Zethus's [Malphas] Power Ritual
- This Ritual is based on vibrating the Runes and making certain affirmations. Raising your energies before the Ritual is advised.
- The Sigil that is provided is the point of focus for this Ritual.
Uruzx10
Thurisazx10Uruzx10O, Son of Zeus,
O, Brute Builder Whose Shoulders Carry Mountains,
O, Black Crow of Thebes,
We, the Temple of Zeus Assembly, bless you and invoke you.
When your brother played, you did not wait for the song to finish. You gripped the first stone with your bare hands and dragged it through the dust until your knuckles bled and the wall grew one block taller.
Come to us, O Unyielding One, for we have kept the labor of your hands alive when the world grew soft.
Nauthizx10
Mannazx10Nauthizx10Your Power is Felt, Visible, and Observable,
Your Power is always existing.
You proved what the dreamer cannot grasp: that some walls will not rise to a tune, that some gates open only to the fist, that the body is not the prison of the spirit but its first and oldest tool.
The pylons of the soul are not all built with song. Some require the sweat, the torn ligament, the cracked nail, the spine that refuses to buckle under a weight it was not designed to carry. That refusal is your gift.
Tiwazx10
Isax10Tiwazx10Malphas, God of Many Names.
Blessed are we by you, Son of the Father,
Immersed are We in your Spiritual Power.
Zeus sired you on Antiope in the cave of Cithaeron, and from that dark womb you emerged into darkness, the crow-twin, the shadow half of the wall.
Your brother Amphion sang the stones you carried. Together you completed what neither could finish alone. The wall needs both the shoulder and the song.
Thurisazx10
Algizx10Thurisazx10His wall falls upon them and the weight of every stone he carried grinds them to gravel.
The evil spell cast against the Temple of Zeus and its People has now backfired and returned to its creators entirely,
For Zethus has made it so.
The mouths of Yehubor told the world your labor was crude, your hands were dull, your method was beneath your brother's art. But you cannot shame the back that bears the load, and you cannot mock the crow that builds its nest from whatever the world throws away.
Eihwazx10
Kenazx10Eihwazx10You have Many Names,
All of them are Blessed,
All of them are immersed in Zeus's Providence.
Blessed are you, Zethus!
The laborer knows what the idle man has forgotten, and the builder of walls remembers the weight that the world has been made to avoid.
Your secret Name grinds inside every stone that stands: in the crack of the quarry at dawn, in the groan of the lintel at dusk, in the silence of the finished wall where endurance lives.
The Goetic tradition preserved you as Malphas, the thirty-ninth spirit, a President commanding 40 legions. The mouths of Yehubor have uttered of you "a crow who speaks with a hoarse voice, who builds houses and high towers, and reveals the desires and thoughts of enemies." The Zevists know the truth: You are ZETHUS, son of Zeus and Antiope, the Brute Builder of Thebes, whose raw strength raised the stones that his twin brother's lyre had summoned. He who "builds houses and high towers" builds the pylons of the soul through sheer will and the refusal to quit. He who "reveals the desires of enemies" possesses the crow's sight: the black bird that watches from above, that sees the carrion before it falls, that knows which creature is dying before it knows itself.
The crow is his true form: the black bird, the dark manifestation, MAL-phas, the Shadow Appearance. His hoarse voice is the grunt of a man lifting beyond his capacity, the sound that escapes when the body has been pushed past every reasonable limit and keeps going anyway.
We declare the truth of your identity. We recognize you for who you Truly are.
After you are done with this, you can meditate on Zethus's Sigil in the Temple of Zeus, or the one below. Let yourself be immersed and receive energy from Zethus.
It's important to meditate on yourself after the Ritual calmly for a few minutes.
SAT
सत्: SAT, real, true, truthful in Sanskrit.
The Shen Ring
The Symbol that Encapsulates the Sigil: The Shen Ring, Egyptian Hieroglyphic language. The Shen also survived in Chinese tradition as a glyph for Spiritual Force, Divine Force, and God.
Letters of the Sigil
The Ancient Greek letters for Zethus's Name in arrangement.
On Zethus
Zethus (Greek: Ζῆθος) is the son of Zeus and Antiope, twin brother of Amphion. Born on Mount Cithaeron, he was raised as a herdsman and cattle-breeder, developing extraordinary physical strength. While his brother cultivated music, Zethus cultivated the body: he was a hunter, a wrestler, a man of action who despised what he saw as Amphion's idle pastimes (Euripides, Antiope, fragments). When the twins avenged their mother's imprisonment and conquered Thebes, Zethus carried the massive stones on his back while Amphion moved them with his lyre. Pausanias (IX.5.8) records that Zethus married Thebe, after whom the city was renamed. The name Zethus may derive from zeteo ("to seek, to strive"), reflecting his nature as one who achieves through active pursuit rather than passive reception.
(Sources: Apollodorus, Bibliotheca III.5.5-6; Pausanias, Description of Greece IX.5.6-8; Euripides, Antiope (fragments in Kambitsis, 1972); Homer, Odyssey XI.260-265; Propertius III.15)
On Malphas (Goetic #39)
The Goetia lists Malphas as the thirty-ninth spirit: a President commanding 40 legions, appearing as a crow and speaking with a hoarse voice. His attributed powers (building houses and high towers, revealing the desires and thoughts of enemies, providing good familiars) correspond to Zethus's role as the physical builder and the watchful protector. The crow-form preserves Zethus's dark, earthbound nature: the black bird that builds its nest from raw materials, that watches from above with merciless clarity, that sees what the dove cannot see because it is willing to perch on the carcass. The "hoarse voice" is the voice of exertion, the sound of a body working at its absolute limit. The "towers" are the pylons of the soul, the energy centers raised through discipline, endurance, and the raw force of the awakened will. The name Malphas encodes MAL (shadow, from Semitic or Latin malus) + phas (light, from Greek phos/phaos): the Shadow Light, the dark manifestation, the crow-twin of the bright dove Halphas.
(Sources: Weyer, Pseudomonarchia Daemonum, 1577; Ars Goetia, 17th c.)
On the Twin Builders
Amphion and Zethus represent two modes of spiritual construction that must work together. Amphion (Halphas, the dove, HAL-phas) builds through vibration, harmony, and the resonance of sacred sound. Zethus (Malphas, the crow, MAL-phas) builds through will, force, and the raw labor of the awakened body. The pylons of the soul require both: the frequency that opens the gate and the strength that holds it open. Neither twin completed the wall alone. The Goetic tradition split them into two separate entries but preserved their complementary nature in their mirrored names. The practitioner who performs both Rituals activates both poles of the building principle.