Why are you trying to say the Amaranth and The Godhead are different beings? They straight up aren't even in your own scans (and the stuff on the profile you were 'inspired' by) doesn't actually make them properly different, like, quoting the same things you're using
To the close dreamers, don't forget the Amaranth. There
is one step beyond CHIM, but you're right in that it is not godhood. It's the flowering of a statehood where the images you give birth to in your dream-- stolen (?) from first dreamer-- wakes up. Wails knowing free will. And begins to dream in the same way. Children of liberty without end, and then the music lives forever as a pirate radio tuned against the rules of Heaven and the vulgarities of Hell.
Clarifying The Nature of CHIM
Amaranth is identified as the state right after CHIM
The New Man becomes God becomes Amaranth, everlasting hypnogogic. Hallucinations become lucid under His eye and therefore, like all parents of their children, the Amaranth cherishes and adores all that is come from Him.
The Nu-Man is directly called both God and the Amaranth in the same breath
Where is it written that the Godhead is mad or dreaming, a split personality and whatnot? (2009-10-10)
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[Links to The Song of Pelinal, v 8.]
Now, quoting the Song of Pelinal itself, which also covers this
"... and left you to gather sinew with my other half, who will bring light thereby to that mortal idea that brings [the Gods] great joy, that is, freedom, which even the Heavens do not truly know, [which is] why our Father, the... [Text lost]... in those first [days/spirits/swirls] before Convention... that which we echoed in our earthly madness. [Let us] now take you Up. We will [show] our true faces... [which eat] one another in amnesia each Age."
This other half, which is explicitly Akatosh
And it is said that he emerged into the world like a Padomaic, that is, borne by Sithis and all the forces of change therein. Still others, like Fifd of New Teed, say that beneath the Pelinal's star-armor was a chest that gaped open to show no heart, only a red rage shaped diamond-fashion, singing like a mindless dragon, and that this was proof that he was a myth-echo, and that where he trod were shapes of the first urging. Pelinal cared for none of this and killed any who would speak god-logic, except for fair Perrif, who he said, "enacts, rather than talks, as language without exertion is dead witness." When those soldiers who heard him say this stared blankly, he laughed and swung his sword, running into the rain of Kyne to slaughter their Ayleid captives, screaming, "O Aka, for our shared madness I do this! I watch you watching me watching back! Umaril dares call us out, for that is how we made him!" [And it was during] these fits of anger and nonsense that Pelinal would fall into the Madness, where whole swaths of lands were devoured in divine rampage to become Void, and Alessia would have to pray to the Gods for their succor, and they would reach down as one mind and soothe the Whitestrake until he no longer had the will to kill the earth in whole. And Garid of the men-of-ge once saw such a Madness from afar and maneuvered, after it had abated, to drink together with Pelinal, and he asked what such an affliction felt like, to which Pelinal could only answer, "Like when the dream no longer needs its dreamer."
-Song of Pelinal v6
Who is Aka who is Anu who is the Amaranth, and given that MK posted this directly in reference to a question about the Godhead, the fact that they are one and the same cannot be denied without far much more evidence than you have, because I see no actual evidence which points towards them being different, especially if you want to bring up MK and C0DA
To add onto this Amaranth/Godhead connection is
What is the Psijic Endeavor?
The basis for the teachings of the Prophet Veloth, founder of present day Morrowind and father of Dunmeri culture. Veloth describes the Psijic Endeavor as a process of glorious apotheosis, where time itself is bent inward and outward into 'a shape that is always new'. Those who can attain this state, called chim, experience an ineffable sense of the godhead, and escape the strictures of the world-egg.
-The Thief goes to Cyrodil
Those who achieve CHIM "experience an ineffable sense of the godhead", which, considering my first quote, which explicitly says the Amaranth is the step after CHIM, them attaining knowledge of anything else but the Amaranth (and thus, the godhead) would be a reach
Quoting more stuff from The Thief
Nothing but a namesake, I am sorry to say. Now we can end that mystery. The Endeavor is a method of achieving the Tower and then what to do after. The Order is not, and does not really care for the idea of the Endeavor at all, thinking it wrong-headed nearly from the start.
What is the Tower?
The Tower is an ideal, which, in our world of myth and magic, means that it is so real that it becomes dangerous. It is the existence of the True Self within the Universal Self, and is embodied by the fourth constellation, and is guarded by the Thief, the third. The Thief is another metaphorical absolute; in this case, he represents the "taking of the Tower" or, and sometimes more importantly, the "taking" of the Tower's secret.
What is the Tower's secret?
How to permanently exist beyond duplexity, antithesis, or trouble. This is not an easy concept, I know. Imagine being able to feel with all of your senses the relentless alien terror that is God and your place in it, which is everywhere and therefore nowhere, and realizing that it means the total dissolution of your individuality into boundless being. Imagine that and then still being able to say "I". The "I" is the Tower.
You use the second half of the quote within your profile, and it refers to what happens when one views the Tower, wherein your being dissolves into the unity of God
We also know that viewing The Tower either causes Zero-Summing or reaching CHIM, and that the Endeavor, which allows one to reach CHIM, also deals with what comes after, so the step after must either be one directly related to the Godhead, and considering this was written by MK, who already said what comes after is Amaranth, God and The Amaranth, once more, must be one and the same.
In addition to this, there is the entire 36 Sermons (all of which is Vivec telling people how to reach Amaranth by-the-by)
"According to the Codes of Mephala, there is no difference between the theorist and the terrorist. Even the most cherished desire disappears in their hands. This is why Mephala has black hands. Bring both of yours to every argument. The one-handed king finds no remedy. When you approach God, however, cut both of them off. God has no need of theory and he is armored head to toe in terror."
-Sermon 11
The light bent, and Vivec awoke and grew fangs, unwilling to make of herself a folding thing. This was a new and lunar promise. And in her Biting she tunneled up and then downward, while her brother and sister smeared across heaven, thin ruptures of dissent, food for scarabs and the Worm. She took her people and made them safe, and sat with Azura drawing her own husband's likeness in the dirt.
"For I have removed my left hand and my right, he will say," she said, "for that is how I shall win against them. Love alone and you shall know only mistakes of salt."
The worlding of the words is AMARANTH.
-Sermon 37
And C0DA as a whole, but the main point I bring up here is Jubal cutting his hands (and explicitly quoting 11 against the Numidium), going on to become (part of) the Nu-Man and explicitly achieve Amaranth
There is more I could bring up, but the point should be clear: The Godhead, God, and The Amaranth/Dreamer are all the same being, attempting to say otherwise within the base TES mythos just doesn't work.
