Apple Isle (Corona City, Kore's Hell, Theopolis Hill)
- Despite it's obvious position on the Headworld, Apple Isle did not get its name for being the apple of Sedon's Human Eye.
- Prevailing wisdom has it that Ap Isle was the Garden of Eden as well as the Island of the Hesperides, three mythical sisters who were the Grecian guardians of the Golden Apples of Immortality. In this regard, since the Head is situated in the North Pacific Ocean, at least it was until the Moloch Sedon raised the Cathonic Dome and thus sheltered Pacifica, the Places of Peace (what we remember as the Archipelago of Lemuria), from the remainder of the Whole Earth during the Great Flood of Genesis, and since Hesperides comes from the Greek: 'hesperia', which just means west, its identification with the Island of the Hesperides makes some degree of sense. Can't get much further west that Ap Isle, can you? Much further west and you'd be east!
- As for its identification with the Garden of Eden, the phrase 'East of Eden' comes to mind. Pretty much everywhere on the Inner Earth is east of Ap Isle. And pretty much everywhere on the Whole Earth is east of the North Pacific. (Of some interest, the name of the Norse or Teutonic Goddess responsible for guarding the Aesgardian version of the Golden Apples of Immortality was Idun. Which sure does sound like Eden.)
- The primary reason Apple Isle got its name is because, until centuries after the Moloch raised the Cathonic Dome out of his own essence, it was the last place on the Whole Earth where the Golden Apples of Immortality still grew. Eating these apples accounted for the extraordinarily long lives of the Biblical Patriarchs, from Adam to Noah. Also accounted for the long lives of the rest of the pre-Genesea members of the so-called Golden Age of Humankind. This
comes into play during the 'Heliodyssey' sequence of stories formerly serialized in PHANTACEA, wherein it is discovered that some of these Golden Apple Trees, and the fruit that goes with them, still exist, -- albeit only in Kore's Hell!
- Kore's Hell is found within a still active volcano on Ap Isle known as Mt Maenalus; hence, in PHANTACEA anyhow, the term 'maenad'. (The female co-ruler of Apple Isle goes by the honourific of Miracle Maenad in both the 5938 and 5980 web serials.) There are a great many mostly her-stories associated with Kore's Hell within what I've come to call the PHANTACEA Mythos. Its heart-stone, or hearthstone, links to a similar one on Aegean Trigon. At least it did during the 'Heliodyssey' stories.
- In terms of Outer Earth locales one might think about with respect to Corona City, Ap Isle's lone major metropolis, Valetta on Malta is not a bad reference.
- Also in terms of Outer Earth locales one might think about with respect to Theopolis Hill, where devils regardless of tribal affiliations are worshipped freely as gods (devils = devas = 'devs' = 'Deus' = gods) and which is adjacent to Corona City, Delphi in Greece provides my inspiration. Theopolis Hill will eventually prove to be a pivotal locale in the 'Heliodyssey' serials.
- During the course of
"The Thousand Days of Disbelief". a reanimated dead thing - a onetime fabulous swordsman whose father was the Legendarian - escaped through a painting done by his father to Theopolis Hill; therein it's described as per here.
- In 5938 YD (Year of the Dome) Corona City, not its countryside, is the devic protectorate of Cruel Plathon, the Bull of Mithras. Which is one reason Ap Isle is sometimes called Apis Island. Herodotus discusses the Egyptian Apis
Bull sacrifices in some detail during his 'Histories'. These primarily his-stories' were written down, albeit not by Herodotus, who could not write and consequently recited them to his acolytes, sometime in the Fifth Century B.C. (Or BCE, Before the Common Era, as is currently all the politically correct rage.) The male co-ruler of Apple Isle goes by the honourific of the Taurus in both the 5938 and 5980 web serials.
- Ap Isle has also been called Ape Isle. Can't remember why just now, though I suspect it might be because Simian Sapients live there cheek to jowl, maws to paws, with many another anthropomorphic peculiarity.
Theopolis Hill lay on the outskirts of Corona City, reputedly the oldest, continuously inhabited metropolis in the entirety of the Whole Earth. By Sedonic, Mithraic, Lazaremist and even Byronic Decree, worshippers of any stripe could safely gather up and down its slopes to pray to any and every devil-god, of any and every tribe. Verdant, ancient and religiously kept glistening, literally, only the Gregarian Fields could make the same claim.
Before emergent monotheists abandoned it to fall into ruins, Grecian Delphi was probably the Hill’s closest Outer Earth counterpart. According to many, Delphi was haunted too – by the ghost of Apollo, Apollyon or, as the Biblical Book of Revelations called him, none other than Unholy Abaddon.
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Cabalarkon, the Weirdom of (Undying Cabalarkon, Master Kyprian, Saladin Devason, Absudyl, Magnus Minus - The Mighty Minotaurus of Minius)
“Sedon didn’t want any of us to come anywhere near here long before he simultaneously lowered and raised the Dome, out of himself. Truth told, which we always do, he forbade us access to what was then a huge island centuries before your Utopian predecessors even arrived on the Whole Earth the last time we know about for sure. Ergo, his proscription has nothing to do with Trinondev eye-staves and everything to do with where they built their first damnable Weirdom: namely, overtop of Cabby the Daddy’s to date final resting place.”
... Biblio Drek to Master Morgan Abyss in 4925 YD,
as taken from 'The Thousand Days of Disbelief'
- The Weirdom
of Cabalarkon (Sedon's Devic Eye-Land) is named after Cabalarkon, the undying
Utopian Scientocrat (a geneticist) whose right eye Heliosophos, the Male Entity,
used as instigative raw material when he in effect created the Moloch Sedon during his Fifth Lifetime, which took place in the far-off Planetary System
of Weir (Old Weirsystem); this story is told in 'Odd-3' and well as 'Forever & 40 Days, the Genesis of PHANTACEA', which can still be ordered;
there's an overview of this sequence in the graphic novel here;
- Cabalarkon
("Cabby") himself survives in a tub of Cathonic
Fluid beneath the Citadel of the Thinkers, in the Catacombs of the Sleepers,
within the Weirdom bearing his name; his story is told in 'Odd-6' and well as 'Forever & 40 Days, the Genesis of PHANTACEA', which can still be ordered;
he appears, mostly as a ghost, in 'The Weirdness of Cabalarkon';
- Rulers of the Weirdom of Cabalarkon
are known as Masters of Weir;
- Kyprian Somata was the Master
of Weir from an unspecified date in the Fifty-Ninth Century of the Dome until
the mid-point of the Sixtieth Century; she features in the 1938 story sequences, particularly in 'Helioddity';
- Kyprian is a direct descendant
of Zalman Somata, the Master of Weirdom of Kanin who usurped the throne of
Cabalarkon in the Fifty-Fifth Century of the Dome; he appeared in 'PREGAME-Gambit';
- Saladin Devason is the Master
of Weir in Tantalar 5980; born in 5919 his parents were possessed by devils
when he was conceived; Illuminaries of Weir, together with Scientocrat Utopians
and Inner Earth, old-time Anthean witches, genetically bred his parents, Augustus
Nauroz and Pandora Mannering, such that they would have incarnations of the
Trigregos Sisters; that a solitary male was born instead of triplet sisters
ruined the Panharmonium Project and directly led to the Witches of Weir calling the Simultaneous Summonings
of 19/5920, from whence resulted the Summoning Children;
- As told in 'The
Damnation Brigade: Month One - After Limbo', which is now called 'The Weirdness of Cabalarkon',
D-Brig sought refuge here after Kronokronos Lakshmi of Lemuria booted them
out of Temporis on Tantalar 6, 5980;
- Deep beneath Cabby's Weirdom lies Absudyl, the Land
of the Mandroids; Absudyl (aka Minius)
was where Trans-Time Trigon ended up for the start of the Male Entity's 11th lifetime in 1908; it was
in the same place for part of the Male Entity's 100th lifetime as well; it's an extension of the Hell-Well of the World that begins in Satanwyck and also includes Temporis;
- During the Simultaneous Summonings of 19/5920, the
nominal Lord of the Lower Layers (Absudyl/Minius)
was Magnus Minus (Mr Miniature), whose official title is/was Minotaurus; thanks in large measure to Pyrame Silverstar, Magnus Minus appears briefly during
'The 1000 Days of Disbelief', therein he aids Unholy Abaddon, the Unity of Chaos, against Master Morgan Abyss, the so-called Death's Head Hellion; he revives
again in 5938; he fancies himself an incarnation of Daemonicus,
the demons' pre-Sedon king and mate of Primeval Lilith; his apparent control
over Stopstone/Solidium, what composes Mandroids and Mantels, as well as Brainstone/Stoprock,
the stuff of Samsara, makes him a formidable character, for a fool;
Pyrame, via her long association with Demon Queen Lilith, or whoever made up her daemonic body, was privy to most things daemonic. That included how they got the minds needed to upgrade their primitive, even primordial, brain functions to a level as close as they ever came to full sentience.
They snared them from minutes-earlier, deceased men and women, many of whom probably fancied their spirits would be on their way to either heaven or hell. Beer-guzzling sybarites dropped dead everyday, if not every hour, on both sides of the Dome. Reasoning – perhaps even knowing it for certain – that the souls of dead drunks would gravitate to it like wasps to discarded salmon skin, Pyrame had the Unity of Chaos boost barrels of the wondrous elixir from the DDD and take them to the Hell-Well’s crusty hollow beneath Sedon’s Devic Eye-Land.
Following her instructions, he liberally sprinkled libations of pilsner over the hitherto seemingly lifeless, underground plains of what Lazareme characterized to Harmony as the bottomless pit. Sure enough, shortly thereafter Abe Chaos had himself a companionable Minotaurus of mightily minute vitality, one who by virtue of his origin, if not anywhere close to a superior intelligence, doubled as a daemonic demiurge.
Even more importantly in terms of Pyrame’s impressive plan forward, this Magnus Minus, a name he gave himself, was a native son. Because of that, he actually eclipsed Morg in the demiurge department; at least he did with respect to that locale, the nearest to Cabalarkon.
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Crepuscule, the Grey Land of Twilight (Krepusyl Evenstar,
the Grey Lady, Feeorin, Queen Godda)
- Once the Land of Daybreak, on the occipital extreme of Sedon's Head (where
now lies Samarand -- once Sedon's Tongue). At that time (which, as detailed
in "Feeling Theocidal",
lasted for well over 4400 years), it was the easternmost region of the Hidden
Headworld;
- Its Deva Dand or Overlady is Krepusyl Evenstar, Thrygragos Lazareme's Venus
(called Mariamne Dawnstar when she ruled Daybreak). Among her other appelations
nowadays include Miss Mist and, most commonly, the Grey Lady. Her power focus
is a morningstar or morgenstern mace (sarcastically known as a holy water
sprinkler in medieval times);
- Feeorin (fay folks) are earthborn faeries related to the Demons of Satanwyck
and the wights of the Faerie Garden, as encountered
by Wilderwitch and Kronokronos Akbar in the later stages of 'The
War of the Apocalyptics', which was set in Year of the Dom 5980;
- Queen Godda (God-Devil, also Godiva) is the name and likeness Krepusyl's
seemingly endless succession of mortal shells (many of whom were stolen from,
or else paid as teind on, the Outer Earth) goes by; at least it was up to and including 'The Volsung Variations',
which was set in 5938 YD;
- Laird Edric is the Duke or Summertime King of the Seelie or Summertime Court
while Fir Doirche (Fear Dark) is the Duke or
Wintertime King of the Unseelie or Wintertime Court ; both are faerie-dusted
mortals; at the end of 'Coueranna's Curse'
and in VolVar, the High Queen or Duchess of the Unseelie Court is Mara Macha (Nightmare herself);
- Godda's feeorin mates vary; in VolVar his name's Foinn-bheara ('fin-varra');
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Crimson
- Never officially proclaimed protectorate of Phantast Thanatos, aka Dream or Dream Weaver;
- A boggy canker or sore on Sedon's Upper Lip within what became the Forbidden Forest of KalaTal (Sedon's Moustache);
- As noted in 'The 1000 Days of Disbelief', it was here that Phantast used to host his dream bacchanals every Midsummer's Day;
- Phantast and Strife hatched the Crimson Conspiracy here circa 4000 YD (Year 0 AD)
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The Gregarian Fields, Sedon's Mole, the Medusa's Meadow (also Kanin City, the megalithic as well as antediluvian metropolis that became the capital of the Mastery of Marutia a few centuries after Thrygragon)
- as per here, Kanin City was the landing site of the Sedon Shem in PD (Pre-Dome); the Sedonshem landing caused, among many others, the death of Droch Nor, the Seventh Patriarch of Golden Age Humankind;
- Kanin City became a Weirdom shortly after Sedon raised the Cathonic Dome in Year Zero YD (Year of the Dome)
The Medusa’s meadow, the site of Thrygragon’s bloodiest engagements and, with them, Thrygragos Varuna Mithras’s most momentous achievements – as well as his thus far proven-fatal fragmentation – was in the Gregarian Fields, aka Sedon’s Mole. The former Weirdom of Kanin City, the devils-thought Blot on Sedon’s Cheek, lay just south of the Fields.
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The Gypsium Wall, aka Sedon's Headband (Harmony's home more so than her protectorate until around the start of the Thousand Days of Disbelief)
Even if its recipe included rotting fungi, the Dinq Doinq Danq Cavern Tavern was one of the few taverns on the Whole Earth to do a decent Cathy. That it could do so at all had everything to do with its relative proximity, across the devil-dredged and thereafter Diluvia-drenched Auditory Canal, to the westernmost extreme of the Gypsium Wall.
A geologically unstable, ultra hilly strip of terrain upwards to two hundred miles in width and spanning nearly eight hundred miles in length, it was another natural-looking, but Sedon-shaped landscape. Cresting most of it was an actual wall. Thick, though partially collapsing and no longer impenetrable, Cathy’s concocters had no problem locating, then mining, blocks of the transitory Godstuff for preparatory purposes of stimulation more so than refreshment.
Head-worldly wise, the Cattail Peninsula formed Sedon’s Ponytail, hence why the Wall was also called Sedon’s Hairband. Broken as it was, it nevertheless continued its exemplary service as an unmistakeable, devil-reinforced, geographical barrier between the eastern Head’s Yajur-dominated occipital regions and Unholy Abaddon’s de facto domain.
Although it had definitely seen better days, very few, if any, of those who passed over, under or around it were better looking than its Deva Dand, also an Over-Lady. When she wasn’t elsewhere, the Danq’s official owner, the Unity of Balance as well as Panharmonium, could usually be found dwelling at her mobile, now-you-see-it and now-you-don’t, High Seat somewhere atop the Wall proper.
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Lathakra, the Frozen Isle of, (King Cold, Crimson Queen, Fourth Generation Thanatoids)
- Once Sedon's geographical horn. At that time (which, as detailed in "Feeling
Theocidal", lasted for well over 4400 years), it rose in the Mystic
Mountains beyond the Weirdom of Cabalarkon and extended into the sea far to the north beyond Sisert. All that changed when, sometime after Thrygragon (which occured on Mithramas 4376 Year of the Dome), the Moloch Sedon rearranged
the Headworld's geography perhaps just to prove he could.
- In PHANTACEA King Cold is blue-skinned Tantal Thanatos. Thanatos means Death.
Tanatalizing comes from Tantal. Does that mean death is tantalizing? Not in PHANTACEAit doesn't. In some respects, especially
for the Thanatoids of Lathakra, it means potential life-everlasting.
- Crimson Queen is red-skinned Methandra,
the Scarlet Seeress, she also of Mythland in the Mystic Mountains north of
the Ghostlands. Name jumbles from Mediterranean Athena. She may have once
been once Mithras' Virgin but she is that no longer. Is the mother of five
sets of three-eyed, devic twins, for a total of ten Fourth Generation Devas. Good for
not just her!
- Night
and Day, the Four Elements and the Four Seasons: those are the attributes
of their ten offspring, their Fourth Generational Devils. Their names are
Erebe (Night), Castella (Day), Aires (Air), Thalassa (Water), Acheron (Fire),
Antaeor (Earth), Orinth (Spring), Veronas (Summer), Constantin (Autumn) and
Auraura (Winter).
- The Parents
Thanatos have one azura spirit being. Her name is Klannit and because of her
affinity for mirrors she is known as the Mirror Mentalist. They also have
another child, one Sedunihas by name. While there appears to be some uncertainty
regarding his parentage, he is definitely deaf, has yellow skin and three
eyes and is an artist who specializes in making ice sculptures that Klannit
animates. For some reason he does not seem to age very rapidly.
- Like
her parents, Klannit appears in both the 5938 and 5980 web serials. Sedunihas
was not born until 5955 and thus only appears in the 5980 series, which is also when and where most of the others make their first appearances
in PHANTACEA. However, there is a strong suggestion
that the Terrible Twins of 1938, Aires and Thalassa D'Angelo, are actually
Elemental Thanatoids. That being the case then Air and Sea of the Angels are
really Air and Water of the Devils. Aires (the Airealist) and Thalassa (Sea
Goddess) D'Angelo are members of the Damnation Brigade and have appeared in
both the 5938 and 5980 serials.
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Sedon's Mutton Chop (The Penile Peninsula, First or Old Iraxas, Hadd {home of the Ambulatory Dead, long before 5980}, Lake Sedona, the Circumcision Canal, Krachla, the Panic Isles, the Gleaming City of Manoa)
- until the Great Flood of Genesis (the Genesea), in other words during the days of Old Eden and its successor civilization, the so-called Golden Age of Humankind, most of this area was part of the archipelago of Pacifica, the Places of Peace; a large series of islets separated by narrow straits, it was called Iraxas by its indigent population, the Irache descendants, as well as ancestors, of native Americans;
- after the Moloch Sedon raised the Cathonia in Zero Year of the Dome, the straits between the islets filled in; it was still called Iraxas (Old Iraxas) and fell within the Byronics sphere of influence; Lake Sedona was named after Sedona Spellbinder, centaurs worshipping Chimaera Glimmenmare (Byron's Stallion) roamed what became Krachla whereas Vayu Maelstrom was worshipped primarily in the northeast corner around the Crashing Islets of Jaag, where an actual maelstrom or huge whirlpool still swirled in 5980 YD;
- sometime during the Dome's 48th Century the expansion of the Empire of Lathakra changed that by forcing Byronics to retreat into Godbad and replacing them with one of the Thanatoids staunchist allies, the Mithradite Moon known as Fecundity to Master Devas (but named Nergal Vetala by long gone Illuminaries of Weir in the Dome's 4th Millennium when they began returning from the Outer Earth en masse);
- another Byronic, his Grim Reaper, Vanthysces as Illuminaries named him, was cathonitized when the Thanatoids conquered Iraxas; Yama of the Nergalids somehow fused Vanth's power focus, a scythe, with his own, a pickaxe;
Except Vetala – whom Harmony found easily at [in 4824 YD] her new residence in the former Weirdom of Manoa, on the lower west coast of the Penile Peninsula, Sedon’s Mutton Chop ...
- even though Vetala now ruled Iraxas (where the Dead Walked because her azuras animated them) as if her own private protectorate, she still carried on as Fecundity, particularly when it came to her two fellow Nergalids, Yama Nergal and Zuvem Nergalis as antique Illuminaries named them;
“I’m hardly the one to ask,” stated the priapic Planter, Zuvem Nergalis [in 5476 YD], once Lord Yajur found and confronted him in the Gleaming City of Manoa, a former Weirdom just north of the Circumcision Canal in what jesters like Tethys, when he was around to jest, called the Penile Peninsula, Sedon’s Mutton Chop. “But I’d be happy to help you contact the unlucky lady who might know. Then you can ask her directly.”
“You haven’t the power to ill-star the likes of me, Nergalid,” Order responded.
“He never said he did, Sparky,” countered the other Nergalid there. Illuminaries named the Mithradite Moon Goddess, one of a few, Nergal Vetala after a deceptively beautiful Outer Earth ghoul best known for having her hands on backwards, a conceit she seldom remembered to emulate. That did not mean she wasn’t conceited of course, far from it.
“But Iraches love me. That makes Iraxas my protectorate. You’re standing in Manoa, its biggest and most populous city in terms of both the Living and the Ambulatory Dead. So guess who could? Me!”
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Ophir-Moorset (Dandset Typhon, Ophidian 'Snake-Sucklers', the Queen of Sheba)
- "the marshy devic protectorate of Dandset Typhon, Boss Boa of all the slither-hither Ophirant serpent-slime," to quote Granny Garuda who, like most garudas, despised Ophidians;
- Dandset Typhon was/is a Mithradite Master Deva; he established Moorset in defiance of his father, Thrygragos Varuna Mithras, some years or decade prior to Thrygragon (4376 YD);
- the mating habits of Ophidian 'Snake Sucklers' were described in 'The Vampire Variations', via Sorciere's recollections of Granny Garuda's instructions:
Sorciere had seen true Ophidians before. A lot were humanoid, two legs, two arms, one head, not much in the way of hair and a lot of scales. Some were quite beautiful, enchanting anyhow, -- if you went for gaudy, multi-coloured,
often glistening and sometimes flaking skin. Most were also venomous.
Which was fine for them. Fine for everyone else too, -- in most respects. They weren't cannibals. She had been warned against going to bed with them because, in the heat of passion, they tended to nibble. Their nibbles were nasty, as in nauseating, at the minimum.
On the men these tails weren't too bad. Comparatively speaking. Were just
an appendage that happened to be a complete snake. Up to its tail. Which
merged with the man's tailbone and extended into his backbone. Shared both
ends of his digestive system, top and bottom, as well. Urinary track too,
albeit not just for urine.
On the females though, well, that was altogether a different matter. Their serpentine tails were neither serpents nor symbols so much as grotesquely
long, fully functional phalluses. They inseminated themselves. All their
men provided, at least in terms of female reproduction, was pleasure and
the occasional meal.
Ophidian males were anything but neuters. Not like the seemingly sexless species that populated Geld Neargon's protectorate on the Marutian Coast opposite Undying. Not like Myrmidon ant-men after they lost their wings either, -- which, having them, was also an indicator of their fertility.
On the contrary Ophidian men were semen-superstars; could impregnate just about anything. Didn't even need them to be sentient beings. Made for some interesting results, to say the least. When they could keep their nibbling to themselves, that is.
Weren't neuters even when it came to inseminating Ophidian women. Just that, when they did, they only procreated more men; never any females. In that case also their tail-snakes, which had mouths, had to get involved. The Worm Ouroboros, what ate its own tail, had nothing on Ophidian mating rituals.
Granny regarded all things Ophidian as abominations. But their sexual practises went beyond the abominable all the way to the morbidly fascinating, even for Garudas. They went something like this, Sorciere recalled Granny telling her in disgust.
Male tail-snake fellates female tail-snake, what was mostly male phallus, recall. Female tail-snake ejaculates into male tail-snake; said stuff rushes through male Ophidian to his regular organ, engorged and at work in female's dick-dildo. Fluids mingle, egg fertilizes, and, bingo-bang-bongo, essence of man.
Oh yes, females bore their own live, like most mammals. Not so their males. Dropped the eggs and let serpent-sires look after the nest. Which they were very good at doing. Had to be. Their women liked nothing better than Ophidian omelettes for breakfast.
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Satanwyck, Pandemonium, the Domain of All Demons, Sedon's Temple
- The first Prime Sinistral of Satanwyck was Domdaniel Pride; his reign ended circa 3500 YD (1500 BC); his fate is described in 'Feel Theo'; Pride was succeeded, in no particular order, by Lust, Envy, Sloth Gluttony, Anger and Wrath; as noted in 'Feel Theo' all except (possibly) Lust ran afoul of Chrysaor Attis, the Universal Soldier, and were imprisoned within All of Incain until the She-Sphinx released them on Thyrgragon at the insistence of Thrygragos Varuna Mithras;
- Gluttony (Arisandesam, the Conqueror Worm) ceased being Prime Sinistral circa 4000 YD (Year 0 BC/AD), his fate is noted in
"The 1000 Days of Disbelief";
- Lady Lust (Beguiling Belialma) was Prime Sinistral pre-Thrygragon and again just prior to the start of
"The 1000 Days of Disbelief"; she plays fairly major roles in both 'Feel Theo' and '1000 Daze';
- Anger (Grim Thordin) once again ruled Satanwyck after Thrygragon;
- Wrath (Santa Mammon) also ruled Satanwyck for a while after Thrygragon;
- Cupidity (Bobby Badboy, Robin Goodfellow) became Prime Sinistral either before or during
"The 1000 Days of Disbelief";
- Sloth (Baaloch Hellblob) is Prime Sinistral in 19/5980;
- Chancellor Ibal has almost always been its Viceroy, the power behind the throne; his Tvasitar Talisman, the so-called Evil Eye was the source of his authority until Sloth got hold of it circa 19/5950, which was the year Ibal was catasterized (cathonitized or ill-starred);
- The Hell-Well (from whence demons) underlies the Upper Head starting here;
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Sisert
- also known as the Silent Sands of Cathune Bubastis (the cat-faced Apocalyptic of Drought supposedly from Mithras's 9th)
- As told in 'The War of the Apocalyptics' the Byronic and Apocalyptic Nucleii cathonitized each other here on Tantalar 6, 5980
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Sleepers, the Hills or Zone thereof
A hilly region that demarcated the inland margin of the oculus in Sedon’s Forehead, it was much more than just where Utopians on Earth lay to rest their effectively dead – effectively because the Sleepers’ remains were first submerged within leak-proof sarcophagi filled with supposedly death-inhibiting cathonic fluid.
The hills were actually artificial landforms camouflaging what was left of Second Weir’s cross-cosmos generational ships. Ancient astronaut Utopians landed them on Cabalarkon’s borders, and then helped nature cover them up, within a decade or two of Sedon raising the Dome to prevent the Genesea swamping the archipelago of Pacifica.
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Tal, the Forbidden Forest of Kala Tal, Sedon's Moustache
It wasn't that the western foothills of Diluvia
were impossibly treacherous. They weren't. Were encroached upon, however.
Also wasn't that the Irache canal no longer existed. It did. Was choked up
though. With the same stuff that encroached upon the foothills, outgrowth
from Tal, Sedon's Moustache and lower lip-hairs, better known as the Forbidden
Forest.
It wasn't forbidden to enter. Far from it.
Its devalord, lady actually, Kala Tal was most inviting. Nergal Vetala's arachnoid
breed sister from Mithras' Twelfth had nothing against you leaving her protectorate
either. She did exact a toll however. Not intentionally. Or even maliciously.
You just paid it whether you liked it or not.
Tal's toll? Not your life. Never-cathonitized
Master Devas did not kill. Not personally. If you got out with your life,
more power to you. One thing you wouldn't get out with was your sanity, and
that was the toll.
Of course if you were already insane, Tal was
your Pandemonium Panacea. Best stay there though. Especially don't come out
on the Godbadian side of Tal because it seemed Godbadians -- who prided themselves
on being the most forward-thinking, the most advanced, most modern, most Outer
Earth-like of all the Headworld's inhabitants -- considered madness infectious.
They dealt with those coming out of Tal much
as one would a carrier of the plague. Shot them dead. Paid a bounty for their
hide too. How could they tell a madman after death? Slice open the skull and
examine the brain naturally. Something happened to brains in Tal.
Which was also how they could tell if you'd
just come from the Forbidden Forest when you were alive too. How saying she
was coming out of Tal never became an easy defense for murdering your mother-in-law.
Crazy guys, or gals for that matter, didn't just drool or foam at the mouth,
though they did that too.
Weren't always destitute, naked or starving.
Some were, most weren't. A lot did blindfold themselves, to hide the madness
in their eyes, but the real telltale sign was that virtually all of them plugged
their ears and nostrils. Presumably to stop their over-stimulated brain cells
from dribbling out their head-holes.
"Know the area too. Got to be the Forbidden
Forest of Kala Tal, Nergal Vetala's breed sister. You can always tell Tal
by its trees. They're so twisted, looks like they could get up on their roots
and walk away at any minute. Sometimes they do too."
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Temporis, the Thousand Caverns of Tariqartha
- also known as the Thousand Caverns
of Dand Tariqartha, Lazareme's Earth Magician; a vast subterranean
devic protectorate that lies beneath Sisert and, indeed,
much of the Upper Head;
- as such it borders on both Satanwyck,
to the south, and at least at one time Absudyl/Minius,
far to the east;
- in this regard, and as recounted
primarily during 'The Volsung Variations'; Warlord
Mikoto went from Temporis to the aforementioned Subterranean
Land of the Mandroids in early 5916; there, guided by his devic half-mom Pyrame Silverstar,
Mithras's then last active Earth Magician or Persian, he came upon the Crimson Corona (aka the Mind of
Sapiendev) for the first time;
- its capital
and central cavern, called Centurium, is replicated Versailles; its palace
therefore contains its own huge Hall of Mirrors;
- ordinarily these mirrors can be
used to far-see almost anywhere on the Inner or Outer Earth; evidently they
can also be usurped by non-Temporites (predominantly, as per VolVar-8,
by Klannit Thanatos, the first ever azura spirit being);
- among its thousand (and more)
caverns, perhaps the most singularly significant is the Hir
Cavern (Hiroshima, 6 August 1945); it was via the Hir Cavern that Kronokronos Akbarartha (Obadiah Melvin Power, the supra codenamed Old Man Power) and his wife, the
Lady Takeda (the supra called Crimson Corona {who may have have
become the recurring Hellion horror codenamed Gynosphinx throughout 'Ringleader's Revenge'}
and mother, by Sedon St
Synne, of the future Crystallion)
arrived on the Outer Earth (one guess as to what day it was);
- Dand Tariqartha celebrates his
4000th birthday (actually the 4000th anniversary of becoming a solid entity)
in early Tantalar 5980 YD; that he lasted that long is at least partially
recounted during 'The Volsung Variations'; he also briefly appeared
during 'Feeling Theocidal',
- The Dand is the Awesome Akbar's
devic half-father; that makes him the devic half-father of Meroudys Artha and, indeed, all the
various Kronokronoi (Lord Mikoto,
Lakshmi of Lemuria et al) we come across during the course of PHANTACEA;
- Tariqartha is also known as the
Time-Space Displacer, the Chronocollector and Lazareme's Persian (Earth Magician);
- Temporis is inhabited by Mantel
replicas (tellurian half-lifes);
- the Dand sometimes allows these
half-lifes to reproduce, at which point they become fully alive and, possibly,
even unaging after that (Lord Mikoto seems to fall into this category);
- Mantel replicates thus rendered
alive become, in effect, quasi faeries and/or daemons; Man-Dive, Archon, Cabala
and Democles are, at least superficially, examples of suchlike hybrid beings;
- fully alive former replicas and
their always alive offspring inhabit the so-called 'living caverns' of Temporis; Centurium is the largest
of these; another is the pre-Tokugawa Era Cavern (as per pH-5 and WarPoc-11),
which is where Mikoto came from, Lord Tornado ruled in 5980 and the Tsukyomi
Shadow Woman hied to in shame shortly after Kronokronos Akbarartha (still thinking he was Old Man Power) spotted her naked while she was attending
Lakshmi of Lemuria on the 5th of Tantalar 5980;
- As recounted in pH-5 and 'The Launching of the Cosmic
Express' Tetralogy, which I published in PHANTACEA on
the Web from 1996 to 2001, the final encounters in 'The
War of the Apocalyptics' took place
here on Tantalar 6, 5980;
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Tympani, Eardrum Island, the Island of the Undying One (Thrygragos Lazareme, Mithras as a pillow)
- the second largest island on the Hidden Headworld (smaller than Lathakra but bigger than Shenon)
- where Thrygragos Lazareme (Thrygragos Everyman) sleeps between-space using the severed head of his thought-brother, Thrygragos Varuna Mithras, as his pillow;
- since both Lazareme and what's left of Mithras can be found here, it's not absolutely clear which Great God is the Undying One;
- Lazaremists tend to congregate here;
- since committing devic suicide at the conclusion of the 1,000 Days of Disbelief, Unholy Abaddon (aka Abe Chaos), the onetime Unity of Chaos, often stays here as well;
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