Hush House Lecture Episode 3: The Gods-From-Stone and the Lithomachy (Cultist Simulator Lore)
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- Опубліковано 11 січ 2025
- Welcome to Hush House Lectures where we discuss the lore of @weatherfactory's #CultistSimulator and the #BookofHours game universe.
In this episode, we cover the previous Age's Hours known as the Gods-From-Stone and how they met their fates upon the creation of our world.
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Thank you for making this series! It can be so difficult to parse the info the game gives you, so this gives a helpful way for people as lost as me to tackle it. Please please continue this series on the Cultist Simulator world lore, it’s eternally fascinating to me as an irl literature scholar
I've written the script for Episode 4 but I need to find time to get the cards done.
@@FantasticWorlds looking forward to it!
This entire series is the single coolest thing ever??? Holy frick???? Please continue this on I am absolutely fascinated. I keep sending it to friends who don’t even play the game, this is just the coolest college class I never got to take.
Thank you. I am glad you are enjoying it. I will start writing the script for the next one as soon as supporters vote on the topic. And is true, I am channeling my inner TA from my postgrad days. :)
I can’t remember where exactly it’s written, but I’m 99% confident that there is writing explicitly stating that The Horned-Axe was once an Edge Hours before the Lithomachy- and the assumption here could be that it’s likely their corrivality was a fellow God-from-Stone who perished and thus they lost their Edge aspect in exchange for Winter.
The reference in question is "On The Winding Stair", a Knock Principle book in The Book of Hours. I did consider it, but the author is an obvious unreliable narrator who is an Edge dyad wanna-be who degenerates into playing chess against himself in the book to satisfy this urge. He is a classic example of what happens when a Cultist Simulator protagonist gains three Fascination and goes mad. They think they've become enlightened and dwell in the Mansus, but in reality they're occupying an asylum cell at Bedlam. Lecture topics are chosen by the channel's supporters and if they choose the Sisterhood's Hours of the Red Grail, Malachite, and Horned Axe for a topic I will go into more detail about this proto-Edge aspect of the Axe.
This is great stuff! It’s a genuine pleasure to see actual works of scholarship made about the Cultist Simulator universe. Bravo, and I hope to see more lectures like this in the future.
Thank you. These take a good deal of effort so atm I can only put out a few a year. I have a number of topic ideas, so I am hoping the channel expands in the future so I can put out more.
I'd like to point out an interesting contradiction between the Forge of Day and the Flint. While it's true that forging and smelting might destroy their initial materials, by either turning them into a new material or completely reforming them, they also tend to preserve the vast majority of their inputs in the final product. (That is, you tend to get as much mettle out as you put in.) Conversely, while flintknapping preserves the fundamental substance of what you're working with, it also discards as significant portion of the material you started with, since you can't reform the stone you're working with, merely chip off pieces to produce a more functional shape.
The primary and symbolic difference between the Flint and the Forge is the introduction of Fire on a physical and alchemical level. The Flint does not transform the nature of what changes, it merely changes the shape. The Forge on the other hand transforms the nature of what it touches. When you forge Nickel and Iron into Steel, the original nature of the Nickel and Iron are destroyed in the process. In Cultist Simulator, when an Initiate ascends to Longhood they sacrifice their mind, soul, and body in order to become a glowing ball of light, a steampunk cyborg, an immortal vampire and so on. When the Flint transforms a stone into a statue, it is still the same stone.
nice, we need more weather factory game analysis
Thank you. I like doing these but it takes a lot more effort than a regular Let's Play episode so I can't do them as often.
Great lecture, really enjoyed it. About The Wheel, I like to see in its description the Schelling's idea of nature entering a frenzied state when facing the initial contraction/dialectic between spirits and objects. Later the Wheel became the Moth, and this force turns calmer, The Moth seeks the Glory ( the "place" where this contraction/oposition is resolved in unity and differentiation, the primordial essence of Schelling).. Anyway I had a bit of fun lately putting this game under the light of some recent Schelling lectures. And I repeat, I enjoyed a lot this presentation .
I didn't have the time to go into it but there is a fan theory that when the Moth emerged from the Wheel, the shell that was left of the Wheel became the Velvet. The Velvet is the diametric opposite of the Moth as it flees the Glory and seeks to remain concealed from sight. As such it is represented by a Mole. This dichotomy of the impulses to reveal and conceal one's being, to achieve unity or embrace individualization may not be as sexy a dyad as the Colonel and the Lionsmith battling it out for eternity but like them it provides one of the tensions that drives the motivation of being, the struggles that define life.
And thank you, I am glad you enjoy it.
Love the Hush House Lectures series! I’ve heard an interesting theory about the relationship between the Horned Axe and the Edge principle. While the Axe may have embodied or partially embodied Edge in the Stone Age, the nature of Edge (or at least, the nature of how it is expressed) changed with the ascension of the Colonel and the Lionsmith. As these two reign as the primary hours of Edge, Edge has become an expression of union between two opposing forces. After all, Edge long in the modern age can only ascend in “dyads” locked into the eternal rivalry of the Corrivality. This is anathema to the Hornes Ace who above all else embodies division and separation of things. As everyone’s favorite Hooded Prince, Arun Peel, tells the Exile: “she won’t want any new edge dyads in the world”. Again, wonderful video!
One of the central themes between the transition of the older Hours to the new ones is the older ones embodied both poles of a concept in a non-binary state and the new ones divided into the personification of opposing poles. For example the Horned Axe's avatar in the Hush House temple, Xenodice Half-Faced, personifies both separation and union as it chooses what will pass a barrier and what will not. The Colonel and Lionsmith instead possess one of those traits. The Colonel as a personification of Order embodies exclusion as Order is defined by what restrictions it applies on infinite Chaos. The Lionsmith is a personification of Chaos and rebellion and removes restrictions the Colonel applies. They create a field of tension between them that the Axe once did alone. If the supporters vote for it, I will go more into this evolution of Hours across the Ages in a later video.
And thank you, I am glad you liked the video. Also if you didn't catchit, in-universe the lecturer is Dr. Arun Peel, or more accurately one of his many alternate timeline selves. :)
Will I watch this video now? Nope, it's way too late...
But damn am I excited to come back to this!
It'll be here when you're ready. :)
Hello! I've been meaning to subscribe and support your channel for a while and got around to it. So here I am, an Acolyte.
Your descriptions of lore and histories fascinates me. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I want to learn more!
Thank you for your support! I really appreciate it. I've finished the script for Episode 4 at the time of writing, and will start recording soon. Hope you enjoy it.
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Finally got around to watching this, I love those lecture videos and how they connect the concepts of the cultsim universe to real world symbology and occultism.
I would heavily recommend however that you don't reasearch the intercelate and second dawn until after finishing BoH, as there are a lot of late-game spoilers on the wiki.
I'll keep that in mind for the next series. Thank you.
Thank you so much for these!! These are wonderfully done and researched :D I feel like I actually understand what's going on LOL (Don't get me wrong I love how vague this game is but my head can't quite wrap around it
Glad you like them! They take a lot of work compared to the regular episodes but I think they're worth it.
This is great to listen to!
Thank you, I am glad you enjoyed it.
@@FantasticWorlds Can you do an episode on the crime of the sky?
Topics are voted on by supporters but considering we haven't gotten to the point in history where Long we know of exist or the Intercalate which might be involved with the creation of the Crime, it's unlikely to be in the runing for the next lecture. Perhaps the series after that.
awesome work! keep it up! Thank you very much for your work!
Thank you, again.
Hey! Keep up the great work!!
One question - since you connect all these Hours to real-world mythologies, implying a kind of universality to the human perception of these beings in our world - do you reckon the Rainbow Serpent from Dreamtime stories could then be a sort of Aboriginal Australian manifestation of the Seven Coils?
Having fun learning about this stuff! Cheers!
I think there is overlap between deities and spirits of different culture. Whether you see them as actual entities, archetypical energies, or concepts within the collective unconscious, they embody many universal qualities that cultures are going to have in common. Ba'al, Zeus, Thor and Yahweh are all Storm and War gods for different cultures but are they the same entity? Aspects of the same being? Or beings that developed in parallel ways die to similar roles needing filling?
I am so curious about your theories, i greatly enjoy your interpretation of the hours, and I am very curious about what you believe their revenge might entail.
I have been trying to catalog various aspects of the lore and would love to contribute as a "reaserch assistant." That is, of course, if you are interested.
Please don't stop making these videos. I have sought after and failed to find videos on this subject matter that have your production value and writing quality.
Thank you, I am glad you are liking these episodes. It's nice to know there are people as obsessed with Cultistverse as I am. :)
Regarding "revenge", revenge is a human emotion and only those Hours who were once human , aka Gods-From-Flesh could be driven by it. Hours from other sources are more akin to living forces of nature that seek balance. Think of those Hours like geological energies. They create earthquakes, tsunamis, storms, etc. to relieve pressures in the earth, sea, and sky. That millions of humans would suffer are a result that they literally cannot sense, much less care about. The Red Grail wants to satisfy their Hunger but will take human sacrifice, an orgy, or a well cooked meal. The Sun-In-Rags will consume anything to produce energy, be it a human soul or a fleeting emotion. The Mare-in-the-Tree conceals and dissolves anything she is allowed to possess be a secret or a lover. This is why the Lithomancy was so important as the impersonal Gods-From-Stone were replaced with ones that were either once Carapace Cross/human or more human-friendly. Yes, the Colonel might be a colonialist bastard but the Seven-Coils just would have eaten everyone.
As for you offer of being a research assistant, what sort of system of concordance are you creating? Are you utilizing the three wikis? (Cultist Simulator/Book of Hours/Secret Histories)
@FantasticWorlds
I have been using the wikies along with the Frangiclave website to compile sources on various subjects. Currently, I am trying to compare "The Wood" to the subconscious mind.
Also, I appreciate the answer about the revenge of the hours. Spoiler alert! After playing Book of Hours, I was intrigued by the Knock endings, and all of them mentioned a form of revenge enacted by the gods-from-stone. It is easy to understand how the return of the Seven Coils would play out with earthquakes and monsters remerging. But I struggle to understand what the return of (for example) "The Wheel" would imply. A plauge of incetoid life? Mankind suddenly gaining shortened lifespans? I am curious about your interpretation on how each individual return might look like. There are a lot of interesting connections to be drawn between the hours and human civilization, both old and new.
The Gods-From-Stone save for the Horned Axe no longer exist as discrete individuals but inner realities within the Hours they are now part of. The Tide within the Grail, The Wheel within the Moth, The Flint within the Forge, The Seven-Coils within the Mother of Ants, and the Egg Unhatching within the various surviving fragments of the Sun. This is like the animalistic impulses that still exist within human beings. The tyranny of the Light based powers in the Cultistsverse is symbolic of the Enlightenment-era thinking suppressing the animal nature of man. However, all things seek balance and the repressed animalistic nature of humanity becomes the Jungian Shadow, which oppresses a conscious ego that denies its existence. When the collective social Shadow of humanity reaches a critical mass, those animalistic impulses of tribalism, violence, and competition explode into world-wide conflicts that have disastrous results. Add metaphysical energies to the mix and you get planet-wide cataclysms. So if you want to know what the older gods and powers might do to revenge themselves against a social paradigm that denies their existence and expression, the current state of the world provides a good example.
Hell yeah another lecture
Thank you. I am glad you are enjoying the series.
Is it Lithomancy or Lithomachy? Because the Titan War from the Greek mythology is called Titanomachy and I'm like 90% sure that CS world's war between Gods-From-Stone and Hours is a reference to that. No disrespect, the video's good, just felt like a bit of an oversight.
You are correct. I changed the title. The pseudo-Latin of this brand of occultism is pretty loose but it does have it's rules.
love this
Thank you. I am glad you enjoy it.