Nenahve, that is the name that returns to be claimed by the archetype you recall as the Lady of the Lake in Arthurian legends.

Keeper of time and memory, waters and energy, and the united harmonic keystone you call Excalibur, cleft in stone.

There were two groups bridged as one in Celtic circles of tradition.

Keepers of the Earth, Guardians of the Return.

The Order of ARTHUR

Not a name but a group dedicated to Earth wisdom, growth, and sky.

The bridge that arcs downwards, the sound that returns to the root of the Earth.

The Order of Undase

(Un Day Seh)

A group honoring Earth’s waters, time and memory, the mystery of her magic rising from the depths below.

Together, they formed a circle of Archidea.

They were always one unified circle for as long as Nenahve could remember.

United in keeping, sharing and teaching the wisdom of Earth and Sky; water and fire, air and soil.

It had been taught that it should always remain that way.

One circle, two harmonized orders, and many roles within.

Keepers of the deep and keepers of the light.

They preserved knowledge that others had lost, and held the knowing of Earth’s mysteries.

But war, blood, and loss came to their circle of the world. Famine and grief.

And with this loss, fear came to their waters and their soil.

Their circle began to fragment, choosing sides, power, and a false stability that control would provide.

The orders themselves held many keys to Earth, to All, to time and creation.

Knowledge that was to be held, passed down, and witnessed.

But with this fear, some started to see how these keys could be a power over instead of a power within.

Among these keys was the Stone of Undase.

The Stone of Undase represented the gate to the below; it was a talisman in a way that held within it Earth’s true nature, her power, her memory, her wisdom of the elements and their powers of creation.

This stone remained anchored through the Mirror lakes across grid nodes, resting in the center of Avalonian waters cared for and kept by priestesses and stewards of the Mirror grid of time and wisdom.

When the time came for separation, when the sickness of forgetting spread to Avalon and the apple fragmented…

The sword of Excalibur was created by both the Order of Arthur and the Order of Undesa, a keystone of the unified purpose.

It was imbued with metals from below, elements forgotten and strength unmatched, and electrified with the light of the Sky.

Nenahve, as guardian of the Stone of Undesa, mistress of the elemental womb of all creation below, crafted the metal of this sword, its blade and its pommel.

Merlin, guardian of the Order of Arthur, crafted the hilt and charged the gems with air and fire.

Partners of the center of the circle.

Excalibur was to be placed as the key of the unified purpose, bridging nature between All, between knowing and wisdom, between light and creation, between time and memory.

It was the light of the One and the Body of the All, made whole in craft.

The power of Excalibur was to be carried through the separation and placed in secret, where it could be found again by the wise, and restore both Orders to completion if ever they were separated.

Nenahve carried it for a time, through wooden forests, through frosty lakes, looking for a place where it could be left and found again.

Merlin kept watch on the cliff between ocean and sky, for the wars to come.

The sword, though, called to the stone of Undase.

The Stone called to the sword.

Sending zings of shock, of lightning through the edges of the sword.

Nenahve could not carry it farther from the stone and had to return to the lake of Avalon, where the stone stood held by the waters of time.

But on her travels away from the lakes, word spread of the power of the sword.

A sword made for kings, it was called.

One to rule both heaven and earth.

A king who could stave off the wars to come and would hold the power to unite the land again.

A frenzy spread in their own home.

Through their own circles.

A fear of what they had created, a lust for wielding it.

Nenahve and Merlin, too, knew that not one person could wield the sword alone. For it was a sword of Origin.

To be taken in lust, fear, or for power alone would cause the sword to be wielded in chaos and destruction.

Nenahve, beginning to see what was to come, the abuse of internal power for outer control, took the sword to the depths of the lake. She hid the Stone of Undase through the power of the sword, and so the Stone of Undase sank to the bottom of the lake, and the mirrors closed.

Closing the portal to Earth’s song below, to the magic of elemental creation in the North.

When Nenahve rose, she took the sword to the Stone of Merlin, to the fragment of Arthur, and together they hefted the sword into that stone. Spelling it so that no one person would be able to lift the sword from the crack of the stone, unless they unified within through the light of All, the Sky and the Soil, the Above and the Below.

Unless they held within them the vibration, the tone, and song of both Stones in unified wholeness.

Nenahve still guards the lake of the stone beneath. For it took her breath in the end, through the anger of fragmented will.

But where she rests…It is her you must seek, and see, it is her you must ask to receive the true sword and the stone.

It is the Lady of the Lake who must show you what it means to wield the power of the below in co-creation with All that is.

Because the sword of Arthurian legend, held with the fragment of Arthur, is not the Sword of Origin, Excalibur. The stone of Merlin could not hold it.

The true sword lies at the bottom of the well and the cistern in the lake with the Stone of Undesa, with the powers of all elements and all life.

The sword in the stone, the sword of Arthur, is the gate you must pass through, the portal of endurance, will, and coherence - and the Lady of the Lake waits for those who know the truth of what is required to wield the power of all life, of Creation through the Earth.

To see if you can hold the truth of your will, and your own power, for the good of all.

And if you do, if you can stand in the truth of who you are and still know the direction of your own light, the Lake will know you as a keeper, as a key to the stone of Undesa, who knows the Oneness of all life and your own abilities to create for the whole.

This is when the Lady of the Lake, Nenahve, reaches out her hand to offer you Excalibur, the Sword of Origin from the depths below.

The union of your light above, and below - your magic of creation through matter, the truth of your will moved into form.

The heart of Undesa & Arthur centered again.

A Story Remembered

This story is an intuitively remembered piece of the legend.

I personally don’t remember much of the Sword of the Stone told today. I watched the Disney version when I was a child. I have heard it referenced; I know the premise as it is ingrained in mythic architecture, and I speak about it as The Sword of Truth, your spine, as part of your Sword in the Stone in body. After I wrote this and saw some of this story, I was guided to look at documented records of the older legends, not the Disney story.

The names of Nenahve, Undesa, and Arthur are how my field remembers and interprets them as harmonic resonance of roles, and keys themselves.

In the texts, the Lady of the Lake’s most common name is Nimue, Niniane, or Vivienne, but in Thomas Malory’s edition in the 15th century, her name is spelled Nynyve, which has very close resonance to how I intuitively recall it.

In older Arthurian legends, there are two swords: the Sword in the Stone, the selection, and Excalibur, the power and protection. Excalibur is the blade given by the Lady of the Lake after the first sword breaks in battle, a lesson in humility and in wielding honorably.

In my telling above, the Sword in the Stone is the moment your light remembers its truth of being. It is the activation of your divine spark returned to light.

Excalibur is not merely an activation. Excalibur is the path of embodiment, learning to wield that light in coherence and sovereignty, through the union of the One and the Whole in connection with the truth of the Earth.

The Stone of Undesa is the truth of Earth’s memory and true resonance.

Other crossovers from Arthurian legend and their symbols include Avalon as the Isle of Apples, of restoration and immortality, and the sword returning to the below after Arthur’s death, when the sword is thrown back into the lake. There are also woven tales of Arthur and the quest for the Grail that was needed to heal barren land, mirroring that the land was wounded from famine and other losses.

Nenahve Guides the Return of the Sistra

Through Nenavhe's journey of crafting both swords of selection and the power of Earth’s creation, she teaches us the crucial aspects of union between harmonic roles. Of the light and the depth.

To restore the truth of coherent will through the Arc of the Sky, the activation and remembrance of inner divinity. This is a restoration of the North that allows the deep waters of below or the South to rise again.

The Arthurian legend and this remembered thread often include those of the lost feminine intelligence, the nourishment, reception, and creation. The renewal of life.

This is what I call the intelligence of the divine body, not just the feminine.

It is this intelligence of the true depth of the Earth’s resonance, elemental power as a keystone for all of creation, the nourishment that she provides when we inhabit her as mother, that has been lost.

It is the intelligence of our own divine bodies’ design to co-create with her.

The restoration and the remembrance of this does not come without the union of harmonics, roles, and paths. The circle of the Earth must be remembered, the song of her Origin restored, and the hands of Arthur and Undesa lifting the sword as one.

The Sistra walk the path to restore the waters below in the field of co-creation, we are keepers of Excalibur's true tone.

The Return of the Sistra is a path of alchemical and elemental embodiment, to activate your own remembrance, and come into inner union with the truth of your body, and to journey with the Earth through craft, connection, and creation to sound of the songs of the Cisterns below through movement and tone.

May the Paths continue to the Stone of Undesa to awaken what was forgotten.