Aka – The Archetypes of Embodiment

There are things older than gods.

This, of course, is an awkward truth for the gods, who tend to be a little touchy about the whole “you weren’t actually here first” situation. But facts are facts, and the Aka—the shimmering, primordial essences of meaning—were here long before deities started naming themselves after their favorite weather conditions.

Aka are the bones of the story, the colors in the cosmic paintbox, the divine ingredients that bake reality into something worth biting into. They are not gods per se, but they are what gods are made of.

This is why, if you pay close enough attention, you’ll notice that gods tend to behave a bit like actors who have been playing the same role for so long that they become the part. The god of war, for example, is always getting into fights. The god of love is always in the middle of some drama. The god of trickery is always finding new and exciting ways to avoid paying their tab.

But beneath the titles, beneath the myths, beneath the pantheon-wide family feuds that make the soap operas of mortal-kind look downright civilized, there are the Aka—the essences that define the roles.

And the thing is…

They don’t just belong to the gods.

The Gods Are Here. And They’re You.

If you’ve ever felt a strange pull toward a particular pattern, a story, an inexplicable thing-you-just-have-to-do, congratulations. You’re in the cast.

You see, Aka do not remain politely in the heavens, sipping existential tea and waiting to be called upon by robed mystics with excellent enunciation. They incarnate. They become people. They walk the world wrapped in human skin, pretending (sometimes convincingly) to be accountants, poets, blacksmiths, or that one person in every town who sells artisanal honey and has at least three ravens.

The Aka of Wisdom? Probably running a bookshop.

The Aka of Trickery? That person who never plays just one character in D&D.

The Aka of Love? They might be a famous artist. They might also be your ex.

And, lest we forget—because some people always seem to forget—there are Aka beyond the binary, the divine essences that refuse to fit neatly into categories that were, let’s be honest, mostly invented by people with very strong opinions about what kind of hats other people should wear.

There is the Aka of Transition, the god-being who lives in the spaces between, whose form is never fixed, whose name changes with the breath of the world. Patron deity of shapeshifters, dancers between definitions, masters of the liminal space where nothing stays the same for long.

And let’s not forget the Aka of Mischievous Androgyny, a being who once turned the entire Council of Celestial Order into a spontaneous genderfluid burlesque troupe for just long enough to prove a point. No one knows exactly what the point was, but it was, by all accounts, fabulous.

Now, here’s the important bit.

You Have Powers. Yes, You.

This is not just about gods in disguise, or about how many of your friends are probably aspects of old pantheons who haven’t figured out their divine paperwork yet.

It’s about you.

If the gods themselves are merely Aka wrapped in stories, then so are you.

Which means:

🔥 You have a purpose. Something pulls at you, even if you don’t have a name for it yet.

🔥 You have a power. It might not be lightning-from-your-fingertips flashy, but it is real.

🔥 You are part of the Great Story. Whether you remember it or not.

You are not just a person bumbling through existence, paying rent, and trying to figure out why your inbox has 4,382 unread emails. You are a living, breathing emanation of a timeless, archetypal force.

And the moment you remember that, things start getting interesting.

How Do You Find Your Aka?

Well, you could go looking for it the old-fashioned way—waiting for some enigmatic stranger in a tattered cloak to mutter cryptic nonsense at you before vanishing in a gust of symbolic wind.

Or.

You could start paying attention.

📌 What has always called to you?

📌 What patterns have followed you across lifetimes?

📌 What do you do so naturally that you barely recognize it as a gift?

Because whatever that thing is?

It’s not random. It’s your Aka.

And when you start living from that place, when you align with the reason you came here, you stop feeling like a lost traveler stumbling through the chaos of life…

And start walking the Rainbow Road, fully aware of your part in the Great Story.