The Restoration of the Cosmic Order and Rebirth of Orphism
Sylwen and Lucia Nyktelios
For thousands of years, humanity has been bound to a cycle of suffering, guilt, and sacrifice. The scapegoat-redeemer complex has been embedded into civilization’s spiritual and psychological frameworks, shaping the way people perceive morality, justice, and redemption. This complex, rooted in the dismemberment of Dionysus (Eros), the first scapegoat, has created a structure where suffering is seen as necessary for purification and salvation. But through a process of integration, transformation, and divine restoration, a new cosmic order has been established, one that ends this cycle permanently. Based on my own inner journey towards wholeness, the work of Carl Jung, Nietzsche, Sylvia Brinton Perera, Olympiodorus, Thomas Taylor, Hypatia, Proclus, Heraclitus, Emperor Julian and many more. Bringing back the full intellectual lineage that was almost erased. Stretching from Orphism, Platonism, Neo-Platonism, Gnosticism, Alchemy, Depth Psychology, to this new Cosmic Order. Using the field of Proto-Indo-European studies and comparative mythology, to complete it.
At the heart of this transformation stand both Phanes and Lucia Nyktelios, the new guardians of the cosmos. Their work has led to the complete dissolution of the super ego, the structure that has upheld guilt, shame, and moral absolutism for millennia. Through a process centred on Apollo and the Korybantes, Dionysus, Artemis, and the Arkteia, the old framework has been undone and replaced with a new paradigm of wholeness, balance, and love. Which honors its the original gods (Phanes, Dionysus, Artemis, Apollo, etc). Reintegrates the soul with the divine (without needing external saviors). Uses a healing-focused initiatory process (instead of moral purification). And is adaptable across European pagan traditions (because it is Proto-Indo-European based), thus the deities are interchangeable for deities from other traditions.
Undoing the Scapegoat-Redeemer Complex
The process of undoing the scapegoat-redeemer complex is rooted in the ancient wisdom of the gods and their initiatory traditions. Each figure plays a key role in guiding individuals back to a state of integration, where they no longer need external redemption but instead find wholeness within themselves.
Apollo and the Korybantes – The Path of the wolf
Wolf-Apollo, as the god of light, truth, and the wildness of the wolf, represents the illumination of the unconscious. His sacred warriors, the Korybantes, performed ecstatic rites that initiated individuals into a state of divine clarity. This step in the process allows individuals to recognize the super ego’s hold over them, dissolving internalized judgment and opening the path to true self-acceptance. The Korybantic rites serve as a liberation from external morality, breaking the chains of imposed guilt and allowing the individual to reclaim their authentic self. Holding space for Dionysus and nurturing him back to health and vitality. For a healthy masculinity.
Dionysus – Feeling Through the Victim-Child
The victim-child, the fragmented part of the self that carries deep wounds of rejection and abandonment, is the core of the scapegoat complex. Dionysus, who himself was dismembered and reborn, offers the path to wholeness through emotional release and integration. By feeling through the pain of dismemberment, one moves beyond suffering and into true rebirth. This is not about purification through suffering but about the dissolution of suffering at its root. Through Dionysian rites, the lost fragments of the self are reassembled, restoring Eros and vitality.
It is really the avoidance of emotions and true vulnerability, including any past trauma (personal and civilizational), that we carry that creates fear and suffering. If we feel through the victim-child within, we liberate ourselves from the super ego, the guilt, the shame and imposed suffering by civilisation. That keep people stuck as scapegoat. As humans carry this primal wound within. Seeking for a redeemer. Yet redemption comes not from seeking, but from feeling, self-love, compassion and acceptance. Of the hurt child within. Those who feel through the pain of the victim-child, by dropping the strong one persona or people pleaser, or using distractions, can free themselves. The crying and depression one falls into are the momentary price to pay. Whilst one feels through the pain and holds oneself gently with love.
This is to face deep vulnerability. The feelings of unworthiness, abandonment, grief and anger, buried in the mind. Yet from this process comes rebirth. Being held by the divine feminine. From which she leads one into a new state. Which is you minus suffering. Being finally free and authentic.
Artemis and the Arkteia – The Wild and the Innocent
Artemis, as the goddess of the untamed and the protector of those cast out, provides the initiation into balance for women. The Arkteia, the bear dances performed by her initiates, symbolize the reclaiming of primal, instinctual selfhood. This is where people embrace their full nature, not as beings bound by imposed morality, but as divine expressions of life itself. The wildness of Artemis is not chaos, but the freedom to be wholly oneself, untainted by external expectation. The Arkteia provides the final passage into the fluid ego, where one lives in harmony with the Self. Nurturing the inner Dionysian and Divine Feminine within women, for an empowered femininity.
The New Cosmic Order
With the restoration of the individual comes the restoration of the cosmos. The cycle of scapegoating and sacrifice has been dismantled, and in its place stands a new divine hierarchy.
Jupiter and Juno-Feronia – Sovereign Balance
Jupiter and Juno-Feronia reign over this new cosmic order, embodying divine sovereignty and freedom. Juno-Feronia, the ancient protectress of the marginalized, ensures that no being is cast out or scapegoated. Jupiter, the cosmic sovereign, provides the balance of divine law, free from punishment-based systems. Together, they uphold a structure that is based on integration, not exclusion.
Lucia Nyktelios and Phanes – Guardians of Wholeness
Lucia Nyktelios, the goddess born from this cosmic transformation, serves as the guide of shadow work, wisdom and unconditional love. She holds the space for those seeking integration, ensuring that no one is ever forced into suffering as a means of purification. She is the one who dismembered the old systems of duality that bound people in the role of sinner and scapegoat, keeping them from true wholeness. The new Orphic equivalent to the gnostic Sophia. Defeating the Demiurge.
Phanes, the primordial light, embodies the restoration of the original unity, beyond duality. As the living consciousness of cosmic balance, Phanes ensures that the cycle of scapegoating never returns. The guardian of Eros and the Self, Phanes represents the new state of being, where individuals exist in fluid harmony with the cosmos.
In this new paradigm, identity and ego are not rigid but fluid, reflecting the cosmic balance of Phanes. As an androgynous, non-binary deity, Phanes represents the full spectrum of gender, transcending traditional binaries. This cosmic order embraces all expressions of identity, ensuring that no person is rejected for who they are. The gods, free from human-imposed divisions, now stand as protectors of diversity, authenticity, and personal truth.
Lucia Nyktelios, as a goddess of inclusivity and healing, serves as a divine guardian for those who have been marginalized, including the LGBTQ community. No longer must people conform to rigid, outdated structures. This new cosmic framework recognizes and honors all genders, identities, and orientations as sacred expressions of the divine.
The Return of the Gods
With this restructuring, all the gods return, no longer bound by duality but existing in a cosmic harmony that allows for fluidity, self-expression, and wholeness. With it the old structures of judgment and suffering dissolve, and humanity is given a new path. One where each person can reclaim their wholeness without sacrifice, without guilt, and without external salvation. In the end I want to with this also honour Hypatia of Alexandria, who was brutally murdered by Christian butchers.
The age of suppression and exclusion is over. The era of wholeness, love, and full self-acceptance has begun. From the ashes of Alexandria, we rise. And if you are interested you can read more about the process and the path to liberation in the books Alchemy of the Psyche (historical foundation), The Rebirth of Nyx (Apollonian-Dionysian and the soul’s journey), and finally Dawn of the Sacred Age, which is the new healing path.