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[Alexandr Korol]

What’s next? Next, there is some beast with the number 666, mentioned somewhere in the Bible. There is Satan — Lucifer, Satan — if we recall not just biblical but also various other stories, where it is mentioned that there is some God, and then there is an anti-God, or rather, something dark — some demon, Satan, with some demons behind him. Or maybe it’s the same Antichrist, or the same Lucifer — something dark, something bad. And for most people, for ordinary mortals whose work is not connected to history, mythology, or religions, they naturally don’t delve any deeper. For them, all of this is simply bad. Just bad. Lucifer is bad. Baphomet is bad. Satan is bad. Antichrist is bad. It’s all just bad. And that’s it. So, it turns out that figures like Kali, the Hindu goddess, Maya is an illusion, Apophis or Apep in ancient Egypt, Hades, Ares, the god of war — all of these are considered bad, all of them are darkness. And what surprised me the most at first was that there was no order to this, as if everything dark was simply dark. And what exactly each dark force is responsible for doesn’t seem to matter to people anymore — the main thing is that it’s all demonic. And I catch myself realizing that I have the same approach. I start to understand that for me, everything dark is just dark, and that’s it. But why? How? How do they differ from each other? I never knew, never encountered it, and naturally, why would I read about it or study it? And then I realize, “Wow, this is an entirely unexplored field.” There’s a whole world of the underworld, and it really is everywhere. Because, truly, there’s always a character with horns — or sometimes it’s not a character with horns, but a character with a crescent moon above their head, pay attention. Or sometimes a character with specific attributes, like a trident or something else — they appear everywhere. Anyone who loves ethnography knows this—they appear everywhere, in all mythological stories. There is always some dark figure, and as it turns out, not just one. And so I call Big Alexander and say:

– Listen, I don’t get something. I’m reading, learning about the underworld, and tell me this — there is the God of the underworld. But then there’s also some kind of serpent that attacks these two gods out of the three. So what does that mean? Is this the third God attacking the other two? Or is this third God, the dark one, actually an ally of the other two gods? And then what is this dark force that is trying to consume the world of the sky and the world of the earth?