Glossary of Mythopoetic Terms in the Sky-Veil Cosmology
Definitions for terms used throughout the Sky-Veil cosmology
The Sky-Veil is a mythopoetic journey through a forgotten realm where the divine brushes the mortal. This is a journey of longing, wisdom, and the quiet majesty that crowns the soul.
Preface
This glossary provides definitions for terms used throughout the Sky-Veil cosmology. These terms are intended to guide readers through the contemplative landscape of this mythopoetic vision, where ancient hypostatic heralds, saints, and divine attributes are encountered through symbolic resonance rather than literal interpretation. The entries serve as a map for the soul’s inward journey across the veil of time and symbol toward the light of sanctity and the holy of Being.
Purpose
My mythopoetic cosmology is a form of enchantment and resacralization. I’m offering a symbolic and contemplative alternative to the flat, nihilistic worldview that dominates our age. By weaving Catholic spirituality with classical mythology—without syncretism—I am:
Restoring the sense of wonder. I show that meaning is not manufactured, but revealed, often in veiled and liminal ways (e.g., the Sky-Veil).
Redeeming the imagination. I invite the reader/listener into a sacred space where myth is not escapism but the threshold to truth.
Defending Being itself. In the face of existential forgetfulness, my work insists that there is something to be unveiled—something beautiful, personal, and salvific.
This is deeply counter-cultural in the best way. It’s not reactionary. It’s not revolutionary. It’s revelatory.
Glossary
Aphrodite’s Rose - Within the Sky-Veil, Aphrodite’s Rose blooms as the first shimmering herald of divine beauty—the pure, unbidden call of Being that stirs the soul toward remembrance. It is neither an earthly flower nor a heavenly apparition, but the living threshold where beauty descends to meet the exile of the Grey-Beneath.
The Rose does not demand nor conquer; it reveals. In its fragrance, color, and form, it bears the silent proclamation that Being is beautiful, that existence is a gift, and that the exiled soul is still beloved. Aphrodite, as the Keystone of the Sky-Veil, breathes forth the Rose as her first and most tender offering, an incarnate whisper of the invisible Flame above.
Those who behold Aphrodite’s Rose do not simply see beauty; they are wounded by it—wounded into longing, wounded into the journey home. It is the gentle beginning of awakening, the call to cross the Veil and return to the fullness of their forgotten heritage.
Banners of Veiled Presence - A poetic image evoking the hidden nearness of Being as it reveals itself through signs, gestures, and thresholds—not in clarity, but in mystery. To walk beneath these banners is to dwell within the quiet presence that is not fully seen, but deeply known. They mark the liminal paths where the soul attunes to what cannot be named but can be kept. In the mythopoetic cosmology of the Sky-Veil, they represent fidelity to the whispering of the unveiled, the ancient breath still stirring beneath the surface of the world.
Dynastic Bearers - Figures or presences—such as the goddesses—who carry and transmit the lineage of divine attributes across time and imagination. They are not beings but serve as the shimmering of Being. As dynastic bearers, they prefigure the ultimate reign of sanctity in the saints.
Goddesses as harbingers of the Catholic faith - In the mythopoetic landscape of the Sky-Veil, the ancient goddesses Athena, Hera, and Aphrodite are not worshipped, invoked, or treated as divine beings, but rather received as harbingers—symbolic precursors who heralded the coming revelation fulfilled in Jesus Christ. Their presence in the Sky-Veil is neither syncretic nor nostalgic. It is sanctified memory—a poetic remembrance of the virtues they once carried in shadow and myth, now transfigured in the light of the Incarnation.
Athena bears the flame of wisdom, spiritual clarity, and holy courage.
Hera embodies majesty, right order, and the hidden dignity of queenship.
Aphrodite refracts divine love, beauty, and harmony.
Together, they are the triadic heralds of Being whose symbolic presence shaped the Greco-Roman world—the same world into which the Catholic Church was born. Their virtues, once scattered across temples and epics, are now gathered and fulfilled in the saints, in the sacraments, and in the story of salvation.
This concept affirms that the Church did not emerge in a cultural vacuum but arose upon the prepared soil of symbolic memory and spiritual longing. The “gods” of antiquity, when purified of idolatry, become poetic tributaries to truth. In this light, Athena, Hera, and Aphrodite are not deities but veiled reflections—types that pointed, unknowingly, toward Christ.
Grey-Eyed Being (of Joan of Arc) - A poetic title for Joan of Arc emphasizing her radiant clarity and contemplative courage, inspired by the epithet of Athena. This expression symbolizes the emergence of divine wisdom in sanctified form. It is not a mythological attribution, but a symbolic reflection on Joan’s saintly character.
Hypostatic Emergence - The act or event by which a hypostatic form enters the world of experience, memory, and imagination. A hypostatic emergence is not invented by the human mind but arises within it as a resonant unveiling of Being. It is how mythic figures like Aphrodite, Athena, and Hera come to bear presence—not as beings, but as symbolic realities.
Hypostatic Form - A symbolic expression of Being that manifests with presence and weight, though not as a personal or metaphysical entity. A hypostatic form is a threshold—an unveiling of a divine attribute such as love, wisdom, or majesty—in symbolic form. It is neither abstract nor embodied, but real in the soul’s encounter with the world.
Hypostatic Heralds - Figures who bear the presence of a hypostatic form. The goddesses are hypostatic heralds: they do not possess Being, but they announce it. As heralds, they invite the soul to a deeper contemplation of divine attributes. They are real in their effect and presence, though not personal subjects or metaphysical beings.
Magdalene in Provence - A contemplative figure of fulfillment within the Sky-Veil cosmology. Mary Magdalene, in her retreat to Provence, represents the soul that has passed through the veil—not as a herald or warrior, but as a witness to divine intimacy. She is the embodied stillness beyond the threshold, where divine love is no longer announced or defended, but received and interiorized. Provence becomes a sacred topology of sanctified memory, the garden of repose after the fire of sanctity. In the mythopoetic ascent, Magdalene is the fulfillment of the longing first glimpsed through the goddesses and sanctified in Joan of Arc.
Mythopoetic Heart (of Joan of Arc) - The contemplative center of Joan’s sanctity as perceived through symbolic resonance. This refers not to a fictionalized or mythologized Joan, but to the radiance of her holiness as it stirs the soul through archetypal memory and poetic form. It is the convergence point where ancient symbols are fulfilled in divine grace.
Not Syncretism, but Sanctification - These are not pagan echoes, but sacred foreshadowings. Not syncretism, but sanctification. The mythopoetic language of the Sky-Veil does not merge belief systems or dilute theological truth. Rather, it seeks to unveil the foreshadowing of Christ and the sanctity of revealed truth through poetic signs drawn from history, culture, and the longing of the nations. The figures of Aphrodite, Athena, and Hera are not deities to be worshipped, but emerging heralds—liminal reflections of divine virtues and attributes as seen through the veil of time and the yearning of Being.
In this vision, the ancient is not absorbed into the new, but fulfilled by it. What was once veiled in beauty and courage is transfigured in the light of the Incarnate Word. The path across the Sky-Veil is thus not a blending, but a sanctification: a consecrating of human longing toward its ultimate fulfillment in Christ.
Ox-Eyed and Laughter-Loving (of Joan of Arc) - Companion titles to the Grey-Eyed Being, these refer respectively to Joan’s majesty (from Hera) and divine joy (from Aphrodite). Each expresses a facet of her sanctity using the language of archetypal resonance. They are mythopoetic symbols of the fulfillment of ancient longing in the soul of a saint.
Resonances of Being - Subtle unveilings of presence that shimmer across the landscape of experience—traceless traces where Being once passed near. These are not psychological memories or fragments of archetypal consciousness, but events of nearness, moments in which the hidden truth of one’s life quietly resounds through presence.
Sacred Topology - The interior landscape of the soul as it is shaped by its encounter with mythic symbols, saints, and divine presence. Sacred topology describes the spiritual terrain through which the pilgrim-soul journeys, marked by veils, thresholds, memory echoes, and contemplative ascent. It is not a geography of space, but of meaning.
Silent Revealing - A moment of alethic unveiling in which truth does not arrive through declaration, logic, or argument—but through presence, gesture, and stillness. It is not announced; it is recognized. The silent revealing is how Being steps forward—unforced, unspoken, yet undeniably there.
Sky-Veil - The threshold of Being in this mythopoetic cosmology, representing the veil between time and eternity, symbol and reality, longing and fulfillment. It is across the Sky-Veil that hypostatic heralds of Being—embodied symbolically by the goddesses—shimmer, and through which the soul journeys in mythic contemplation toward divine encounter. The saints dwell beyond the veil; the goddesses, as “hypostatic emergences” foreshadowing divine virtues, herald from its edge. St. Joan of Arc guides the pilgrim across the Sky-Veil of transformation in Christ to Magdalene’s contemplative grotto on the far side in the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
The Grove Beyond the Veil - A sacred threshold within the cosmology of the Sky-Veil, The Grove Beyond the Veil is the quiet resting place where Mirelda dwells. It is not a destination one reaches, but a sanctuary into which the soul is received. It exists beyond striving, beyond explanation—a hidden region of stillness, grace, and contemplative presence.
The White Banner - A radiant, unspeaking standard carried by Caelia at her first appearance within the Sky-Veil. It bears no crest, no motto, no nation, no ideology—only light in the shape of silence. The White Banner is not a symbol of belonging, but of remembrance. It is not a call to follow, but a summons to return.
Thinking of Being - A mode of attentive, poetic reflection that stands outside metaphysical systems and listens instead for the silent, unconcealed presence of what is. It is not an explanation, but a letting-be—a dwelling near the mystery of Being as it reveals itself. In the Sky-Veil cosmology, this thinking unfolds along the liminal paths where the seen and unseen brush against one another. It is the contemplative posture through which truth (aletheia) emerges—not as a proposition, but as a presence.
Finally! A glossary of Walter's philosophical landscape! 😂🎉