The Sky-Veil: Chapter 7
The Ascent to Majesty
Journey Across the Sky-Veil is a mythopoetic journey through a forgotten realm where the divine brushes the mortal. A nameless man awakens beneath a veil of sorrow and memory, guided by three silent goddesses across a path of signs, silence, and sacred trials. His quest is not to rise in power, but to remember his name—and the order of Being itself. This is a story of longing, wisdom, and the quiet majesty that crowns the soul.
“The Crown is not seized. It is received.”
As I approached the Highlands of Majesty, the Sky-Veil did not so much shimmer as it flashed like lightning and reverberated with thunder at the weight of the Nearness of Aphrodite’s Rose in my heart and Athena’s flame crowning my head. Where once the Sky-Veil shifted with mystery and mist, it now opened like a heaven—quiet, expansive, expectant. I stood at the edge of the ridge line where the anointing had ended, and for the first time since the Grey-Beneath, there was no doubt about where to go.
A path gleamed faintly before me—woven of light cast from remembrance. It wound through tall golden grasses and ascended along a spine of stone that cut upward toward the waiting Highlands.
I walked. Neither quickly nor cautiously. But with the reverence of someone who had finally felt near to what he was born to be.
The wind seemed to sing as I passed—it carried forward my nearness, as though announcing to the Highlands that one of its sons, once forgotten, now approached. The landscape changed.
The flowers grew more vibrant, their stems strong and their blossoms wide. Trees emerged with branches outstretched with meaning. Pools of water dotted the earth like fragments of sky that had fallen gently from heaven into the presence of remembrance in the Veil.
Aphrodite’s rose in my heart, no longer pulsed. It simply glowed. Athena’s flame on my crown no longer flickered. It radiated. These gifts had completed their task. They had led me to the edge of the Highlands of Majesty.
Now, another voice spoke.
I crested a rise—and there they stood. Two gates, carved in stone and wood, but with a glint of something older: light and memory fused into nearness. Between them stood a single tree, tall and silver-leaved, its roots buried in the Highlands, its branches disappearing into mist. From those branches hung seven veils, each with a color of a presence—rose, flame, crown, dawn, light, sorrow, joy.
And beneath the tree stood a woman. She was not veiled. She did not move, yet her presence ordered the entire hillside. She did not speak, yet her silence shaped the world around her.
Hera-She of the Ox-Eyes and Crown. The Queen of the Highlands. I lowered my eyes and folded my hands. Her eyes pierced my soul. And still, the land did not tremble. Even the Veil around us ceased its gentle shimmer—as if the very fabric of the world wished not to obscure her word.
She approached without sound. She touched nothing. And then she spoke—not with a voice, but with nearness.
“You are known.”
I wept. Not because I was overwhelmed, but because the knowing was so complete, so unbroken, that no part of me remained hidden—even from myself.
“You are received.”
From the folds of her robe, she withdrew something small—something wrapped in cloth not woven by hand. She placed it in my hands. It was a circlet, wrought of unseen metal, etched with symbols I had only begun to understand: the rose, the flame, and now—the crown.
“You are named.”
The wind gently blew. The Veil lifted. The Sky-Veil was no longer above me. I was in it.
“To name is not to assign. It is to reveal what was written in fire before the world knew nearness.”
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Lyrics ©Walter Emerson Adams. Music and vocals by Suno ©Walter Emerson Adams.
O Hera, regal symbol, queen divine Your golden scepter glimmers, without age Majestic throne, great seat of order’s might Yet time endures within your unseen page. As mother, nurture those who sense your reign Align each heart with order ‘cross your sight The child anew, with eyes in wonder smiles Reveal, O Hera, kingdoms in the night The pilgrims grieve your strife, immortal sage A mystic sees conflicted thoughts, your gaze An anxious glance from you congeals the mist In this, O Hera, cries the night through haze Do not, O Hera, pain yourself with wrath At radiance by which you share your crown The borrowed gleam reflects your grace so well Enhance, soft light, do not profane her gown When conflict holds your heart, O Hera, queen And jealous provocation will believe The mortals have no trail to see, no way Resist, your timeless aura will conceive O Hera, loyal majesty enthrones Be not displeased with those above, below The pilgrim looks where Hera gazes o’er Keep looking, queen - restore, refine, bestow