Mini-novel published in 2016; main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here;
Hidden Headgames
Collection of three intertwined novellas published in 2017; main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here;
Daemonic Desperation
Tentative cover for Dem-Des; will probably be changed before it's published; scheduled to be released in 2018;
The Phantacea Phase Two revival physically began with 2016's "Decimation Damnation", the first mini-novel extracted from the as yet open-ended saga of 'Wilderwitch's Babies'. It was set between the 9th of Tantalar and the 1st of Yamana, 5980 Year of the Dome. However, its follow-up, "Hidden Headgames" was set between the 30th of Maruta and the 14th of Tantalar in that same year. "Daemonic Desperation" picks up Babes near the end of the second week of Yamana and continues through the Summer Solstice of 5981. As the last known member of the Damnation Brigade, if the Witch was fortunate to survive Dec-Dam, alive and pregnant, she may not be so lucky come the end of Dem-Des. Oddly enough, her unborn babies may yet still be both viable and unborn by then.
Published in 2008; main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here
The 1000 Days of Disbelief
Published as three mini-novels, 2010/11; main webpage is here; ordering lynx for individual mini-novels are here
Goddess Gambit
Published in 2012; main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here
Circa the Year of Dome 2000, Anvil the Artificer, a then otherwise unnamed, highborn Lazaremist later called Tvasitar Smithmonger, dedicated the first three devic talismans, or power foci, that he forged out of molten Brainrock to the Trigregos Sisters.
The long lost, possibly even dead, simultaneous mothers of devakind hated their offspring for abandoning them on the far-off planetary Utopia of New Weir. Not surprisingly, their fearsome talismans could be used to kill Master Devas (devils).
For most of twenty-five hundred years, they belonged to the recurring deviant, Chrysaor Attis, time after time proven a devaslayer. On Thrygragon, Mithramas Day 4376 YD, he turned them over to his Great God of a half-father, Thrygragos Varuna Mithras, to use against his two brothers, Unmoving Byron and Little Star Lazareme, in hopes of usurping their adherents and claiming them as his own.
Hundreds of years later, these selfsame thrice-cursed Godly Glories helped turn the devil-worshippers of Sedon's Head against their seemingly immortal, if not necessarily undying gods. Now, five hundred years after the 1000 Days of Disbelief, they've been relocated.
The highest born, surviving devic goddesses want them for themselves; want to thereby become incarnations of the Trigregos Sisters on the Hidden Continent. An Outer Earthling, one who has literally fallen out of the sky after the launching of the Cosmic Express, gets to them first ...
Published in 2010; main web presence is here; Character Companion starts here; ordering lynx are here;
Contagion Collectors
- Sedon Plague -
Published in 2010; main web presence is here; Character Companion starts here; ordering lynx are here;
Janna Fangfingers
- Sedon Purge -
Published in 2011; two storylines recounted side-by-side, the titular one narrated by the Legendarian in 5980, the other indirectly leading into the 'Launch 1980' story cycle; main web presence is here; Character Companion starts here; ordering lynx are here;
In the Year of the Dome 4825, Morgan Abyss, the Melusine Master of the Utopian Weirdom of Cabalarkon, seizes control of Primeval Lilith, the ageless, seemingly unkillable Demon Queen of the Night. The eldritch earthborn is the real half-mother of the invariably mortal Sed-sons but, once she has hold of her, aka Lethal Lily, Master Morgan proceeds to trap the Moloch Sedon Himself.
In the midst of the bitter, century-long expansion of the Lathakran Empire, the Hidden Headworld's three tribes of devil-gods are forced to unite in an effort to release their All-Father. Unfortunately for them, they're initially unaware Master Morg, the Death's Head Hellion herself, has also got hold of the Trigregos Talismans, devic power foci that can actually kill devils, and Sedon's thought-father Cabalarkon, the Undying Utopian she'll happily slay if they dare attack her Weirdom.
Utopians from Weir have never given up seeking to wipe devils off not just the face of the Inner Earth, but off the planet itself. Their techno and biomages, under the direction of the Weirdom of Cabalarkon's extremely long-lived High Illuminary, Quoits Tethys, have determined there is only one sure way to do that -- namely, to infect the devils' Inner Earth worshippers with fatal plagues brought in from the Outer Earth.
Come All-Death Day there are more Dead Things Walking than Living Beings Talking. Believe it or not, that's the good news.
Published in 1990; main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here
The Damnation Brigade
- Phantacea Revisited 1 -
Published in 2013; main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here
Cataclysm Catalyst
- Phantacea Revisited 2 -
Published in 2014, main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here
Kadmon Heliopolis had one life. It ended in October 1968. The Male Entity has had many lives. In his fifth, he and his female counterpart, often known as Miracle Memory, engendered more so than created the Moloch Sedon. They believe him to be the Devil Incarnate. They've been attempting to kill him ever since. Too bad it's invariably he, Heliosophos (Helios called Sophos the Wise), who gets killed instead.
On the then still Whole Earth circa the Year 4000 BCE, one of their descendants, Xuthros Hor, the tenth patriarch of Golden Age Humanity, puts into action a thought-foolproof, albeit mass murderous, plan to succeed where the Dual Entities have always failed. He unleashes the Genesea. The Devil takes a bath.
Fifty-nine hundred and eighty years later, New Century Enterprises launches the Cosmic Express from Centauri Island. It never reaches Outer Space; not all of it anyhow. As a stunning consequence of its apparent destruction, ten extraordinary supranormals are reunited, bodies, souls and minds, after a quarter century in what they've come to consider Limbo. They name themselves the Damnation Brigade. And so it appears they are -- if perhaps not so much damned as doomed.
At least one person survives the launching of the Cosmic Express. He literally falls out of the sky -- on the Hidden Continent of Sedon's Head. An old lady saves him. Except this old lady lives in a golden pagoda, rides vultures and has a third eye. She also doesn't stay old long. He becomes her willing soldier, acquires the three Sacred Objects and goes on a rampage, against his own people, those that live.
Meanwhile, Centauri Island, the launch site of the Cosmic Express, comes under attack from Hell's Horsemen. Only it's not horses they ride. It's Atomic Firedrakes!
Artwork by Ricardo Sandoval, 2014; main web presence is here; back cover text is here; back cover characters, unobscured, are here; excerpts from the novel are here; additional lynx re 'Hel-Moon' are here; ordering lynx are here and here
Now available, the third graphic novel from Phantacea Publications extracts another complete story sequence from Phantacea 1-7 and Phantacea Phase One #1. Artwork by Dave Sim, Ian Fry, Sean Newton, Verne Andrusiek, and Ian Bateson
Thirty-six years after its original release, Jim McPherson completes his Launch 1980 project to novelize all the Phantacea comic books with the release of "Helios on the Moon"
pH-3 artwork by Richard Sandoval, 1978; rollover adjustments made by Jim McPherson, 2013
Jim McPherson continues his ongoing project to novelize the entire Phantacea comic book series
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Dedicated webpage can be found here; back cover text here; lynx to excerpts from the book start here and here; check out material that didn't make it here and related excerpts from its scheduled follow-up, 2014's "Helios on the Moon", here; for the time being its Auctorial Preamble is reprinted here and here
Centauri Island
- The web-serial enlarged radically -
Ian Bateson's unpublished artwork from Phantacea Seven provides the basis for the first full-length phantaceaMythos Mosaic Novel since "Goddess Gambit".
Ian Bateson's breathtaking wraparound cover for the novel utilizes his own dragons from pH-7. Those from the unfinished cover for the Phantacea Phase One project can be seen here and here.
Images in this row double-click to enlarge here and here
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Get hold of "Phantacea Revisited 1: The Damnation Brigade", a graphic novel collecting the DB-storyline from pH 1-5, as well as Phantacea Phase One #s 1 & 2 (unpublished) now available for ordering from Phantacea Publications
So proclaims Nergal Vetala, the Blood Queen of Hadd.
When her soldier falls out of the sky she's not only back in the pink again – as in arterial – she reckons she's found the perfect foil through which to play, and win, a Trigregos Gambit.
She might be right as well.
Thus Ends 'The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories' Trilogy
For more on the actual celestial phenomena upon which the eye-collages were based, click here. There's additional information re the Sedonic Eye here and here. The complete cover for Phase One #1 is here whereas yet another variation of it is here. The left eye double-click is the full cover for "Goddess Gambit", artwork by Verne Andru 2011/2. The right eye double-click is of Ian Bateson's enduring, 1986 Sedonic Eye as prepared by Jim McPherson, 2011. Gambit's main webpage is here.
"The 1000 Days of Disbelief" is not only 3/3rds Done, it's E-done (albeit for Kindle, not kidding nor kindling)
In part to celebrate the 35th Year of Anheroic Fantasy, Phantacea Publications is pleased to announce that "Feeling Theocidal", Book One of the trilogy, and all three mini-novels extracted from 1000-Daze are available on the Kindle platform from amazon.com and a number its affiliates worldwide.
Subtitled Sedonplay, Sedon Plague and Sedon Purge, the mini-novels commence, continue and conclude Book Two of 'The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories' trilogy.
Watch for e-versions of Book Three, "Goddess Gambit", and its full-length predecessor in the Launch 1980 story cycle, "The War of Apocalyptics", coming soon from Phantacea Publications.
Like the first two mini-novels extracted from 1000-Daze, "The Death's Head Hellion" and "Contagion Collectors", "Janna Fangfingers" contains a book-specific character companion. An Auctorial Prefatory and the opening chapter extracted from Gambit round out a 230-page volume bargain-priced at only $12.00 per book CAD and USD, vastly less as an e-book.
(Please note: although their character companions are for the most part applicable to Feel Theo, in large measure they're not so much so to either War-Pox or Gambit, which tend to feature characters more prevalent in the phantaceacomic books and web-serials.)
Together they carry on recording the multi-millennia-long chronicles of the gods and goddesses, the demons and monsters, of antique mythologies — the same seemingly endless saga also presented in the 1990 graphic novel, "Forever & 40 Days — The Genesis of phantacea", and the three, thus-far-published, full-length mosaic novels featuring Jim McPherson's Phantacea Mythos.
Each of the mini-novels is complete unto itself. Among many another character, they feature ThrygragosEveryman and his firstborn Unities (the incomparable Harmony, Thunder & Lightning Lord Order and Uncle Abe Chaos) in their freewheeling prime. On top of that, Fangers presents a framing story set in 5980 Year of the Dome. As such it could be considered a prequel to the Launch 1980 story cycle that began in earnest with War-Pox and eventually picks up again in Gambit.
[Check out www.phantacea.com for extracts, synopses, teasers, and a grab bag of even more intriguing graphics pertinent to Phantacea Publications' 35th anniversary.]
If they're not, kindly direct local librarians and neighbourhood booksellers to www.phantacea.com in order to start rectifying that sad situation. Either that or, if you're feeling even more proactive, click here, copy the link, paste it into an email and send it to them, along with everyone else you reckon could use a double dose of anheroic fantasy. It will certainly be appreciated.
Help build the buzz. The more books sell, the faster the PHANTACEA Mythos spreads.
E-books for Kindle, Kindle Fire, I-pad, I-phone and other applications can be ordered through amazon.com, amazon.co.uk and other amazon affiliates worldwide. An interactive e-book containing the entirety of "Feeling Theocidal", as built specifically for Adobe Reader, is available direct from the publisher. (Certified cheques or money orders only, please.) E-books on other platforms are also available. Check you favourite online bookseller for the latest list and ordering instructions for Phantacea Publications.
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.
As for the Whole Earth (other than the Hidden Continent of Sedon's Head, at least as far as I can say and always assuming it's still around in what be its 61st century), well, this page contains a list of a few other websites where you can probably order the novels in a variety of currencies and with credit cards.
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.
(***) indicates devils imprisoned on Incain within All, the self-proclaimed
Invincible She-Sphinx of Incain,
as of late November 1980;
(****) indicates devils dead, lost, or missing (fate unknown) as of late November 1980;
Third Generation Devils ('Master Devas') are always born in broods or litters of three by one of the Great Gods and all three of the Great Goddesses simultaneously;
Consequently, none of the triplet brood brothers & sisters can be considered born solely of one Trigregos Sister or another;
Some Master Devas, however, have more in common with a specific one of the Three Sisters and are therefore listed as such. As for the rest, please consider them interchangeable within their own threesome;
- evidently lost in the Celestial Sphere long prior to their Grandfather Sedon bringing the Sedonshem to the Moon over seven hundred years prior to the Genesea;
- named by Illuminaries of Weir after they heard this story sometime during the 4th millennium of the Dome (1000 - Year Zero BC);
two
'Primary Nucleoids'
Vayu Maelstrom
Devil Wind
power focus: evidently his topknot
- once worshipped in Mexico where he was called Hurican, hence the word hurricane;
-
as briefly noted in '1000 Daze', his main area of authority prior to the Expansion of the Empire of Lathakra in the 48th Century of the Dome was in the crashing islets of Jaag (see map), where existed the maelstrom that became his surname;
- pictured on what was supposed to be the cover for PHANTACEA Phase One #2, as reproduced here, and the front cover of pH-4, here; shown battling Demon Land on Damnation Isle here and seemingly fleeing from the Damnation Brigade here;
- the biggest and baddest devil pictured on the wraparound cover of pH-4, here
- if only to spite his Thrygragos of a father, seems to have trouble deciding which sex he (or she) should be, hence the 'mare' in his last name; as such a suggestive likeness on pHanta-pHlickr can be found here;
- uses one of Alfredo (Alpha Centauri) Sentalli's Untouchables (Connie Lindquist, Prince Translav's daughter) as her shell in December 1980 on Centauri Island
- throughout the 'Launch 1980' story cycle, she's also (mostly erroneously) believed to be occupying JPM; however, unlike just about anyone, APM can be in two places (and more) at once;
- her winged eyeballs are similar, perhaps even identical, to Gloriel's Little Angels, as per here and as also referenced here with respect to War-Pox;
-most impressive ability: to feed her winged eyeballs into Utopian Prison Pods (eyeorbs) thus filling them up and rendering them useless;
- All of Incain hates APM because her winged eyeballs not only fill her up they give the She-Sphinx indigestion;
- as per here, whoever she possesses tends to gain twinkly eyes;
Damon Goldenrod
Byron's Apollo, the Gleaming Deva
- traditional ruler of Manoa, the Gleaming City, capital of El Dorado, the Golden Land, which he had built, until the conquered the Empire of Lathakra sometime during the Dome's 48th Century
- one of Alfredo (Alpha Centauri) Sentalli's Untouchables (Yataghan Sentalli, the Fatman's son by Emeralda Plantagenet) in the 1980 story sequences;
- mentioned fairly often in "The
1000 Days of Disbelief" but as of 2010 only appears in "Nuclear Dragons", an in-print variation on the 'Centauri Island' web-serial, and the Phantaceacomic books, albeit as his then most common shell in the mid-20/60th Century, Yataghan born Sentalli, raised Montressor);
- a per 'Harry on the Head', connected to Gomez Niarchos, father of Ferdinand, an Inner Summoning Child once codenamed 'El Dorado', the Golden One;
(**&***) Nevair Neverknight
Byron's Paladin
power focus or Tvasitar talisman: his ebon shield (from which he conjures his armour and, occasionally, his mighty steed)
- fancies himself Byron's champion, though his enthusiasm for taking umbrage and thereafter getting into entirely unnecessary fights has got him into such trouble over the centuries his father often imprisoned him within All of Incain
- protectorate: Samarand (which is now on the far east coast of the Head's occipital region but was formerly Sedon's Tongue; how that came about is detailed in '1000 Daze')
- In human form, one of Alfredo (Alpha Centauri) Sentalli's Untouchables (Dr Hiyati Samarand, Project Centauri's overseer since the 1950s) in the 1980 story sequences; as such mentioned numerous times throughout pH-Webworld;
- as per 'Nuke', the Weirdom of Samarand (once called Sedon's Tongue Stud) is home to Utopian biomages who actually worship Yati (Utopians are supposed to dedicate their lives to exterminate devils, not sing their praises)
Heroic Hektoris
- called Headstrong by some, Headcase by others, Byron's Defender
power focus: the Helmet of Hektoris
- often called Byron's Headstrong Headcase in part because of his helmet but also because of his comparative ease of mastery over mortals otherwise difficult to possess such as Amoebamen and Callion Clones
- more than just occasionally occupied Godfrey Necator, the Fatman's Summoning Aged enforcer, during the Godbadian Civil War of the Fifties and early Sixties
- one of Alfredo (Alpha Centauri) Sentalli's Untouchables (Adolph Dulles, then Angus Skullian) in the 1980 story sequences;
- the month of Hektor (August) is named after Hektoris
Elephantine Ganesh(a)
Lord of Obstacles
Power focus: his trunk
There's a picture (taken in India, 2005) in the rollovers of a Hindu Ganesh at the top of this page
- One of Alfredo (Alpha Centauri) Sentalli's Untouchables (George Hannibal) in the 1980 story sequences;
Tau Hanuman
Monkey-like
calls his power focus the bazooka banana
(Hanuman and the bazooka banana are mentioned in 'The
1000 Days of Disbelief' as one of the inspirations for the repeating eyeorbs stuck into Master Morgan Abyss's All-Eyes Contraption)
There's a note on Hanuman and a picture (taken in India, 2005) of a Hindu Hanuman here
- One of Alfredo (Alpha Centauri) Sentalli's Untouchables (Patrick Monk) in the 1980 story sequences;
Vach Hathor
Cow-like
One of Alfredo (Alpha Centauri) Sentalli's Untouchables (Rowena Raymond, one of Paul Creel’s nurses) in the 1980 story sequences;
six
Malar Tzigame
Byron's Butterfly
- probable devic half-mother of Akbar and Meroudys Artha by Dand Tariqartha while in Temporis ca 5800 YD (if so then she was in Fairy Queen Cabala; he in Fairy King Archon)
- pictured in double-clickable poster graphic below;
Actually buffalo-headed and not bull-headed; Sundown may unwitting have his head, minus the skull, in the form of his issiwun, a gift from Sorciere, in both War-Pox and DecDam;
Xolotl
(Gemini the Twins)
Conjoined Twins called in the Popol Vuh Hunahpu & Xbalanque
- one stays between-space at all times like the Garuda twins)
Byron's Summer Zodiacals
Chelonian Aten
(Cancer the Crab)
- might be connected to Lady Lemurian, an Inner Earth Summoning Child whose actual name is Amphitrite, like the Cretan Sea Goddess from the time of the Outer Earth's Goddess Culture ca 20000-1500 BC;
Balam Jaguar
(Leo the Lion)
Kanya Furrow
(Virgo the Maiden)
Byron's Autumn Zodiacals
Libra No-Eyes
power focus or Tvasitar talisman: the Scales of Justice;
Baron Justice II (Timothy James Maxwell) may have been given either her blindfold or something like it by his mother, Aranyani always Nightingale, on the day he acquired his abilities -- see cover of pH-1 for illustration;
Hala Sadrapa
(Scorpio the Scorpion)
One of Alfredo (Alpha Centauri) Sentalli's Untouchables (Mavis Chester, a psychologist) in the 1980 story sequence;
Djerrid
Ruin
Byron's Bowman
(Sagittarius the Archer but
also called Byron's Green Man)
- possesses one of Alfredo (Alpha Centauri) Sentalli's Untouchables (Roderick Paraja) in the 1980 story sequences;
talisman: a shepherd's crooked staff or pedum, which adheres to the Goat, PusanWanderlust (Taurus Chrysaor Attis's self-declared deviant daughter), lifetime after lifetime;
- often associated with Wanderlust, a Wayfarer in the Wild Weird who purports to be an ever re-borning deviant, not a devic suicide
originally belonging to the Unmoving One's tribe as Byron's Goatfish,
his Zodiacal equivalent of Capricorn;
One of Alfredo (Alpha Centauri) Sentalli's Untouchables (Bonn ‘Bomber’ Kim) in the 1980 story sequences;
Kunta-Kintu Mawu-Lisa
Zebranid
One of Alfredo (Alpha Centauri) Sentalli's Untouchables (Kintu Matambwe, a particle physicist) in the 1980 story sequences;
Tzihk-Rzrui Petrogod
Protectorate: New Iraxas
One of Alfredo (Alpha Centauri) Sentalli's Untouchables (Benoit Dugas) in the 1980 story sequences
Byron's Hours (Horae)
Eunomia
- ethical Horae representing youth and family, especially familial authority
- described as wearing strands of knotted cloth;
Tyche
- ethical Horae representing Justice
- described as having the wings of an angel with candle-like, fire-tipped fingers that burned as if torches;
Eirene
- ethical Horae representing Peace
- described a having a changeable face such that she could be young one second and old the next;
Byron's Hours (Horae)
Thallo
- seasonal Horae also known as Blossom, Byron's Spring
- spring runoff as tears from her eyes
Auxo
- seasonal Horae also known as Growth, Byron's Summer
Karpo
- seasonal Horae also known as Ripened, Byron's Winter
... those devils born of Thrygragos Byron by the Trigregos Sisters before Heliosophos caused Weirstar to go supernova. As such they are part of the Third Generation
of Devazurkind. These Master Devas made up about a quarter of those that
eventually reached the Whole Earth in the year 669 PD;
Great God: Lazareme the Lackland Libertine, Thrygragos Everyman
Litter or Breed
Demeter
('Body')
Sapiendev
('Mind')
Devaura
('Spirit')
one
'The Unities'
(****) Datong Harmonia
the Unity of Harmony or Balance, as well as Panharmonium, almost always referred to as Harmony;
talisman: a golden torc, called, not surprisingly, the Necklace of Harmony;
- from which she extends her chain-mail body,
manacles and the broken chains that she extends off them; these last emit chain lightning and effects similar to the incomparable Northern Lights, with which she's been associated for next door to forever -- or at least 4000 years;
power base: the Brainrock Wall or Gypsium Curtain (Sedon's Hairband);
as first revealed in "Feeling
Theocidal", called herself Nemesis after killing King Cadmus
of Thebes circa 2500 YD (1500 BC); a quote re Harm, as taken from Feel Theo, is here;
also in Feel Theo, she proclaims herself the original animus for the Female Entity (Mnemosyne)
as revealed in 'TheVolsungVariations',
circa 5927 YD she's reborn as a mortal referred to as either Wolfie or Witchie in 5938 sequences;
someone claiming to be her started calling herself Freespirit
Nihila in 5980 YD; as such, she appears in parts of all four
books in the 'Launch 1980' cycle of stories;
- way more re the exquisite firstborn links from here; she's also described here;
- suggestive likeness on pHanta-pHlickr here
(*) Lord Yajur
- the Unity of Order, Thunder and Lightning Lord of the Sparking Azuras;
talisman: the lightning blade, which emits vajra thunderbolts;
power base: the Upper Head's easternmost or occipital regions;
- reference made to him as one of Durer's Apocalyptics here; appears on front cover of pH-3; although difficult to see, the same image used here; see also here, here and here;
Unholy Abaddon
the Unity of Chaos
talisman: a trident that sheathes the chaos blade, which emits black
lightning;
power base: the uppermost region of the Cattail Peninsula, Sedon's
Ponytail;
- Ian Fry's drawing of Abe Chaos is here; reference made to him as one of Durer's Apocalyptics here; there's a more accurate image of him in the 3 Unities collage here; see also here; something of a post Daze spoiler is here, here and here;
- after the 1000 Days of Disbelief as often as not referred to as (Uncle) Abe Chaos;
- suggestive likeness (Abe Chaos as Poseidon-Neptune holding onto a dolphin's tail) on pHanta-pHlickrhere;
(****) Flowery Anthea
Spring, Eastertide or Planting Season, Sex and Fertility
Illuminaries of Weir named her after the Anthea who was Xuthros Hor's wife and, like him,
survived the Genesea;
power focus or talisman: an unresolved subject debated in "Feeling
Theocidal";
- some say her power focus was the kibisis or bottomless bag the
Attis carried with him throughout his many successions until Thrygragon;
- others say it was the cestus or love girdle still worn by the Medusa
(Mater Matare or Mother Murder) throughout "The War of the Apocalyptics");
Krepusyl Evenstar
(once Mariamne Dawnstar), nowadays also known as the Grey Lady
Protectorate: Crepuscule (the Land of Twilight, Sedon's Outer Nose)
(formerly, albeit when it was on the other side of Head, the Land
of Daybreak)
power focus or talisman: the Morgenstern or Holy Water Sprinkler
- devil goddess of the feeorin or fays of Twilight — rather, as per "Contagion Collectors" in particular, the closest faeries come to having a goddess other than Mother Earth;
- in "Contagion Collectors", as thanks for her assistance when dealing with the Hoodoo Hamlet circa 5000 YD, her father, Thrygragos Lazareme, allowed her to claim Twilight as her protectorate; she thus became the first Lazaremist 'officially' allowed to have a protectorate;
-
stipulated devic half-mother of the original incarnation of the recurring deviant, Jordan
Tethys;
- power focus or talisman: the cauldron used by Methandra Thanatos throughout the Launch Tetralogy (which she acquired during the expansion of the Empire of Lathakra during the Dome's 48th Century, when Metis was ring-gotten);
- animates Morgianna (Superior) Sarpedon's psychopomp-familiar, Metowl, in the 5950s and apparently is still around in the 5980s, only by then she's connected to Night Owl, the vampiric demon whose alternate form is an owl, not a bat;
Dand Tariqartha
Lazareme's Earth Magician ("The Persian"), the Time-Space
Displacer, the Chronocollector;
Protectorate: Temporis;
talisman: a staff with the likeness of his head atop it (known as
the power sceptre);
- devic half-father of the Kronokronoi, the likes of Kronokronos Akbarartha, his sister Meroudys and Susano Mikoto, as well as Kronakrona Lakshmi of Lemuria;
- but for the three eyes, a fairly accurate likeness of the Dand can be found here on pHanta-pHlickr; an even better one, with three eyes and a moai (don't ask) is here
Tvasitar Smithmonger
- 'Artificer', 'Vulcanian', the devic smithy who forges devils' power
foci (hence why they're called Tvasitar talismans);
- protectorate: Sedon's Peak;
- talisman: the anvil, from which he extracts all his other tools or implements;
- longtime lover of Klannit Thanatos (the Mirror Mentalist, Mirrors), Methandra's lone non-devic offspring,
the first azura in the known cosmos (see also here);
- as described of 'The
1000 Days of Disbelief', not so much the inventor of ringots as their maker; the 1st Ringleader gets hold of some of them during the Simultaneous Summonings of 19/5920;
- featured in "Sedon's
Stooge", a chapter in the revised version of 'TheTrigregosGambit',
both it and a somewhat more generalized, if not actually inaccurate, origin for devic power focuses should still be online;
(****) Vishnuvita Summergrowth
Summer or Growing
talisman: a sheaf of cut-green stalks of wheat still on the rise
protectorate: in the Pastures of Plenty
(****) Vanalana Wheatstalk
Fall or Harvest
talisman: a cornucopia brimming with the fall’s bounty
protectorate: in the Pastures of Plenty
(*) Wintry Moira
Fata Fortuna, Lazareme's Fate, aka Dame Chance and the luscious Lady Luck
Winter, Dying and Re-boring
talisman: the 3-spoked wheel of fortune (called the Triskelion);
- Rumour of Lazareme's longtime lover prior to the Crimson Conspiracy's aftermath when he was reputedly eaten by faeries in the then Land of Daybreak (see here);
- some of their azuras, called Fatazurs, were believed to have symbiotic qualities the same as BattleBabe's Sangazurs;
- as per 'TheVampireVariations', some of the other offspring, from different devils, were known as Cardazurs; Tom-Tiddly Taddletale seems to be composed of them in 5937/8
- once
rumoured to be devic half-mother of all the Quill
Tethys Legendarians;
- as a result, her Triskelion (though not her) often comes into play in the latter stages of "The Death's Head Hellion", albeit not wielded by her;
- many centuries later, in the mid to late 55th Century of the Dome, Lord Yajur unintentionally cathonitized
her;
- presumably released or, more likely,
drawn out of Cathonia sometime thereafter;
- the sheer cloth or sheath statues of Lady Luck or Dame Fortune are often shown wearing is actually a caul (a fragment of amniotic membrane), an ages old symbol of good luck;
Badhbh
aka Battle Babe
talisman: the Sabre Rattle; a Morrigu or Battle Goddess;
considered the inspirational soul of the triad;
one of the many devic mothers of the Sangazurs;
Unofficial protectorate in 5980: Valhalla (The Bloodlands, Sedon's
Outer Nose);
Nemain
a Morrigu or Battle Goddess;
considered conflict's wits, the genius general or main brains of
the triad;
Mara Macha
often called Nightmare; a Morrigu or Battle Goddess;
the physical as well facial front of the triad; the one who does
most of the in-person fighting;
appears primarily in 'TheVolsungVariations';
an example of her essential nastiness is preserved here;
seven
Irisiel
Mercherm
- Lazareme's Female Heliodromus or messenger;
- talisman: a pair of talaria (winged sandals);
- called Speedy, for reasons obvious; also sometimes called 'Winged Booties' after her Tvasitar talisman
- see also here, here and using the Search Engine at the top of the page;
(****) Rumour
power focus or Tvasitar talisman: a Brainrock quill that adheres
to Jordan 'Quill' Tethys;
-
forever lover of Dame Chance; some of their azuras, called Fatazurs, were believed to have symbiotic qualities the same as BattleBabe's Sangazurs
- while wandering in the Land of Daybreak (before it became Twilight)
may have disappeared inside a faerie knoll or mound circa 4000 YD;
- one theory says he was eaten therein and, when excreted, became TomcatTattletail, who took perverse delight tormenting Harmony by masquerading as their father, Thrygragos Lazareme, on both sides of the Dome;
- there are an increasing number of Tomcat likenesses on pHanta-pHlickr; see a faun, that could be him; see him here, here or here for instances;
- may also have committed devic suicide to escape from Phantast
the Dream Weaver, a firstborn Mithradite, in the aftermath of
the Crimson Conspiracy circa 4000 YD;
- connected to Jordan Q. Tethys:
'The Legendarian', '30-Beers', the legendary 30-Year Man who purports
to be an ever re-aborning deviant, not a devic suicide;
- the 'Q' in the Legendarian's birth name always stands for 'Quill';
- as a deviant he claims his devic mother is Titanic Metis while his father is Rumour of Lazareme, who
disappeared in a faerie knoll or mound circa 4000 YD;
(****) Goatish Amal-Althea
- Lazareme's Nurse or Female Healer;
- also known as Althea Brand, Goat, Fauna, Trailblazer;
- power focus or Tvasitar talisman: a caduceus;
- in Feel Theo, she's connected to PusanWanderlust, a Wayfarer in the Weird who purports to be an ever re-aborning deviant, not a devic suicide
(Deneb Makara) originally belonging to the Unmoving One's tribe as Byron's Goat or Goatfish,
his Zodiacal equivalent of Capricorn;
- thus far Amal-Althea only appears (briefly) in Feel Theo;
eight
(****) Mandorla Auricaura
- Enlightenment, Saintliness
- power focus: vesica pisces
- usually manifests herself as hazy female partially obscured by a bright, almond-shaped, body halo or incandesent lightbulb (the symbol for having an idea);
- presumed by some to be Fisherwoman's
devic half-mother because the infant Fish was found with her visica pisces power focus attached to her navel, where it stayed as she grew up;
power focus: 3-lensed spectacles
- doesn't have a protectorate as such but tends to hang out in the eastern Mystic Mountains (Sedon's Crown)
-
seems to act as Lazareme's ambassador to difficult places such as the Weirdom of Kanin City post-Thrygragon, as per 'The
1000 Days of Disbelief';
- pictured in in pH:
4-ever&40, which can still be ordered;
- therein he appears as the narrator of the graphic novel's final sections, which depict Xuthros Hor calling down, and up, the Great Flood of Genesis (the Genesea) and the Devil Sedon raising the Cathonic Dome out of his own essence;
Antagone Negaura
- protectorate: the Land of Nothingness, on the Cattail Peninsula;
- the Negative Deva, also known as both Perfection and Antigen;
- Unholy Abaddon's forever lover after he committed devic suicide to end the so-called 1,000 Days of Disbelief;
- her connection with Abe Chaos mentioned a few times in "Helios on the Moon";
- two-faced Janus-type often called Steam to Sedona's Smoke;
???
Holy Hetaera
- the Whore of Lazareme sometimes thought of as the Biblical Whore of Babylon;
-evidently a favourite
bedmate of her father
- mentioned in "Helios on the Moon", the third entry in the 'Launch 1980' story cycle, as being named after the singular of ‘hetaerae’ (Ancient Greek courtesans);
Icy Miros
Mirrors
Crystal Mountains
(****) Djinn Ghoster
Male Heliodromus;
silver serving tray;
Ursine Bardol
power focus: a thick, Brainrock tree branch with a club head
shaped like a beehive;
bear-like, the devil-god of the Barrings, who proliferate in the northern mountains of the Cattail Peninsula;
(Appears in PREGAME-Gambit and 'The
1000 Days of Disbelief'; see also here)
Lemolo Furioso
onetime protectorate: the Forever Forest of
Wildwyck;
- the ferocious faun;
-
could prove to be the Furie, Dervish Furie's animus or driving engine;
Shadreech the Howler
???
'The Black Godlings'
(*) Faustus Vladuca
'The Fop', 'Fangfingers', 'First Fangs';
-
talisman or power focus: the fang-fingered Brainrock glove
(NOTE: the 60th Century's surrogate vampire queen,
Janna born Somata {'Second Fangs'}, acquires it during the course of 'The Disunition
of the Unities', which provides the basis for 'Fangfingers - The
1000 Days of Disbelief' storyline);
- a Black Godling who may be the origin of the Black King Molechs
or Vampire Makers from the 'Heliodyssey' serials;
- voluntarily became a vampire, arguably the 1st devic vamp circa
5492 YD;
- fire imp known to serve Tvasitar Smithmonger in Prometheum atop the Demeter Cliff of Sedon's Peak
Damnameneus the Hammer
- fire imp known to serve Tvasitar Smithmonger in Prometheum atop the Demeter Cliff of Sedon's Peak
Celmis the Mould
- fire imp known to serve Tvasitar Smithmonger in Prometheum atop the Demeter Cliff of Sedon's Peak
- name means casting
... those devils born of Thrygragos Lazareme by the Trigregos Sisters before Heliosophos caused Weirstar
to go supernova. As such they are part of the Third Generation of Devazurkind.
These Master Devas made up about a quarter of those that eventually reached
the Whole Earth in the year 669 PD;
one: "The Deadly Thanatoids" -- thought-firstborn Mithradite Death Gods
Tantal
Thanatos
'King Cold'
-protectorate: the highly volcanic Icicle Isle of Lathakra, once
Sedon's Horn then Sedon's Cataract and finally Sedon's "Frozen
Flake of Dandruff" off the east coast of the Cattail Peninsula;
- the devic deity of both the Frozen Isle's Intuits and Fire Kings;
-
Cold to his wife and immediate sister's Heat;
- power focus or talisman: a double-headed war-axe called the Labrys;
Illuminaries named him after the Ancient Greeks' God of Death but
Ancient Czechs worshipped him as Krondakis, King of Peaks;
Has a pet skunk he named Sedon (it's probably a demon);
The month of Tantalar (December) is named after him;
- more info and a character collage can be found here and here;
- primary azura and fourth generational devic offspring are listed and described here;
(*) Phantast Thanatos
'Dream' or 'Dream Weaver'
unofficial protectorate: Crimson
- power focus or talisman: knitting needle that multiplies variably;
- the Crimson wetlands are a boggy canker or sore on Sedon's Upper Lip within the Forbidden Forest of KalaTal; however, (as noted in 'The 1000 Days of Disbelief',
he was cathonitized as a consequence of the Crimson Conspiracy of circa 4000 YD, which occurred previous to protectorates being proclaimed inviolable in the aftermath of Thrygragon;
- as per 1000 Daze, for hundreds of years he hosted a bacchanal in Crimson on Midsummer's Night (Azky the 24th throughout the Hidden Headworld); hence Sedon's Hedon;
- seems to have dropped Mordira Faeriedust in favour of Strife-Marutia sometime shortly before instigating the Crimson Conspiracy beyond the Dome;
Methandra
Thanatos
'Scarlet Seeress' 'Sorceress', 'Crimson Queen' or 'Hotstuff';
-
once Mithras's Virgin;
-
as Mediterranean Athena
the Athenan War Witches' devic deity;
-
Heat to her husband and immediate
brother's Cold;
-
the devic deity of both Mythland's
and the Frozen Isle's Intuits
- protectorate: Mythland, the Jewel of Sedon's Crown, though as of
4825 YD usually found on Lathakra;
- power focus or talisman: a sorceress's cane, sometimes called the
Firebrand or Matchstick;
- more info and a character collage can be found here and here;
- primary azura and fourth generational devic offspring are listed and described here;
(*) Beguiling Belialma
'SinistralLust';
Hell's Bouncing Belle; Belting Beltis to the Bull's
Baal;
- power focus or talisman: the Ruby Red Apple of Concupiscence;
- twice ruled Satanwyck (Sedon's Temple); first until Thrygragon then again during Age of Panharmonium (until Chaos cathonitized
her during 1000 Days of Disbelief);
- when she ruled Satanwyck the month of February was name Belialmam, after her; nowadays it's called Balek after Baaloch Hellblob, Sinistral Sloth
- suggestive likeness on pHanta-pHlickr, with apple, here
(****) Divine Coueranna
'Myrionymous Kore', Kore-Concord; Kore of the Many Names and Multiple
Personalities;
- power focus or talisman: the Little Green Apple of Everlasting
Youth (Rejuvenesence);
- in terms of Outer Earth mythology identified with Phrygian Cybele (Magna Mater, the Great Mother)
- once ruled Apple Island (Sedon's Human Eye-Isle);
-
later ruled Kore's
Hell, on the other side of the Brainrock river Styx, within Mt Maenalus
on Ap Isle;
- Kore's Cathdral on Ap Isle is still known as the Palladium; it's in Corona City;
- the Kore Games on Apple Isle are known as the Maternalia;
- from roughly Years of the Dome 0 to 2000 she was solidified by virtue
of occupying dozens of her sisters in Thrygragos Varuna Mithras;
- mother, by Mithras (whom she believed was her father) of the
Head's oldest and at one time most plentiful group of azuras (Mithrazurs):
- see here for more on the Corn Queen's Great Goddess;
- see below for another possible image; - suggestive likeness on pHanta-pHlickrhere, with howsoever horsey-looking dogcart;
-
here, on a plaque translated from French; given a crumbly face complete with third eye-dent, here; there's another comment re Concord here
- additional notes here re Magna Mater, her cult, that of Mithras and the ancient Taurobolium Ceremony associated with both can be found on the Free Dictionary here;
- ruled Sedon's Cheek (Marutia) from roughly 2000 YD until she disappeared
some decades after 4000 YD;
- power focus or talisman: the Golden Apple of Discord (melted out of existence ca 4000 YD while seeking to escape Grandfather Sedon's wrath);
- starting circa 2000 YD and lasting for over 2,000 years after that
she was Mithras's mate;
- when possessing the Female Entity became the devic half-mother
of the Attis (TaurusChrysaorAttis), a recurring deviant known as both the Golden-Brown Warrior and the Universal Soldier;
- there are a number of images of said deviant half-son, phantacea's Chrysaor Attis online; one on pHanta-pHlickr is here; the description that goes with it is perhaps imperfectly translated here;
- as (mostly) per Feel Theo mother, by Mithras (whom she believed was her father), of 2000
years worth of Mithrazurs;
- lost her power focus and daemonic body seeking to swim across Sedon's Peak's lava lake filled with molten Brainrock, ca 4000 YD (Year 0 AD);
- thereafter forced to occupy a number of shells over the decades; these shells would be the daughters of small case sedons or Sed-sons;
-
as Faceless Strife she in a number of web-serials including 'Coueranna'sCurse', 'Aspects ofan
Amoebaman', 'CentauriIsland' & 'Helioson theMoon';
- there's an illustrated feature on her in the Pivotal Players webpage; there's also more on her and her fellow Apple Goddesses here and here;
- suggestive likeness of her (as a nun) on pHanta-pHlickrhere;
-
even though she's never been a headless blemmy, there's another comment re Strife here;
- among other places her connection to Cybele St Synne after the Simultaneous Summonings of 19/5920 is noted here;
three
believed lost
Loquileptic
(devic god of 'Divine Madness')
Plathon
(Cruel, Kind or Indifferent)
- Multi-Horns, the Bull of Mithras; Baal to Belialma's
Beltis;
- power focus or talisman: a bident;
- devic protectorate: Corona City on Apple Isle (which he calls Apis
Isle), became responsible for Theopolis Hill after Thrygragon;
- training for the Bull Games (Paternalia) on Apis Isle take place in Palaestra, Plathon's palace, which is in Corona City;
NOTE: as per 'Feeling
Theocidal', if Smiler is right and the VAM Entity is the entirety of Thrygragos Sedon's firstborn set of three, then most probably Plathon is actually a Fourth Born;
'Planter' of the Nergalids (the other two being the Grower and the Harvester); 'Gravedigger', 'Devil
Doom', 'Undertaker';
power focus or talisman: a spade;
- devic protectorate: once ruled Grand Elysium, Elysian Fields, the
original Valhalla, in Sedon's stead;
- onetime King of Hell on Earth, he co-ruled Satanwyck (Sedon's Temple) alongside Bouncing Belle (Sinistral Lust)
until the Unity of Chaos cathonitized him
(and her) during "The 1000 Days of Disbelief";
- seems to have been blamed for many of the eminently forgettable Smiler's
misdeeds over the centuries because trying to relocate and properly
kill Devil Doom obsesses the by now wholly daemonic Abe Chaos throughout
both 'Coueranna'sCurse' and 'TheVolsungVariations' web-serials;
- but for a third eye (unless he's got four eyes, albeit without wearing glasses) a suggestive likeness of the onetime King of Hell can found on pHanta-pHlickrhere;
- early on rival of Thrygragos Varuna Mithras from centuries before devils acquired power foci mentioned in 'Pyrame's Progress';
five
'The Earthlings'
Yama
Nergal
- King Harvest, 'Reaper' or 'Harvester' of the Nergalids (the other two being the Planter and the Grower); the second devic 'Grim Reaper'
and only devil who can survive in the Ghostlands (original Valhalla);
- power focus or talisman: a transmutable pick-axe that often looks
like a scythe;
According to Judge Druj (Smiler), while speaking to Plathon in 'Pyrame's Progress', Mines and Minerals were cathonitized by Lord Order (Yajur) in the 49th Century of the Dome during their attempt to wrest Temporis from Dand Tariqartha;
According to Judge Druj (Smiler), while speaking to Plathon in 'Pyrame's Progress', Mines and Minerals were cathonitized by Lord Order (Yajur) in the 49th Century of the Dome during their attempt to wrest Temporis from Dand Tariqartha;
- as per Feel Theo, often appears as a hermaphroditic toad, which is why some devils address him as 'Toad'
- as per 1000 Daze, sometimes jokingly refers to his power focus as a noggin neutralizer whereas other devils, much less kindly, sometimes call it his dunce cap;
there an approximate likeness of this "dunce cap" on pHanta-phlickrhere
- a photo essay with quotes from War-Pox starts here
(*) Nakba Ramazar
Catastrophe or Disaster, the Headless Apocalyptic of Sudden Destruction,
- lost his head after falling for Flowery Anthea,
a Lazaremist, not long after
devils became solid;
later fell for Krepusyl of Crepuscule for whom he created the Crystal
Skulls still used by Sangazur-animated Dead Things to communicate
with each other;
-name derives from 'in the middle of the fire', not pyramid;
- among the most myrionymous of all devils; as such also called 'Providence', 'The Pauper Priestess', 'Egyptian', 'Sumerian'; 'Tanith, Queen of Cretan Phaistos' for hundreds of years; Astroarche,
Queen of Courts; Queen Gomorrah to Sedon's King Sodom;
- in the absence of a power focus to call her own, she seems to have adopted the All-Seeing Eye of Providence as her symbol;
- called the Pauper Priestess because she has no talisman to call her own and no protectorate to call her home; if she's priestess it's of Sedon, her forever mate;
- after the ruination of the Upper Head in 4825 YD (rendering much of it the Ghostlands) she ceased living at the Grand Elysium pyramid, by far the largest on the Whole Earth;
- can often be found on the Prison Beach of Incain where she lives within, and seemingly controls, All the Invincible She-Sphinx;
- co-ruled the devic third of Crete as Queen Tanith to Sedon's (actually Smiler's) King Rhadamanthys from roughly
2000-2500 YD (2000-1500 BC) or until Novadev caused Stongyne to blow its heart into the sky;
- also mentioned in a Serendipity and ... entry here
(*) Cathune Bubastis
cat-faced 'Apocalyptic of Drought'
protectorate: Sisert (The Silent Sands of Cathune);
power focus: sandstorm hourglass;
barren, has no known azuras;
- when brood sister Pyrame ruled the devic third of Crete as Queen Tanith, Cathune ruled Egypt from a base in Bubastis (hence her surname) as the Cat Queen consort to the Sun God (Ptah?), who might have been Thrygragos Mithras but could also have been Thrygragos Lazareme;
In "Feeling Theocidal" she's connected to Mars Bellona, the Apocalyptic of War; however, she rejected him due to serial infidelities and became barren instead;
there's a photo essay on her here; there's also a shorter note on her here;
Tralalorn
'White Dwarf'; Lost Lorna; 'The Perpetual Presence' (female, child);
- no protectorate of her own but, in 5980, she was most often found
on Apple Isle (Sedon's Human Eye-Isle on a map of the Hidden Headworld);
- might not be a devil; argument that she's actually Pyrame's demon-daughter noted here;
- quotes from Feel Theo re Trala and her 3-headed Stynx of
a chimera, circa 4376, are preserved here and here;
- theory that Trala was, as per here,
the Eden Nightingale Mama Rhea (unless it was the Pyrame/Lilith/MemoryMiracleMaenad)
sacrificed in the Totem Pool in April/Antheal 19/5916 has never been
confirmed;
- as per here, Trala devolved Young Life & Young Death in late Tantalar 5920; what she did at Pyrame/Lilith's
bidding on the 25th of Tantalar 5920 is also preserved here
- connected to the Succubus Doll, Simple Simone's Raggedy Annie dolly, and as such a member of Strife's Sinister Siisterhood in the late Forties beyond the Dome;
Calcutta Famish
'Apocalyptic of Famine or Hunger';
- a skeletal starveling with washboard ribs and a locust’s
head, though sometimes also appears as 3-eyed, deathly white locust;
- sometimes also called Pestilence,
though, in the absence of Kinsecto/Quensecto, who could have been lost during the Great Flood, that may be an affected attribute;
she briefly appears in 'Feeling Theocidal' where she's described as per here; also mentioned in 'Harry on the Head' as per here;
Diluvia Ran
'Apocalyptic of Flood'
- a puffy, humanoid rain cloud with a gloomy disposition to match;
- sometimes referred to as Cloud-Headed Ran, for reasons obvious;
- presumed by some to be Fisherwoman's
devic half-mother because the infant Fish was found with her power focus, a fish or gillnet, lying next to her in the belly of the beast (Island Leviathan) in 5918;
- as per here, Fish seems to have acquired her power focus, a Fishnet, or one like it
- Mithras's epitome of Midsummer or the Summer Season (Mithras himself epitomized
Winter);
- in one version of the Strongyne cycle he drunkenly caused it to blow up,
thereby ending the Mad Goddesses' Mediterranean matriarchy circa
2500 YD (1500 BC), whereupon Sedon cathonitized him;
- his story is told in "Feeling Theocidal"
and repeated in "The 1000 Days of Disbelief"; escapes the Sedon Sphere in the Launch 1980 story cycle;
- he's the character Colonel Avatar Sol explodes into in pH-2 after the interception of the Cosmic Express by WORLD's Kamikaze Craft;
- the term 'Novadev-nuclear' refers to what he did to Strongyne;
- often used Mildoth the Firedrake as his mount during 500 year Goddess Culture on Outer Earth 2000-1500 BC
(**) Tammuz
Equinoctial Spring
Apple Isle then the Prison Beach of Incain
- Mithras's epitome of Mid-Spring or the Spring Season; also one of Mithras's
torchbearers (Cautes), the one whose torch points upwards;
- power focus or talisman: a torch or rockets usually shown pointing
up, as if in anticipation of Summer (Novadev);
- one of the Idiot or Atomic Twins who went 'Novadev-nuclear' on the Lathakran armies and their two devil-gods (King Cold and his Crimson Queen) just as they were about to launch an invasion of the Weirdom of Cabalarkon on Samhain 4825 YD;
(**) Osiraq
Equinoctial Autumn
Apple Isle then the Prison Beach of Incain
- Mithras's epitome of Mid-Autumn and the Autumn Season; also one of Mithras's
torchbearers (Cautopates), the one whose torch points downwards;
- power focus or talisman: a torch or rocket usually shown pointing
down, as if in anticipation of Winter (Mithras);
- one of the Idiot or Atomic Twins who went 'Novadev-nuclear' on the Lathakran armies and their two devil-gods (King Cold and his Crimson Queen) just as they were about to launch an invasion of the Weirdom of Cabalarkon on Samhain 4825 YD;
twelve
(****) Nergal Vetala
'Fecundity'; the 'Grower' of the Nergalids (the other two being the Planter and the Harvester);
later both the 'Vampire Queen of the Dead' and the Blood Queen of
Hadd;
- power focus: the moon sickle;
- devic protectorate: somewhere in the Upper Head long pre-Ghostlands then
usurped control of Iraxas from the Byronics during expansion of Empire of Lathakra in 48th Century of the Dome;
(NOTE: Iraxas became Hadd during
the 1st War between the Living and the Dead, which resulted in 'The 1000 Days of Disbelief')
- featured throughout the PHANTACEAcomic
book series, except for pH-1, and was the major devic character in both versions of 'TheTrigregosGambit';
-
appeared in the Faerie Garden during 'The
War ofthe Apocalyptics';
- was
also a highly significant player/threat in virtually all of
the 1938 Heliodyssey Quintet of novels in that she was somehow incarnated around 1860 within Rhea of the Ararats then, after the Simultaneous Summonings of 19/5920, transferred to BarsineMandam via Rhea's 1st born, OlympiasSangati, whose
father Azrael was a Blood Beast
Prime like Count Molech;
- appeared
memorably, if briefly, as Fecundity in 'Feeling Theocidal';
-
plays a significant role in the latter stages of 'The 1000 Days of Disbelief';
-
was depicted humanizing Machine-Memory in pH:
4-ever&40, which can still be ordered;
- appears on front cover of 'FeelingTheocidal',
on the front cover of pH-5 and on the back cover of "Goddess Gambit";
- another extended entry re the eventual Vampire Queen of the Dead is here;
(**) Demogorgon (Lamia?)
'The Unnameable', 'The Conglomerate Deva'
- a prisoner of All the Invincible Gynosphinx, off the Prison Beach
of Incain, since circa 725 PD (pre-Deluge or pre-Dome);
- along with elder sister Pyrame Silverstar and the firstborn Unities of Lazareme, Lamia probably was one of the otherwise as-yet-unnamed Master
Devas who joined Thrygragos Lazareme's Expeditionary Party in 725
YD;
(NOTE 1: Demogorgon might not be a devil any more than Pyrame or Tralalorn;
like them, her origin is found in both versions "TheTrigregosGambit";
therein Smiler refers her original devic self as 'Lamia',
the same name as Amemp Tut's Cainite mother in pH:
4-ever&40);
(NOTE 2: Mater Matare often included
in this litter instead of Lamia);
- power focus or Tvasitar talisman: probably the head of Medusa (seems
to have acquired Anthea's cestus or love girdle
at some point prior to moving to the Outer Earth and becoming, in
Libya, one of the so-called Middle Sea Mad Goddesses);
As per 'Feeling
Theocidal', Mater Matare named herself such (Mother Mother)
on Thrygragon, in 4376
YD, after Chrysaor Attis released her from All of Incain; prior
to then devils referred to her as the Medusa;
Conceived the fourth generation Quadrangs
while she was possessing the Faerie Queen Titania Cabala in the Gregarian Fields (Sedon's
Mole) circa 5860 YD; at the same time her brother Apocalyptics were
simultaneously possessing King Oberon;
- commonly thought to belong to Mithras's Twelfth instead of Lamia;
- more like the Apocalyptic of Mundane Death, which includes death by murder, suicide, accident, misadventure
- see below for possible image; also appears on front cover of 'Feeling Theocidal'; ; there are illustrated web features on Mithras's 12th as well as his Gorgons here;
power focus or Tvasitar talisman: if she's 'Cockatrice' then it's a hen's head with a cowl of snakes;
(either Steno or Euryale has something to do with either Medea
Annulis or Mata Avar in the Heliodyssey serials; also appears briefly in 'Feeling
Theocidal')
see below for possible image; there's an illustrated web feature on Mithras's Gorgons here;
power focus or Tvasitar talisman: if she's 'Basilisk' then it's a turtle's head with strands of snakes;
(either Steno or Euryale has something to do with either Medea Annulis
or Mata Avar in the Heliodyssey serials;
also appears briefly in 'Feeling
Theocidal')
see below for possible image; there's an illustrated web feature on Mithras's Gorgons here;
unknown
(*) Cyclopean Ibal
'Grand Vizier of Satanwyck', 'Viceroy';
Pocket 'Pocalyptic of Positivism';
original power focus: The Evil Eye (a monstrance with an eyeball instead of a pyx); later power focus: a frond;
Satanwyck
(*) Bobby Badboy
The Cupid, hence often addressed as Cupidity;
Pocket 'Pocalyptic of Paranoia';
'Robin Goodgirl' (when female),
'Sinistral Envy'
Satanwyck
- comments and a likeness of the unlikeable little imp can be found of phanta-pHlickrhere;
- cathonitized when got beyond the Dome during the tailend of the French Revolution and released the guillotine blade that cut off Marie Antoinette's head; did so apparently under the coercive influence of brood brother Ibal;
Djinn Domitian
The Masochist
- power focus: the fanfare trumpet;
- once Mithras's herald and heliodromus (sun-runner), courier, jinni, angel or main messenger;
- there's a mini-feature on him here; a little bit more here;
NOTE: the lion-headed (leontocephaline) god often seen in iconography associated with Roman or Cave Mithraism is believed to represent Kronos (sometimes Cronos or Chronos); not so in thePhantaceaMythos, therein he's the Masochist whereas Kronos was an aspect of ThrygragosVarunaMithras
- probable inspiration for the nuclear dragons or atomic firedrakes ridden by Hell's Horsemen in "Nuclear Dragons";
- protectorate somewhere in Floodlands;
associated with Klizarod Rex in 'Pyrame's Progress', one of the three novellas comprising "Hidden Headgames";
- may have been Novadev's mount during era of Outer Earth Goddess Culture ca 1500 to 2000 BC;
- 6-eyed, devic half-mother to the eponymously named Vultyrie (oversized
vultures) ridden by Sangazur-animated Valhallans ('The Glorious Dead')
and Rakshas demons ('The Gatherers of the Dead') in the revised version
of 'TheTrigregosGambit';
- Ramazar rides her standing up, a foot on either body and rains around both neck
- indentured servant of Divine Coueranna, who claims she, Kore, not one of the Trigregos Sisters, is her mother;
- lives on Apple Isle, within Kore's Hell (Mt Maenalus)
- connected to Sanguinary (Tisiphone Soldakis)
unknown
Kinsecto
- possible Apocalyptic of Pestilence, not to be confused with Famish, the Apocalyptic of Hunger
- possibly hypothetical devil, a survivor of the Genesea, connected to Swarma (Quinsecto), the East Indian onetime member of Strife's Sinister Sisterhood on the Outer Earth;
Quensecto
- possibly a hypothetical devil, a survivor of the Genesea, connected to Swarma (Quinsecto), the East Indian, South Africa born, onetime member of Strife's Sinister Sisterhood on the Outer Earth
Hellion Felcun
- the Ghastly Gull
- devil-hating, demon-loving, ornithic Master Deva often associated with Satanwyck, where some demons actually worship her;
.. those devils supposedly
born of Thrygragos Mithras (but may have actually been born of the Moloch
Sedon) by the Trigregos Sisters
before Heliosophos caused Weirstar to go
supernova. As such, they are part of the Third Generation of Devazurkind.
These Master Devas made up about half of those that eventually reached
the Whole Earth in the year 669 PD;
The Mighty Eye-Mouth in the Sky as Grandfather Sedon
The first time anyone on the Cosmic Express came across the Moloch Sedon, he was in his most constant state: namely that of the Mighty Eye-Mouth in the Sky. He had been in that state ever since he raised the Cathonic Zone out of his own essence (hence the Sedon Sphere) in order to protect the archipelago of Pacifica, the Places of Peace, from the ravages of the Genesea.
As initially detailed in the phantacea comic books, that was on the 30th of November 1980 (Maruta 30, 5980 YD). Long, long before then, however, he'd created and/or developed his immediate children (the six, so-called Great Gods and Goddesses), all of whom also appeared in the comics as well as later on in the graphic novel "Forever
& 40 Days - the Genesis of PHANTACEA".
Byron's Butterfly (Malar Tzigame) and Klizarod Rex, the Floodlands devic Dand, are two of those pictured on the poster to the left. A Byronic and a Mithradite respectively, they are among the literal thousands of third generational Shining Ones (more commonly called devils or Master Devas in subsequent Phantacea Publications), Dark Sedon and his immediate children reproduced, more so than just produced, before the Dual Entities destroyed the first Weir Star, as per here.
All of which explains why small-case-devils, howsoever erroneously, tend to refer to the Devil as Granddaddy Sed.
Double-click either image in order to open a new window. The poster, which contains artwork by Dave Sim, Ian Fry and Verne Andru, was prepared by Ian Bateson, ca 1987/8. The Mighty Eye-Mouth was originally prepared by Ian Bateson for the cover of Phantacea Phase One #1, which came out in 1986/7. Its double-click is of its flip side (publications in print at the tail end of 2011). Originally a giveaway postcard, it was prepared by Jim McPherson in 2011.
This sequence, from "Forever
& 40 Days - the Genesis of PHANTACEA", as drawn by Ian Fry in the late Eighties
and which can still be ordered, depicts ThrygragosByron leading an attack on the stronghold of Mahurus Zir (the Biblical Mahalel),
the Fifth Patriarch of Golden Age
Humankind. It was an ill-advised assault in some respects.
Then again, as also per here, the Great
God didn't have much of a body in the first place.
Left,
H.R. Giger's painting of a demonic type with three eyes and an apple, as found
on the Worldwide Web. The image is suggestive of Divine
Coueranna.
Right, another of H.R. Giger's paintings found on the Worldwide Web, this time of what could pass for a couple of lamiae and a mysterious, hooded figure. The lamiae are suggestive of Neath and Lathe, -- and/or the gorgons, Stheno and Euralye. Could, beneath the hood, be Mother Murder?
H.R. Giger's Kore (?)
The third eye and apple are certainly suggestive
of Divine Coueranna, Myrionymous Kore or Concord -- only her third eye is a little green apple!
The staple pin is more suggestive of Strife,
Marut Kanin, Kanin Marut, Marutia, Kore-Eris or Discord -- except of course Strife
doesn't have a face as such!
Who might the mysterious figure in the hooded cloak be, -- Mother
Murder perhaps? Could it be 'Mystery Might'?
Are the two others Medea'slamia, Neith and Lathe? If so, could they have once been Olympias Sangati and Rhea Ararat? If not, could they be 'Cockatrice' and 'Basilisk'?
Have to read 'Heliodyssey' to find out, I'm afraid.
Then again looking at
Giger's work always makes me at least moderately afraid! Or have I said that
already?)
The Sedonshem Lands atop
Kanin City in 669 Pre-Dome (PD)
This digitally dicked and colourized page,
from "Forever & 40
Days - the Genesis of PHANTACEA", as drawn by Ian Fry in the late Eighties
and which can still be ordered, depicts
the Sedonshem landing atop
Kanin City 669 years before Xuthros Hor caused the Genesea or Great Flood of Genesis. (Double-click to enlarge it an new window.)
Except for those devils who were
with ThrygragosLazareme on his expeditionary party to the then Whole Earth,
which Sedon sent down from its Moon in 725 PD in order to search for the DualEntities, every then-still-surviving Master Deva as well the Great
Gods Byron and Varuna Mithras were part of the Sedonshem.
Droch
Nor (the Biblical Enoch and Seventh Patriarch of Golden Age Humankind) was among the thousands crushed to death beneath Sedonshem landed.
There may be no cure for aphantasia (defined as 'having a blind or absent mind's eye') but there certainly is for aphantacea ('a'='without', like the 'an' in 'anheroic')
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