Deät

First Appearance and Context

Deät is present in two places central to mathic life: in liturgy and in the Hylaean Way. In song, her name is one of the paired voices of a hymn performed at Provener inside the Mynster. In the Rotunda of the Hylaean Way, she appears as a companion statue to Cnous and Hylaea, forming a triad beneath an oculus that casts a triangular beam of light. During Apert, visitors sometimes kneel and leave offerings at Deät’s pedestal.

Roles/Actions and Affiliations

Accounts relate that after their father’s vision, Deät told a story of seeing a pyramid of light beyond the clouds—an unseen realm of actual gods—arguing against worship of physical idols made by human hands. Her name is linked to the path taken by the Deolaters, whose tradition is represented in the Hylaean Way by a door near her statue that leads outward, symbolizing a fork from the theoric way associated with Hylaea.

Relationships

Descriptions/Characteristics

The Rotunda statue shows Deät cloaked and sunk to her knees, facing toward Cnous, her garment drawn to shield her face from the light. Offerings and devotional tokens are commonly found on her pedestal when visitors are present.

Current Status/Location

Deät functions as a mythic and liturgical figure rather than a living person in events. Her name is heard in the hymn at Provener within the Mynster, and her sculptural image stands in the Rotunda of the Hylaean Way, where visitors especially during Apert may gather in devotion.

Summary:

A mythic figure named as one of the two daughters of Cnoüs and counterpart to Hylaea. In mathic tradition she is depicted kneeling in the Hylaean Way’s Rotunda and is associated by some with the Deolaters’ reading of Cnoüs’s vision.

First seen:
Part 1: Provener - Chapter 4: Saunt
Most recently seen:
Part 2: Apert - Chapter 14: Plane
Known as:
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