Symphony No. 1: Elven cosmology

The mythology of the Ħrî "elves" is older than civilization itself, originating before 10,000 BC and passed down orally through the generations of the descendants of the survivors.

All of existence dwells in a continuum of realms, where Paradise is at the top and Hell is at the bottom. The material world, traditionally called Earth, is in the exact middle. The ancient people of Ħrîya understood the solar system to be heliocentric, and the planets to possibly be locations of distant realms.

The continuum of realms (usually, five are listed, but the number may be as large as infinity) has much in common with the six realms in Buddhism, but bears obvious influence from the monotheistic faiths: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Difference include the union of the human and animal worlds into a middle material world (again "Earth"), and the existence of only one supreme Deity, who has no name, but could be called the Monad, the One or the Unity, which is Being itself.

In the five-realm system, the five realms are:

1. Paradise, the perfect world as it was originally created until it was corrupted by the False Being, the Devil. This is a vast garden of worlds, as large or larger than the material universe, where there is no death, no sleep, no hunger, no sickness, no suffering and no strife. The center of this world is the gigantic temple of God, made of gold, silver and precious jewels that will never tarnish. It is eternal daytime because God shines like a sun above the world forever. The blessed here live in perfect bodies, forever young, with perfect lives in great mansions.
2. Heaven, which is a celestial world, but not the same as Paradise. Here, the living creatures, often called djinn, are no longer bound by flesh, but exist as pure spirit. Because of the lack of material existence, they are free of attachments to worldly lusts, but do still contend with the ego, pride and envy of those who have attained perfection. Ego is the only thing that keeps them out of Paradise. However, it is still possible to have malice, and negatively influence the next lower world (and be cast out into a lower world).
3. Earth, that is, the material world of this universe. This is a mixture of Paradise and Hell, good and evil, joy and sorrow. Living things become born and then die, there is sickness, suffering and strife. The way of escape is to become detached from material desires, do deeds of benevolence and avoid acts of malice. Those that do, can be reborn into a higher world, with God as judge. Those that fail, may find themselves as a lower world, with only the mercy of God to help them.
4. Limbo, or Sheol, or the Grave. Those with excessive attachments to the world, but not an overabundance of intentional evil deeds, may end up here. This is a place of depravation, but not the punishment of Hell. It is a gray, dark and gloomy world where the dead weep, hunger and live with regret. The only light is a faint red glow in the sky, a sun obscured by dark clouds. Those that dwell here, described as ghosts and shambling corpses, can only wait for rebirth in Earth. There are three types: those bound by (sexual) lust, those by gluttony, and those by greed. However, their wantonness was not so great that they habitually caused harm to others.
5. Hell, the place of evil demons. Only those who have done heinous deeds with full freedom of will and knowledge of the consequences of such actions, may go here, if at all. Fortunately, no one is sent here forever, because a non-eternal being cannot commit an eternal sin. There are six chambers of Hell, each ruled by a tyrannical archdemon:

• Red Hell: a place of fiery volcanic lands of hot stone, blazing caverns and choking black smoke. Here is where the murderous and violent are sent, and they are constantly at war with each other, refusing any friendship or love.
• Green Hell: a toxic swamp full of trees with tearing, poisonous thorns that cause great pain. Those who harmed people through envy, lies and slander go here.
• Yellow (or Gold) Hell: a ship of fools, sailing on a storm (or in midair through a storm), continuall struck by lightning. Inside are traps such as sharp blades and crushing walls. Those so given to lust, gluttony, greed and desire for power that they harmed others may be doomed to be trapped within.
• Blue Hell: a frozen land surrounded by high mountaints with sheer cliffs, that includes frozen lakes. A bitter cold wind blows constantly, and terrible flying beasts, called wyverns, tear and sting at its naked inhabitants, who committed sins of omission; their laziness and apathy caused harm to the innocent.
• White Hell: a strange world, in that to the eye, it appears to be Paradise. (This is the only world that isn't perpetually dark; there is only enough light in the first four to see the nature of punishment.) However, its inhabitants, sent here for fraud and deception, and also tyrants and evil sorcerers, live in constant despair and confusion, and are slaves to the demons who rule this place. There is a temple at the center, but it is a temple to Pandemonium.
• Black Hell: the worst of the Hells, an empty void, like the space far away from galaxies, where nothing exists. There is no light, no substance, no awareness. It is not certain who is sent here, but it is often believed that it is those who committed the worst acts of betrayal. Here dwells the ultimate evil, the thing that should not be, that only exists because of the evil and foolishness of souls, who also has no name, but is often called the Cipher (from Arabic صفر sifr, "empty", also the source of the word "zero").

The twelfth and final movement of the First Symphony describes the protagonist's journey through Hell (not as punishment, but as a vision), like Dante's in the Divine Comedy.