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"Feeling Theocidal", Book One of 'The Thrice Cursed Godly Glories', and "The War of the Apocalyptics", the opening entry in the Launch 1980 story cycle, should both 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" and "The War of the Apocalyptics" can be ordered from amazon.com and its affiliates, including amazon.ca and amazon.co.uk, as well as from Barnes & Noble. Libraries, bookstores and bookseller collectives can place bulk orders through Ingram Books, Ingram International, Baker & Taylor, and a large number of other distributors worldwide.

BookFinder.com lists both mosaic novels. Also listed therein are most of the other PHANTACEA Mythos print publications.

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 the novels.

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I do use bubble mailers, though.



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A Peculiar Perspectives Web Feature

Front Cover for pH 4-Ever 40

© Copyright Jim McPherson, 2010

GOLDEN AGE PATRIARCHS

| Names and Dates following the line of Seth/Azura | Notes on Patriarch Table | The Patriarch Tree - Direct quotes taken from the mosaic novels | The 4-Ever & 40 Chart |

Image of Anti-Patriarch Cain, artwork by Ian Fry

written and designed by Jim McPherson;
photgraphs and/or scanning by Jim McPherson;

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Antediluvian Patriarchs from the Biblical Adam

(following the Line of Seth/Azura)

Phantacea Name
(Biblical Name)
Born from Year Zero
(Year Pre-Dome)
Lived Died after Year Zero
(Year Pre-Dome)
Alorus Ptah
(ADAM)
Year Zero
(1656 PD)
+930 years
(-930 years)
Year 930
(726 PD)
Pseth Ra
(SETH)
Year 130
(1526 PD)
+912 years
(-912 years)
Year 1042
(614 PD)
Enolon Su
(ENOSH)
Year 235
(1421 PD)
+905 years
(-905 years)
Year 1140
(516 PD)
Kemem Seb
(KENAN)
Year 325
(1331 PD)
+910 years
(-910 years)
Year 1140
(421 PD)
Mahurus Zir
(MAHALEL)
Year 395
(1261 PD)
+895 years
(-895 years)
Year 1290
(366 PD)
Jaro Dan
(JARED)
Year 460
(1196 PD)
+962 years
(-962 years)
Year 1422
(234 PD)
Droch Nor
(ENOCH)
Year 622
(1034 PD)
+365 years
(-365 years)
Year 987
(669 PD)
Amemp Tut
(METHUSELAH)
Year 687
(969 PD)
+969 years
(-969 years)
Year 1656
(0 PD)
Oriartes Ma
(LAMECH)
Year 874
(782 PD)
+777 years
(-977 years)
Year 1651
(5 PD)
Xuthros Hor
(NOAH)
Year 1056
(600 PD)
+950 years
(-950 years)
Year 2006
(3650 BC)
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  • NOTE 1:PHANTACHRON is shorthand for Phantacea Chronology, the timeline followed in the PHANTACEA Mythos. Just as there are many calendars, there are a number of ways to calculate the passage of time in PHANTACEA. The Great Flood or Genesea is set at 4000 BC, which may be an arbitrary date for an arguably non-event but one which fits in terms of the start-up of the Sumerian and Hitto-Cretan civilizations. On the Head, this date marks Year Zero of the Dome (YD). Dates before it are called Years PD (Pre-Dome). Year Zero in the first list above marks the birth year of Alorus Ptah, one of the two Biblical Adams. It is calculated by counting backwards from the Biblical date of the Great Flood, which happened in the six hundredth year of Noah's life. Proposed Front Cover for a PHANTACEA publication entitled Cain, Slayer of Abel, artwork by Ian Fry, ca 1988

  • NOTE 2:In the PHANTACEA Mythos, a distinction is made between the descendants of Alorus Ptah, the Biblical Adam, via Seth/Azura and those in the line of Cain, Slayer of Abel. Implicitly, Seth is born of Trishtar Thrae (the Biblical Eve) whereas Cain was born of Ptah's first wife, the Demon Queen Lilith, who had a blink and you'd miss it role in 'Helios on the Moon' but who features, at least tangentially, throughout Heliodyssey. (She also plays a major part in "Wilderwitch's Babies" in that she's the apparent mother of one of them-to-be.)

  • NOTE 3:Those of Pseth Ra (the Biblical Seth) are the commonly considered Patriarchs of Golden Age Humankind. Those of Cain/Awan are referred to as Anti-Patriarchs. Because they are often given similar names in the Bible, the Patriarchs are listed by their PHANTACEA names (which in turn are based on Hitto-Cretan and Sumerian King Lists) whereas the Anti-Patriarchs go by their Biblical names, -- though usually with the 'Cain' appendage, as in Enoch-Cain, whose city Cain built in the Sinai Peninsula as hinted at in the Bible.

  • NOTE 4:These lists refer only to the Golden Age Patriarchs and the ages given are strictly according to the Bible. Thus the Eighth Patriarch, Amemp Tut or Methuselah, did die in the same year as the Genesea.

  • NOTE 5: According to the 'The Oxford Companion to the Bible' (the copy I have was published by Oxford University Press in 1993), in an entry entitled "Names for the Nameless", Awan was the name of Eve's third child by Adam (after Cain and Abel) whereas the name of Adam and Eve's fifth child (after the Biblical Seth) was Azura; an entry under "Cain and Abel" in the same book states that Awan's name means 'wickedness'; curiously, given how PHANTACEA's Cain meets his end during the course of the graphic novel ("Forever & 40 Days, the Genesis of PHANTACEA", which is still available for ordering); in the same entry the Oxford Companion states that "an early gnostic sect, the Cainites, may have regarded Cain as a saviour figure".

  • NOTE 6: Lamia, the name ascribed to Amemp Tut's Cainite mother in not just the PHANTACEA Mythos, is also the name Smiler gives to the third generational Mithradite devil who becomes Demogorgon ('the Unnameable') during the course of "Sedon's Stooge", a chapter in the revised version of 'The Trigregos Gambit' that should still be online.

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The Patriarch Tree

- direct quotes taken from phantacea Mythos mosaic novels -

| The Dual Entities as Adam and Eve | The Sedonshem first settles on the moon | Dropping like leaves falling off the Patriarch Tree | Not just Anti-Patriarch Cain pays the price | Ptah/Helios wiped out Eden/Atlantis |

Although Heliosophos and his somehow humanized Mnemosyne Machine were going by the names of Alorus Ptah and Trishtar Thrae, the Outer Earth’s Book of Byblos remembered them as Adam and Eve. Because of that, certain superstitious fools believed to this day – and to Mithras’s mind defiant of logic – that Adam-Ptah constituted the Male Entity’s first lifetime.

It fell to Thrygragos Lazareme, in effect the Legendarian’s half-grandfather on both sides of the bed, to find a way to kill Helios.

... Thrygragos Varuna Mithras fulminating to himself in the opening stages of "Feeling Theocidal"

It, the Sedonshem, with not even close to every devil who ever existed on it, as part of it, settled on the moon. Hell to Earth artwork by Ian Fry, late 1980s; colour and script by Jim McPherson, 2007There it remained, those on the moon absorbing starlight for nourishment, for many solar years.Meanwhile, down below, the expeditionary party led by Thrygragos Lazareme checked out the suitability of the planet’s population for devic colonization.

There was a good reason for Sedon’s reticence to go any farther. It had to do with why the Sedonshem no longer contained even close to every devil who ever existed. Sure enough, the completeness of that rationale had preceded the Sedonshem to Earth.

The Male Entity, Heliosophos, Helios called Sophos the Wise, was already on its surface. He may even have been born there, though probably not in the lifetime he was then currently living. Even with the Sedonshem up top, poised like a cosmic tomcat ready to pounce on an unsuspecting, golden-apple-eating dodo, Lazareme did not deem it safe for it to come down until over half a century after Anti-Patriarch Cain did an Abel on Helios as Alorus Ptah.

... from "Feeling Theocidal"

Cain committed suicide. He did so by blowing himself up at the Gates of Eden. He was hardly the only one exterminated that day. [Image of Plathon from 'pH4-Ever & 40', DRAWN BY IAN FRY, CIRCA 1987]Thousands of his followers were beside him when he triggered the atomic heart of his golden calf.A chain reaction emanating from the explosion just as thoroughly wiped out Enoch City, which he’d founded, nestled at the foot of three suspiciously Trigon-like pinnacles in the Arabian Peninsula, after Adam-Ptah disinherited him for slaying Abel and he countered by establishing his anti-patriarchy.

Nonetheless, as Mithras recalled because he’d been there when his father ordered that particular Sedonplay, Future-Plathon, in the form of Cain’s Apis Bull, suckered him into crafting the calf in the first place. Furthermore, the devic personalities Illuminaries came to name Marut Kanin, Aphropsyche Morningstar and Mariamne Dawnstar were in possession of Cain’s three young, non-rainbow-class wives – whose names were, curiously, Cybele, Eden and Mnemosyne – so they probably had something to do with the calf as well.

... more revelations re the Golden Age Patriarchs and Anti-Patriarch Cain, Slayer of Abel, from "Feeling Theocidal"

Number Six, Jaro Dan – a name Tethys couldn’t help but note contained the makings of Jordan, albeit with a surplus ‘a’ – was the Odin of Ragnarok. He outlived his son, Number Seven, by a considerable margin. He also outlived his predecessors, though not Nor’s successors: Amemp Tut, Oriartes Ma and Xuthros Hor.

Like Eight, Nine and Ten, Number Six had been there on the day in 366 PD that his father, Number Five, Mahurus Zir, fell victim to fallen angel devils, extraterrestrial invaders of the planet.Five dabbled in arcane arts. In the oxygen-starved high plain of the Andean mountain range, where he’d established his home base, Power Point Tiahuanaco, he was showing them a 3-eyed oddity he’d captured in an amber-like trap when the Byronics attacked.

[BYRON LOSES HIS BODY -- from pH4-Ever & 40]Jaro Dan very nearly went down himself, never to rise anew, during the course of what amounted to a rescue mission; the same revelatory foray that cost Thrygragos Byron his body. As a result of what they saw and experienced firsthand at Tiahuanaco, the retired patriarch retroactively blamed devils for the unnatural deaths of his son as well as Patriarchs One through Four and Anti-Patriarch Cain.

He might have been wrong about Alorus Ptah but – even though, as a golden-apple-eating member of the Golden Age’s rainbow class, he couldn’t be possessed – the Anti-Patriarch might have been under devic influence when he poisoned his own father. In a manner of speaking Dan was wrong about Cain too.

He was certainly right about Numbers Two through Four, though. The Mithradite Illuminaries named Nergal Vetala claimed credit for Two, Pseth Ra, and Eventual ‘Yati, Byron’s Dragon, notched Three, Enolon Su. Sedon himself was largely responsible for the death of Four, Kemem Seb, and of course it was the Sedonshem landing that did for Seven, Droch Nor.

... from "Feeling Theocidal"

[Xuthros Hor Causes the Genesea]“In other words they know nil multiplied by millions of noughts about the actual Golden Age of Humanity and/or its founder and principal patriarch, Alorus Ptah, the Biblical Adam. Mind you, to be fair, I’ve read that certain admirably fearless scholars out there claim there are in point of contention two distinct Adams described in this Bible of theirs; that, presumably, the Xuthrodite Brotherhood, whom we devils do indeed demean as Horrites, deleted virtually all of its allusions to our Adam, Prime Patriarch Ptah.

“If they’re to be believed then it seems Hor and his wife, the first and, for Illuminaries, inspirational Anthea, along with their fellow survivors of the Genesea, didn’t want it bruited about that Alorus Ptah established the Golden Age only after he intentionally, not to mention mass-murderously, brought about the sinking and, with it, the destruction of Old Eden."

... the Librarian (Biblio Drek) speaking in professorial mode during "The 1000 Days of Disbelief"
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The Lives of the 10 Patriarchs

- as reprinted from "Forever & 40 Days - The Genesis of PHANTACEA" -

[A LIST OF THE TEN PATRIARCHS OF GOLDEN AGE MANKIND WITH RESPECT TO TIMELINES]


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