Ripheus23

The Lernean virus

Also the Lernean seraph hydra, the virus-hydra, and the virus-forest. [So, revision: the Scylla and Charybdis numbers are BOTH Cocytus numbers, in fact that's their distinction, is that they are elements of the Cocytan subset of the transet of sin. The Lernean number is the other element of the transet of sin, and is sometimes referred to as the seraphim number.]

Function of the Form of Evil that infects the Lachesis aleph-forest. Generally, the seraph hydra is contained within the Form of Evil itself. This Form does not have its own demiplane but instead has what is known as the hamartic demiarchy, and the virus-hydra is the "monster" that inhabits it. It is a hydra with an infinite number of heads (or, a single being made out of an infinite number of hydrae each with an infinite number of heads). Because the infinity in question is aleph-zero, the hydra is able to quasi-intersect the aleph-zero infinity of the Lachesis demiplane. Because not all of its heads are made of "flesh" but some are plant-like, an infinite subset of its heads are trees that form remote glades in the aleph-forest for unwary travelers to be caught within. The seraphic manifold represents the recursive place of transcendental delusion in all other particular sins.

Now, the Scylla and Charybdis numbers are keyed to cruciform manifolds. That is, in Cantor's staircase, the rift occupies all n-aleph.19 positions, but there is also a line proceeding along all 19-aleph.n positions that forms a slanted cross with the rift. Likewise, because 26 is the number of the permutations of the final offenses*, all numbers crosswise out from 26-aleph.26 form another rift-like structure: this intrinsically stable rift-sequence is the Scylla number. Prior to the Last War, the Charybdis number was constantly oscillating horizontally across the staircases for aleph.1 through aleph.24, but Armirex keyed it to the rift in the Keyscape, which fixed it at the staircase for aleph.19.

*[The final offenses can be committed one, two, or three at a time, in different combinations of consciously and subconsciously/unconsciously. So there are 26 possible orders as such.]

The quadrilateral of the Cocytus numbers (in the grid of the staircases) is geonomically juxtaposed with the semiotic transets* to form what is known as Cantor's house. Legends or jokes have it that this house is built from the trees of the virus-forest, and is the only possible prison for the seraph hydra, should this entity ever emerge from the Form of Evil (hence this "house" is also known as Cantor's durance, with the durance-staircases besides it (or the paradise-durance/Durance of Paradise)).

*[The staircase is the semiotic representation of all aleph-numbers in relation to 2-dimensional space. Because physical space is inherently 5-dimensional, there are three more dimensionalized sets of aleph-numbers, so there are 5 special dimensions to the infinite forms of infinity. These four transets are the semiotic transets, and Cantor's house is an orthotopic manifold constantly being unfolded from the Cocytan quadrilateral via deontic crystallization.]

There is also a hyper-gap between the transet keys for aleph.24 and aleph.26, and this is involved in the nature of the Sea Alone.