The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

THE RITES OF ELEUSIS ARIES. [To BESZ.] But who art thou, brother? [BEsz begins to stammer. LEO. Who art thou? [They threaten him with their spears. BESZ crunches in terror and lunb: toward West,] SATAN-TVPHON. I would have speech with my brother the Sun. ARIES. It is well. LEO. It is not well. There is danger herein to my Lord. [He hers the way. ARIES. Speech cannot harm our Lord. LEO. Brother, if thou be indeed our brother, what wilt thou say? SATAN-TYPHON. Ο Sun, my brother, is it thy will that 1 have speech with thee? For I lay with thee nine moons in the womb of our mother; for we have loved as none have loved; for 1 am closer knit with thee than light and darkness, or than life and death! SOL, 22-1-1-22. [LEO gives way and returns to his throne, very sad. [SATAN—TYPHON advances to SOL and ARIES closes the vei! on them.] [BEszjumþs up and runs ofleronehz'ngly. [The h'ghts go ant. [SCORPIO-APOPHIS play: her serpent me!ody.* [LEO recites. Mortals never learn from stories How catastrophe becomes; How above the Victor’s glories In the trumpets and the drums * Andante Religioso : Thome. 72