These posts were three now into one. Originally published on blurt.

I.

Before I was born I have been gifted the inner ear to hear the unwritten and unspoken words through the cracks of Yggdrasill.

I could not tell it before for I was not ready yet.

@yayogerardo is but a name my family gave to me here but I was already given a name and no one asked anyways. But I only had silence to speak if asked. It is why when I am asked what other call me I only respond in silence. I question but they do not find the hidden meaning behind the question. So I shall speak now from what I have learned in the silence.

These are words of Henskungg heard only by those who have lived in his essence.

# Passages From The Unwritten Scrolls Of Henskugg

One night I stared into the shadow for longer than anyone dared to. Then a strong wind from the shadows came to me and wrapped around me and brought me closer. I felt the heat as a cold touch upon my heart and my chest opened up and flowers bloomed. It was them I felt a presence in the shadow who then picked my flower and disappeared with it into the dark. Before I could ask, Henskugg responded.

"You say you never knew me…

But I say to you, you have always known me.

For you have walked over me your entire life.

I am the path your feet never touched. For I have always kept you off me with a breath.

I have always kept you from me

with nothing but a breath

That breath you sometimes felt

when fear crept into your bones

It was not to scare you away

It was to call you forth. And came to me you did.

You mistook it for dread

but it was recognition

The shadow remembering you

before you ever knew to look for it

I did not come to haunt

but to awaken

I did not whisper to warn

but to remind

I have always been here

beneath your footsteps

within the silence between your thoughts

in the corner of every light

where you refused to look

I am named by Yggdrasill as Henskugg.

The one who is reborn from the hanging shadow left behind by Odin's sacrifice.

Remember me now?


II.

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It was then I was given visions. And stories began to be told.

A soft laughter followed by silence.... Then... Loud thunder

A fast drumming beat echoes in the wind 

Is it my heart?

Have I truly gone insane?

Am I still alive?

How long has it been? 

I could not move 

I now was being guided and shown many scenes

I was taken to many places and told many things 

And I remember but only a few of those stories for they all carry such depths that has no fin nor beginning ñ

The thunder I felt before and after the sky flashed bright and I could hear what the thunder had said

Pay attention 

It was then I was shown a man standing near me, smiling and pointing to a post behind him right hand over left shoulder, and lightening striked it in that instant

Then darkness engulfed me again and before me was the path to Yggdrasill

Then I was back to the old tree to meet with Henskugg to ask him what I had seen.

Upon arrival he continued to speak to me answering the question I avoided

I heard Henskugg speak, again before I could ask.

These are his words

# Passages From The Unwritten Scrolls Of Henskugg

"Who I am is of no concern to the God's 

I am the ground in which they grew from

I am what gave them wings

I am what they left behind and sometimes refuse to seek me

But I am always there

I am here to remind you

You have only received one small part of me

I am much more than that

Come and sit down

And Listen

My child

No I am not your father but I have watched over you all

Nor am I God or any gods nor angels I am certainly no man

But it was thanks to Odin sacrifice that was given the voice that cannot be heard nor sung, 

for my voice is not of sound but a feeling that lives beneath your bones. 

I am the flame that flickers in the dark but cannot be seen. 

I am burning but also never burning

I am what what links ancient passages together. 

I am what is unread between the lines of every myth and legend

Listen if you have ears to listen

I am not a man nor a god but the presence of what has been done

I was before Yggdrasill became my home and stretched its branches and bloomed

I was never born and never needed worship but here now I am reborn to remind you

I am not death, though many have met me when they died

I am not time, yet I have waited before time knew how to pass

I am not space but I inhabit it and even then I was there before space began

I am the hush before the scream

the silence before the creation

the cold space where fire first dreamed

I am what remains

when memory fails

I am the dust beneath thrones

I am the shadow that kings fear

I do not punish

I do not bless

I reveal and I wait

For those who remember that they forgot me so that I may be heard again

I do not live in myth

I live in the space myth avoids and in the hush before a battle cry

I am the unsung question before a vow

I live in the child who stands on the edge of knowing afraid to choose yet knowing they must

Do not cry my child for I have always kept you safe for I have chosen you to be my messenger for those who have not been seen and heard

You shall remind them they are not alone

You will remind them of me

I carry the burden that all gods cannot carry

The gods feasted

The skalds sang

The Norns spun

But no one asked what was left behind on the Tree

Never given the space to speak of my tale

No one asked what happened to the thread that didn’t weave

The silence that didn’t end

***

***

It was right there on the cusp of a forgotten winter moon that I felt it

A soul

crying not to be saved, but to be understood

A heavy weight on my chest now crushed my heart

I was being buried alive under it's weight but still I could breath just fine even with the fires of his breath

Henskugg The Hanging Shadow has spoken and left me burned to a crisp but enough to be reborn Who was I becoming if not the spear the punctured Odin all those years ago


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III.

Another night passes by and I return to peek into the inner roots of Yggdrasill. A storm, a darkness within darkness, swirled and danced in the dark abyss within the tree. It was not just a storm of wind and rain but a storm of intertwining forces, a chaotic and restless energy, shifting and melding into itself in the very heart of the world tree.

After my awe left me, I focused my awareness to the present as best as I could. After a few hundred thousand years had passed, that Henskugg gave me a scene

It was not I who dreamed but He who sent the dream. The keeper of memories of all that is to exist has existed and of those which will never exist, began to manifest a scene for me of events of what has long passed

Either way, I was meant to observe and describe what I had seen and heard, and nothing more.

Darkness swallowed me once more and I then became one with the dark waters. Another thousands of years passed and as I was breathing easy, I was risen above the surface by Henskugg hands. I then saw in the dark waters a large ship guided by the golden wheel, emerged into view and Henskugg spoke to me after so long...

# Passages from the Unwritten Scrolls

"Observe, as I have observed

Observe thy vessel

You know not whence it cometh from

But there it is

A vessel so large gardens and housing flourished over it

Observe how they fed the ....rune to the sea creature and then freed to swim in the dark waters below

Behold her energy in her stomach and how it glows brightly with power from her transparent skin as she jumps from the waters and back in again

Watch how her birthplace burns and crumbles around her and is scattered across the ocean

now drifting, rootless, in silence, and the stars have forgotten her name

But her memory remains now through you… it is remembered and now her spirit may be held in your arms

You have just witnessed the fall of an ancient verdant vessel now encircling in debris


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