A n
I n t r o d u c t i o n t o
P r o j e c t
M a r a k a
by Basilisk
"The initial problem of course, which you are also continually working
with and through, is that we don’t see anything here. The Mother of
Abominations is a nocturnal tide. Her tendrils are nanites, Pest
molecules, GAS fluxes of the Mist-Crawler. A rigorously unimaginable
upheaval or subsidence of vision is required for 'one’ to latch onto its
liquidation in this way, sliding from an initial identification with
anthropomorphic history and quotidian political survival into a
pursuit of the process. This way lies madness, which is in all
probability inevitable.
In another sense it presupposes madness ..."
Nick Land (Homo.stasis, from my conversation with Nick Land)
In Avestan language (of ancient Persia) [1], the word
'Vendîdâd' is the morphed structure of Vîdaêvô-dâtem (dâtem) or
(VI=anti + DAEV=Demon + DAT=law), anti-demon law or the Law
against Demons. The singular *div* at the middle is referring to
Druj- (a feminine name from the indic root meaning to blacken and
later strategy, illusory order and darkness) or according to
Vendidad the Mother of Abominations. Consequently, Vendidad is
suggested as anti-Druj Law or the law against the Mother of
Abominations. Vendidad is a lengthy text, one of the most
important, practicable and extremely influential scriptures of
Zoroastrians (Zarthushtis) and Parsi tradition, collected from the
words of initiates and the legions of Zarathustra (the Magi, etc.)
[2], during Sassanian dynasty (AD 224-651) before Islam. The
composition of Vendidad is incongruous but consistent within itself,
dividing into Fargards (instead of chapters, fargard in Avestan and
modern Persian means Process, and especially a circulatory
process); Vendidad is considered the cipher of purification, a huge
cipher of cosmic purification. From the first page to the last one, it
maps complex hygiene formulae which delay the "inevitable"
swarming presence (avatars) of the mother of all contaminations
(the life-satan or life-horror) or Druj (she is gas), especially DrujNasu (the necro-fiend). Vendidad is the most powerful and
advanced suicidal program that Oedipus (and paranoid culture) has
ever written; the ways of living and surviving in life to
institutionalize a survival economy: ossifying death to the bones
then to a gray powder, ..., poisoning the ground on which a corpse
has been laid, killing thousands of insects for pray, architecting
various specialized structures or positions for implanting the dead
things into, manufacturing a pet industry in which the dogs [3] and
birds of prey are trained not for the conventional inter-states
military tactics but for eating the human corpses and leaving no
trace behind, isolating the menstruating women, etc., so delaying
(as Vendidad warns, delaying the "inevitable") the plague of Druj
and her swarm-avatar or Kharfastras(Kahrfastras: obnoxious things
that turbulently move in swarm and pack ... wolves, ants, locusts,
flies, upsurge of thoughts, body scavengers, etc. ... all pestilentially
moving things). Kharfastras according to Vendidad are the
engineers of unclean meal (the meal of Druj-) or the vectors of
matter (corpus: corpse) into darkness; they are the ones which
bring the myth of inert matter to its self-irony and breakdown,
actionizing the compositions to enmesh a network of flowing
intensities, putting base-communication as the only function of any
composition or body. Kharfastras are the strategic fluxes of
openness to the Mother of Abominations; they are the machines of
snatching the bodies, spreading, exhuming, actionizing and
molecularizing them, that is to say, making them untraceable and
pestilent to the State and Survival Economy; they provide the
means for germination or (re)composition of each body or
composition as a warinstead of being (inert) matter or grounded
body.
According to Vendidad whatever the body refuses is
considered nasu or nasa. Nasu is the waste in motion on the fullbody (growing nails, hairs, sweat, rush of thoughts, etc.). To this
extent, Corpse is the ultimate nasu and a good meal for Druj.
Therefore, nasu shouldn't be exposed to Druj at the moment of
emerging, as Druj- only cares about RUSHING upon the matter, she
only cares about intensity (of mess) and the rates of speed,
swarming and packing with nasu on the course of acephalic
transmissions of intensities. Consequently, the nasu should be
concealed and introduced to a Process of dis-intensification (delay,
regulation, etc.). Here, the Process is that which fargard in
Vendidad suggests: in Vendidad fargard(process) is not the process
of nature; it consists of technological and fully advanced processes
of regulation, delaying, purification, etc.: training pets, corpsecutters, putting on white mask during burial or in the presence of
corpse, ..., designing clothes with special anti-pollution textile,
architecting complex towers for "ossifying death" [from Persian
translation] named towers of silence; since cremating, entombment
and the other modes of exposing the dead contaminate the
Elements of the Genesis Project (especially fire) ... the bones are
not clean enough (as it is considered in the western tradition of
Osseology that is heavily under the influence of Zoroastrianism: for
example see the image of Ezekiel's valley of dry bones and
Herodotus' history --- the pages on Persia); the bones should be
pulverized by the time in the special ossuaries (Ostodans: means
the bone-chamber) on which little holes have been placed to
introduce the fatal rays of the Sun to the bones (establishing a
solar anti-dead machine), rendering off their monolithic volumes to
dust (dry GAS) which again is a miasmatic avatar of Druj- who is a
GAS ... but at least though this Oedipal dust-industry, "deferral and
dis-intensification" are achieved (according to Vendidad).
Following these examples, Vendidad is all about strange
technologies for dis-intensifying the avatars of Druj- (the life-satan)
through survival economy, the State and the body of Oedipus.
However, in the end, these fargards(processes) all forge a chthonic
strategic darkness which goes beyond the 'polar discourse' of
intensification / dis-intensification, working as a 'strategy' (mess
engineering) which is Druj- itself (Druj-: blackening force,
strategy). For the first time, Yazidian (Iranian Satanists) discovered
that Zoroastrianism and all modes of survival strategically affirm
Druj- (that is not death but the satanic core of life itself: In the
term of Druj, death is even a survival) by engineering themselves
as a good meal [4] for Druj-, the Mother of Abominations; and
Zarathustra was the first fanatic man in the cult of Druj, playing as
a 'strategist' (mess engineer) of live-ing; the one who works
through Druj- itself, the STRATEGY. ... The dis-intensifying
architectures of Vendidad forge a Drujih (Avestan adjective for
Druj) destiny out of a Necrophilic Mess; everything becomes a
strange attractor for GAS-fluxes of the Mother of Abominations.
Zarathustra's project was all making humanity a decoy (a fresh and
purified meal) for Druj-; it was the only way, he could discover for
communication with such an epidemic openness (Druj-). This is
why Yazidian, on the strategic machinery of Zarathustra and
Zorostarianism, add: When it comes to darkness, we must think
strategically. This is what Nietzsche discovered hundred years later
in Europe right through his own reinvented, pest-wired Zarathustra.
(On Nietzschean affirmation, see: A Good Meal
That the State, solidity, ground, Oedipus and anthropomorphic
politics and economies strategically affirm Druj- by making
themselves the advanced decoys, not by being open or positive
affirmation but going through an artificial grounding and closure
process of a metamorphing and misleading seduction.
Maraka Project tries to be part of this seduction and at the
same time diagramming such affirmations and strategies both
through the delineation or study of such strategies along the
histories (linear or not) and engaging with them (being an
accompaniment). This is of course what was supposed to be the
spirit of Cold Me (a plastic spirit) but Maraka Project concentrates
or tends to concentrate more on such a pest-warfare through which
affirmations, Drujih strategies, architectures of solidity, grounds,
meshworks of alliances, paranoia, dimensionality wreckages and
compositions are germinated. Thus, the discussions bear an
appropriated range from auto-biography to classic and modern
literature, cyberculture and post-humanism, science fiction and
analytical philosophy, schizotechnics, etc. The articles maintain
some kind of continuity; each one is an outset for the other. The
endnotes are of the extreme importance as they are the means of
inter-connecting the articles and softening the redundant
obscurities.
Notes:
[1] Avestan is the language of Avesta (the sacred scriptures of Zoroastrians);
and Vendidad is one of these scriptures, survived in its entirety.
[2] As it has been stated: revealed by Ahura Mazda to Zarathushtra; and should
it be elucidated that Vendidad was not merely a text but a communion and a
practice for the Zoroastrians.
[3] In the ritual of Sag-did (dog-watched or dog-watcher), the trained dog
(watch-fiend?) must play the role of a beast obstructing the presence of Drujand the rush of kharfastras (the scavenging swarms) temporarily; a yellow dog
with four eyes (with two spots above the eyes) or a white dog with yellow ears
is tightened to the corpse or kept as its company to eat the body (hiding it from
Druj- and kharfastras; this was also the job of the birds of prey according to
Zoroastrians) or just guarding it: two eyes for the terrestrial invasions, the third
eye for watching the next dimensions and the fourth eye; what does the fourth
eye do? Watching the rest of the eyes?
[4] On A Good Meal, Nietzschean affirmation as a strategy and openness, see:
A Good Meal