/*
Foxtrot Sigma-9 Theme
[2022 Wikidot Theme]
By Liryn
*/
/* FONTS */
@import url('https://fonts.bunny.net/css2?family=Montserrat:ital,wght@0,800;1,800&display=swap');
@import url('https://fonts.bunny.net/css2?family=Lexend:wght@700;800&display=swap');
@import url('https://fonts.bunny.net/css2?family=JetBrains+Mono:ital,wght@0,400;0,700;1,400;1,700&display=swap');
@import url('https://fonts.bunny.net/css2?family=Fira+Code:wght@400;700&display=swap');
@import url('https://fonts.bunny.net/css2?family=Sofia+Sans:ital,wght@0,400;0,700;1,400;1,700&display=swap');
@import url('https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/local--files/theme:foxtrot/inter.css');
@import url('https://fonts.bunny.net/css2?family=Figtree:wght@800;900&display=swap');
@import url('https://fonts.bunny.net/css2?family=IBM+Plex+Sans:ital,wght@0,400;0,500;0,600;0,700;1,400;1,500;1,600;1,700&display=swap');
/* VARIABLES */
:root {
/* VARIABLES > Core */
--header-title: "SCP Foundation";
--header-subtitle: "SECURE, CONTAIN, PROTECT";
--logo-img: url(https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/local--files/theme:foxtrot/fxtrt-scp_logo_lightmode.svg);
--darkmode-logo-img: url(https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/local--files/theme:foxtrot/fxtrt-scp_logo_darkmode.svg);
--logo-opacity: 14%;
--head-font: 'Sans Normalcy';
--ui-font: 'IBM Plex Sans';
--mono-font: 'JetBrains Mono', 'Fira Code', monospace;
--page-font: 'Inter', 'verdana';
--base-font-size: 0.9rem;
--page-font-size: 1rem;
/* VARIABLES > Misc */
--header-txt-color: #333333;
--subheader-txt-color: rgb(var(--accent));
--misc-txt-color: #464646;
--link-txt-color: #E6283C;
--link-hover-txt-color: white;
/* VARIABLES > Color Accents */
--accent: var(--acc-default);
--acc-default: 59, 59, 59;
--acc-wyoming: 142, 0, 18;
--acc-canada: var(--acc-default);
--acc-poland: 87, 44, 17;
--acc-slothspit: 27, 60, 133;
--acc-vanguard: 0, 153, 75;
--acc-threshold: 121, 113, 130;
--acc-overwatch: 28, 37, 56;
--acc-spc: 0, 165, 200;
--acc-fishing: 67, 111, 145;
--acc-nightfall: 151, 0, 2;
--acc-hybrasil: 27, 60, 133;
--acc-goc: 39, 84, 149;
--acc-spooky: 252, 112, 40;
/* VARIABLES > BetterFootnotes */
--fnColor: var(--link-txt-color);
--fnLinger: 1s;
}
/* VARIABLES > Info Bar */
.info-container {
--barColour: rgb(var(--accent));
--linkColour: #EDEDED;
}
/* MAIN */
html {
scroll-behavior: smooth;
overflow-x: hidden;
}
body {
font-family: var(--ui-font), sans-serif;
font-size: var(--base-font-size);
color: rgb(51, 51, 51);
background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, #e0e0e0, #fff 200px);
text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;
overflow-wrap: break-word;
}
div#container-wrap {
background: none;
}
#content-wrap {
margin: 2em auto 0;
}
#page-content {
font-family: var(--page-font), var(--ui-font), sans-serif;
font-size: var(--page-font-size);
font-weight: 440;
}
#page-content strong {
font-weight: 700;
}
tt,
.page-source,
pre,
#edit-page-textarea {
font-family: var(--mono-font);
}
ol li {
margin: 0 0 1em;
}
ul {
margin: 1em 0;
}
li,
p {
line-height: 1.5;
text-underline-offset: 40%;
}
::selection {
background: rgb(var(--accent));
color: #fff;
}
/* Clicky links */
a,
a.newpage,
a:visited,
#side-bar a:visited {
color: var(--link-txt-color);
}
a:hover,
a.newpage:hover,
a:visited:hover,
#side-bar a:visited:hover {
color: var(--link-hover-txt-color);
text-decoration: none;
background-color: var(--link-txt-color);
}
a {
transition-duration: 0.1s;
}
/* patch for sidebar media, collapsibles, ACS, info button and ayers module so link doesn't override */
#page-content .collapsible-block-folded a:hover,
#page-content .collapsible-block-unfolded-link a:hover,
#page-content .rate-box-with-credit-button .fa-info:hover,
#side-bar .side-block.media a:hover,
.danger-diamond a:hover {
background: transparent;
}
.info-container .collapsible-block-folded .collapsible-block-link,
.info-container .collapsible-block-link {
background: var(--linkColour) !important;
}
/* MAIN > Header */
div#header {
background: none;
height: 160px;
}
#header h1 span,
#header h2 span {
font-size: 0;
display: none;
}
#header h1 a::before,
#header h2::before {
color: var(--header-txt-color);
letter-spacing: 1px;
font-family: var(--head-font), sans-serif !important;
font-weight: 900;
text-shadow: none;
}
#header h1 {
margin-top: -0.3rem;
}
#header h1 a {
width: fit-content;
margin: auto;
}
#header h1 a::before {
content: var(--header-title);
font-size: 1.3em;
}
#header h2::before {
content: var(--header-subtitle);
font-family: var(--ui-font) !important;
font-weight: 700;
font-size: 1.4em;
color: var(--misc-txt-color);
line-height: 26px;
margin-top: 0.35rem;
display: block;
text-transform: uppercase;
}
#header h1,
#header h2 {
margin-left: 0;
float: none;
text-align: center;
}
#header h1 span,
#header h2 span {
font-size: 0;
display: none;
}
div#extra-div-1 {
height: 160px;
width: 100%;
top: 7px;
position: absolute;
background: var(--logo-img) 10px 30px no-repeat;
background-size: 130px;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: 50% 50%;
z-index: -1;
opacity: var(--logo-opacity);
}
/* MAIN > Header > Search Box */
#search-top-box-form>input[type=text] {
display: none;
}
#search-top-box-input,
#search-top-box-input:hover,
#search-top-box-input:focus,
#search-top-box-form input[type=submit],
#search-top-box-form input[type=submit]:hover,
#search-top-box-form input[type=submit]:focus {
border: none;
background: rgb(var(--accent));
box-shadow: none;
border-radius: 5px !important;
color: #efefef;
font-family: var(--ui-font);
font-size: calc(var(--page-font-size) - 10%);
}
#search-top-box input.empty {
color: #999999;
}
#search-top-box {
position: absolute;
top: 47px;
width: unset;
}
/* MAIN > Header > Top Bar */
#top-bar,
#top-bar a {
top: 10rem;
}
#header #top-bar ul {
border-radius: 10px;
border: none;
background: rgb(var(--accent));
padding-left: 15px;
padding-right: 15px;
}
#header #top-bar a {
color: white;
background: rgb(var(--accent));
font-weight: bold;
}
#header #top-bar ul li ul {
padding: 0px;
border-radius: 0px;
}
#top-bar ul li.sfhover a,
#top-bar ul li:hover a {
border-left: solid 1px #FFF;
border-right: solid 1px #FFF;
}
#top-bar ul li ul li a:hover {
color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.83) !important;
line-height: 230%;
text-indent: 3px;
}
#top-bar {
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
right: 0;
}
.mobile-top-bar {
left: unset;
}
/* MAIN > Header > Login Info */
#login-status {
top: 19px;
}
#login-status,
#login-status a {
color: #333333;
}
@media (max-width: 767px) {
#header .printuser {
font-size: 0;
}
}
.printuser a {
margin: 0;
}
.printuser img.small {
width: 18px;
height: 18px;
padding: 1px 4px 0 0;
background-image: none !important;
}
@media (max-width: 767px) {
#header .printuser img.small {
transform: translate(0, 4px);
}
}
#my-account {
display: none;
}
@media (max-width: 767px) {
#account-topbutton {
margin: 0 0 0 5px;
}
}
/* MAIN > Header > Side Bar */
#top-bar .open-menu a {
border-radius: 0px;
border: none;
background: rgb(var(--accent));
color: white;
}
#side-bar {
background: #FFF;
}
@media (min-width: 768px) {
#side-bar {
padding: 0.3em 0.6em 0 0.6em;
width: 18.75em;
transition: left 0.2s ease-in-out;
direction: rtl;
text-align: left;
border-right: none;
}
}
#side-bar .side-block,
#side-bar .side-block.resources,
#side-bar .side-block.media,
#interwiki .side-block {
border: 2px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);
border-radius: 0px;
box-shadow: none;
margin-bottom: 6px;
direction: ltr;
background: transparent;
}
#side-bar .side-block.resources {
text-align: center;
}
#side-bar .heading {
color: var(--misc-txt-color);
border-bottom: solid 2px #cfcfcf;
font-size: 9pt;
font-family: var(--head-font);
font-weight: 800;
text-transform: uppercase;
}
/* CONTENT */
/* CONTENT > Blockquotes, Custom Divs */
.blockquote,
div.blockquote,
blockquote {
border: solid 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15);
background: #f7f7f7;
}
.jotting {
padding: 1.3em;
margin: 1em 4.5em;
border: dashed 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);
background: #f7f7f7;
}
.notation {
padding: 1em 1.5em;
margin: 1em 3em;
border-left: solid 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.35);
border-right: solid 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.35);
background: #f7f7f7;
}
.modal {
padding: 1.2em;
margin: 1em 3em;
border: solid 5px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15);
background: #fbfbfb;
}
.quote {
padding: 0.4em 2em;
margin: 3em auto;
border-left: solid 3px #bbb;
max-width: 500px !important;
}
.paper {
padding: 1.5em;
margin: 2em;
background: #FFF;
box-shadow: 0px 4px 9px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);
}
.box {
padding: 1px 9px;
border: solid 3px #bbb;
margin: 0.5em 1em;
}
div.note {
font-size: unset;
border: 2px solid #afafaf;
background-color: #fff;
}
.round {
border-radius: 10px;
}
/* CONTENT > Headings, Titles */
#page-title,
.meta-title {
font-family: var(--ui-font), sans-serif;
font-weight: 800;
color: #3b3b3b;
border-bottom: solid 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);
width: fit-content;
margin: 0 auto 1.5rem;
}
#page-title,
.meta-title,
#breadcrumbs,
.pseudocrumbs {
text-align: center;
}
h1,
h2,
h3,
h4,
h5,
h6 {
font-family: var(--head-font), sans-serif;
font-weight: 800;
color: #3b3b3b;
}
h1,
h2 {
font-weight: 800;
}
.footnotes-footer .title {
font-family: var(--head-font), sans-serif;
color: #3b3b3b;
font-weight: 800;
}
/* CONTENT > Rate Module */
#page-content .creditRate {
margin: unset;
font-family: var(--ui-font);
float: unset !important;
}
#page-content .rate-box-with-credit-button {
background-color: #fff;
border: solid 1px #bbb;
box-shadow: none;
border-radius: 0;
}
#page-content .rate-box-with-credit-button .fa-info {
border: none;
color: #333;
}
#page-content .rate-box-with-credit-button .fa-info:hover {
background: #333;
color: #fff;
}
.rate-box-with-credit-button .cancel {
border: solid 1px #fff;
}
.page-rate-widget-box {
box-shadow: none;
border: solid 1px #bbb;
margin: unset;
margin-bottom: 4px;
border-radius: 0;
font-family: var(--ui-font);
}
.page-rate-widget-box .rate-points {
background-color: #fff !important;
color: #333 !important;
border: none !important;
border-radius: 0;
}
.page-rate-widget-box .rateup,
.page-rate-widget-box .ratedown {
background-color: #fff;
border-top: none;
border-bottom: none;
}
.page-rate-widget-box .rateup a,
.page-rate-widget-box .ratedown a {
background: transparent;
color: #333;
}
.page-rate-widget-box .rateup a:hover,
.page-rate-widget-box .ratedown a:hover {
background: #333;
color: #fff;
}
.page-rate-widget-box .cancel {
background: #fff;
border: none;
border-radius: 0;
display: inline-block;
}
.page-rate-widget-box .cancel a {
color: #333;
}
.page-rate-widget-box .cancel a:hover {
background: #333;
color: #fff;
border-radius: 0;
}
#page-content .rate-box-with-credit-button .page-rate-widget-box {
border: none;
}
/* CONTENT > Rate Module > Author Label */
.authorlink-wrapper {
--author-top-adjust: 0;
--author-bottom-adjust: 0;
--author-right-adjust: 0;
font-family: var(--ui-font);
font-size: var(--base-font-size);
}
/* CONTENT > Side Box */
.anchor {
position: sticky;
height: 0;
top: 0;
}
.sidebox {
padding: .14rem;
margin-top: 0;
margin-bottom: 8px;
width: calc((100vw - 870px)/2);
max-height: calc(100vh - 18rem);
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 103.5%;
z-index: 5;
overflow: auto;
box-sizing: border-box;
}
@media (max-width: 1290px) {
.sidebox {
display: none;
visibility: hidden;
}
}
/* CONTENT > Image Block */
.scp-image-block .scp-image-caption {
background-color: #f4f4f4;
color: #3b3b3b;
border: solid 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1);
margin-top: 8px;
box-sizing: border-box;
border-radius: 4px;
}
.scp-image-block {
border: none;
box-shadow: none;
}
.scp-image-block img {
border: solid 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1);
box-sizing: border-box;
}
.imagediv {
float: right;
margin: 15px
}
@media (max-width: 540px) {
.imagediv {
float: unset;
text-align: center;
margin: 1.3rem auto 1.3rem auto;
}
}
@media only screen and (max-width: 600px) {
.scp-image-block.block-right {
float: none;
margin: 10px auto;
}
}
/* CONTENT > Tables Base */
#page-content tr th {
padding: 6px;
border: 2px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);
}
#page-content tr td {
padding: 12px;
border: 2px solid #bfbfbf;
line-height: 1.4;
}
#page-content .sidebox tr td,
#page-content .sidebox tr th {
padding: 0.35em;
}
/* CONTENT > Tables Customization (Table Coloring System) */
/* CONTENT > Tables Customization (Table Coloring System) > Table Headings, Image Captions */
#page-content .table1 tr th,
#page-content .table1 .scp-image-block .scp-image-caption {
background-color: #E0FFD4;
}
#page-content .table2 tr th,
#page-content .table2 .scp-image-block .scp-image-caption {
background-color: #D8ECF4;
}
#page-content .table3 tr th,
#page-content .table3 .scp-image-block .scp-image-caption {
background-color: #FDF6D7;
}
#page-content .table4 tr th,
#page-content .table4 .scp-image-block .scp-image-caption {
background-color: #FFDFCD;
}
#page-content .table5 tr th,
#page-content .table5 .scp-image-block .scp-image-caption {
background-color: #FFCFCF;
}
#page-content .table6 tr th,
#page-content .table6 .scp-image-block .scp-image-caption {
background-color: rgba(146, 0, 255, 0.2);
}
.tableb .wiki-content-table {
border-collapse: separate;
border-spacing: 2px;
}
/* CONTENT > Tables Customization (Table Coloring System) > Other Colored Divs */
.table1 .blockquote,
.table1 div.blockquote,
.table1 blockquote,
.table1 .jotting,
.table1 .notation,
.table1 .modal,
.table1 .paper,
.blockquote.table1,
div.blockquote.table1,
.jotting.table1,
.notation.table1,
.modal.table1,
.paper.table1 {
background: rgb(224, 255, 212);
}
.table2 .blockquote,
.table2 div.blockquote,
.table2 blockquote,
.table2 .jotting,
.table2 .notation,
.table2 .modal,
.table2 .paper,
.blockquote.table2,
div.blockquote.table2,
.jotting.table2,
.notation.table2,
.modal.table2,
.paper.table2 {
background: rgb(226, 244, 255);
}
.table3 .blockquote,
.table3 div.blockquote,
.table3 blockquote,
.table3 .jotting,
.table3 .notation,
.table3 .modal,
.table3 .paper,
.blockquote.table3,
div.blockquote.table3,
.jotting.table3,
.notation.table3,
.modal.table3,
.paper.table3 {
background: rgb(255, 245, 189);
}
.table4 .blockquote,
.table4 div.blockquote,
.table4 blockquote,
.table4 .jotting,
.table4 .notation,
.table4 .modal,
.table4 .paper,
.blockquote.table4,
div.blockquote.table4,
.jotting.table4,
.notation.table4,
.modal.table4,
.paper.table4 {
background: rgb(255, 223, 205);
}
.table5 .blockquote,
.table5 div.blockquote,
.table5 blockquote,
.table5 .jotting,
.table5 .notation,
.table5 .modal,
.table5 .paper,
.blockquote.table5,
div.blockquote.table5,
.jotting.table5,
.notation.table5,
.modal.table5,
.paper.table5 {
background: rgb(255, 207, 207);
}
.table6 .blockquote,
.table6 div.blockquote,
.table6 blockquote,
.table6 .jotting,
.table6 .notation,
.table6 .modal,
.table6 .paper,
.blockquote.table6,
div.blockquote.table6,
.jotting.table6,
.notation.table6,
.modal.table6,
.paper.table6 {
background: rgb(255, 218, 255);
}
/* CONTENT > Tabs Base */
.yui-navset .yui-nav a,
.yui-navset .yui-navset-top .yui-nav a {
background-color: inherit;
background-image: inherit
}
.yui-navset .yui-nav a:hover,
.yui-navset .yui-nav a:focus {
background: inherit;
text-decoration: inherit
}
.yui-navset .yui-nav .selected a,
.yui-navset .yui-nav .selected a:focus,
.yui-navset .yui-nav .selected a:hover {
color: inherit;
background: inherit
}
.yui-navset .yui-nav,
.yui-navset .yui-navset-top .yui-nav {
border-color: inherit
}
.yui-navset li {
line-height: inherit
}
/* CONTENT > Tabs Customization */
.yui-navset .yui-nav,
.yui-navset .yui-navset-top .yui-nav {
display: flex;
flex-wrap: wrap;
width: calc(100% - .125rem);
margin: 0 auto;
border-color: #333333;
box-shadow: none;
}
.yui-navset .yui-nav a,
/* ---- Link Modifier ---- */
.yui-navset .yui-navset-top .yui-nav a {
color: #333333;
/* ---- Tab Background Colour | [UNSELECTED] ---- */
background-color: #efefef;
border: unset;
box-shadow: none;
box-shadow: none;
}
.yui-navset .yui-nav a:hover,
.yui-navset .yui-nav a:focus {
color: #ffffff;
/* ---- Tab Background Colour | [HOVER] ---- */
background-color: #333333;
}
.yui-navset .yui-nav li,
/* ---- Listitem Modifier ---- */
.yui-navset .yui-navset-top .yui-nav li {
position: relative;
display: flex;
flex-grow: 2;
max-width: 100%;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
color: #ffffff;
background-color: #ffffff;
border-color: transparent;
box-shadow: none;
}
.yui-navset .yui-nav li a,
.yui-navset-top .yui-nav li a,
.yui-navset-bottom .yui-nav li a {
display: flex;
align-items: center;
justify-content: center;
width: 100%;
}
.yui-navset .yui-nav li em {
border: unset;
}
.yui-navset .yui-nav a em,
.yui-navset .yui-navset-top .yui-nav a em {
padding: .35em .75em;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
overflow: hidden;
white-space: nowrap;
}
.yui-navset .yui-nav .selected,
/* ---- Selection Modifier ---- */
.yui-navset .yui-navset-top .yui-nav .selected {
flex-grow: 2;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
/* ---- Tab Background Colour | [SELECTED] ---- */
background-color: #333333;
}
.yui-navset .yui-nav .selected a,
.yui-navset .yui-nav .selected a em {
border: none;
}
.yui-navset .yui-nav .selected a {
width: 100%;
color: #ffffff;
}
.yui-navset .yui-nav .selected a:focus,
.yui-navset .yui-nav .selected a:active {
color: #ffffff;
background-color: #333333;
}
.yui-navset .yui-content {
background-color: #ffffff;
box-shadow: none;
}
.yui-navset .yui-content,
.yui-navset .yui-navset-top .yui-content {
padding: .5em;
border: 1px solid #333;
box-sizing: border-box;
}
/* CONTENT > WORDS NO BROKEY. CROQ HAS SPOKEY. and other things */
span,
a {
word-break: normal !important
}
.avatar-hover {
display: none !important;
}
#main-content .page-tags span {
max-width: 100%;
}
/* CONTENT > Dustjacket Assets */
.fancyhr hr {
border-top: 2vw solid transparent;
background-color: rgba(var(--bright-accent), 0);
height: 0;
box-sizing: border-box;
border-image-source: url('https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/local--files/theme:foxtrot/wl_hr.webp');
border-image-repeat: round round;
background: none;
border-image-slice: 80 500 80 500 fill;
border-image-width: 10em 80em 10em 80em;
}
.fancyborder {
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The following chapter excerpts are from The Seven Woes: New Insights into the Hebdomad Pantheon, 2026, author unknown. Please read thoroughly before arriving at your assigned site for departmental orientation at your allocated time. A full copy, and all referenced material, may be accessed via Records and Archive at Site-184, or the Secure Digital Reserves at Site-19.
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Wayfinder, Office of Synchronisms
Drown … To overwhelm, as if rising above like a flood; to smother, immerse or overpower by significance; to extinguish or expunge by suffocation; to merge with something greater or higher.
— The Oxford English Dictionary
On the Soul and Sea: An Introduction to Notre Dame de la Mer
Saint Sian, from Impressions of a Dream. Artist unknown.
It would be easy to dismiss Notre Dame de la Mer’s infatuation with the act of drowning as mere death worship, a tool used by the island’s educated elite to control the motivations, and the extent of will, of the “lesser” inhabitants. Such a view has been applied to other cases of religious deviancy, notably in response to specific, somewhat targeted appearances of supernatural or unexplainable occurrences.
A number of writers have already commented on the frequency of supernatural events leading to the development of religious sects, inspired in part by various established religious canons but taking on new features in response to confrontations with the impossible. Journalist Roy Ortega writes:
At the root of human imagination lies the desire for continuity. For story. For a timeline. Religion can offer some answers, but when faced with the totality of the universe’s unknowability, foundational knowledge such as 'God' and 'Justice' must be altered and amended to account for new light.
When the appearance of several Eastern European hemodivinic sects in the late 1860s was hypothesized to be spurred by the unusually close passage of Cook’s Comet over Earth sometime in late 1858, the total persuasion of the supernatural on group dynamics was fully realized. Scholar and anthropologist Hollie Walls writes:
Romanians, Ukrainians, Slovaks, Moldovans… over five thousand people spread across half a dozen states could never understand the reason for their collective spiritual awakening. Only from a modern lens, with the current understanding of cosmology and astronomical patterns, can we appreciate the full picture; that one domino, the blood-gem of Cook’s Comet, can lead to over a hundred years of religious practice and twice as many unique, culturally-specific motifs. We are just now beginning to understand humanity’s role in the cosmos, which comes with a bitter truth: the unraveling of our exceptionality. Our thoughts are not our own. We are but a drop in a phantom sea.
Notre Dame de la Mer follows a similar logic. The inhabitants practiced a variation of Catholicism, as it would have appeared in the 12th century, but the exact point of deviancy remains unclear. Walls, in her later work, assumed something like an Atlantic Cook’s Comet was likely responsible for the island and its followers’ complete disconnect from the mainland. Writings had been recovered that allude to the presence of a higher power in and around that stretch of rock, likely the cause of the religious debate that would have certainly led to its schism from the 12th-century Catholic Church, and its incorporation into Hebdomad worship.
The writings referred to here are the various manuscripts produced during the island’s use as a military base for the First Hundred Years' War. At the time, the island was occupied by soldiers, primarily, but also by a small group of settlers sent by the French royal House of Valois to build a permanent colony in the area. Carlos Schwartz writes:
The island was undesirable on nearly every front. The soil was dry and full of pebbles. Space was hard to come by thanks to the jagged slopes. The water was cold and rough. Falls from the cliff faces were universally fatal, either by drowning or evisceration on the submerged rocks. No wildlife, save for seafaring birds. Seven kilometers from the coast of Normandy, too far for convenient travel. Its position as a military fort was likewise undesirable, which is why it was abandoned by the army before the war’s end. In short: alien, hostile. Uninhabitable. Nothing short of a miracle could have saved the people who would later dedicate themselves to ‘Our Lady of the Sea.’
Worship of the Primordial Whale—as it is widely known in contemporary Hebdomad writings—can be traced back much further than the convent at Notre Dame de la Mer, and, although not the focus of this book, will extend far into the future.
The Left Hand: Deconstructing Septennial Lunar Worship
Communion with cosmic entities has an established history amongst several occult traditions. Almost every local object of significant mass has had a devoted cultic following: the Venus Time confessions, the Twin-Comparium of Phobos and Deimos, the North Io Gazers, the enigmatic Pluto branch of the Copernicus Union, among others. In the Hebdomadal tradition, with the exception of the Sun, almost every case of supposed communion with a cosmic entity can be attributed to the influence of the Planet. The Swinburne edition of The New Pantheon (1790) translates its name as Mailumar, a conglomerate of Mailkanth (a particular deity credited to a regional sect of moon worship prominent at the time) and the suffix -lumar, a general term denoting cosmic externality.
Kyra Dorsey’s 1962 investigation of the Moon-speakers, a subdivision of the Appalachian Metallurgists, found them in possession of a rich collection of ritualistic phrases:
Reading from the dusty books, a Moon-speaker might meditate throughout the night, from the hours of ten to three, in a place with a clear vantage of the land and, importantly, of the lunar surface. I had the privilege of overseeing one of these rituals, a rare honor for non-practicers. The medium was an elderly man of about eighty, who claimed to have been in regular communication with the moon since his early childhood. The purpose of this evening’s communion was unknown to me; reasons are rarely disclosed, even amongst cult members. The practice is understood to be deeply personal.
Wearing almost nothing, he led me to a high precipice, where he kneeled in prayer for four hours straight, through the bitter cold. All that time—it seemed to me—the moon never drifted far in the sky, though I know this to be impossible. At sunrise he stood and gripped my hands tightly. With tears welling, he told me about the moon’s present melancholy, and how much he longed to embrace her in his frail arms.
Present relations with the lunar entity vary significantly from sect to sect. The Southern Speakers insist on Mailumar’s consistent ambivalence toward humanity’s state, as it has refused them direct answers to their meditative pleading for several generations. Amos Kerr, a Moon-speaker from the New England sect, argues that recent developments during observed rituals demonstrate a pattern of emotional manipulation from the Planet, described in detail in his memoir: “I’ve spoken with her three hundred and thirty-seven times since my first contact at the age of nineteen. She has asked me to find her every time. She has given me detailed instructions for the process of cosmic transmutation. It will be painful. Every time I have refused. She now grows angry, and she weeps.”
The Rosen Apiary: Contextualizing the Dual Deity
Early Hebdomad scholars initially described the second deity as occupying two distinct seats in the Pantheon: the Constellation Hornet, who took the second seat, and the Rose, who took the fifth. New anthropological studies, including interviews within sects to chronicle previously undocumented oral traditions, has suggested that the second deity has, in some communities, always been understood as a dual entity.
To a newcomer of the religion, this detail might seemingly contradict the Pantheon’s numerology: Would this dual deity not make it a Pantheon of eight? Nathalie Barron addresses this in her essay on Septennial worship:
I have found it helpful to conceive of the Pantheon not as a collection of characters, but as a system of metaphorical re-presentations of spiritual truths as embodied in the likeness of characters. Therefore, the second deity exists conceptually as a dual being. If this pair were to be separated, it would cease to represent the same spiritual truth. The Rose can exist only in the shadow of the Hornet’s Doom, else it ceases to be anything at all.
The deity’s names, Beshult and Piercea, have appeared throughout Hebdomad writings since the early period (1920—1939), but have only recently been attributed to the same cosmological force: that of the dread of assured doom, and the peace that arrives in its certainty. This concept is not unique to the Hebdomad faith, but its visual motifs are. The common image of the hornet as the symbol of Beshult, as with vespine symbolism broadly throughout the faith, likely comes from an account by Rev. Curtis Beard, the prayer leader of an 18th-century Hebdomad sect, who claimed to encounter the likeness of Beshult deep in interstellar space while in a meditative trance. Upon waking, he reportedly reencountered it in a particularly distinct star cluster, thereafter referred to as the Constellation Hornet. According to some sects, the constellation draws closer to Earth with each passing year, predicted to one day eclipse the planet and the Pantheon itself.
Academic study of Piercea is much more nascent, owing to its deeply intimate relationship with followers. Anthropological efforts thus far to articulate this subject are usually frowned upon; Understanding of the Rose, it is said, comes only from the experience—and survival—of a great personal tragedy.
The Mind on Fire: A Note About Taboos
Saint Gallia, Impressions of a Dream.
Among the Hebdomad Pantheon it might be said that the seven deities are equal. Indeed, most texts assert such. A careful eye may distinguish biases amongst worshipers, and it is true that some Gods are, in practice, revered more than others. For instance, little compares to the Hornet's 14-day funeral processions documented in the early 70s. The Lion Fur Concerts of August 1966 were likewise attended by a peak audience of over fifteen thousand worshipers. Additionally, burnt wicks uncovered from Hebdomad temples highlight the uneven distribution of prayers amongst the deities. One, however, remains estranged even after decades of study, devoid of hardly any attention from the sects.
Translated by Swinburne as Ianthou, it is unclear when the manifestation of the hubris of knowledge appeared in Hebdomad texts. Early accounts of Pantheon occupants imply the presence of an unnamed, undepicted entity situated between the Whale and the Mirror, but refrain from identifying it by name or shape. Weekly prayers recovered from the middle period of Pantheon worship (1940—1979) tend to skip the fifth passage entirely, though forensic analysis proves these specific passages are typically expunged via applied heat by third parties, perhaps decades after initial creation.
Interviews have likewise been inconclusive. A covert investigation into a reclusive Hebdomad sect in New Mexico from journalist Magnolia Ruiz produced odd results:
The conversation had been going well. We spent the morning talking over a bitter, dark red tea. [The prayer leader] asked what brought me to this sect—I had, prior to this morning, claimed to be a desert hiker heading south into Santa Fe. When I said I had come here to learn the name of the fifth-day deity, she seemed to stiffen. Behind me was a hot stove. It had been left burning all morning for a reason I could not discern. The flames licked up the side of an empty pot of water. The heat throbbed against my back. Her expression at that moment was one of certain terror.
It was likely not until the catastrophic series of accidents that rendered much of the Hebdomad's digital presence inoperable that the likeness of the fifth deity received widespread recognition as that of an uncontrolled inferno. Recent texts have demonstrated a considerable willingness to divulge more information on the subject, including artistic depictions and poetic tributes, but the taboo remains strong amongst more conservative and superstitious factions.
Out of respect for the Hebdomad religion, without which this book and my studies could not exist, I will conclude this chapter forthwith.
The Self is the Other: Distinctions within the Pantheon
Saint Daphel, Impressions of a Dream.
In a religious system obsessed with searching outward—of reaching toward external knowledge and spirituality—it might come as some surprise to learn that the sixth deity represents total inwardness, or that this deity, unlike most, is unnamed.
Recent deliberations amongst Hebdomad scholars have explored a new interpretation of the Mirror’s role within the Pantheon and its relationship with worshipers. Reminiscent of the idiosyncratic worship of the Planet, followers of the Mirror typically achieve communion via deep meditation. However, the most intense sessions rarely produce contact with a realized entity, as is the case among most sects. It appears as if the Mirror possesses no distinct body or voice with which to reach. Rather, it seems, true contact comes in the form of a reactivation of a lost sense of selfhood through the kindling of long-forgotten memories. The most common of which—a childhood dream involving the search for a loved one in another room, and a traumatic encounter with a warped alter ego—seems to exist among most followers of the Mirror.
As such, the form and emotional effect of the Mirror remain frustratingly variable from person to person. Artistic depictions of the Pantheon typically compensate for such uncertainty by presenting the Mirror in the likeness of the artist, or another individual of personal significance. Emotional reactions to the sixth deity range from intense feelings of humility and abasement to jealousy and violence. Alma Lewis, a former member of the South Paxton sect of Friends of the Septennial, recounts an interaction with the Mirror as such:
In our house of worship we left the sixth seat open for each of us to go up and sit on the week when it was our turn to do so. Mine was in mid-July, when the AC was broken and it was hot as sin in that old building. I’ll never forget, when I was sixteen or seventeen, and it was my week, I made my way up there and sat on that old folding chair—in our church it was tradition to talk to whoever was in the chair as if it were the Mirror looking back at you.
Well, on my turn everybody in the front row started hurling insults at me, and cussing me out, and calling me terrible names. These were my family members, you know. My mom was there in the front row. But it was like it wasn’t really me they were talking to.
Of course, everyone acted normal again once I stepped down. I think I might’ve been crying a little, because suddenly everybody rushed over to me and started hugging and asking what was wrong. When I asked why they all hated me they were so confused. They kept saying, ‘it wasn’t you, it wasn’t you’ over and over. ‘It was the Mirror’s mocking eyes, the Mirror's mocking voice,’ and I knew right away they were telling me the only truth they knew.
Perhaps that which is the Self requires no name but one’s own.
The Animal Eating Itself: Structures of Authority
Saint Amarath, Impressions of a Dream.
The Pantheon, by nature, has no Overseer, no Shepard, no controlling Force. It cannot regulate itself in that way, in the way that we do, in the way we conceive ourselves to be capable of. The Hebdomad is a spread of equal opposites. Like a hand of cards, we get what we are dealt. The Pantheon is that hand, and as easily as it is dealt it may be re-dealt. Thus the deities arrive in a comfortable limbo, secure in their status and godhood only insofar as the deck remains unshuffled.
It may be forgiven for a newcomer to Hebdomad studies to see upon the Lion a sense of kingliness. Vincent Chan posits the Lion as the Sun in his astronomical interpretation of the Pantheon, and for good reason. Of the seven deities, the Lion is historically understood as a symbol of penetration, of permanence, of taking something as one’s own. Such symbolism lends itself to being understood in terms of dominance of the subject. But this understanding would be inappropriate and dangerously misleading.
In September 1968, a transport vehicle carrying eleven cattle disappeared en route to Kettlebeck Ridge, a livestock farm located in rural Nebraska. The vehicle was last seen by passersby pulling off Interstate 80 and driving toward a unpopulated region of the state, and was not found by authorities until nearly three days later, after its driver was reported missing. 22-year-old Henley Cooper—who was later charged with several counts of animal cruelty and widely disowned by most Hebdomad scholars—had stolen the animals under the guidance of a three-hundred-year-old practice, based roughly on a translation of ritualistic speech and associated motions distributed sometime in the late 60’s. Although not fully successful in communing with his deity (he did not, as far as we can tell, ascend to godhood), Cooper demonstrated the first resurgence of public displays of Hebdomad worship following a decades-long drop in participation across almost every sect.
I will refrain from a summary of the crime, as plenty exist. Relevant to this book is how Cooper’s attempted ritual coincided with an influx of membership in AoF Pantherine cults across America.
In a library basement in his hometown of De Lotte, Michigan, Cooper was observed speaking with a visitor of AoF NorthWest, of which Cooper was a recent member. The visitor was Albert Ayala, who years before had played a vital role in the legitimization of the study of Hebdomad worship in institutions of religious study. The conversation, recorded by tape, played a major role in Cooper’s subsequent trial:
Cooper: I’ve been reading, you know, and feeling things. It’s starting to make sense to me now. I’ve never seen things that make sense like this.
Ayala: Good. That’s good. You’re starting to see it in the clouds, and the shape of the grass, I bet. Tell me, Cooper, what drew you here? Of all places to meet—and there are many, as you know…
Cooper: I can’t tell you why, Professor. I think…
(At this point, the tape records shuffling papers.)
Cooper: I think I just like the way its eyes look at me.
Later that month, although his speech had been rendered unintelligible by then, Cooper met again with Ayala in a secure room in Michigan State Penitentiary. About that meeting, he later wrote:
Although his methods were abhorrent—I don’t think anyone would disagree with that assessment—it is undeniable that the young man has done more to further the worship of the first deity than any other I’ve encountered in my years of study: He has identified the Lion’s name, as rendered in the human tongue. Its name is Khaulamezia. I have no further insights on this word or its meaning.
Beyond that, I cannot add or specify anything more in this case study of Henley Cooper. Nothing I feel comfortable staking my reputation on.
I deviate now from previous interpretations of Hebdomad texts to suggest that our understanding of the faith’s cosmology is woefully incomplete. I am not the first to note the unsettling absence of any mentions of the final deity, whose name or likeness remains out of reach to this day. I have spoken with a number of Hebdomad followers and even attended several sessions of worship in order to elucidate some meaning from this discrepancy, but have been spurned every time. Some have suggested our difficulty in learning is due to a failure of our anthropological rigor, or blindness, or bias in our studies. However, I mean to suggest here that the total vision of the religion, insofar as one can exist, remains clouded and disguised to even the faith’s most devout. Not one among the prayer leaders of the major sects—the Lion cults, the dens of the Whale, or the Covens of Mirrors—can say with any confidence what comes next because next has not yet been written; the Pantheon is ever-changing. Its oral histories are created by the followers of the faith as much as they are observed and recorded.
What I am saying here is not wholly new, nor is it particularly radical. Some have implied as such as early as the 1970s, when Hebdomad studies were first accepted into wider religious academia. However, what other commentators have missed is the alarming emergence of technolalia encroaching and in some cases replacing established Hebdomad rituals: Speech—interpersonal and intercommunal—replaced by Radio.
In my research, I came across the records and receipts of a Black Mountain Transmitter Company, whose operations across North America coincide with an unprecedented surge in the conversions of non-practicing individuals into the Hebdomad faith. Perhaps more surprisingly, we are seeing for the first time followers of specific deities abandoning established sects in favor of a new branch of the faith, one that has brandished upon its sigils the shape of a great dome, whose name reads simply as the sonorous, funerary ringing of a distant Bell.
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