It seems there's a mistake here as Hyborian deities like Mitra don't have lifecycles (top para). They have cosmic life cycles of the physical Earth (sun and moon). That relates to physical decay, ie the lifecycle of the votary or believer..
In our world, sorcery tales place in an immaterial universe of facts – inductive technology (Newton, sun). The people who inhabit this world often seem like they’re on a serious snooze, almost sleepwalking into the future.
Maria Menshikova
happens to be a young Russian agonizing about life after Putin (DT) but could
equally be a German agonizing, or Scandinavian Greta Thunberg
What they all
have in common is that they occupy their head with “facts” (on a screen) that
convinces them everything is serious and very verbal. It’s almost the
snake-tongue; reptilian closeness to the cold-light of technology.
Hyborian sorcery
doesn’t inhabit the immaterial universe – which it might like to. It has to
occupy the material universe to deliver physical blows against its opponents.
The physical universe (of the body) contains perils, as was shown in Conan
#10 when the priest of the temple invokes the bull of Anu, and Conan turns the
tables.
In the Hyborian
universe, the psyche emanates from the physical, and the bull is drawn into the
heavens.
Figures in the
sky (constellations) are the physical universe as seen from Earth as it spins.
The deities emanate from a physical universe, and so the psyche is connected to
the physical reality.
By invoking a deity, such as
Mitra, one invokes the spiritual essence of the sun – since Mitra is a sungod.
Gods and goddesses are Earth-powers that can be manifest in the sky as cosmic
figures.
The Earth is the
physical body, and Hyborian sorcery cannot detach from the Earth if they wish
to do physical battle on a muscular plane. That’s their weakness.
Conan spies the
physical manifestation of Kharram Akkad’s sorcery.
Our modernday
sorcery is immaterial and factual – it isn’t required to be physical – it persuades
the head with facts. It can appear like a type of sleeping as the head nods
serpent-like to numerical data (zzz.)
It can also be a
type of psychosis – which is similar to sleep – as the ego cannot deny its own
physique, and so occupies a two-faced reality of innocuous machines (in a hygienic order of
electro-impulses), and the reptilian urge underlying it.
Sleep, the
swaying of the serpent head, the psychotic reptilian urges – all seem a part of
this induced technology of straight lines that convinces the ego numerically
(monetarily, logically).
