The Whorls

The two Great Whorls spin lazily across the skies. One is the intake; one is the outflow. One projects light, ideas, and energy; one receives them.   The Gri’x lies between the two Great Whorls. From our perspective in-between, it is impossible to tell which one is which, though if you squint just right, you may be able to discern the Connodo at the core. If you squint harder and hit the right portal, you might even be able to step into it (though it’s not recommended).   The visionary exhalation of the ‘Nodians is our inhalation, and our exhalation is their inhalation. Does Art imitate Life, or the other way ‘round? (Why not both?) Either way, we are the Greater Manifestation. We are That Which Cannot Be, and That Which Must Be So...   Oopsie, we digress.

Geometrically speaking, we know that the Whorls are two ends of the same line. Theoretically, they should be exactly opposite each other in the sky. though geometry does funny things outside of the ‘Node, so that has nothing to do with their apparent singular or relative positions at any given time. Their spiraling arms churn the Gri’xian haze and play with the light of the sun and the moon and the stars (and the clouds and the aircraft and particularly large birds and pretty much anything else crossing the skies) in the most extraordinary ways.   Gri’xian metaphysicists have worked for centuries untold trying to determine what forces might govern the Whorls' motion, and whether or not there's some kind of repeating pattern to it, but so far it seems to be as random as the digits of pi. Like weather, the Whorls’ activity can be predicted—with varying degrees of success, but never with 100% certainty. Sometimes one or both of them will hold their place for days. Sometimes they follow the Sun. Sometimes they go from one horizon to the other so fast that they seem to be blinking in and out.   Many scientists and other logicians have thrown up their hands (or other applicable anatomy) and given up trying to predict anything about the Whorls at all, declaring such dimensional geography to be solely in the domain of the poets, artists, and other esotericists.   They may be right: while the motion of the Whorls remains a mystery, the placement of their curved arms and the angles between their centers, measured with the observer as the nexus, on any given day have been proven (more-or-less) to have some correlation with the linear progression of event points surrounding the moment of observation.   Depending on who’s doing the observing, of course.   As such, the Whorls have been adapted as a diagram for the entire Omniverse, and their placement and patterns are used by many Somnicists as a go-to divination system.