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.
As mentioned in my previous post, The Rose-Bearer’s Golden Thread, I am introducing another anthology of mythopoetry contemplating the Sky-Veil’s heralds1 of Beauty, Wisdom, and Majesty—Aphrodite, Athena, and Hera. The first collection was Mythic Revelations and the second The Sky-Veil. The poems and their arrangements using Suno music and vocals can be found on my music website.
I am now creating a new anthology of poems inspired by the Golden Thread2 in my series Aphrodite’s Dance. The Golden Thread will eventually include mythopoetry unveiling all three hypostatic heralds of the Sky-Veil.
Enjoy the second in this new collection—The Veil-Bearer. Athena of the Luminous Mind.
In Veil-Bearer, Athena appears not only as the goddess of war and wisdom but as the luminous emergence behind the Sky-Veil itself. She is the orchestrator of clarity, the quiet shield in times of storm, and the one who blends thought with form in the fields of divine order. This poem follows her radiant passage across dawn-lit meadows and thunderous skies, where insight blossoms and courage takes root. Ever veiled, ever glowing—she is the herald of the golden thread of knowing.
Lyrics ©Walter Emerson Adams. Vocals and music by Suno ©Walter Emerson Adams
When lightning flashes across the Sky-Veil Clarity seizes the mind and unveils Emergent meanings silent from the night Athena sparks hidden thoughts into sight The rays of sunlight and dawn’s splendor blush Meadows and dales where royal rivers rush Vistas of fields with veil-bursts of flowers Athena blends and arranges the hours When storm clouds on the horizon arrive Those times when Strife in her chariot drives Wind roars through the fields and the Sky-Veil cracks Athena shields, shelters, and hurls her back She holds the Veil where wisdom’s charm alights Her flashing eyes unfold graceful delights Courage to bear and radiant knowing Athena—herald, veiled, ever glowing
✦ Hypostatic Heralds - Figures who bear the presence of a hypostatic (essential) form. The goddesses do not possess Being as beings, but they announce its substantive varied meanings as it gives itself in the world—beauty, wisdom, majesty. As heralds, they alert the soul through their glint to a deeper contemplation of divine attributes. They harken through shimmers to what is real in effect and presence, though they are not personal subjects or metaphysical beings.
✦ Golden Thread - A hidden tether of grace that binds the exiled soul to its divine origin, even across the abyss of forgetfulness—the flat domain of mundaneness. Though unseen, it is never severed. It glimmers beneath the surface of remembrance and longing, weaving through time like a whisper of the eternal in the fabric of the finite.
To follow the Golden Thread is to walk the path of return—drawn not by force, but by the ache of beauty, the stirrings of love, the wonder of wisdom, and the recollection of majesty once known. It is spun from Aphrodite’s first glance, carried through Athena’s flame of wisdom, and knotted at last in the crowning place of Hera’s Highlands. Each herald, each sign, each step in the Sky-Veil is bound together by its light.