Codex of the Synapse: Folio B2.2

Mytharchy

 

 

The term mythology cannot be properly applied to the belief system of the Keepers, because mythology - whether in the form of deities, stories creation, or images - implies specificity of content, a local-world mentality rejected by The Keepers. The mythology employed by any given Keeper belongs to the culture he has adopted in Diaspora. His mytharchy, or the pattern through which he translates his adopted mythology, is what ties him to The Synapse.

Thus, the Mytharchy of the Synapse is an encompassing architecture of belief that can view any particular mythology in a Synaptic light. The Mytharchy preserved by the Keepers is the proverbial elephant, whose picture emerges through the multiple - and contradictory - descriptions by the ten blind men. The Keepers worship no gods of their own, but they readily acknowledge gods in general as one form of neighbor-world image. They have no books (other than the Codex), but in all books they find veiled references to the Synapse.

 

 

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