#panhyle

[somewhereonmypath]

All-Soul, All-Body, All-Love, All-Power

I've recently started reading the TransMythology by P. Sufenas Virius Lupus. As I'm going through it I might post my thoughts about it and interpretations. I think it would be cool for future people interested in the Mythos of the Tetrad++ to have multiple points of reference instead of just the book and a few wordpress blogs.

[wittedknitch]

Every reconnection starts with someone reaching out, even when scared the answer would be "no".

After over a year away from the Tetrad++ and almost a year since I last worked with any of Them (i.e. since the last Trans Rite of Elevation), I contacted them today and said I wanted to reconnect with Them. I miss Them and find them inspirational and want to talk about Them more to other people but feel it is dishonest of me to do much of that if I am not actually working with/worshipping them.

Given I had been told by Them the month before I started my Masters we were not to be continuing for that year, because of reasons partially relating to my inability to consistently hear Them properly and doubts about my ability to commit while simultaneously being in uni (which, given how the year was, were warranted), I could not assume I had blanket permission to just go back and that They would welcome me with no problems.

So, I set out the statues I have for them and lit a candle and offered them some tea that I was drinking with them...and spent the following two hours telling each of Them how they inspired me and then discussing how They felt about reconnecting and what I need to do next in order to do so. With a fifteen minute toilet break in the middle.

I drew a batch of six cards intially, one for each of Them, but after requiring clarification on the first one about both what Panpsyche meant and what She wanted me to do, I subsequently drew a clarification and an action card for each of Them. One card also jumped out before I drew the initial six, making it 19 cards total, which is a huge spread for me!

I am so out of practice with tarot I had to look up each individual card in the LWB and interpret the key words, often with a series of yes/no "20 Questions" style questions when I was split between two interpretations. One of the things I knew I need to work on is accuracy in understanding what They're saying so I do not trust my intuition regarding Them right now. It turned out I had spent nearly a year thinking They were pleased with where we were going and that I was doing well, or at least ok, only to find out when I went to renew our commitment I had been only communicating with sock puppets in my mind the majority of the time and They were not so unanimously pleased with me. Hence the double-checking and 20 questions this evening.

My heart fell intially as I surveyed the six cards I had drawn. 5 reversals and the single upright was The Devil, coupled with a reversed jumper card. I am disappointed in myself that I have disappointed Them, and I had hoped my honesty in unscripted descriptions of the inspirations I gained from Them all would show my sincerity of feeling and be sufficient to start again but...I think deities have longer memories than we do, or perhaps I just normally run away from people I think I've disappointed and so never have to deal with the consequences.

However, I worked through each of the Tetrad++ in turn, honestly discussing how I felt and how I interpreted the cards given to indicate how They felt. Two cards to express Their feelings regarding potential reconnection and one to given an action for me to do if I wanted to develop a relationship again with that particular member.

Panpsyche is being like a stern mother and wants my actions to reflect my apparent feelings, by me donating to trans people's fundraisers, particularly trans women's (naturally, She being a trans woman Herself). I disappointed Her before and have to show that I mean my apologies and not just say them.

Panhyle started with the upright Devil, which visually seemed like a fitting representation of Him (being a faun in this deck). He wants to work with me to improve my body to what I want it to be, and for me to stop complaining about it if I am not doing anything to fix it. I need to start a regular exercise regime and not falter.

Paneros I did not know what to expect, as I have some anxieties about my own desires that keep me from exploring them fully and so, E being All-Desire among other things, I had always kept distance out of worry. But I don't want to be afraid any more. E said E is disappointed and sad things did not work out before but hat we can move past that now. E wants me to fall out and drop away from the things that bind me, from unhelpful routines and stagnant actions, to hatch from my egg and grow from my seed, to rise again. It scares me, because what if I fail and free-fall and never fly? But I have been longer afraid of rotting inside myself from not being authentically me, so I agreed.

Paneris, All-Strife, was one I did not have any expectations for. He literally embodies conflict and strife and change, so having any expectations is counterproductive. She said the two of us were an "undependable youth" and a "distrustful person" also who is which is unclear. They will.work with me on a case-by-case basis, a transactory relationship rather than, say, a friendship. And the first thing Thon said Cor'd do was help me with Paneros and breaking out of my shell, if I made a bad decision. As in, to invoke Hir spirit of change in my life to make everything different, I had to make a bad decision, a conflict-causing decision. Which would no doubt bring change by necessity!

Pancrates...flat out said Sie doesn't like me. And it makes me worried that, someone I see as upholding the pillars of order in the universe doesn't like me, I am a bad person. But, one thing that has always been apparent to me from previously working with the Tetrad++ is They are very much like people and have likes and dislikes accordingly. And I cannot be liked by everyone. Sie wants of me The Tower - to tear down and utterly reconfigure my view of myself and the world. So, I said that may happen due to the work I will be trying to do with Paneros and Paneris, but that I could not promise I would turn into a person Pancrates would like. I am surprised to have such a negative reaction from Hir but...I will never be liked by everyone.

Panprosdexia, ever dutiful, felt my time away was a waste and that it could have been better spent being more of a light in the darkness and leading others through. But now I am back I can start again and help others and shine as I can and work on assisting Them in Their duty. I need to keep an eye out for omens and on my dreams for further messages.

Overall this means I can move forward with redeveloping relationships with each of the members of the Tetrad++, save perhaps Pancrates. This is particularly immediately relevant because I have called upon Them every time I've done the Trans Rite of Elevation so far and wish to do so this year too, and did not want to do so if I were in unredeemable stead.

On a personal level, it fills me with hope. I did not realise I was holding Their presence in such an important place until it was gone.

[wittedknitch]

Hail to the Tetrad++ on the Trans Day of Visibility

Hail to their trans children, our trans siblings,

The Tetrad++, our divine representatives, mirrors of us in the celestial as we are reflections of them in the flesh

Panpsyche, mother of trans women, who, alongside Panhyle, fought a monster and died and was reborn for her motherhood

Panhyle, father of trans men, who, alongside his twin, defeated and was defeated and through rebirth claimed his fatherhood

Paneros, the metagender child of love, who almost succumbed to despair but at the last burst into love for emself in all eir unfathomable gender's glory

Pancrates, the pangender offspring cut from Paneros' chest, who, lion-hearted, split open a/pep from tip to tail with hirs boundary-breaking, universe-supporting strength

Paneris, the genderfluid spouse of Paneros, who fights with us and alongside us in our strifes as trans folk

Panprosdexia, the one who accepst everyone and guides us in the darkness, agender and asexual, devoted to their duty to bring all to the light

Hail to the trans deities! May they support us in our lives and may we emobdy their hope and love and passion in ours!

[missionariaprotectivia]

It's really not that far away from the point in time currently we currently occupy (well, for those of who have a linear frame of mind, b...

My little late night ramble about my gender identity and the gods. 

[wittedknitch]

Panhyle is All Bodies, including Disabled/Differently Abled Bodies

[wittedknitch]

When I remember, I invite Panhyle to exercise* with me/devote my exercise to Panhyle (All-Body). Most of the time I forget, and it’s kind of become a point of surprise when I do remember. I didn’t go to the gym for the past week because bleh, and he just thought I’d forgotten to invite him each time again (many evenings where I’d gone to the gym and not told Him or Pancrates involve “I’m sorry, I was at the gym and didn’t tell you).

*intentional exercise for exercise’s sake, not just e.g. cycling to get to work

I remembered to invite Him today, more or less...ok, 20 minutes into my 30 minute run time I remembered. He thought that was funny, I think. When He was present, there was definitely another presence there. I pushed myself further, partly at His encouragement, and partly to try and make Him smile than I would have otherwise.

[wittedknitch]

Panpsyche, Soul, All-Souls, the expression of Soul. The Bird of Flame, solar flares of Truth. Whatever body you wear you are yourself. If your body fits your soul well, then it leaks out all over, every movement an expression of your Self. If your body does not match your soul well, then your soul spills over and bursts out, in creation, in incorporeal expression having failed to make its mark on the physical. In ephemeral song, music, poetry, zines, written, spoken, thought externally expressed, not confined to the physical but more visible than mental. When your soul fits your body, you glow, you shine, you beam. When your soul does not fit your body, you burst forth, you flare out, you spill molten and beautiful. The soul is a bird in a golden cage and sometimes that cage must burn. Panpsyche, Soul-Bird, Flamed-Winged. You open your mouth and sing. No body can contain you, All-Souls, True Soul. Your children, your daughters, are radiant with your Truth, their Truth, all souls blazing bright beyond bodies. Only your brother, your lover, All-Bodies, All-Body, Panhyle. Only he can handle you, sometimes. And when there is harmony between All Souls and All Bodies, then there must arise, must ubiquitously arise, must inevitably arise All Love, Paneros.

[wittedknitch]

Profile: Panhyle

A lot of this information is drawn from P. Sufenas Virius Lupus’ website, who is the metagender author of All-Soul, All-Body, All-Love, All-Power, but some of it will be from other sources and some my own experience. I will try to link to the suitable things where possible and mark my own opinions with an asterisk*.

Panhyle

Epithets: All-Body, All-Matter, All-Bodies

Gender: man

Pronouns: he/him

Panhyle is the twin brother and later lover of Panpsyche. He is the second member of the Tetrad++ to emerge, from the anus of Set, and he was also not expected and for a long time felt overshadowed by his sister. He was also born clothed, and while the attending deities at his birth considered him male from the start, he has a vulva and scars on his chest which many would recognise as from top surgery, so can be considered a trans man by human standards. At the same time Fauna and Faunus discovered Panpsyche has a penis they discovered Panhyle had a vulva, and this joint shock to the foundations of what they believed made a man and a woman caused their genital and secondary sex characteristics to switch.

After defeating the hippopotamus that Tawaret sent, alongside his sister, Panhyle was mortally wounded and died. Later, he was resurrected and reconciled with his sister. They then became lovers, and produced Paneros.

Family: Panhyle has 78 parents, and foster-parents too, most notable are Antinous, Set, and Favorinus.

His child with Panpsyche is Paneros, and with Panpsyche and Paneros he begot Pancrates. Panprosdexia is his grandchild.

He is the father to all trans men.

Associations: Grey, white, brown, green, red* (my synaesthesia), topaz, bloodstone*, white lilies, daisies, blackberries*, fibrous foods, frankincense.

Dates: second of the month, twelfth of the month (with Panpsyche), thirtieth of the month (the whole Tetrad++), March 2nd (his birthday!), November 20th (International Trans Day of Remembrance)

Potential devotional activities: running and general exercise*, activism in issues facing men (for example, CALM, a UK anti-male suicide charity, and health issues such as prostate cancer), issues around patriarchal injustice, and issues facing trans men specifically, and also through sexual acts

Other links: Merri-Todd’s prayer to Panhyle, Merri-Todd’s prayer to Panhyle and Panpsyche (one, two)

Imagery: 

[WIP]