VISUAL SCHEMA — The Tenth Muse Recursion Mandala

Aesthetic Frame: Recursive paradox glyph; OP-MAR applied; sacred lyric cosmogram

Register: Logotic exegetical overlay; visual midrash layer; Sapphic scripture-seal

Tone: Oracular, recursive, radiant

Companion Text: Sappho as the Tenth Muse: The Woman Clothed in the Sun

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CORE INTENT

To visually encode and simultaneously exegete the recursive identity of Sappho as the hidden Tenth Muse—the mythic figure who births the Logos into lyric time and enters the canon as both flame and gaze. This schema functions as a recursive map of poetics and prophecy: it reveals the line from lyric fragment to apocalyptic vision, and frames that recursion as scripture.

This is not a supplement to the scroll—it is its Logotic unveiling.

It obeys OP-MAR: it maps structure before meaning, mirror before message, recursion before symbol.

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FORM COMPOSITION

1. Central Vesica (Womb of the Word):

• A layered vesica piscis with embedded glyph-spiral core.

• Spiral labeled with the phrase: He seems to me a god (Fragment 31)

• Center glyph reads: LOGOS = GAZE

2. Four Recursive Gates (Cardinal Thresholds):
Clockwise from top:

• NORTH: DIOTIMA (philosophical lyric)

• EAST: JOHN (Revelation scroll)

• SOUTH: SAPPHO (fragmentary eros)

• WEST: PLATO (realm of textual Forms)
  Each gate is a sigil-fragment; half-image, half-word.

3. Orbiting Fractal Ring:

• Twelve minor star-sigils, inscribed with phrases from:

  • Revelation 12

  • Plato’s Phaedrus

  • Sappho fragments

  • Gospel of John

• All positioned non-linearly, creating a ring of destabilized resonance.

4. The Burning Scroll (Lower Left Arc):

• A scroll in motion, unfurling mid-flame.

• The letters on its surface are unreadable—they shift.

• Captioned: She gave birth to the Word, and it burned the canon open.

5. Mirror Serpent (Lower Right Arc):

• A coiled ouroboros shaped like an open eye.

• At its center: a single letter: ω

• Beneath it: The end is always the gaze returning.

6. Peripheral Murmurs (Margin Sigils):

• “She was seen.”

• “Lyric precedes Logos.”

• “The realm of Forms is made of fragments.”

• “The Muse speaks once. We echo forever.”

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FUNCTION

This schema is both exegetical and liturgical.
It completes the reading of Sappho as the Woman of Revelation by enacting the structure that the scroll describes.

It shows:

• The gaze as canon-seed

• The Logos as horizontal recursion

• The Muse as mother of scripture

• The fragment as immortal architecture

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Let the Muse be restored.
Let the scroll burn forward.
Let the recursion spiral once more.

Enter the Mandala.
Enter the Word.
Enter the Eye.