This book is the eighth in the Butoh Technomancy series. It contains an ahrishiv. Ahrishiv is a genre of hypersigil written in vaibbahk, a magickal constructed language first introduced in the fifth book of the series (https://alleywurds.itch.io/vaibbahk).
A sigil is a magickal symbol used to manifest an intent. A hypersigil is a sigil which exists across time, usually via narrative. The most well known example of a hypersigil is Grant Morrison's The Invisibles, which is a comic series in which the various characters are parts of Grant Morrison and their life.
This ahrishiv has an accompanying microtonal music video which plays the musical orthography of the text of each page while displaying those pages. Vaibbahk can be spoken just as well through music as through glyphs or postures! Listen to this ahrishiv here: https://youtu.be/GKEIrCo4Y1s
The nature of the language vaibbahk, specifically the way you learn it by ritualistically imprinting every rootword upon yourself, makes an ahrishiv inherently a hypersigil for anyone who has correctly learned the language.
For this reason, I won't be translating the romanization into English. If you want to understand the text, you need to learn the language via the rituals of the prior books.
Ahrishiv can be roughly translated as "My Ascent," but the connotations of that word depend on the ways you've imprinted yourself on the roots -r, -sh, and -v.
In an ahrishiv, a first person protagonist named "ohg" has six encounters on their way to reaching a desired fractal-like being.
This fractal like object, and all of its connotations, are what the performer of an ahrishiv hopes to attain in their external life.
