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Introductory RemarksGreetings. Welcome, or welcome back. The usual 'Hestia Housekeeping' section is immediately below. (Click here to find out why I call it such.) On the other side of the table, below the Feat-Story seciton, is what I hope will become the equivalent of a PHANTACEA on the Web FAQ sheet. In it are lynx to a number of questions I asked and answered myself in the Fall 2003 and Spring 2004 editions of pHpubs: Web-Publisher's Commentary. Contact me [jmcp@phantacea.com] and feel free to ask any questions you might have regarding PHANTACEA. I'll do my best to answer them either directly or right here in ... Top of PageHestia HousekeepingBy this troth I hereby invite thee to peruse, immediately, one of seminal chapters in the entire PHANTACEA Mythos. On second thought, please feel free to finish reading Hestia Housekeeping first. Then go ye to peruse it forthrightly. What's so seminal, or germinal, about the 8th chapter of "Coueranna's Curse". It is after all, at least by my count, the 9th complete novel I've serialized during the course of web-publishing PHANTACEA on the Web? Does its title help: 'Cain, Slayer of Abel'? Yep, that'd be that Cain, the farmer, though not that Abel, the shepherd, who's already long slain by the time this story sequence ends. That'd be in the 885th year of Cain's post-insemination upon, well, maybe, Lilith, the Demon Queen of the Night. And, yep, in another oddball case of Serendipity, that'd be that Lilith; the same Lilith I did a peculiar perspectives essay on last time up, in the Summer 2004 update of 'pHpubs'. No, I'm not attempting to rewrite, yet again, a small portion of the oft-rewritten Bible. All I'm really doing is adding a few details that for some reason have been omitted from the current version of said stately tome as it's been handed down to us. It's not like I haven't done this before either. Sooth said I published a comic book version of this selfsame storyline in the graphic novel entitled "Forever & 40 Days - The Genesis of PHANTACEA". Did so way back in late 80s.
Where I also, thereby, demonstrate that #8, Methuselah, my Mythos's Amemp Tut, died in the same year as the Great Flood. I have to admit it was fun putting words into the mouths of the likes of #s 2, 8 & 9. Providing a more 'PHANTACEA factual' explanation of the final moments of #6 was fun too. I'd like to tell you that making Cain's line of Anti-Patriarchs sound a lot like today's militarists was fun as well but, hey, there's nothing funnny about today's militarists. So, what else is new this time up? Ah, as to that, besides the swap-over at the top of this webpage and a couple of additions to Serendipity Now, there are three more candidates for my ever-growing gallery of Character Likenesses down below in the Topic section of pHpubs. There's also a revisited and now wholly revised webpage I decided to rename: "The 2005 Covers Gallery". As its name doesn't imply, it's where I placed a giveaway poster I never got around to giving away to anyone until now, albeit only on the Web. It's also, as its name does imply, where I placed an assortment of potential covers I've designed over the years for some of my not-as-yet print-published novels. Perhaps PHANTACEA perversely, one of these last is a dust-cover for a novel I'm still writing. It's called 'Wilderwitch's Babies, Part Two: Tsishah's Twilight' and, yep yet again, no heart attack here, it's what comes after 'Babies Part One'. Does it end the same way 'Psychodrama', the now-concluded, and perhaps final, online PHANTACEA serial set in the 1980s ended? Does it end with the Second Coming of the Great Flood? Tell you what, although I do detail a fair amount of Two's plot beneath its potential cover, as soon as I find that out I'll make a point of first announcing it right here in pHpubs. Feedback encouraged. And, as always, good reading. Top of PageStories and Synopses'Coueranna's Curse'Top of Page |
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Jim McPherson's Latest Collection of Character Likenesses
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Freespirit Nihila, once Harmonia, the Unity of BalanceAlthough by the time 'The Trigregos Gambit' and 'Helios on the Moon' came along to finish up 'The Launching of the Cosmic Express' Tetralogy her appearance, if not her aggrieved attitude, had much improved, in the serialized version of 'The War of the Apocalyptics' Freespirit Nihila did not make the most favourable of first impressions:
In the 'Disuntion of the Unities' aspect of the serialized version of PREGAME-Gambit, we came to know Nihila as Harmonia, one of Thrygragos Lazareme's Unities, the Unity of Balance. That was also where we met her two fellow firstborn brothers, Lord Yajur (Order) and Unholy Abaddon (Chaos). As Balance she stands between them. Long before events described in the Web serial, she was in love
with a human, one Cadmus by name. In the PHANTACEA Mythos he's all of that as well as, among many another thing, the destroyer of Strongyne (modern day Santorini) and, with it, the Goddess Culture so prevalent throughout the Mediterranean Basin circa 1500 BC. Among those other things King Cadmus of Thebes was of course the Male Entity in his second lifetime. 98 lifetimes thereafter, here's how we last saw Freespirit Nihila:
So what, you may ask, has become of her since then? I'll be sure to let you know as soon as I finish writing 'Wilderwitch's Babies, Part Two: Tsishah's Twilight'. Top of Page |
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Cel-Spook: In death, as in life, the Celestial SuperiorEven though I didn't start writing it until the mid-90s, I consider 'The Moloch Manoeuvres' to be the first novel in the PHANTACEA Mythos. Here's an abridged version of how it began:
The year was 1895. The little girl's name was Celestine D'Angelo. Less than a decade later she was on the Inner Earth of Sedon's Head, had acquired a new name, Celeste Mannering, and a first born daughter, Pandora Mannering. This Pandora was the product of generations of genetic manipulations on the part of the Witches of Weir. Witch-which of course meant so was Celestine-Celeste, Her having her, shortly after the latter-her's birth, was the main reason the former-her became the Celestial Superior. Pandora was bred to bear triplet daughters, incarnations of the Trigregos Sisters. Instead her firstborn was a boy, Saladin Devason. Consequently the Celestial Superior was forced to call the Simultaneous Summonings of 1920 (5920 on the Hidden Headworld). Hence the Summoning Children who dominate so much of the goings-on in the PHANTACEA Mythos. Too bad, since she was killed in 1923, the Celestial Superior didn't live to see them to grow up. Death hasn't particularly slowed her down, though. Which-witch is why she's known as Cel-Spook throughout the 1938 story sequences. As for why she's also known as the Horny Ghost, hey, that's why you read them! Top of Page |
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Utopians from the Weirdom of CabalarkonThere are distinctions, albeit not so much so in physiognomic terms, to be made between the Utopians of Cabalarkon and the Utopians of either the first or second Weirworld (as featured in the PHANTACEA comic books and the graphic novel: "Forever & 40 Days, the Genesis of PHANTACEA"). The primary one is of course that the Weirdom of Cabalarkon is on the Hidden Continent of Sedon's Head whereas the two Weirworlds are (or was in the case of the first Weirworld) far, very far, some 170,000 light-years faraway from the Whole Earth of the PHANTACEA Mythos.
By contrast, Saladin Devason, the Master of Weir during the 1980 serials, is a hybrid. He's 60, has a beard, has to work out in order to maintain his gorgeous physique and, yes, both Hot Rox (1938) and the Witch (1980) get to know him in the Biblical sense. It's a damn shame he's such a jerk but, hey, nobody's perfect. Which is part of the problem with him being in charge. Utopians think they are perfect; wouldn't call themselves Utopians if they didn't. They're extraterrestrial. Came to the Whole Earth ten years before the Genesea, the Great Flood of Genesis, and have been stuck here ever since. Only some of their extraterrestrial gadgetry works anymore and no one has any idea why or how. Has something to do with the collective willpower of the Idiots of Weir, who are in the majority in Cabalarkon, as funnelled through the Master, though. Among the gadgets that still work are their eyeorbs, which they mount on eye-staves. Eyeorbs can be used as devic prison pods. That is to say they can capture and hold devils. Except they don't work in devic protectorates, which is where most devils hang out. They can also manifest gargoyles. These gargoyles are the physical forms taken by the force shields they project. There's lots of prison-podding and gargoyles-manifesting in 'Coueranna's Curse' if you're curious! Top of Page |
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Another shot taken from the Roman ruins high atop the plateau of Hasankeyf is here. Many more cliffheads can be seen in the series of FAQs posted here and here. The Tyranno Cliff features as the background of Coyote Nine: "Coyotes of a Conundrum is a good name for a FAQ page" while the Hasan House Head shows up on the mockup cover for "Decimation Damnation". - Double-click image in this panel in order to open background gif in a separate window - |
Page background is a whitened, then lightened even more, cliffhead spotted and shot in Hasankeyf, Turkey, by Jim McPherson, the creator/writer of the Phantacea Mythos, in 2003. It reminded him of a Tyrannosaurus, but he's somewhat pixilated after all these years writing Top of Page - Upwards - Downwards - Bottom of Page Ordering Lynx
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