The Leviathan, The Deep, and The Sky
As the three sisters ventured into the Deep, they encountered a being known as the Leviathan, urging them to turn back. Here’s where things start to get spiritual and metaphysical. Buckle up.
“We live on the edge of a war— —a war between Formless and Form++ ++between the Deep and the Sky—” VIII: Leviathan
Okay, so the Deep is a Oneness that represents nothingness and death. The Sky is a Oneness that represents being and life. If you tend to think more scientifically, the Deep is a personification of the concept of antimatter while the Sky is a personification of the concept of matter. If you’re a scientist, you may realize that the war the Leviathan talks about between form and formlessness is not make believe.
This story of this battle is the oldest story ever told. It goes by different names. The battle of Light and Dark. Of Life and Death. Of Fear and Love. Of the Sky and the Deep. With every last drop of its will, intention, and hope, the Leviathan begs and pleads with the sisters to choose the Sky and not the Deep. The Leviathan values the Hive as its proof against despair and as its beacon of hope. The Deep claims that:
“++Existence is the struggle to exist— —When the struggle seems lost++ ++when the safe place crumbles— —everything turns to the Deep to survive++” VIII: Leviathan
The Leviathan warns and advises:
++TURN BACK FROM THE WORLD-KILLING WAY++ ++OR YOU WILL LIVE AS DEATH AND DEVASTATION++ —The Sky is the harder way. But it is kinder.— —My charge is balanced: my voice exhausted.—” VIII: Leviathan
The Deep’s claim is that when fear sets in, all living beings will turn to violence. In other words, it is easy to choose the Sky and the Light when one’s life feels safe and secure. But when chaos sets in, beings turn to Darkness as the easy way out, for there is often power in Darkness. In times of turmoil, the path of the Sky and of the Light is a difficult one to walk. But the Leviathan pleads with the Hive sisters to realize that no matter how dark and hopeless their lives may seem, there will always be the option to turn to the Sky’s Light. It pleads that violence and Darkness are never one’s only options. That no matter how hopeless the situation may seem, the Light is still there. But the Hive does not see it.
