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Cover for the Death's Head Hellion, artwork prepared by Jim McPherson, 2010Cover for the Contagion Collectors, artwork prepared by Jim McPherson, 2010Welcome to a Glossary of Terms Peculiar to phantacea

"Feeling Theocidal", Book One of 'The Thrice Cursed Godly Glories', "The War of the Apocalyptics", the opening entry in the Launch 1980 story cycle, the three mini-novels, "The Death's Head Hellion", "Contagion Collectors" and "Janna Fangfingers", that comprise "The 1000 Days of Disbelief", Book Two of 'The Thrice Cursed Godly Glories', and the trilogy's concluding novel, "Goddess Gambit", should be available at your favourite book stops

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Covers for Feeling Theocidal and Forever and Forty DaysTwo Ian  Bateson covers of the same scene

Individual copies of "Feeling Theocidal", "The War of the Apocalyptics", the three mini-novels comprising "The Thousand Days of Disbelief" ("The Death's Head Hellion", "Contagion Collectors" and "Janna Fangfingers") and "Goddess Gambit" can be ordered from amazon.com and its affiliates, including amazon.ca and amazon.co.uk, as well as from Barnes & Noble.

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BookFinder.com lists the latest releases from Phantacea Publications along with a goodly number of additional booksellers carrying them. Also listed therein are almost all of the PHANTACEA Mythos print and e-publications, including the graphic novel and some of the comic books.

Another interesting option for the curious is Chegg, which has a rent-a-book program. Thus far its search engine shows no results for phantacea (any style or permutation thereof) but it does recognize Jim McPherson (a variety of them) and the titles of many releases from Phantacea Publications.

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Of course you can always email or send me your order(s) via surface mail. No matter where you live or what currency you prefer to use, I'll figure out a way to fill your order(s) myself. Just be aware that I can only accept certified cheques or money orders. Plus, I'll have to charge an additional 12% to cover Canadian and provincial goods and sales taxes as well as Canada Post rates for shipping.

I do use bubble mailers, though.



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-- A Glossary of Terms Peculiar to PHANTACEA --

ANGELICS

ANTI-PATRIARCHS

ANTHEANS

AZURAS

BETWEEN-SPACE

BRAINROCK

CATHONIC FLUID

CATHONIC ZONE

CELESTIAL GOD

CELESTIALS

DEMONS

DEVAZURS

EDEN

EDEN'S ZOO

ENOCH CITY

EYE-STAVE

GARUDAS

GENESEA

GOLDEN AGE OF HUMANKIND

KERES OR CEREBERANT HELLHOUNDS

KIBISIS

LAMIA

MARK OF CAIN

MARK OF THE MOLOCH

MASTER DEVAS

OMPHALOS

SEDONISTS OR SEDONITES

SEDON'S HEAD + COUNTING TIME

SEDONSHEM

SHAMIR

SOUL SINKS + RINGOTS

SPHINXES

TAUROBOLIUM

TEE-TEES

THOLOI GHOST (GUEST?) HOUSES

TRIGON

VIMANAS

XUTHRODITES

Ys

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LAMIA

Masks shot by Jim McPherson, the main one is reminiscent of Lamia LouThere are a number of different definitions for lamia. In Barbara Walker's "The Women's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets" (Harper Collins 1986) they are described as "night monsters" whose most common form is that of a screech owl or a serpent with a woman's head. In the 14th Edition of "Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable" (Harper & Row 1989) they are described as the devourers of children. There is also some indication that a woman name Lamia was the mother of the Biblical Methuselah and the great-grandmother of the Biblical Noah.

In the PHANTACEA Mythos lamia are women who, after dying giving birth, become changeling horrors that feed on the spirits of newly deceased children. They are therefore psychic vampires who can take the form of a screech owl or a winged serpent (a wyrm) as well as, albeit only at night, their original, non-pregnant human form.

Among the lamiae who appear in PHANTACEA are Neith, Lathe, Lamia Lou, Olympias Sangati, Aerobe Heliopolis, Britomars Zeross and the Magdalene. The first two figure prominently in 'The Moloch Manoeuvres'. The rest don't appear until 'The Vampire Variations'.

[SHOT FROM AN EGYPTIAN SARCOPHAGUS IN VIENNA, 1996]Neith and Lathe, two winged serpents with horned, Medusa-like heads and scaly but otherwise human female breasts, were coiled at the car's foot, reposing, awaiting Medea's whip and her commands.

Her half-brother never fully explained how he came across these dull-witted shape-shifters; claimed only that they had been haunting him since the events of 1923. Medea took that to indicate he had in effect inherited them from Mother Rhea shortly after her murder. A Fino's Mary Magdalene, photographed in Puno, Peru, by Jim McPherson, 1998She knew what they were however, -- Gorgons or lamia! Once natives of the Outer Earth, of Libya in North Africa, they ... could no longer subsist outside the Weird except for brief moments. Even then, in their original semi-human forms at least, that was only at night. Could not breathe fire either, not that she had seen in any case.

Except as psychopomps, the horrible-looking monstrosities were not much good for anything. They could pull the car however; could transport Medea and those she brought with her great distances through the internal world whereupon they could step back into the external world. And they could do it at incredible speed, out-pacing a modern day airplane. As remarkable as that would sound to a non-initiate, in this respect too, they were more a conceit than anything else.

Medea liked having the beasts at her beck and call however. Of course they had to be fed, which was a bit of a hassle given that they fed on soul-stuff and, probably only for the time being, there were not very many readily accessible battlefields, -- their usual pastures. She therefore had to tether them just beyond graveyards and hope that there had been some fresh burials that day. Even so, there were times, usually around a full moon, when they demanded fresh meat. Non-baptized children were a particular favourite of theirs. What was more, if she did not provide it, they would take on their most common nocturnal form beyond Shadowland, that of a hoot-owl, and hunt for their own supper.

... from 'The Moloch Manoeuvres'

There's a gold-mining box regarding lamiae in the first set of synopses for 'The Vampire Variations'; as stated in the 8th chapter of 'Coueranna's Curse': "Cain, Slayer of Abel", Lamia is also the name of Droch Nor's wife, Amemp Tut's mother;

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MARK OF CAIN

a sun disk with an 'X' in the centre of a circle; after he slew Abel, the mark was branded into the middle of Anti-Patriarch Cain's forehead by God the Singular; a circled-X was also the symbol of Xuthros Hor, the Persian Mithras or Ahura Mazda, and the Greek Sun God Helios much later on in recorded history.

A circled X, part of the Antikythera Device found in Athens, scanned in from magazineA Circled-X was probably the oldest sign for a deity on the Whole Earth. Variations of it approached limitless. Initially, as it still did in the majority of lands beyond the Dome, it stood for the sun’s disc. The extraordinarily enduring Xuthrodite Brotherhood appropriated it as the symbol of their inspirational namesake, Xuthros Hor. Contrarily, certain ill-informed sub-sects of Outer Earth faiths believed it was the mark Celestial God placed in the middle of Anti-Patriarch Cain’s forehead after he murdered his half-brother Abel.

[A CIRCLED-X, THE MARK OF CAIN, TAKEN FROM THE WEB]The Swastika used by Outer Earth Hindus, as well as Dandset Typhon’s Rajput warriors and Ophirant pacifists in here, was yet another alternative version of it. Some had it as the All-Seeing Eye; others as the Evil Eye, both consequently making it effectively the equivalent of a devil’s third eye on a stick. Some gave it wings. Some did away with the circle; others did away with the ‘X’, made it upright or turned it into the letter ‘T’, an unembellished Cross of Mithras.

The Egyptian Ankh, the Key of Life held by the likes of Kore-Isis or Maat-Harmony in so many Pharaonic portrayals of them had the circle as an egg-like ovule atop a Tau Cross. The Great God preferred this variant.

... from 'Feeling Theocidal'
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MARK OF THE MOLOCH

the absence of a right hand; as recounted in "Forever & 40 Days - The Genesis of PHANTACEA" (which can still be ordered), Helios called Sophos the Wise cut off the Moloch Sedon's right hand during an encounter just before he, Helios, caused Weirstar to go supernova;

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MASTER DEVAS

- the third generation of devazurkind; the sons and daughters of Sedon, Thrygragos, and Trigregos; as generally referred to collectively as devils or devil-gods, they're at their strongest within their own protectorates, whose inhabitants worshipped them almost exclusively; they could also feed off stellar energy and atomic power, though not in excess;

Normality for Master Devas deviates not at the moment of conception, but milliseconds prior to parturition, when his or her diabolical mother splits – or split, many, many, multiple multi-millennia ago pre-Earth – into one of the Trigregos Sisters.

Each of those selfsame three, perhaps not altogether distinct individuals thereafter proceeds to simultaneously give birth to a set of immediate siblings subsequently known as a ‘brood’ or, more pejoratively, as a ‘litter’.

However, according to semi-knowledgeable pseudo-savants such as the devic Librarian, Biblio Drek, they didn’t so much split as always were three-in-one. In other words, they were a triad or trinity along the lines of – though hardly identical to – the three Great Gods, who’d been down to two since Thrygragon.

... from 'The Thousand Days of Disbelief'

- once they became individualized and solid, circa 2000 YD, they started having azura children by each other; unlike them, azuras rarely attained individuality let alone solidity;

see also Byronics, Lazaremists, Mithradites; there are photo essays on a number of Mithradite Master Devas, all of them female, beginning here; on the same page is a photo essay on the four primary Apocalyptics (War, Death, Disease, and Catastrophe) as they appear in "The War of the Apocalyptics";

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OMPHALOS

- comparatively small, egg-shaped 'raised navels'; often just boulders made out of Brainrock; related to eyeorbs or prison pods , which Trinondevs carried atop their eye-staves, and 'Orphic' Eggs;

[RECONSTRUCTED OMPHALOS IN DELPHI, GREECE, PHOTOGRAPHED BY JIM MCPHERSON, 1995]- minuscule tholoi like the so-called Tholos Tomb for Pygmies in the Eastern Congo (the site of the link way to the Wishing Hell, underneath and off to one side of Sedon's Peak, in 1936 and again in 1937/8, as well as a couple of months later in 1938) would have looked something like this -- except it glowed at certain times and would have been slightly larger;

- re the Tholos Tomb for Pygmies, in both '36 and Feb '38, the way through Cathonia to the Wishing Hell or Totem Pool (think Cleopatra's rejuvenating bath) was facilitated via Young Death in combination with a devil's Brainrock power focus or Tvasitar talisman (respectively Nergal Vetala's moon-sickle, which the forever-7 Male Trickster had acquired from somewhere, and Abe Chaos's trident); however, Wolfgang Shekment did not require a power focus in order to cut through it, and his victim, over the Christmas season of '37/8; he used a regular camping knife;

- that the sacrificial victim in this case, Barsine Mandam, survived was due entirely to the fact she was not so much possessed by a Master Deva as she was a not-entirely-mortal incarnation of one;

[NOTE: the mouse-over behind this picture reads: "Reconstructed omphalos spotted in Delphi, Greece, photographed by Jim McPherson, 1995"; as I discovered while I was in Delphi, at one time an identical omphalos stood in Sais, Egypt; evidently, in what would have been a potential entry in Serendipity had I a webpage in 1995, it was placed there by Alexander the Great; there's more on that Great as well as PHANTACEA's Alexandros "Pluman" Kinesis here; the main entry on Alexandros Kinesis is here;]

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SEDONISTS or SEDONITES

other terms for the devazur race; see also The Moloch Sedon, The Thrygragos Brothers, The Trigregos Sisters, Byronics, Lazaremists, Mithradites;

There's a short discussion on the Biblical Sheddim in the topic section of the Winter 2000 Web-Publisher's Commentary.

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SEDON'S HEAD

[Depiction of Sedon's Head, drawn by Ian Fry]

once the archipelago of Pacifica, the Places of Peace, in what's now the Northern Pacific Ocean; the thought-sunken continent known by tradition as Lemuria as well as Eden's Zoo; since the Great Flood of Genesis also called the Inner Earth, Big Shelter, the Head, the Headworld, after the Great Flood or Genesea, when the North Pacific basin surrounding the archipelago emptied out and the Moloch Sedon raised the Cathonic Zone to protect it, the resultant dry land was terra-formed by Master Devas and their Thrygragos fathers into a likeness of their All-Father's head, left side perspective; their All-Father is the Moloch Sedon;

[Another Depiction of Sedon's Head, drawn by Ian Fry]

devic protectorates dot the Head although, particularly after Thrygragon, many of these smaller areas were amalgamated with much larger areas such as are now found in the Lake Lands (Sedon's Sweat Glands), Satanwyck, and Crepuscule, the Land of Twilight (Sedon's Outer Nose); many more were rendered uninhabitable by the Idiot Twins to mark the end of the The Empire of Lathakra circa 4825 Year of the Dome (YD);

for the most part, the Subcontinent of Godbad belongs to Byronics collectively while much of the Cattail Peninsula (Sedon's Ponytail) retains small protectorates over-lorded by Lazaremists; initially much of the Upper Head was the exclusive preserve of Mithradites, but this no longer holds true; in fact, great swathes of the Upper Head, Sedon's Cheek, Hadd, and the Occipital Regions are entirely devil-free;


As Time Goes by on the Hidden Continent of Sedon's Head

Time is measured in Years of the Dome (YD); Year 0 was the equivalent of 4000 BC; our Year 0 Anno Domini (AD) was therefore the Head's Year 4000 YD;

The Moloch Sedon, he of Sedon's Head, depicted as the DevilThe Sedonic Year is broken into 3 Ternaries, which are named after the Thrygragos Brothers; the Lazaremist Ternary starts at the beginning of Surma (our March); the Byronic Ternary starts at the beginning of Kamor (our July); and the Mithradic Ternary starts at the beginning of Maruta (our November);

The twelve months are variations of names antique Illuminaries of Weir gave to Master Devas circa 3300 - 4100 YD; over the intervening centuries they have changed more than a few times;

Most of the Head celebrates the new year as we Outer Earthlings probably should, on the Spring Solstice; the major exception is Satanwyck (Sedon's Temple, capital city: Pandemonium, once the Domain of All Demons), wherein it's celebrated on the feast day of the reigning Prime Sinistral or vice-regent (Sedon's the real King of Hell); that is to say, on the first day of our February;

(NOTE: in "Feeling Theocidal", and throughout much of the time chroncled by "The 1000 Days of Disbelief", that month was known as Belialman, after Sinistral Lust {Hell's Belle, bouncing, bedazzling or anything-but-plain beguiling Belialma}; as detailed in "Janna Fangfingers", shortly before All Death Day it became known as Cupidam, after Sinistral Envy {aka both Bobby Badboy and Robin Goodfellow, the green-eyed devil possessing Herta Heartthrob's last surviving putto in "Contagion Collectors"});

As of 5980 YD the Lazaremist Ternary is Surma (after Blacksun Zenit Suryad - our March), Antheal (after Flowery Anthea - our April), Vanalal (Vanalana - our May) and Azky (after Azkeecyoos, Lazareme's Male Healer, whom devils refer to as Surgeon but whose father refers to him as Sturgeon in "Feeling Theocidal" - our June);

The Byronic Ternary consists of Kamor (after Camorva Freeflight - our July), Hektor (after Hektoris - our August), Rudar (after Rudra Silvercloud - our September) and Djerridam (after Djerrid Ruin, Byron's Bowman - our October);

The months of Maruta (after Kanin Marutia, aka Strife - our November), Tantalar (after Tantal Thanatos, King Cold - our December), Yamana (after Underlord Yama Nergal - our January) and Balek (after Baaloch Hellblob, Sinistral Sloth of Satanwyck - our February) make up the Mithradic Ternary;

The days of the week are named after the Moloch Sedon and the six Great Gods (Thyrgragos) and Goddesses (Trigregos): Sedonda-Sunday, Mithrada-Monday, Demetray-Tuesday, Birhym-Wednesday, Sapienda-Thursday, Lazam-Friday and Devauray-Saturday;


see Places Peculiar for a large Image Map with lynx to more details on some of the regions most frequented by characters featured in the PHANTACEA Mythos;

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SEDONSHEM

For multiple tens of thousands of Earth years the Moloch Sedon and the devils he'd engendered, if only to keep himself company, traversed the cosmos in the Sedonshem; doing so, they contaminated and corrupted virtually everyone they came across -- including sentient beings on the pre-Flood, then Whole Earth.

[SEDONSHEM LANDS ATOP DROCH NOR]- like the Cathonic Zone after the Great Flood of Genesis, made up of Sedon's essence;

- filled almost entirely with devic spirit beings (the lone, long term exception being Cabalarkon, the Undying Utopian Sedon regarded as his father and whom he kept alive in a tub of Cathonic Fluid), it was how devas got about after they left New Weirworld and began their multiple-millennia trip through the cosmos;

- when it landed atop Droch Nor and the Gregarian Fields during the Golden Age of Humankind, it dissipated upon impact; at that point in time thereafter (until the Xuthros Hor called up, as well as down the Genesea in the Year Zero YD anyhow) devils were loose upon the Whole Earth in great numbers;

- there's another entry re the Sedonshem here and a colourized version of this drawing here; the largest version of this last can be found here, which is where you'll also find more info on what it landed upon in 669 Pre-Dome;

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SHAMIR

[AN IMAGE OF A GOD POSSIBLY HOLDING A SHAMIR, TAKEN FROM THE WEB]Conceivably mythical object(s) mentioned in the Talmud via which the likes of Aaron and Solomon could cut stones without a hammer; in the legend of Solomon, he encounters Ashmedai or Asmodaeus, the King of the Demons or Shedds; Shedds are also called the Sheddim, which is not far from Sedon; Shedds may therefore be devazurs or Sedonists whereas, in the PHANTACEA Mythos, the King of Demons' equivalent of Ashmedai or Asmodaeus, Samael or, for that matter, Satan Himself, is Daemonicus;

[A POSSIBLE DEPICTION OF A 'SHAMIR' TAKEN FROM THE WEB]something similar is probably the device the ancients used to raise megalithic stones and build their cyclopean structures in both the Western and Eastern hemisphere; these devices may have been brought from Far-Off Weirworld by the Trinondevs when they came to the Whole Earth a decade before the Genesea, -- in which case they may be related to eyeorbs or prison pods;

then again, Alorus Ptah probably already had something similar when he or his descendants constructed the twin Sphinxes in Egypt and on the Prison Beach of Incain at the foot of the Cattail Peninsula on what was then Pacifica-Lemuria.

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SOUL SINKS

"Glowing Gonads were soul sinks, a kind of cross between Anthean Agates and Eyeorbs. At least theoretically they could capture human souls the same way Trinondev Prison Pods [the eyeorbs atop their eye-staves] did devic spirit-selves."

... from 'The Vampire Variations '

Other soul sinks that have appeared during the course of PHANTACEA on the Web include the rainbow swath old Joe used to capture and hold onto the Unholy Ghost until her baby sister, Mnemosyne D'Angelo, releases her in 'The Moloch Manoeuvres'; the crystal skulls Hellions, Valkyries and Rakshas demons use to carry around Sangazur spirit-selves, and even the acorns faerie dryads possess in an unserialized, but now print-published, PHANTACEA Mythos novel entitled 'Feeling Theocidal';

The ringots Angelo Zeross (the first Ringleader) acquired during the Simultaneous Summonings of 19/5920 were similar to soul sinks except they only captured and held onto devic Spirit Beings (not the power foci or Tvasitar-talismans that helped keep them solid individuals); as such they were very similar, if perhaps not quite identical, to Trinondev Prison Pods [the eyeorbs atop their eye-staves];

As Hush [born Pandora Mannering] puts it to Mama Goldie [Gilda nee O'Ryan Dre'Ath] in VolVar-1 :

"Oh yes ... we had a philosophizing Ringleader/Ringkeeper with Brainrock circlets filled with bodiless devils."

Ringots were made during the expansion of the Empire of Lathakra, circa the 48th Century of the Dome, by Tvasitar Smithmonger, the devic Prometheus; because he made them, devils could use them too:

The ring Abe gave her as a token of his affection? It was a ringot, a made-for-devils prison pod, she reminded Harmony haughtily, as she nevertheless obligingly handed it over to her. Although forged by the Unities’ not so much younger brother – the Anvil Artificer as devils had him, Tvasitar Smithmonger as antique Illuminaries had him – at his good-as-protectorate, the Brainrock-volcanic Sedon’s Peak, the devic Prometheus didn’t devil-devise them.

Ringots were the brainwave of their inventive cousin, firstborn Heat, Methandra Thanatos. Hot Stuff was the Mithradite also oft-times referred to as the Scarlet Seeress because she was something of a sorceress. She’d conceived the idea during the expansion of their comparatively short-lived but, fortunately for the Thanatoids, not altogether ill-starred Lathakran Empire in the 48th Century of the Dome.

Master Devas, the High Illuminary’s thoroughly well-schooled daughter noted, used them to capture devic spirit beings much as even hybrid Utopians, like her birthparents, once could use Trinondev eyeorbs to do dot-ditto. The major difference was that ringots couldn’t capture devic power foci.

... from 'The Thousand Days of Disbelief'
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SPHINXES

[Photograph of Egyptian Sphinx, taken from The Message of the Sphinx by Hancock and Bauval, 1996]

the Male (non-winged) Egyptian Sphinx and the Female (winged) Headworld Sphinx, All of Incain, are related after a fashion. Both date to before the Genesea and both amounted to prisons where devas were incarcerated for long lengths of time.

[Likeness of All of Incain, photograph taken in Catania, Sicily by Jim McPherson, 1997]In an unserialized, PHANTACEA Mythos mosaic novel entitled 'Feeling Theocidal' (which I've since published in book form), the Egyptian Sphinx is often referred to as Andy the Androsphinx whereas the winged female is sometimes called Ginny the Gynosphinx.

The Egyptian One, which was arguably built by Celestial God, is now moribund, just a lump of stone. However, the Headworld one, which was almost definitely built by Alorus Ptah centuries before his death at the hands of Anti-Patriarch Cain, is still conscious and still holds devils, though she/it dwells mostly between-space.

In another unserialized, PHANTACEA Mythos mosaic novel, this one entitled 'The Thousand Days of Disbelief', a couple of pertinent to 19/5980 points are made (this despite the fact that 1000-Daze is set, among other times, in 4824/5 Years of the Dome):

All only recognized one devil as her mistress and that devil was Pyrame Silverstar.

... Extra­terrestrial Utopians must have realized shortly after finding themselves trapped on the now Inner Earth that the semi-sentient, centuries’ pre-Flood-built She-Sphinx was an exceptionally advanced form of Mandroid. In all likelihood that indicated she was based on First or Second Weir World’s technology.

... from 'The 1000 Days of Disbelief'

People and mantels, but not devils (other than Pyrame Silverstar), can traverse the Cathonic Dome via All the Invincible. Some said that, in the late Thirties and right up into the Sixties, for those who knew how to use its obvious doorway, the Male Sphinx also maintained a link to its former Female Mate on the Headworld.

A Max Ernst painting entitled Chimere 1927; scanned in from a postcard bought in Paris 2004; figure suggestive of All of Incain; triangle suggestive of Pyrame Silverstar It is believed that Unholy Abaddon, the Unity of Chaos, used the Sphinx Lynx to traverse Cathonia sometime in the 16th Century, after he committed devic suicide, to search for his lost son. Certainly the Pauper Priestess used it to go from one side of the Dome to the other in order to procreate her sedons. In 1965, the so-called Gynosphinx (connected to Corona Power) created a number of various kinds of sphinxes in her attempt to take over Centauri Island.

A She-Sphinx spotted in Salvador, Brazil, photo by Jim McPherson, 2006The connection between All of Incain and Demogorgon was established at the beginning and end of 'The Trigregos Gambit'. She-it came under attack during the Launch sequences but survived to house more so than imprison Pyrame Silverstar during 'The Weirdness of Cabalarkon'. She-it also appeared during later the 'Heliodyssey' storyline entitled: 'The Volsung Variations', which began serialization in PHANTACEA on the Web during the summer of 2006.

There's a rather raunchy BLOCKQUOTE from 'Feeling Theocidal' regarding Andy and Ginny in the Daemonicus entry on the Pivotal Characters web page.

Here's another highly suggestive BLOCKQUOTE from the same source regarding the two sphinxes. It occurs in the Year 725 Pre-Dome (PD), the same year - not at all coincidentally - that Anti-Patriarch Cain supposedly slew his father, Alorus Ptah, the Biblical Adam (though technically, if you want to get all Adam-anal about it, Ptah's the second Biblical Adam).

The neither impossibly mobile nor impossibly huge, granite atrocity with a lion’s body and the head of Heliosophos reared on its hind legs in anticipation. Hind legs weren’t all it reared.

Romping straight at her male counterpart was a slightly smaller, yet proportionately equally enormous and be-winged she-lion with the head of Miracle Memory. They collided, got cavorting, all rough and tumble, bites and bellows. Pebbles, not fur flew.

... from 'Feeling Theocidal'
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TAUROBOLIUM

a Mithraic manhood ceremony during Roman Times; a precursor of tauromachy, the art of bull-fighting; an equivalent notion is found in the Volsung Saga, when Sigurd slew Fafnir and became nigh-on invulnerable as the dragon's blood washed over him;

[AN IMAGE OF MITHRAS SLAYING THE CELESTIAL BULL TAKEN FROM THE WEB]while there is no evidence it was practised on Crete during Minoan Times, it seems to have had its origins in contemporaneous Egypt; there the live bull was called Apis and the dead one Serapis or Osiris; by bathing in the blood of a sacrificed bull Mithrants, ie Roman Legionnaires, supposedly became invincible in battle;

the worshippers of Isis and Cybele, Magna Mater or Meter (Demeter), also performed the ritualistic Taurobolium Ceremony of Slaughter; in their case though the bull's blood was said to water the ground from which corn (Kore) and grain (Ceres) would grow: in the PHANTACEA Mythos (that is to say January 1938), in the peculiar form of modern day Mithraism practised by Count Molech and his followers, the bull had to be subdued by a Leo then sacrificed by a Persian; the synoptic reference is here;

interestingly, in the above graphic, Mithras (actually Chrysaor Attis) is depicted slaying the bull under the supervision of the sun (male, upper left corner) and the moon (female, upper right corner); in terms of the PHANTACEA Mythos the sun would be the Male Entity (Heliosophos) while the moon would be the Female Entity (Mnemosyne);

he's also shown flanked by his two torch-bearers, Cautes and Cautopates; in terms also of the PHANTACEA Mythos they would be the Idiot Twins Spring (Tammuz) and Autumn (Osiraq); the third member of Mithras's Seasons, Summer, is called Novadev; in PHANTACEA;

Sedon cathonitized Summer because he got drunk with Helios (pHant's Herr Hel in his 2nd Lifetime, that of King Cadmus of Thebes) and ended up blowing the heart out of Strongyne, the Island of Strong Women, thus bringing to a terrible end the 500-year long Mad Goddesses' Middle Sea Matriarchate on the Outer Earth; at the beginning of 'Helios on the Moon' it appears Colonel Avatar Sol, the overall commander of the Cosmic Express, acquires Novadev's attributes because he promptly blows up;

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TEE-TEES

- talking rat-like, presumed demons who will tell a story if you pull its tail;

- tee-tee tails can also be read, if you knew how;

There was even a talking rodent, a tee-tee. Tee-tees were mostly indigenous to the Head’s west coast, from the tip of Sedon’s Beard, which is to say the southernmost regions of the subcontinent of Aka Godbad, all the way up to its far north. While they could no more survive in the Ghostlands than anyone mortal could, they were also found in Sedon’s Crown, aka the Mystic Mountains, and beyond, in the Head’s bald spot (better known as the Silent Sands of Cathune Bubastis, as ancient Illuminaries of Weir so named the Apocalyptic of Drought after a once highest echelon Egyptian Cat Goddess).

This yappy rodent would tell tales, albeit in exchange for its life’s continuance. Its tail, should you be able to properly decipher its nodes and codes, its specks and flecks, which Tethys could, which was why he kept a number of said tee-tee tails glued to his currently otherwise bald pate, beneath his checked cap, had a tale to tell as well. So too did its chiropteran cousin, only its tales weren’t on its tail, they were on both sides of its wings.

... from 'The Thousand Days of Disbelief'
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THOLOI GHOST (GUEST?) HOUSES

a tholos, or tholoi in the plural, is a word which means beehive and also describes what was thought to be their original shape; smaller ones are called Omphalos or 'raised navels'; generally speaking all that is left of these Tholoi are circular foundations shaped like a British Bandstand, a carousel, or even Stonehenge, though rarely composed of Standing Stones; the Mycenaean Tomb of Agamemnon is a Cyclopean Tholos while there are many such structures found on the Island of Crete; tholoi foundations have been found in Olympia, Athens, in the Roman Forum (the Temple of Vesta), and at Delphi; tholoi have also been located in Anatolia and Mesopotamia while similar structures have been identified on just about every continent; most of the lynx in this entry lead you to images of tholoi;

not everyone believes they were tombs; some think they were shrines, guest houses for the gods; in the PHANTACEA Mythos, the altars generally found in the antechambers may have once been Brainrock since tholoi, circular structures of any kind, may once have been teleportation chambers used by devils to go beyond the Dome; over the centuries however, Xuthrodites and Anthean Witches tore them down to their foundations.

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TRIGON

  1. The Entities' Trigon (Trans-Time Trigon), which follows Heliosophos and the miraculous Mnemosyne Machine throughout time and space whenever he dies;
  2. New Weir's Trigon, where the Trigregos Sisters were last seen multiple-millennia ago;
  3. Aegean Trigon, which rose from the sea after the destruction of Strongyne around 1500 BC (and may have gone back underneath it in 1968 AD); where the Family Zeross lived since the Nineteen Century; where a nexus to Kore's Hell on Ap Isle in Big Shelter existed in January 1938; where a boulder of Brainrock that Romaine Kinesis named Gypsium was found in 1948;
  4. Sub-Trig (Subterranean Trigon) in Minius or Absudyl (the Land of the Mandroids, deep beneath the Weirdom of Cabalarkon), where Trans-Time Trigon ended up for the start of the Male Entity's 11th lifetime in 1908; it was in the same place for part of the Male Entity's 100th lifetime as well;
  5. Lunar Trigon, which Machine-Memory manufactured and placed on the Moon shortly after the start of the Male Entity's 100th lifetime in 1976;
  6. Old Weir's Trigon, the asteroid where the Dual Entities, together with Cabalarkon (the Undying Utopian), engendered the Moloch Sedon during the Male Entity's 5th lifetime;
  7. Sodom's Trigon, a comet or asteroid the Dual Entities used to destroy the twin cities of Sodom and Gomorrah circa 2000 BC (during the course of the Male Entity's 7th lifetime), when they were attempting to assassinate the Moloch Sedon, whom they erroneously thought was King Sodom to Lilith-Pyrame's Queen Gomorrah;
  8. Enoch City (possibly); if so, it was set up there in the Male Entity's 61st lifetime, when he was Alorus Ptah, the Biblical Adam, and destroyed by his son by Lilith (Anti-Patriarch Cain, Slayer of Abel) circa 661 Pre-Dome (PD); details can be found in the 1990 graphic novel "Forever & 40 Days - The Genesis of PHANTACEA", which can still be ordered, and in an unserialized, PHANTACEA Mythos novel entitled 'Feeling Theocidal'
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VIMANAS

[AN IMAGE OF A VIMANA, TAKEN FROM THE WEB]also called Shems; bird-like vertical take off and landing vehicle used during the Golden Age; primarily known from Hindu Mythology, they are found in most antique legends; usually depicted as a winged sun disk often with a circled-X between the wings;

as per an unserialized, but now print published, PHANTACEA Mythos mosaic novel entitled 'Feeling Theocidal', the Utopian equivalent of vimanas are known as cosmicars; the same as those on the Cosmic Express flown by the likes of Cosmicaptains Dmetri Diomad (Vetala's Soldier in 'The Trigregos Gambit') and Mikelangelo Starrus (Lord Yajur's shell in 'Helios on the Moon'); there's a description of a cosmicar here;

[NOTE: To this day, and not just in India, vimanas are considered airships of the gods. At the Jain Temple in Ajmer, near Pushkar, Rajasthan, there are supposedly many models of them hanging from the ceiling in one of its main rooms. Unfortunately, because of time-constraints I was unable to visit that particular temple when I did a tour of Rajasthan in 2005. There is, however, a TIMP having to do with my trip to India on the Web. In it are some notes re a couple of idols I spotted while there who do have a bearing on the PHANTACEA Mythos.]

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XUTHRODITES

more correctly, the Illuminated Faith of Xuthros Hor; named after Xuthros Hor; Xuthros Hor was the Biblical Noah, the father of Ham, Shem, Japheth, and a number of daughters whose names were mostly lost in time; Hor appears with a raven's head (if not Raven's Head) on the front cover of "Forever & 40 Days - The Genesis of PHANTACEA", which can still be ordered;

Xuthrodites often, though not always, marry Antheans; devils tend to refer to them, disdainfully, as Horrites; Loxus Abraham Ryne became the patriarch of the Illuminated Faith after his father, Noah Charan Ryne, died during the Simultaneous Summonings of 1920;

there more on the Xuthrodic faith here;

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Ys

Y-vision refers more to prognostication that precognition; the letter Y is its symbol; the two-prongs represent the two eyes, the long shaft the resulting vision of the future; Ys-dom is another word for this vision; Illuminaries of Weir still speak of Old Weir's Visionaries but there are none on the Inner Earth;

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A Lion-Headed God

- thought by some to represent Thrygragos Mithras, by others to represent Ahriman or Aryanman, the force of evil in some faiths, and by others to represent Zurvan, a force of nature, he is rendered standing upon a globe displaying the Mark of Cain, the circled-X or sun disc;

- according to many references, including Franz Cumont's 1903 "Mysteries of Mithra", Zurvan is an aspect Mithras as King Kronos-Cronus-Saturn, the Titan of Time, he who eats his young;

- in the image below, the lion-headed god Zurvan or Time may be holding an eye-stave and a shamir in his hands;

- icons such as the one pictured in this panel appear in a number of Mithraea or Cave Temples throughout ancient and modern day Europe; in phantacea pHact the Legendarian visited the now-destroyed Mithraeum atop Vatican Hill in 476 AD; as per below, it was hardly the only one he'd visited;

- Djinn Domitian, Mithras's non-swan trumpeter, messenger and sun-runner or Heliodromus, affects the guise of a lion-headed god with four wings; his power focus is a fanfare trumpet, not either an eye-stave or a shamir;

- cannibalistic Angelycs worship Djinn as their devil-god because, reputedly, his essence makes up their preferred spicing;

Here's how Djinn is described in the early stages of "Feeling Theocidal":

One reason Djinn assumed the likeness of a yazata Angelyc on a semi-permanent basis was because Mithras spiced their first feast upon completion of this Mithraeum atop his Mithradium with essence of Masochist.[LION-HEADED CREATURE TAKEN FROM THE WEB]

A second reason was the fact that, in not just Persian Mithraism, angels were considered messengers of the gods. A most important third reason for his chosen semblance was that even lowborn Mithradites flourished once they’d acquired sentient worshippers. And, no matter how lowbrow they were, Angelycs would do as well as any.

He appeared angelic in that he had four feathery wings. A single set of two sprouted out of each shoulder blade. One wing on each side pointed upwards; the other, the bigger one, pointed downwards. That he was additionally ‘leontocephaline’, that was due primarily to a suggestion made by the Legendarian, incarnations earlier.

The recurring deviant, at Mithras’s request, had visited any number of Mithraeum Cave Temples on the Outer Earth. He’d come back recommending Djinn start sporting a lion’s head because Mithras’s heralds were often depicted as having one.

It was this ‘leontocephalous’ the Great God focused on once he finished adding his lunch and breakfast to his supper on the beehive’s floor.

... from 'Feeling Theocidal'

(NOTE 1: Mithras deposited his recent meals on the floor of the Tholos atop his Mithradium because Sedon's Demon Child, who'd self-named herself Tralalorn, had just ridden along the summit of Theopolis Hill riding Stynx, her latest 3-headed chimera.)

(NOTE 2: double-click on above image to open a new window with an enlarged picture of same.)

(NOTE 3: there's more on Djinn Domitian (along with another image suggestive of his demonic, angelic and trumpeting talents in its masthead, this one by one of my all-time faves, Hieronymus Bosch) here)

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A God (Ahura Mazda) Riding a Winged Disk, Possibly a Vimana

Depiction of a god suggestive of a two-eyed version of one of PHANTACEA's Three Great Gods, Varuna 'Aryanman' Mithras. Quite conceivably the object he's carrying in his left hand is a Shamir.

[A GOD RIDING A WINGED SOLAR DISC, POSSIBLY A VIMANA, SHOT OF A WALL PLAQUE TAKEN BY JIM MCPHERSON IN TURKEY, 2003]Unlike most of the graphics reproduced on this page (hence the poor quality), this particular one was not copied from the Worldwide Web. It's a blow-up of a shot I took of a wall plaque spotted in Urfa, Turkey in the Fall of 2003.

As for the graphic in the vimana entry, it was copied from the Web in the late Nineties. I believe the original picture was taken in the ruins of Persepolis, the ritual centre of the Persian dynasty of Achaemenid Kings such as Cyrus the Great, Darius and Cambyses, Cyrus' son.

The winged, circular symbol, which is based upon Babylonian and Egyptian models, is said to belong to Ahura Mazda (Wise Lord). However, as speculated in 'The Moloch Manoeuvres' and, indeed, in at least one encyclopaedia I could mention, Ahura Mazda may be just another name for the Vedic (or Hindu?) Mitravaruna.

By the way, Cambyses turns out to be quite an interesting character. Supposedly congenitally mad, a fact confirmed by Herodotus writing shortly after Cambyses's time some twenty-five hundred years ago, he went looking for the Stream of Everlasting Life (or Fountain of Perpetual Youth) in Eastern Africa, -- far, very far, especially given the time, to the south of the Nile Delta!

[IMAGE OF ALEXANDER OF MACEDONIA, TAKEN FROM THE WEB]According to Zechariah Sitchin ("The Stairway to Heaven" © 1980), a couple of centuries later, after turning back at the Indus River and apparently by following Cambyses's lead (plus that of Gilgamesh, no less!), Alexander the Great did much the same thing. That famous Conqueror had a somewhat better excuse than madness. The Delphi Oracle reputedly predicted that he was doomed to die an early death. Of course, whether he found the Stream of Life or not, that's exactly what happened to him.

As recounted in 'Heliodyssey', Alexandros Kinesis was setup by his mother, Olympias nee Sangati, and her mother, Rhea always Ararat, to name two, to become a modern day Alexander. This was at least partially so the likes of the aforementioned two women, plus Magister Mandam, Shaikh Zechariah Markazi, Wolfgang Shekmet, Hulga Faust always Volsung, and a few others, could live forever. (Rhea clearly didn't place much trust in her own version of Aeson's Bath.)

In 1935/36, long after his mother and grandmother were dead, he led various Mandams and a few others, notably Olympias's half-brother and two half-sisters, there too!

Only, was it a Pool of Rejuvenation? Or was it something completely different, as I've heard tell somewhere?

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