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ANHEROIC FANTASY SINCE 1977
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IntroductionPHANTACEA on the Web began in 1996. Although I tend to call it Jim McPherson's PHANTACEA Mythos Online these days, it still has two primary purposes. Firstly, it provides a web-presence whereby I can advertise print publications, such as 'Feeling Theocidal' and 'War of the Apocalyptics', as well as back issues of the PHANTACEA Comic Books and Graphic Novel, that are still available for purchase. Secondly, it gives me an opportunity to serialize chapters and, indeed, entire novels featuring the aforementioned PHANTACEA Mythos. With those serials (cereals or Web Wheaties, as I sometimes refer to them howsoever lamely) come synopses for chapters that have come and gone -- as well as for the few that keep on going and going, which are listed here. Plus, there are all sorts of features that I keep adding to; so much so that information on the PHANTACEA Mythos can and presumably does occasionally overwhelm. Which, as it happens, is most of the reason for this page, the less detailed Main Menu and the list of phantacea essentials that's been gracing the pHpubs page for almost as long as there's been a pH-Webworld. Early on I started adding a graphics component. Mostly, these consisted of photos I took during various 'Travels in my Pants' (TIMP), many of which can now be found on a different website. In time I developed some small ability of my own when it came to preparing collages and suchlike specific to the PHANTACEA Mythos. There are now so many of graphics out here that the PHANTACEA Mythos Online presents what amounts to its own ever-expanding 'Webworld'. What follows are a series of brief notes and day-glow markers linking to more detailed information regarding what you can see as you navigate this web-world not so much between-space as within Cyberia. For even more of the PHANTACEA Mythos, specifically with respect to the print-publications, have a boo at www.phantacea.com. Top of Page - Return to Contents - Onto Web Serials - Bottom of Page |
The Web Serials| Heliodyssey | Ringleader's Revenge | The Launching of the Cosmic Express | The Damnation Brigade | Top of Page - Return to Contents - On to Mosaic Novels - Bottom of Page |
Lynx to completed mosaic novels within the PHANTACEA Mythos whose potential covers, background information and introductory chapters are still online | 2002: "The
Moloch Manoeuvres" | 2004: "Decimation
Damnation" | 2005: "The Trigregos
Gambit" | 2008: Top of Page - Return to Contents - On to Web-Publisher's Commentary - Bottom of Page |
Web-Publisher's Commentary
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PHANTACEA Photo Essays & Web Galleries
The PHANTACEA Mythos Home & Prime Picture GalleryThe PHANTACEA Mythos Covers GalleryPHANTACEA Essentials
Jim McPherson's Travels Website:
Peculiar Perspectives:
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Glossaries of Peculiarities (Mostly Characters Peculiar to PHANTACEA)
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Character Lists
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DEVILS and SAINTS, SUPRAS and DEVIANTS (DSSD) -- BY AFFILIATIONThe PHANTACEA Mythos cover slightly more than forty years during the mid-20th Century. In that time, there have been a number of these groupings. They include 'The Society of Saints', 'The Hermiones', 'The Olympians' (sometimes referred to as 'The Black Rose Anarchists'), 'The King's Own Crimefighters', 'The King and Queen Conquerors', 'WORLD', 'Signal System', 'The Damnation Brigade', and so on. The DSSD section contains lists only, usually using code names. See below for more detailed information on the devic characters.
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SUPRANORMALS/DEVIANTS -- ALPHABETICALLYDetailed information about those characters listed in DSSD. The code names used are their most common ones and are usually cross-referenced to their real names in some other section. NOTE: The true identities of some characters, such as 'Old Man Power' and 'The Conqueror' (as opposed to the King Conqueror and the Conquering Christ, both of whom were Jesus Mandam, aka Wiccan Warlock) may never be revealed whereas 'Faceless Strife' seems able to have had many identities; Top of Page - Bottom of Page |
DEVILS -- ALPHABETICALLYDetailed information about those devils listed on the devils by affiliation webpage. Since they usually have many nicknames -- most devils also tend to refer to each other by their attributes -- they are listed by names that only comparatively recently, in devic terms, have passed into common parlance. For the most part, these thereafter commonly used names were made up by Illuminaries of Weir returning from the Outer Earth in the first millennium BC (the 4th Millennium of the Dome). Only the Moloch Sedon and the Six Great Gods had names prior to Xuthros Hor causing the Genesea, or Great Flood, in the Dome's Year Zero. Sedon himself raised the Cathonic Zone or Dome out of his own essence in order to protect the archipelago of Pacifica, the Places of Peace, in what is now the largely seemingly empty North Pacific oceanic basin. Pacifica thus became the Hidden Continent of Sedon's Head. There have been many rifts or gaps in its fabric throughout its existence. By passing through them, devils became the gods and goddesses of antique mythology. Top of Page - Return to Contents - On to Add-On Notebooks - Bottom of Page |
PHANTACEA: Add-On NotebooksPHANTACEA -- the Print Publications
Anarchy and PHANTACEA
Serendipity and PHANTACEA
Net-Specific Bibliography
Places Peculiar to PHANTACEA
Terms Peculiar to PHANTACEA
PHANTACEA -- Twenty-Five Years Onward
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Gold-Mining for PHANTACEA FactoidsOver the years I've excerpted what I consider highly pertinent statements re characters and/or concepts peculiar to the PHANTACEA Mythos. Many of these can be linked from my Glossary pages, whose main home is here. I've also prepared a number of illustrated mini-essays. The list of PHANTACEA Essentials is on the 'pHpubs' page and repeated here. Of course additional lynx to just about everything that's still out here in Cyberia can be found from the Main Menu and the Ongoing PHANTACEA Features pages. However, I've also highlighted many areas of what I term 'Gold-Mining for PHANTACEA Factoids'. They can be found in various synopses of chapters for serialized novels more often than not long ago completed. It occurs to me there is no central list of these gold-mines. Let's make that past tense, shall I? Yes, let's do that. Let's further hope I remember to add to it whenever I do another one. Top of Page - Return to Contents - On to the Cornerstone Characters - Bottom of Page |
THE CORNERSTONE CHARACTERSWithout whom there would be no PHANTACEA Mythos| The Dual Entities | The Moloch Sedon | The Thrygragos Brothers | The Trigregos Sisters | |
THE DUAL ENTITIESThe so-called Recurring Male & Female Entities; generally referred to as Helios called Sophos the Wise (Heliosophos for short) and Mnemosyne (Miracle Memory, Machine-Memory, Milady Memory or just plain Memory, as in the Hellenic Titans' Queen of the Muses, the Moon to his Sun). Both are time-tumblers. Every time he's slain or commits suicide (he's yet to die a natural death), he goes back into the time stream carrying with him Trans-Time Trigon and the often triplicate being who is his constant accompanist if not necessarily his companion. They can end up anywhere, either before or after their previous lifetime. However, at least until his eleventh lifetime, the one detailed in the 'Heliodyssey' sequences, they seem unable to alter what passes for our current notion of history. (Helios is often called His Story; conversely Memory is sometimes referred to as Her Story.) Helios's Milady Memory once in a while addresses him as Kad, albeit not that he's necessarily a cad -- at least he isn't always a cad. She's speaking as in Kadmon Heliopolis (b. 1940; d. 1968); unless it's as King Cadmus of Grecian Thebes (circa 1500 BC). Even though he may have been both, equally so he may have been neither. Another theory is that he is the Biblical Cain, Slayer of Abel. Somewhat consistent with the Bible, in PHANTACEA Celestial God placed a mark on Cain's forehead (traditionally a circled-X). This seemingly made him incapable of dying ( though, if Cain was Helios, it did not stop him from being killed over and over again). Memory likes devils, they make her human, and she likes being human. She particularly likes looking like Mnemosyne D'Angelo, who was Kadmon Heliopolis's mother. That means she also likes looking like Datong Harmonia, the Unity of Balance, who looks like, well, check out the images to the left and right of this paragraph.
When she's humanized, Miracle Memory can have kids, most notably Chrysaor Attis, the Universal Soldier, who's yet another major character in 'Feel Theo' (one who may reappear in 'War-Pox' as ... well, that would be telling far too much). She can also have kids when it's the other way around; when devils are possessing her. Except, in that case, these kids are devils, fourth generation ones. The primary examples of this are the Thanatoids of Lathakra, all ten of whom were born as twins (rather than as triplets like the Master Devas) yearly from 1919 until 1923. NOTE 1: The suggestion (found in 'War-Pox') that the Apocalyptic Quadrangs (Jah Dreadlok, Mandragora-Gallowsghoul, Flying Doltaur & Hatchethands) were half Memory's (from when Mater Matare possessed and therefore humanized her in the mid-5800s YD) has never been confirmed. That they half-belonged to the Faerie Queen known as Titania Cabala is far more likely. Then again Titania Cabala was somehow or other derived from the Memory Entity -- whereas her husband, Archon Oberon, was derived from the Wisdom Entity -- at some point in the probably far distant past.NOTE 2: Much more can be found on Heliosophos throughout this website. There's a brief feature on him, with a number of those lynx, in the Summer 2004 collection of Character Likenesses. Helios as he appeared on the front cover of pH-3 is here. Helios as Cain, Slayer of Abel, is, among other places, here, here and here. His likeness also appears here, here, here and here.NOTE 3: As for why Memory likes to look like Harmony, well, as revealed towards the end of 'Feel Theo' it's not like she has much choice in the matter. More interesting is why she likes to look like Memory of the Angels. But I'm not going to tell why that is either.NOTE 4: There's a nifty shot of Attis or an Attis lookalike, from Mexico City no less, here.Top of Page - Return to Contents - Top of Cornerstone Characters - Top of Dual Entities - On to the Moloch Sedon |
THE MOLOCH SEDONAlso known as the Demon King due to the fact that, as partially detailed in
Sedon's devic essence makes up the 'Sedon Sphere', 'Cathonia', the 'Cathonic Zone' or, most commonly, the 'Dome'. The Dome separates the Inner from the Outer Earth. For the most part Sedon is confined to his own Sedon Sphere. Because he created the Six Great Gods and Goddesses and helped them beget the Master Devas, devils in general are also known as Sedonists. Other than at the beginning of 1000-Daze, Sedon rarely appears in the PHANTACEA Mythos but his influence is all-pervasive. For example, Heliosophos (who, along with Machine-Memory and the Utopian Geneticist named Cabalarkon, created Sedon in his Fifth Lifetime) has dedicated much of his remaining lifetimes to undoing what he is largely responsible for making in the first place. May well be, in his Eleventh Lifetime, that of the 'Heliodyssey' sequence of web serials, the Male Entity will succeed in snuffing Sedon. Of course, to do that, he'll have to kill his parents, -- before he's even conceived! And, if he succeeds, unless the Miracle Machine stops him first, his Hundredth Lifetime will never happen. Guess that means 'Helios on the Moon' is superfluous. Guess again!
That does not necessarily mean they always treat him respectfully. For example, in the Heliodyssey story sequences, as set in 5938 Year of the Dome, Tantal Thanatos (King Cold of Lathakra) keeps a pet skunk, who must be at least part-demon, that he names after his thought-grandfather:
(SEDONIC NOTES: Additional information on the All-Father of Devazurkind can be found throughout PHANTACEA on the Web. As of the late Fall, early Winter of 2002, the latest Photo Essay regarding Sed-Satan is ==>. There's also a spoilsport notation regarding Sed's true relationship to the Three Great Gods, the Three Great Goddesses, and their Master Devas in the topic section of the Winter 2000 Web-Publisher's Commentary. Ian Fry's depiction of his birth can be found here.)Top of Page - Return to Contents - Top of Cornerstone Characters - Top of the Moloch Sedon - On to the Thrygragos Brothers |
THE THRYGRAGOS BROTHERS
In "Feeling Theocidal" (as of the Fall of 2008, the latest PHANTACEA Mythos print publication), Thrygragos Lazareme is also known as both Thrygragos Everyman and the Lackland Libertine whereas Thrygragos Byron is also known as Bodiless Byron or, mostly by Lazareme, Brother Moon. Neither Lazareme nor Mithras are factors in Indeed, come the end of War-Pox it may yet prove the not even 500-year-long Age of Byron ended with it. (Might have a better idea of that when, come the Fall of 2010, "The Trigregos Gambit" becomes the latest phantacea Mythos print publication) The Thrygragos TalismansAs detailed in 'The
War of the Apocalyptics' (the second all-prose PHANTACEA Mythos novel and the opening entry in the Launch 1980 cycle of stories), Old Man Power (OMP) had their Brainrock
power foci (The Thrygragos Talismans:
The Cross of Mithras,
the Mask of Byron and Lazareme's
Cloak of Many Colours)
in his possession on November 30, 1980. Thrygragos Varuna MithrasThrygragos Varuna Mithras is myrionymous. He goes (or went) by many names on both sides of the Cathonic Dome. In not just the PHANTACEA Mythos he is thought of as the embodiment of Truth, Light and Justice.
With respect to the aforementioned VAM Entity, here's a THOUGHT QUOTE from "Feeling Theocidal" (Mithras himself is doing the thinking):
Seemingly Thrygragos Mithras did not survive Thrygragon, that is to say he's had the common courtesy to stay dead ever since. Thrygragos Lazareme kept his severed head to use as a pillow on Tympani, Eardrum Isle, that of the Undying One, in the Aural Sea (Sedon's Ear on a map of the Hidden Continent). PHANTACEA's Mithras is depicted on Feel Theo's front cover wielding his cross in the form of an oversized, sword-like ankh; PHANTACEA-specific imaginings of how Mithras generally appeared can also be found in collages reproduced here, here and here;
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THE TRIGREGOS SISTERSThe three Great Goddesses are known individually as Demeter (Body), Sapiendev (Mind), & Devaura (Spirit). Along with the Thrygragos Brothers they make up the Second Generation of Devazurkind. Devils on the Whole Earth believe they died on the first Weirworld after Heliosophos had his Milady Memory nuke Weir Star (as preserved here.) 
They first appeared in pH-4. In it, they were not only alive but ordinarily devil-despising Utopians (albeit of the planet upon which Cosmicaptain Mik Starrus is put on trial) regard them as their reigning deities. That the planet is New Weirworld and that the entities depicted are the three second generational Sisters, well, that has yet to be stated unequivocally. The quest for their Brainrock talismans, the Susasword (the Body of Demeter), the Crimson Corona (the Mind of Sapiendev) and the Amateramirror (the Soul of Devaura), which are known to have a deleterious effect on Master Devas, occupies much of 'The Trigregos Gambit', the final book in 'The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories' trilogy. (One guess what the thrice-cursed godly glories are -- and, no, they're not the Thrygragos Talismans.) NOTE 1: The Sisters never became solid (except when possessed of the Recurring Female Entity) and never left New Weirworld, -- may have actually been destroyed there, as hinted at in 'Heliodyssey'. One of the Superior Sisterhood's goals with respect to not just their 'Project Panharmonium' is to reincarnate them in the Twentieth Century. Even if it was purely by accident, in the 'The Trigon Triplets' they may have succeeded as well.NOTE 2: The Sisters, or beings similar to the Sisters, do show up a few times during 'Helios on the Moon'. They definitely appear in 'Forever
& 40 Days - the Genesis of PHANTACEA', a graphic novel published in 1990 that is still available for ordering.
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Her favourite devil to possess is ![[Depiction of the Moloch Sedon, drawn by Ian Fry]](graphicimages/seddev.gif)
![[Blow-up of an area in an aerial photo of a parking lot beside the Gizeh Pyramids in Egypt as taken in the 1920s or '30s and found in the Cairo Museum. Image strikes me as a depiction of the Moloch Sedon. Photo by Jim McPherson, 2000]](graphicimages/sedhead2.jpg)
The Mighty Eye-Mouth in the Sky, as not just third-generational devils sometimes refer to him -- because that's how he appears when he manifests himself within his Sedon Sphere (as per 
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