RIFT OF THE MAW

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This thin, ebon-covered book is a collection of thirteen meditative mantras.  The character of these meditations, however, is severely disturbing to any civilized mind: They fixate upon imagery of depraved acts both sexual and violent in their character.

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Each mantra is disparate (albeit varied) in its perverse obsession, but the common theme which joins the mantras together is that of the “Mouth” and the “Maw”.  The Maw is the void from which both Truth and the turgid release of the flesh emanates.  It is the gaping hole beyond the empty gulf which is the world of mortal perceptions.

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The Mouth is characterized as being connected to the Maw.  It is the path which cleaves its way through the barriers of the mind which lie between your voided gulf and that place beyond, releasing thereby the wisdom of the Maw.  It is also the font from which such “honeyed knowledge” is spewed forth into the world.

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Delving deeper into the imagery of the mantras, however, reveals another layer of truth: That there is a more direct path to the Maw.  A rift.  And that the “new-mooned Rift” will give “clear skies of truth” to those who find it.

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The final mantra issues a chilling warning against the “name of the Maw”.  For the name of the Maw is the Maw and the name of the Maw is its wisdom and the name of the Maw is its void and the name of the Maw is the gulf which swallows and the name of the Maw is that which destroys.  The name (which is not given) is a shortcut by which the Maw of the Mouth can be regurgitated (or vomited) into this world; but such sudden and overwhelming truth would “scar one whose mind has not been glazed to the stars beyond one’s own”.