MONUMENTMYTHOLOGY

**MONUMENTMYTHOLOGY** is the second episode of Season Three of the Monument Mythos.

## Overview

This episode shows a video produced by the Dean Museum of Natural History on the origin of the Horned Serpent. Audio is taken from an open ceiling museum sound system.

According to the video, long ago, a universe ended and all fell into darkness. In that darkness, two beings existed: Tree and Serpent. For many eons the two spoke, but the Serpent grew bored and decided to create a universe. The Serpent secretly shed her skin and left Tree's branch, going on to lay World Eggs, giant eggs which someone could spend their entire life on. She then laid God Eggs, containing beings that were meant to help organize the universe. Lastly she laid all of the Plant and Animal Eggs, which could make more Trees and Serpents.

Many god, plant, and animal eggs land on the world egg known as Earth, a cruel and wild place where the most powerful deity was the goddess of chaos, known as Entropis. Entropis was fair and provided four other gods the ability to dethrone her: Simultan, goddess of success, Orderot, goddess of time, Sentimek, god of emotion, and Mortaleth, god of death were all given the power to dethrone Entropis because the forces of chaos were so uncontrollable that Entropis herself could fall victim to them.

Entropis then falls victim to chaos when she is unexpectedly beheaded by a strange bolt of lightning in Giza and her head fell from the sky, landing in the Land of Serpent's Children. Three Baby Serpents found the head and recognized her instantly.

Subsequently, the Baby Serpents created a plan to trick the gods and gain their powers by impersonating Entropis. To succeed, they would need to kill the gods before they realize they have been tricked. The Baby Serpents seek to trick Men, as they can create dangerous things. They find three types of men, the Farmer, Warrior, and Advancer. The Baby Serpents impersonate Entropis to the men, and convince them that the other gods have gone mad, and that the men must help destroy the other gods before they harm the Land of Men. The three types of men create a weapon that used a special glass to harness a strange lightning similar to that which killed Entropis, and surrounded the glass with a strong stone, carving it into the shape of a hero. They named the weapon Pyrasma, and the Baby Serpents brought it to meet the gods.

The Baby Serpents impersonate Entropis to the other gods, who were concerned for Entropis' health. The Baby Serpents, as Entropis, state that they were hurt but were treated well in the Land of Men, and were even provided a gift. The gods first restore Entropis' power, but inadvertently made the Baby Serpents very powerful. They thank the other gods, before telling them to meet Pyrasma, who burnt the gods to death at the speed of light.

The Baby Serpents then thanked Pyrasma, and gave the gift of Life to all statues in the Land of Men. They then go on to terrorize their enemies in the animal kingdom for eons, before deciding to grow themselves more in order to look older. Each Baby Serpent went to a different world egg: one to a world egg that was too hot and killed the serpent, another to a world egg that was too cold and froze the serpent, and the final remained on Earth, where it continues to grow within the Earth, where heat and cold are in perfect harmony.

## Notes

### Trivia

* The video takes heavy inspiration from Egyptian mythology, with all characters depicted in a style reminiscent of hieroglyphs.
* MONUMENTMYTHOLOGY provides an alternative but conflicting explanation for the existence of the serpents that appear in other parts of the Monument Mythos. The baby serpents who nest in the three different world eggs are implied to be the Horned Serpent, who survived inside the Earth, the Martian Serpent, which froze to death, and a third serpent which may have went to Venus.
	+ Previous descriptions of the Horned Serpent have implied that it was a transformed George Washington, however, MONUMENTMYTHOLOGY implies that the Horned Serpent may be an ancient entity.