Spirals of Kemush

Twelve origin myths of the Klamath Basin — and an engine for making your own. Spirals of Kemush does two things. It carries the Kemush Cycle across twelve illustrated spirals, from the obsidian dark before time to the threshold of memory. And it hands you the cosmology as a working tool: Craft a Mythos, which builds a six-beat myth out of the choices you make. — CRAFT A MYTHOS — Choose a structure, a force, a place, a symbol, and a tension. The engine assembles your myth in the six beats every origin story moves through — Begin in Tension, the Catalytic Encounter, the Breaking Point, the Insight, Return Transformed, the Residue — then hands it back to edit, keep, and build on. • 20 myth structures, from Creation Through Rupture to Landscape-as-Grief • 17 forces of the cosmology — Darkness, Hunger, Cold, Mazama, Kemush himself • Craft and Learn sets your six beats beside the world tradition that shares their shape: the Popol Vuh, Gilgamesh, the Mahābhārata, the Norse Edda, the Rig Veda, Tzimtzum • Guess the law your myth is about to reveal, then see how close you came • Spiral any myth forward — the next one can carry what this one held, or refuse it • Applied Practices open the tool with a question already asked: map a symbol across your life, name the collapse that reshaped you • Everything you keep goes into your own mythos, and the app names the patterns it sees you making • The engine runs on your device. No accounts, no server, no generative AI. — THE TWELVE SPIRALS — Kemush — witness, mediator, the memory of the world — breathes against the first Darkness and walks the world that follows: the rising of the Cascade peaks, the long bargain between people and the land, the kinship struck under storm and fire. Each spiral is a single arc — Creation, Illusion, Change, Death, Hunger, Kinship, Greed, Pride, Brothers, Cold, Purpose, Memory — presented one panel at a time. • 190 illustrated panels in an obsidian-and-ember palette • The full text of The Book of Spirals by H. L. Delaney (Basalt Sea Press, 2025) • Optional read-aloud using your device's system voice • Works fully offline — once installed, no internet required — STUDY — • A lexicon of spirits, forces, places, and symbols • The nine laws of the cosmology, and the ethos behind each spiral • Reading frames — ecological, psychological, cultural • A companion on oral tradition, sources, and creative responsibility — PRIVACY — • No accounts. No tracking. No analytics. • Nothing leaves your device. • Outbound links to Amazon only open if you tap them. — ABOUT THE AUTHOR — H. L. Delaney writes literary fiction and mythic realism rooted in the landscapes, histories, and memory traditions of the Klamath Basin. An enrolled member of the Klamath Confederated Tribes, he lives in the shadow of Crater Lake. His work has been recognized with the Calvino and Princemere Prizes. The twelve stories here are a telling. Creation stories carried across generations have always been told by different speakers, in different circumstances, shaped by what each telling needs to convey. Variation is not corruption of the tradition. Variation is the tradition. The Maklaks story is held by two communities today — the Klamath Confederated Tribes of Oregon and the Modoc Nation of Oklahoma. — PUBLISHER — Basalt Sea Press · Klamath Basin, Oregon