus
      • van Driel, Nico
      • Duplantis, T. Everett
      • Dusk, Arabella
      • ‘Black’ Elie
      • Field, N.K.
      • Fireweaver, Apollo
      • Fludd, Robert
      • Gartside
      • Giorgiou
      • Gore, William
      • Grese, Rylee
      • Hattington, Harvey
      • Hersault, Claude
      • Horace
      • Husher, Solomon
      • Hypatia
      • Illopoly, Christopher
      • Isaac of Karth
      • Jannings, Count Gottlieb
      • Joel of the Bridge
      • Jones, Dafyd
      • ‘Brown’ Joshua
      • Juceh
      • Kalle
      • Keirle, Nicholas
      • Kemal, Kara
      • Krosse, Jernik
      • R.K.N.J. L.
      • The Last Antaean Initiate
      • LaCroce, Alessandro
      • Larquebus, Christoph
      • Lascelles, Poppy
      • Lazali, Ennis
      • Lili
      • Malskaer, Niels Frederik
      • McDonald, Timothy
      • Medina, Monica
      • Menander the Victor
      • Midnight, William
      • Mireya
      • Montmerenzi, Alistair
      • Moor, Hosty
      • Morland
      • Morphy, Evan
      • Nuriel
      • Nyn
      • Oisin
      • Omar, the Blaze
      • Parsival
      • Partridge, Samuel
      • Penelope of Gordion
      • Peterhans, Alexander
      • Phillips, Ashley
      • Poemander
      • [The Poet of Meshad]
      • Probst, Alexander
      • Pseudo-Hypnerotomachus, Hieronymus
      • St Respicius
      • Roland
      • Sauri, Carlos Garcia
      • Savage, Samuel
      • Schaller, Stanislav Jan
      • Shluga, Pavel
      • Shohei
      • Sinombre, J.N.
      • Soham
      • Solipsistos
      • Sparrow, Alexander
      • Stegenga, [CENSORED]
      • Stegenga, [CENSORED]
      • Styles, Percy
      • Sushkin
      • Tasmane, Hosty
      • Topp-Mugglestone, Jacob Oliver
      • Vana, Athena
      • Velshorn, Cal
      • Verdier, Anaël
      • Vinzant, Everett
      • Waznei
      • Willis-Ford
      • Xi, Micah
      • Madam Yi
      • Zahra, Amira
      • Zawistowski, Julianna
      • Zogu, President Ahmet
      • Zulfiya
    • Spirits
      • Percussigant!
    • Unclassified
      • Antaios the Opponent
      • The Speeth
      • St Felix of Schüren
    • Worms

METAPHYSICS

  • Ascension
    • Ascension in General
    • Ascensions of Change
      • The New Form
      • The Old Form
  • The Histories
    • The Very Idea of History
      • Pentiments
      • Things Historical
    • Hydrae
      • The Third History
      • The Fourth History
      • Unsanctioned Histories
    • A Timeline-Attempt
      • Time Immemorial
      • The Lithomachy
      • Post-Lithomachy
      • Before Common Era
      • First Millennium
      • 1000 – 1450
      • 1450 – 1580: The War of the Roads
      • Before the Intercalate
      • 1582 [?]: The Intercalate
      • Post-Intercalate
      • 1600 – 1700
      • 1701 – 1800
      • 1801 – 1900
      • 1901 – 1926
      • Future: The Pilgrimage
      • Future: Miscellaneous
  • Principles
    • Heart
    • Grail
      • A Long of the Grail
      • A Name of the Grail
    • Moth
    • Lantern
      • A Long of the Watchman
      • A Name of the Watchman
    • Forge
      • A Long of the Forge
      • A Name of the Forge
    • Edge
      • Ascensions of the Edge
    • Winter/The White
      • A Long of the Elegiast
    • Knock
      • Ascension under the Mother of Ants
  • The Realms of Dream
    • Nyctodromy
    • Nowhere
    • The Mansus in General
      • The Wood
        • The Well in the Wood
          • The Door in the Wood
        • The Temple of the Wheel
      • The Bounds
        • The White Door
          • Lodge of the Sage Knight
          • The Orchard of Lights
      • The House of the Sun
        • The Stag Door
          • The Ascent of Knives
          • The Painted River
        • The Spider’s Door
          • The Silken Sands
          • The Concursum
          • The Malleary
        • The Peacock Door
          • The Red Church
          • The Worm Museum
        • The Kingskin Gate
        • The Tricuspid Gate
    • The Glory, and its Allure

MOTIFS

  • Alchemy
  • Arc Words
    • As…, so…
    • Into the fire we fly.
    • The Wood grows around…
    • The … is imaginary, but the … is not.
    • Where We Go
  • The Body
    • Bones
    • Eyes and Seeing
  • Botany (blame the Sixth Degree)
    • Apples
    • Barley/Malt
    • Black-Flax
    • Bougainvillea
    • Chestnut
    • Cinnamon
    • Figs
    • Flowers (in General)
    • Forest/Trees/Branches (in General)
    • Fruit (in General)
    • Fungus (in General)
    • Grain (in General)
    • Hawthorn
    • Grapes
    • Juniper
    • Leaves (in General)
    • Lichen
    • Lotus
    • Melon
    • Mint
    • Moss
    • Mulberry/Silk
    • Myrrh
    • Nuts
    • Oak
    • Orange
    • Orchids
    • Palm
    • Pine
    • Roots
    • Rose
    • Sage
    • Seaweed
    • Strawberries
    • Tea
    • Thorns
    • Tobacco
    • Yew
  • Doors, Wounds, and Mirrors
    • Doors
    • Flaws in Fixed Places
    • Locks
    • Mirrors
    • Wounds
  • Feather(s)
  • Glory
  • Keys
  • Mineralogy
    • Amber
    • Amethyst
    • Aquamarine
    • Ash
    • Basalt
    • Brass
    • Bronze
    • Carnelian
    • Coal
    • Cobalt
    • Copper
    • Coral
    • Diamond
    • Flint
    • Fossils
    • Glass
    • Gold
    • Granite
    • Iron and Rust
    • Ivory
    • Jet
    • Jewels (in General)
    • Limestone
    • Malachite
    • Meteorites (in General)
    • Minerals (in General)
    • Obsidian
    • Pearl
    • Quartz
    • Ruby
    • Salt
    • Scolecite
    • Silver
    • Steel
    • Stone/Rock (in General)
    • Sulphur
    • Taenite
    • Thermite
    • Turquoise
  • Mythology and Religion – Avowed
    • References
      • Angels
        • Archangel Michael
      • Buddhism
        • The Buddha
        • Vajrayana
      • Christianity
        • St Andrew Stratelates
        • St John
        • St Mark the Evangelist
      • Demons
      • Egyptian Mythology
        • Apis
        • Serapis
      • The Falcon-King
      • Hellenic Mythology
        • Antaeus
        • Apollo
        • Marsyas
      • Islam
        • Sufism
      • Pagans
      • Odin/Wotan
      • The Vanaras
      • Zoroastrianism, and Offshoots
        • Mithra
        • Shahrewar
    • Resonances
      • Allegory of the Cave (for Marin)
  • Numerology
    • Zero
    • One-Half
    • One
    • Two
    • Three
    • Four
    • Five
    • Six
    • Seven
    • Nine
    • Ten
    • Twelve
    • Twenty-Six
    • One Hundred
    • One Thousand
    • One Hundred Thousand
    • Infinity
  • Scale(s)
  • Things Astronomical
    • The Sky

ORGANISATIONS

  • Athenians
  • Children of the Leashed Flame
  • Church of the Unconquered Sun
  • Corpshaus Marmurra
  • House of Lethe/Ordo Limiae/Obliviates
  • Kerisham Review
  • Ligeia Club/New Ligeians
  • Mundane Organisations
    • Black Arm
    • Imazighen/Berbers
    • Iron Wolf
    • Jadidists
    • Knights of St John
    • The Red Army
    • Theosophists
  • Ordine di San Marco
  • Potential Cults
    • Children of Silence
    • Church of the Bright Edge
    • [Flowermaker Cult]
    • [Horned-Axe Cult]
    • Mirror of Glory
    • Order of the Bloody Cup
    • Society of St Hydra
    • Society of the Holy Wound
    • Temple Unceasing
    • Towers of the Dove
    • Unflinching Order
    • Wildwood Club
    • [Wolf Divided Cult]
  • Reckoners
  • The Roost
  • The Shadowless Kings
  • Sisterhood of the Knot
    • The True Sisterhood
  • Society of the Noble Endeavour
  • Suppression Bureau
  • Tragularii
  • The Unnumbered Legion
  • Worms of a Scale
    • The Bird-Eaters

THE WAKE: Atlas of Dreams

  • The First Continent
  • Asia
    • The Himalayas
      • Paro/The Tiger’s Nest
    • Japan
    • Bukhara
      • Samarkand
    • Siberia
      • Lake Cheko
    • The Subcontinent
  • Europe
    • Britain
      • London
        • Cater and Hero Limited
        • Ecdysis Club
        • Forgotten Mithraeum
        • The Montmerenzi-MacDonald Gallery
        • Morland’s
        • Oriflamme’s Auction House
        • St Agnes’ Hospital
        • St Felix of Schüren
      • The Shires
        • Kerisham
    • Eastern Europe
      • Albania
        • Tirana
      • Carpathian Mountains
      • Land Beyond the Forest
        • Cluj-Napoca
        • Foxlily Meadows
      • Lithuania
        • Kaunas
      • Macedonia
      • Poland
        • Krakow
      • The USSR
        • Georgia
          • Tiflis
        • Kyiv
        • Russia
          • Leningrad
          • Nizhny Novgorod
          • Stalingrad
          • Sverdlovsk
    • Western Europe
      • Amsterdam
      • Austria-Hungary
        • Austria
          • Vienna
        • Bohemia
          • Prague
        • Hungary
          • Budapest
      • France/Gaul
        • Avignon
        • Chateau Raveline
        • Moribhan
          • Priory of Captains
        • Paris
        • Strasbourg
        • The Unnumbered Stones
        • The Vosges
      • Germany
        • Bavaria
          • Munich
        • Black Forest
        • Rhineland
          • Aachen
        • Rostock
          • Warnemünde
      • Greece
      • Italy
        • Lake Fucino
        • Rome
        • Venice
      • Iberia
        • Spain
          • Granada
          • Hispania Gallaecia
          • The Pyrenees
  • Hydrology and Islands
    • Rivers
      • Danube
      • Neva
      • Oka
      • Volga
    • Seas and Oceans
      • The Atlantic
        • The Baltic
          • Bornholm
        • The Evening Isles
          • Port Noon
        • The Mediterranean
          • Crete
            • Candia-Heraklion
          • Malta
            • Valletta
  • The Middle East and Maghreb
    • Arabia
    • Egypt
      • Alexandria
        • The Invisible Serapeum
      • Thebes
    • The Levant
      • Syria
        • Aleppo
        • Damascus
        • Hama/Hamath
      • Tyre
    • The Lone and Level Sands
      • Messana
        • Hermitage of the Scythe
      • Miah
    • Mesopotamia
      • Iraq
        • Baghdad
      • Lagash
    • The Maghreb
      • Algeria
        • Algiers
        • M’Zab
          • The Pentapolis/Ghardaia
      • Morocco
        • Marrakech
        • The Rif
      • Tripoli dell’ovest
    • Persia
      • Meshad
    • The Rending Mountains
    • Turkey
      • Anatolia
        • Halicarnassus
        • Issus
        • Phrygia
          • Gordion
      • Marmara/Thrace
        • Abydos
        • Istanbul
  • Polar Regions
  • Unclassified
    • City of Messenger Eagles
    • Crossroads of the Waters
    • Karth
    • Oreol

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