The Birth of a Universe: Unraveling Kenoma's Cosmogony
Welcome to The Kenomitian Universe, a captivating setting where science fiction, dark fantasy, and urban fantasy collide. This sprawling narrative, penned by H.A. Matos, invites readers into a world where sapient, bestial species thrive, advanced technology intertwines with black magic, and powerful entities known as the Supernal—Demigods, Titans, Deities, and Devils—treat reality as their personal “playground”. At the very beginning of this saga lies “The Kenomitian Universe Volume I: Kenomitian Cosmogony,” a foundational text that meticulously details the creation myth of Kenoma and the cosmic forces that shape its existence.
This volume, described as a Creation Myth, reveals the origins of the Augoeides, the four layers of reality, and introduces the Pleromatic, Archontian, Titanic, and Divine forces at play. It’s a tale of cosmic birth, evolution, conflict, and ultimately, the dawn of mortal life.
The Primordial Spark: Ayin and the Pleromata
In the beginning, there was Ayin, the Cosmic Egg, the “Root of All,” a monad and “inchoate symbol of the Void”. Within this cosmic egg writhed the Nine Pleromata, referred to collectively as the Shi’ur Qomah, which are the fundamental building blocks and forces of reality. These included concepts like the Temporal Engine, Spatial Song, Scourge of Gravity, Energy’s Vessel, Domain of Matter, Emanation of Light, Primogenitor of Darkness, Odic Flame, and the Aetheric Demiurge.
Ayin, the Cismic Egg
The Primordial Spark: Ayin and the Pleromata
In the beginning, there was Ayin, the Cosmic Egg, the “Root of All,” a monad and “inchoate symbol of the Void”. Within this cosmic egg writhed the Nine Pleromata, referred to collectively as the Shi’ur Qomah, which are the fundamental building blocks and forces of reality. These included concepts like the Temporal Engine, Spatial Song, Scourge of Gravity, Energy’s Vessel, Domain of Matter, Emanation of Light, Primogenitor of Darkness, Odic Flame, and the Aetheric Demiurge.
The story truly begins when the Aetheric Demiurge, later known as Abraxas (a hermaphrodite entity), achieved consciousness. This act of self-definition caused Ayin to “hatch,” marking the beginning of the First Age. As the Demiurge discovered itself, it achieved “the apex of self-discovery” – the Soul. It then observed and named the infant Pleromata, shaping them through Nomenclature, an act that enacted its True Will on reality. Their interconnected bodies formed Yesh, the Universe, surrounded by the Wall of Raqia (the shells of Ayin). Crucially, in the vacuum created by the Demiurge’s distinctiveness, Shâchath, the Champion of Entropy, was born, filled with “wicked intent towards everything”.
Merkavah
The Progeny of Wisdom: The Archons
Driven by a hunger for novelty and awareness of the future, the Demiurge crafted its first progeny. It poured Aether into Ayin’s “amniotic fluid,” mixing it with the Prosopon of the Shi’ur Qomah (the Pleromata’s essence) to create the Archons. These four beings – Atziluth (Archon of Destiny), Beri’ah (Archon of Chaos), Yetzirah (Archon of Order), and Asiyah (Archon of Fate) – became known collectively as the Olamot.
Initially, rivalries arose between them over conflicting visions for the universe—Yetzirah championing an ultramechanism of regular phenomena, and Beri’ah advocating for pure randomness. Ultimately, Atziluth brokered a compromise, leading them to draft universal laws. Asiyah, meanwhile, bonded Chaos and Order through the previously unknown concept of procreation.
Atziluth
The Great Powers: Titans, Deities, and Devils
From the “holy union” of the Archons came the Titans. These ten beings, collectively known as the Asuras, embodied primal concepts such as Power (Ubbo-Sathla), Madness (Yog-Sothoth), Desire (Shub-Niggurath), Hunger (Abhoth), Despair (Yhoundeh), Hoarding (Nyarlathotep), Sensation (Xexanoth), Violence (Ghroth), Mortality (Cxaxukluth), and the Wilderness (Azathoth). Their hunger for wisdom led them to places “inimical beyond Raqia,” where they listened to Shâchath’s “callous whispers,” learning the secrets of Orgone and the crafting of Avatars—extensions of themselves whose suffering they consumed.
Abhoth
The Titans, in turn, bore the Deities. These ten beings, known as the Devas, represented more sophisticated concepts like Government (Cthugha), Scholarship (Hastur), Love (Byatis), Domesticity (Ghatanothoa), Asceticism (Tsathoggua), Trade (Atlach-Nacha), Life (Yig), War (Ithaqua), Death (Quachil Uttaus), and Nature (Bokrug). The Devas cherished Shâchath’s mysteries, and sought to awaken the whole of Yesh by granting Souls and True Will to the pleromata. While the Titans (Asuras) mostly agreed, they wished to keep the cosmos “shackled as an inexhaustible wellspring of sorrow”.
Cthugha
This disagreement escalated into the Mashchit, an “absolute war” that scarred the universe. It was during this conflict that the “dreaded Champion” (Shâchath) attacked Yesh in a catastrophic event known as the Shevirat HaKelim. Abraxas ultimately banished the Champion by tearing it apart into ten Devils—Hypnagogic Zagan, Hollow Abaddon, Heartless Belial, Darkspawned Astaroth, Bilious Beelzebub, Coldblooded Mephistopheles, Blind Asmodeus, Noxious Azazel, Deep Belphegor, and Baleful Moloch.
The Shevirat HaKelim shattered Yesh, altering the Pleromata and dividing the universe into countless spheres floating in the radioactive void of Caligine. Two new Universes, Tohu and Tikun, were carved out of it. The Titans and Deities lost their power to shape the cosmos, the Olamot were killed, and universal laws were rewritten, setting everything on a path toward the Dumah, the Eternal Silence.
Astaroth
The Time of Mortality: The Elioud and Magic
Distraught by the devastation, Abraxas withdrew from Yesh but made one final, profound act. It chose habitable planets from each sphere and planted Kabbalistic Trees, from which would emerge the Elioud—new, odic, soul-bearing beings with limited lifespans, destined to inhabit the Universe and worship their Supernal predecessors.
The Elioud were given a choice: eat from the fruit of their arboreal origin and have their Souls open to Tikun, becoming the first Nephilim; or refuse, and be blessed with the Sacred History of the Wheel of Ages (this very scripture) and the Gift of Magic via the Kochos hanefesh—the powers and laws to shape Yesh and feed on Orgone. This pivotal moment marked the end of the Third Age of the Noematic Era and the beginning of the Epigenetic Aeon: the Time of Mortality.
“Kenomitian Cosmogony” thus lays the groundwork for a rich and complex universe, explaining not only the origins of reality but also the intricate relationships between its cosmic entities and the fundamental forces that govern existence.
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