Great Yig

Lately I've coming back to the idea of transformation viewed from a primordial aspect. A more visceral evolution than the some times too ephemeral ideas of ascension or union with god. In particular I've been viewing this in conjunction with work I did using Peter Carroll's 8 color/self model, and the imagery of the hydra. In particular illumination meant to fuse the idea of an eight headed hydra and my development of the eight selves. Though the obvious symbolic link is the eight heads, the real driving motive was the serpent imagery. Serpent imagery/symbolism has long held a sway over me. Eventually I synthesized all my serpent ideas/experiences into the mythos god Yig.

This has come once again to the forefront of my current magical work which is the alteration of myself or soul if that imagery is more understandable into a nephilim like consciousness. This work is the amalgamation several different central ideas of my magical practice, in particular current 144 (time manipulation, conjoining of past/present and future, manipulation of those aspects) the idea of forging a new soul as a method of metaprogramming, and the cthulhu mythos which for me has always been about variations on the themes of evolution, transhumanism, posthumanism and their relation to the great work.

When I first initiated myself into the cthulhu mythos, I constructed a shrine to Shub Niggurath, complete with a womb, just large enough to hold me in a fetal position. I used this as a rebirth ritual, being reborn as a child of Shub Niggurath and as such an initiate of the mythos. I've also come across the speculation that Yig was a child of Shub Niggurath, which obviously interested me.

This all came together when on Coast to Coast AM (Art Bell's show) one night when they discussed the idea of the nephilim (and related concepts in various cultures). Though I was focused on other things at the time (this was when I worked a late shift at a hotel) one thing that stuck was a myth related to men with serpentine features. I later came to connect this to the Yig imagery.

If I were to sum up Yig (and by proxy serpents in my mythology) in one word it would be this:

Transformation.

So all this arrives here as I prepare for the final stages of my nephilim transformation. A central archetype in this work has been the ouroboros, for whatever reasons it wasn't until lately that I connected this to Yig.

In a past entry, I described a pathworking encounter with Lilith, where she identified herself as the symbolic mother of this transformation. From this I had expected Samael to act as the symbolic father. Going back over previous work I had done relating to serpents I recalled an incident my wife Ceilede had with a black serpent energy, around the time I was exploring with imagery I had come across of Samael as a large black serpent.

This lead me to the idea of going back into the Cthulhu mythos to see if Yig might figure into the nephilim working. From the first forays into this (using trance work). Unexpectedly I found myself in an area I have often dreamed of, the shores of a lake of acid. In the center of this lake is a hut housing a giant marble white serpent headed man. It was this entity who gave me the name Sammael (the two m's were stressed at the time) In that dream the entity did not identify itself, though on some level I'm sure I associated it with the image of Yig. This really synched up in this new trance working.

In this vision Yig provided me a vial of venom to be ingested during a certain ritual. He referred to it as the venom of God (huge correspondence to the angel Samael), it was clear however, that it was Yig's own venom. Considering that the ingestion of Lilith's menstrual blood was the consummation of her symbolic role as mother, I took this as acknowledgment of Yig's role as symbolic father of the working.

Sometime soon I will go through the ritual involving the ingestion of Yig's venom. I also feel this will be the last ritual, or catalyst for the change of consciousness. Though I expect that process to take a bit to come to full fruition.

The point of all this is transformation. Though in some ways it feels like a consumation of years of work, I know that it's completion will only carry me to new thresholds, and like Great Yig, I will have to shed this skin too.