Agarta

Archivist's Excerpt from: From Aikó to Ergospek: The Folklore & Legends of Interior North, South, & Every Which Way, Unabridged Edition, CVI 11.2 – 42:5

Please note:

If the reader is seeking the entry for Agartha, the actual location within the earth, see the associated entry. This entry relates to the Exterior mythos that surrounds the reality within. Thank you for your time and patience in reading this sentence. Continuing...

This particular legend, like its sister-myth of Shambhala, originates from Exterior, but certainly involved Interior, and so is included in this volume.

If Shambhala is the legend of the divinely sacred city or village in the heart of the world, Agarta would be the land wherein it resides. In mythology,

Among the Galó of Jalóheim in The Expanse, there is a legend of a place "Beyond Niavellier," accessed during an event the adherents of Jalós Zealotry call the Last Journey Home. The "Home" in this legend is Agarta, the mythic paradise from which they believed they, themselves once came, and were exiled from. Little detail is officially given, though they believe such specifics exist in their missing sacred book, The Dark Illumined Eye. Nevertheless, there is a general zeitgeist of Agarta and what it is like among the populous, however colloquial.

“It is where we come from. Giant trees, in Agarta, and things like your trains. Only bigger! And cross the whole land. And whole cities in the air. And books and rivers and food. And people can live forever…”

— Hana Sóholdt

It is unknown if this legend is linked with the far-eastern legends of Agaarta/Agartha/Agarti, or if it somehow blended with the Norse myths of Asgard, the home of their gods. The linguistic connections are interesting enough, but who bloody knows.

Too many words sound too much like too many others, don't they?