ANGELICS (Angelycs)

often spelled 'angelycs' to distinguish these primitive Headworld semi-sentient beings from the many members of the Family D'Angelo, who are more correctly considered Celestials.

The Head's modern-day Angelycs are reliant on the charity of Utopians from the Weirdom of Cabalarkon;

Even Golden Agers had gods, a God rather. Supposedly only Alorus Ptah and, some said, Droch Nor had ever seen him. According to Droch and their own folklore, the Angelic race were this God's representatives, his messengers more like, but that was probably only because they had wings and could fly, some even between-space. A majority felt Angelics were simply yet another Edenite biogenetic experiment gone awry. Certainly they were not immortal; were in fact less long-lived than even modern day men and women.

They did have souls however and practised metempsychosis such that a dying angel's life-force could be captured in a soul sink and transferred to an a-borning child. Along with their souls went at least a modicum of the life-force's mind and, with it, an ancestral memory. When an angel claimed to have seen God it meant that one of his long-gone forefathers had seen God. And when angels as a collective said that God was a singular entity, a male one at that, those of a 'religious bent' tended to believe them.

-- from Cain, Slayer of Abel

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ANTI-PATRIARCHS

The descendents of Cain & Awan ('wickedness'); at the time recounted during Cain, Slayer of Abel, Lamech-Cain was the official alternative patriarch, -- though, because he was still alive, Cain himself was considered the Anti-Patriarch

The Anti-Patriarchs were (followed by their attributes):

1. Cain the Farmer, Slayer of Abel the Shepherd
2. Enoch-Cain (city-states, law-giver, peacemakers or police)
3. Irad or Jared-Cain (navies)
4. Mehujael-Cain (vimanas, air force)
5. Methusael-Cain (rockets, missiles)
6. Lamech-Cain (armies)

Lamia, Lamech-Cain's sister, was Amemp Tut's mother; was therefore Xuthros Hor's great-grandmother; Lamech-Cain's sons by Adah were Jubal-Cain (ranching) and Jabal-Cain (music, story-telling); his son by Zillah was Tubal-Cain (metalworker, iron foundries, weapons);

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ANTHEANS

- more correctly, the Antediluvian Sisterhood of Flowery Anthea; although there is a highborn Lazaremist devil by that name, Ants traced their lineage to Xuthros Hor's wife, Anthea, the mother of the Bible's Ham, Shem, Japheth, and a number of daughters whose names were mostly lost in time; often, though not always, Ants marry Xuthrodites;

- their elders are known as Nightingales; their Shelters or convents are not-so-jokingly called Anthills; their stepping stones are referred to as Anthean Agates; on the Inner Earth of Sedon's Head they ensorcel agates such that they can't be devazur-possessed; because of what these agates look like, they are called agatine eyes;

- virtually no old-time Ants are left on the Outer Earth; "sisters" beyond the Dome who call themselves life-loving Antheans are actually more like Althean healers, which may be why their elders are called Nightingales, as in Florence, the nurse of Crimean War fame;

see also witches;

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AZURAS

sometimes also spelled asuras or ahuras; spirit beings born of Master Devas who, although they can possess other sentient beings, can almost never dominate them the same as their third generational devic parents can; exceptions may be simpletons or brain-damaged individuals, though that isn't certain; they can't even dominate de-brained demons; they can, however, dominate Dead Things, Samarandin homunculi (singular: homunculus; commonly referred to as 'homos' in 'Centauri Island') and such like sorts of otherwise essentially mindless, yet nonetheless solid, fully functional beings constructed specifically for them;

like Master Devas, who are genetically incapable of disobeying their fathers, the Thrygragos Brothers and their grandfather, the Moloch Sedon, azuras are incapable of disobeying their devic fathers; possession by azuras may be the reason the indigenous population of devic protectorates maintain the worship-quotient the protectorates' overlords require in order to remain so very nearly omnipotent in their realms; (NOTE: there are also domains over-lorded by over-ladies, female Master Devas like Krepusyl of Crepuscule and Methandra of Mythland;)

there are almost as many different kinds of azuras as there are individual devils: as related in "Sedon's Stooge", part of PREGAME-Gambit (the 2005 revision thereof), Klannit Thanatos was the world's first known azura; in the story sequences set in 5980 Year of the Dome she dominates ice statuary prepared specifically for her by Sedunihas, her deaf-mute, age-retarded, fourth generational devic brother in Tantal and Methandra Thanatos;

• Aphrodisiazurs are the offspring of Byron's Venus, Aphropsyche Morningstar (APM All-Eyes); Lovely Lady Afrites are said to house them but APM also use them to inspire childbirth after plagues or disasters decimated Godbad;
• Apocalyptazurs are the get of the three Primary Apocalyptics (Carcingogen the Leper or Plague, Headless Ramazar or Disaster and Mars Bellona or War); their most common mothers are Mithradites such as the Medusa (Mater Matare or Mother Murder), the other two Gorgons (Stheno & Euralye), and the lesser Apocalyptics (Famine or Pestilence, Diluvia Ran or Flood and Milady Malaise or Sickness, the Leper's Lady); those by Plague and Sickness can cause illnesses; often called Tazurs for short;
• Belialmazurs are Lady Lust's infrequent offspring, usually by Thrygragos Mithras, Tantal Thanatos or her most common beau, Cruel Plathon, the Bull of Mithras;often called Mazurs for short;
• Mazurs are also the azura offspring of Lust's Lackeys (Parfum, Humoan & Pheron) by various Master Devas;
• Mithrazurs are (mostly) the get of Thrygragos Varuna Mithras and Divine Coueranna, she of the curse, from circa Year 0 of the Dome until roughly 2000 YD, when Kore-Eris (Marut Kanin, Discord, Marutia, Strife) replaced Coueranna (Kore-Concord) as Mithras's mate; as such they are probably oldest group of azuras on Inner Earth;
• Nergalazurs are Nergal Vetala's offspring by either Zuvem Nergalis or Yama Nergal; often called Lazurs for short;
• Haddazurs are Nergal Vetala's offspring by devils other than Zuvem Nergalis or Yama Nergal; often called Dazurs for short;
• the term 'Vetalazurs' is used throughout both versions of 'The Trigregos Gambit' as the collective noun for azuras whose devic mother was Nergal Vetala; they animate many, though hardly all, of the Haddit Zombies (Gambit's Ambulatory Dead); Vetalazurs are parasitic; often called Lazurs for short;
• Tantalazurs are Tantal Thanatos's offspring; only one of them, Klannit, is by his wife and immediate sister Methandra (Mediterranean Athena), Heat to his Cold; the rest come from his younger siblings including Belialma (Lady Lust, aka Hell's Belle);
• Sangazurs, or Vahallazurs, also animate the Dead, but only those slain in battle; their devic father is always Mars Bellona, the Apocalyptic of War; they have a variety of devic mothers including Mater Matare (the majority), Drought and Kala Tal, who are Mithradites, as well as Babhdh (Battle Babe or Sabre Rattle), who's a Lazaremist; most Sangs are referred to as Guardian Angels; one of the oldest, and one of the few Sangs with his own name, is Guardian Angel Tyrtod, whose devic mother was Titanic Metis, also a Lazaremist; another Sang with a name is Guardian Angel Jordy; Sangs are symbiotic; they appear in both 'Feeling Theocidal' and, as per here and here, its immediate sequel, 'The Thousand Days of Disbelief';
• Yamazurs are Yama Nergal's offspring by female devils (including Nergal Vetala); because they somehow regenerate their own life-force, Yamazurs are about all that can survive in the Ghostlands (once the Elysian or Valhallan Fields) that surround the Weirdom of Cabalarkon;

Sangs, more correctly Sangazurs, were the offspring of Mars Bellona, the Apocalyptic of War, and an always-combative diversity of female Master Devas, not all of who were Mithradites. They usually animated the Glorious Dead of Valhalla, Bellona’s quasi-protectorate east of the Hills of the Sleepers and south of the Mystic Mountains, Sedon’s Crown, in the Upper Headlands.

... from 'The Thousand Days of Disbelief'

NOTE: Guardian Angels Jordy and Tyrtod appear primarily in the 3rd section of '1000-Daze'

Sangazurs were symbionts. They animated the Dead while, at the same time, allowing deceased individuals to retain their unique personas. That made them about the most useful form of azura to be found anywhere. It also made them the most prized.

Their Valhalla-homeland having gone radioactive courtesy of the Idiot Twins – Tammuz and Osiraq as Illuminaries had them – going atomic in 4825, these days they were mostly found in the Bloodlands, Sedon’s Inner Nose; hence its other name: New Valhalla.

... Sangazurs had many weaknesses. Like any azura – or any Master Deva for that matter – they could be captured and held in a Trinondev’s prison pod or a devil’s ringot. Equally so, albeit unlike devils, they could be captured and held in soul sinks, a dryad or Acorn Ant’s nut-ball, a wizard’s eye-catcher or a Valkyrie’s crystal skull.

... from 'The Thousand Days of Disbelief'

Additional lynx: there's a note re azuras in the synopsis for 'COUERANNA'S CURSE' 8: "Cain, Slayer of Abel"; more commentary can found in the Terms' entry for Master Devas; plus, now that phantacea Mythos mosaic novels are starting to come out, there's stacks of stuff on azuras and their devic parents in www.phantacea. com; a couple of recommended ones are here and here;

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BETWEEN-SPACE

generic term for the nebulous realm through which spirits, certain witches, devils, and other teleporters travel; other terms for between-space include the Dark-Grey Universal Substance of Samsara, the Grey and, as most witches referred to it, the Weird; Samsarites such as the Death Dodgers and Multivoids such as the Indescribable Mr No Name (both groups of which seem to have started out as Callion Clones) have also been known to call it either Stoprock or Brainstone;

There's a highlighted area in the synopsis to Weird-5 that has to do with between-space specifically.

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BRAINROCK, GYPSIUM, GODSTUFF

Brainrock came into being when the Primordial Godhead exploded in the first moment of the Big Bang. Reputedly semi-sentient, fragments of it spread throughout the Cosmos. When it is glowing, it acts as a teleportive agent. Stepping stones such as Anthean Agates, Afrite Bulbs, Korant Kernels, Sari Glittery Bits (glitz) and Hellstones are largely composed of Brainrock. So are devic talismans such as Airealist's Aerod, Sea's Aqua Ankh, Miracle Maenad/Nergal Vetala/Rhea Ararat's moon-sickle, and Demon Land's Stalactite Club.

Cathonic Fluid is Distilled Brainrock. In the Weirdom of Cabalarkon it's usually used to the suspend the animation of those suffering from 'Imminent Death'. Those immersed in it, such as the Undying Utopian after whom the Weirdom is named, are called Sleepers. In Cabalarkon (the place) it's also of component of the Development Tanks used there to clone folks such as Golgotha and Gethsemane Nauroz. The first Moses Callion used a variation of it to clone the brats as well as, presumably, the second Moses Callion. The third Moses Callion, with the assistance of Inner Earth witches like Aranyani Nightingale, used it to produce Samsarites/Multivoids such as the Death Dodgers and other Callion Clones.

Gypsium, the secondary fuel of the Cosmic Express and what made Doc Defiance a late-in-life supranormal, is just another name for this miraculous substance. The word 'Gypsium' itself was supposedly coined by members of the Gypsium Triumvirate (Romaine Kinesis, Kadmon Heliopolis and Aristotle Zeross) in the late Forties, our time. Long before that, however, Sedon's Hairband, the dividing land-line between the Cattail Peninsula and the occipital regions of Sedon's Head, was also referred to as the Gypsium Wall.

Its counter-force or neutralizing agent is Stopstone, also called Solidium. Mastery of Stopstone is what makes a Mithrant Persian such as Rom's father, Alexandros 'Pluman' Kinesis, an Earth Magician while Mastery of Brainrock is what makes a Heliodromus such as Rom's mother, Roxanne 'Slipper' nee Heliopolis, a Sky Magician. Chthonic creatures such as demons, faeries, Mandroids (the Lemurian frog-women's guard-bodies) and the Mantels of Temporis are largely composed of Solidium-Stopstone, which is why they can neutralize devils.

Certain supras, including Doc Defiance (Rom Kinesis), the Untouchable Diver (Yehudi Cohen) the second Ringleader (Harry Zeross) and Morg's one-armed man (Alastor Molorchus) are considered Gypsium-gifted. Devils are said to be Brainrock-blessed. So are the Dual Entities, which is why they could be considered Immortals. For what is Brainrock except Godstuff.

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CATHONIC FLUID (The Water of Life)

- also called Cathy (when it's drunk like coffee) or Brainrot (when it's an alchoholic drink);

A foul-tasting, but remarkably energizing, altogether non-alcoholic concoction of finely ground, thence dissolved and distilled Brainrock-Gypsium, Cathy was called such because it was little more than a hopped-up, terrestrial variant of life-preserving, though animation-suspending, Cathonic Fluid. Its multiple tens of thousands light years’ pre-Earth originated, yet similarly prepared, and liquefied, constituent-cousin was what kept Sedon’s Cabby the Daddy, he of the north-westernmost Weirdom of the same name, the Undying Utopian.

Even if its recipe included rotting fungi, the Dinq 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.

... from "The 1000 Days of Disbelief"

- distilled Brainrock has multiple purposes but its primary one is to suspend people's animation such that they cannot die, -- so long as they remain in the fluid, that is; notable because it has kept Cabalarkon, Sedon's Utopian 'father', semi-alive since their forced departure from New Weirworld (as per here);

- also in the Weirdom of Cabalarkon (Sedon's Devic Eye-Land on a map of the Hidden Headworld), Cathonic Fluid is a main ingredient in the Development Tanks used to produce clones such as Golgotha Nauroz; the various Moses Callions use the same stuff to make Callion Clones such as the brats we first encounter at Castle Nightmare during the course of Coueranna's Curse; this suggests that the first Moses Callion, who was living at Castle Nightmare pre-WWII, was either a Utopian scientocrat or learned about Cathonic Fluid from a Utopian scientocrat;

Ordinarily destructive to chthonic or earthborn lifeforms such as demons and faeries, Helios captures and confines the two-in-one Sed-moms, Pyrame Silverstar fused with Primeval Lilith, in a tub of Cathonic Fluid early in 1938; this event is also detailed in Curse; Curse's follow-up is "The Volsung Variations". In VolVar-5, which opens 'Queen of Heaven', that novel's second subsection, Tanith Silverhair, having accepted Tom-Tiddly Taddletale's offer to marry the night before, is walking unaccompanied through the Dual Entities' Trans-Time Trigon.

As she does so she carries on a conversation with Sub-Trig's innards, Machine-Memory (who, when humanized during 19/5920's Simultaneous Summonings, may have become pregnant with Tom-Tiddly's then latest under-shell, Tammuz Rhymer of Dukkha). In this excerpt, Tanith speaks first. Said innards responds in Memory's digitized voice. Together they touch on the origins of Cathonic Fluid:

"... Unlike devils who, as the gods and goddesses of Ancient Humanity, were demonized by monotheistic, mostly western religions, Lilith was demon all along."

"Not quite right, -- she was an intelligence all along --, but close enough. My love knew what he was doing when he had her stuck in that tub."

"How so?"

"Ah, as to that, we'd have to go back to our Fifth Lifetime, to how Hel, with my help, -- much more so than either of us cares to acknowledge by the way --, came up with the Moloch Sedon in the first place."

"I heard that last night. Rather than going the Adam's Rib route, he plucked an eye out of a Utopian by the name of Cabalarkon, plunked it into a vat of this Cathonic Fluid stuff, and let nature take its course."

"Not exactly nature. As close to Godhood as there is. Cathonic Fluid is essentially distilled Brainrock and Brainrock is ..."

"Yeah, yeah, I heard that too, -- the stuff of God Itself. Not so much Godhood as the Godhead, the compacted everything that blew itself up in the Big Bang and turned into the Cosmos."

"Not just the compacted everything but the compacted every thought. In the beginning there was the word and all that. Say every single intelligent being today was to reach a state of perfection, a oneness with God as it were. What form would, could, this oneness take?"

"A big blob?"

"A not so much big but almost impossibly dense thickness encompassing everything that was. Call it the ultimate unity."

"A Godhead," Tanith appreciated." And not only everything that was, I gather you're saying, but will be again."

"Consider that a nod," suggested the air as her silver hair ruffled otherwise inexplicably. "What happened was, at least what Heliosophos would tell you happened, was that every conceivable intelligence in what it's easiest to think of as the previous cosmos, having achieved perfection, the ultimate unity, found it perfectly boring."

"Enough of them rebelled, blew themselves, and every other intelligence, up and out of this perfection, and began another cosmos for not even God, them, knows how many times."

"Bang on, as Helios is wont to say."

{NOTE: There's more from this conversation preserved on the long forgotten (until the Autumn of 2007 update) pHluffy pHilosophies page.}

see also Multivoids, Death Dodgers; there's a gold-mining box re Cathonic Fluid in the synopsis of Helioddity: Old King Kad

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CATHONIC ZONE

known also as Cathonia, the Dome, the Sedon Sphere; zone of Sedonic Energy that keeps the Outer Earth separated from the Inner Earth or Sedon's Head;

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CELESTIAL GOD

thought by some to have possibly been Heliosophos during an unknown lifetime;

This God, some said, was of the heavens, was a Celestial, a member of a star-born race and therefore could not be one of a kind. Others said he was a rebel Celestial, the equivalent of the Titan Prometheus, who gave humanity sentience against the wishes of his fellows. Dependent on one's race, he was variously described as Semitic, Caucasian, Oriental, African, Polynesian, or Australian Aboriginal. Most agreed that, whatever his skin colour, he was next to unbearable to look upon because his hair and beard, if he had one, were composed of sunrays.

Except for the fact that his skin was definitely blue, much the same thing was said about Alorus Ptah. This led to the oft-quoted statement that man was made in the image and likeness of God. While other upper level sentient beings on the Whole Earth objected to that characterization, it suited human beings.

-- from Cain, Slayer of Abel

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CELESTIALS

an actual heavenly race and, along with Utopians, devazurs' greatest enemies; devas refer to them as Hedonists as distinct from themselves, who are Sedonists; Celestials are said to have trapped a number of devas in their realm when the Sedonshem passed through it multi-millennia before arriving on the Whole Earth; one those devas was Serathrone Hallow, the breed sister of the two Silverclouds, Rudra and Umashakti, and therefore of Great Byron's first litter;

Because devas were considered gods in Hindu Mythology and the word itself was corrupted into 'deus' and 'divine', some think Celestials are devas who did not make it to the Whole Earth; Celestials may also have influenced the outcome of the Crimson Conspiracy some two thousand years ago; the various members of the Family D'Angelo are said to be Celestials and Celeste Mannering is called the Celestial Superior of the Anthean Sisterhood;

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DEMONS

Immediately below, left and right, are two of H.R. Giger's depictions of Lilith, thought to be Alorus Ptah's first wife and the Queen of All Demons, -- images found on the Worldwide Web. For more Giger, see Anti-Patriarchs, above, and 'Devas by Affiliation'.

Demons are chthonic (earthborn and earthbound) semi-sentient beings native to the planet. By the Sixtieth Century of the Dome, the only true demons left are confined to either Satanwyck (Pandemonium), where they are the subjects of Baaloch Hellblob, Sinistral Sloth, or the Forbidden Forest of Kala Tal, Sedon's Moustache. These last, who constantly plague the Sraddhite Warrior Monks of Lake Sedona (Sedon's Teardrop), are commonly referred to as 'Indescribables'.

Demons may be related to the faeries (feeorin) of the Grey Land of Crepuscule (Twilight) and the Thousand Caverns of Tariqartha (Temporis), Mandroids (both Old Weir's version and the near-automatons who serve All the Invincible, She-Sphinx of Incain, and Queen Amphitrite of Lemuria in 5980), and Mantels (particularly the replicated denizens of Temporis);

The original demons were not so much products of Old Eden's discredited science as 'adjusted' according to Edenite specifications; female demons were bred to be compatible with human beings and, indeed, most other order of sentient life forms; Primeval Lilith, Cain's presumed mother, and Daemonicus seem to be legitimate old-time demons whereas Steltsar, Crystallion, Hell's Horsemen, and their Nuclear Firedrakes would appear to be mostly manmade-demons;

Demons fused like most creatures did but not so much sexually as bodily. Often a great many of them fused at once. Some of what they excreted became living beings in their own right. They fed on what was left of their parents -- the ones that did not walk away, that is -- inhuming their remains and acquiring aspects of their minds at the same time.

There was considerable debate about whether they had souls like most of the higher sentient orders did however. One school of thought had it that they devoured sentient souls. Which was the main reason cognizant reincarnation never seemed to work. More practical men such as both Tut and his father held that demons simply fed on decomposed biomass. Certainly their delicacies were fungous in nature, mushrooms, moulds, mildew, and such like, though they sometimes went for moss and lichen.

Those who cremated their dead did so to keep them away from demons. By contrast, those that either buried them or left them up in trees or in open-topped structures on hills did so to appease demons. Witches and warlocks, priests and priestesses, who sacrificed animals even infants, children, virgins, or year kings, did so in the misguided belief that demons could somehow influence the course of Nature Itself. There was no evidence of that but it was true that demons could be bribed by a fresh kill; properly pulped of course since they liked their bones powdered. Probably had a calcium deficiency.

They also made for very formidable fighters since they were sort of squishy and therefore could absorb a lot of punishment, had no vital organs as such and did not burn particularly well. The best way to dispatch them was to literally blow them apart or hack them into dozens of pieces, starting with the legs, assuming they had any. Not the easiest thing to do considering demons could use weapons as easily as anyone with arms, a modicum of intelligence, and opposable thumbs. Some even had tentacles, tails, and very impressive teeth to add to their arsenal.

Demons were born with their progenitors' memories. If there were too many of them, they could not assimilate and therefore sublimated all but the most primeval of them, -- the will and wherewithal to survive. However, if the demon was born of a single sentient, a human say, they would inherit his memories alone. Arguably, his memories amounted to his psyche, his mind, his intelligence. Presumably also they included his soul, his animus, since psyche literally meant soul. But only if they fed off their placental parent; their father in other words!

-- from Cain, Slayer of Abel

In 4376 YD, the Legendarian comes across Hinny the Hippy. He doesn't think she's a demon but he might be wrong:

What the hell was that tethered to the hitching rail?

First look said Mandroid. Second look said, no, altogether alive that hell. Possession wasn’t what animated the undeniable oddity. Third look said dumb as they come. It wasn’t a faerie perversion. Plus, it was too docile to be daemon or demon, agathodaemon or cacodemon; the former being more indifferent than benevolent while the latter was a man-eater. That must make it a domesticated animal then, but what kind?

Size-wise, albeit only from a distance, it might pass for a stumpy but thickset deer, mule, jackass, or dwarf donkey. Except, how do you account for the furry-looking, tightly matted, black feathers and crow’s head? And what’s with the wings, dinky ones on either side of its four upper hooves or fetlocks and stunted ones sprouting out of its shoulders like that of an immature or diseased Pegasus or hippogriff?

... from "Feeling Theocidal";

In 'The Volsung Variations', Tanith Silverhair carries on a conversation with whom she's walking upon -- that'd be the Mnemosyne Machine, for the non-pHants amonst you. They speak to demons, particularly their antediluvian king and queen:

"But, going back to Lilith and the tub of Cathonic Fluid," the walls were saying, "It being Brainrock and she being mostly Stopstone ..."

"It's the worst possible place for her."

"It preserved her life, -- her existence rather --, but that may be about it."

"She'll never get any better," understood Tanith. "Solidium's not much more than glorified mud, is it?"

"Slop of the earth, Silverhair. Add the sun, a little lightning, a few meteor showers and, voila, you've life. Evolution takes care of the rest. As for intelligence, well ..."

"What stuck, you and I'd scrape off our boots."

"To be sure, tellurians never really got very high up the ladder in terms of wit. Barely made it past the twit-step, truth told. They're as loyal as dogs and don't bite unless you tell them to, which some might think of as good points."

"Good points that also make them the perfect slaves."

"For the most part, equally true. They're clumsy and plodding, though. Sentimental too. Don't get them to wash your dishes. They break one, they start to cry. Think they've done in a cousin or some such."

... from "The Volsung Variations"

Lynx to more entries on Daemonicus, the demon's pre-Flood king, can be found here. A mini-essay on Primeval Lilith, the primogenitor female daemon, can be found in the Summer 2004 edition of pHpubs; a significant snippet of dialogue between the Dual Entities regarding demons has been preserved here; additional info regarding both Lilith and Daemonicus, the primogenitor male daemon, can be found here; in 'Sedon's Stooge', one of the sample chapters of the 2005 revision of 'The Trigregos Gambit' still online, the Smiling Fiend tells of his connection to Daemonicus; in 'The Volsung Variations', Magnus Minus (represented by the above demon-figure) fancies himself the 5938-new Daemonicus;

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DEVAZURS

sometimes called Sedonists or Shedds, after Sedon; the collective race of the mostly solid Master Devas and the almost always insubstantial azuras; because devas were considered gods in Hindu Mythology (reference Varuna or Uranus) and Sanskrit is the written form of an Indo-European tongue, the word itself was corrupted into 'deus' and 'divine'; equally so, because devas were considered evil spirits (reference Ahriman or even Satan) in Persian or Zoroastrian Duality, the word, deva, also became 'devil';

there are similar notes re the devazur race in the exposition section of the Overview Webpage created for the revised version of 'The Moloch Manoeuvres'; see also The Moloch Sedon, The Thrygragos Brothers, The Trigregos Sisters, Byronics, Lazaremists, Mithradites, and individual listings linked from those listings;

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EDEN (Plato's Atlantis)

what Plato called Atlantis; the Garden of Eden was what others called Avalon, -- or Apple Isle as it is currently known as on Sedon's Head, Old Eden's Zoo;

According to some Plato's Atlantis was Santorini, sometimes called Thira, an island in the Aegean Sea that blew it's heart into the sky around 1500 BC. It's said that the eruption of the Island, which in the PHANTACEA Mythos is called Strongyne, the Island of Strong Women, contributed mightily to the demise of the Etocretan society of the Minoans. I've also heard it muttered that something called Continental Migration resulted in Atlantis being moved to the vicinity of South Pole where it became frozen Antarctica.

By far the most common version of its fate is the closest to Plato's version of it. Namely, that somewhere around ten thousand years before the present day, the Earth's last Ice Age ended. As vast glaciers melted, waters throughout the globe consequently rose, swamping much of the planet. There remained a lengthy archipelago that stretched across the Atlantic Ocean between North Africa and Iberia all the way to what would become the West Indies and North-Central America. Its remains are now under the Sargasso Sea.

Eden's society was so highly advanced some have suggested it was extraterrestrial, perhaps even Utopian, in origin. Its technical achievements made those of 1938's Outer Earth pale in contrast.

-- from Cain, Slayer of Abel

-- the Mnemosyne 3-Thing, speaking to Big Max Maxwell during a segment of 'Helios on the Moon', hooks the sinking of Atlantis into the beginning of the Golden Age of Humankind. An extended excerpt of their conversation is quoted in the topic section of the Winter 2000 Web-Publisher's Commentary.

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EDEN'S ZOO (Lemuria)

another name for Lemuria or Sedon's Head; so-called because that was where Edenites or Atlanteans deposited their failed genetic experiments designed primarily to grant Edenites immortality; a practise which accounted for the incredible diversity of sentient life forms still found on Sedon's Head.

Not content with extremely long, healthy lives provided by their famous golden apples, hence the term Golden Agers, Edenites wanted immortality, the stuff of Godhood.

-- from Cain, Slayer of Abel!

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ENOCH CITY

... destroyed in 661 Pre-Dome (PD) but once stood in the Sinai Peninsula and was dominated by three mighty ziggurats; conceivably the first Trigon. It was the last stronghold of Edenite Science and there, with his three young wives, also lived the oldest and most hated man alive ...

-- from Cain, Slayer of Abel!

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EYE-STAVE (also including Eyeorbs or Prison Pods)

a long metallic pole upon which perches an eyeorb or prison pod; carried by Utopian Trinondevs, the Elite Warriors of Weir, the earliest ones are extraterrestrial in origin:

But – take this seriously please, she’d say to pre-differently-inflamed lover, Quill Tethys – should they be cleared, what if the ancient ones proved to have supplementary functions that no one either remembered or recorded next-to-endlessly long ago? What if, once vacated, they could then be used, collectively, to take out Sedon Himself? If it worked, might the risk be retrospectively hailed as well worth the taking?

Not according to any Master of any Weirdom anywhere on the Whole Earth post-Dome. Then again, virtually all the Masters of any Weirdom, ones that anyone – including the two, to-this-day, still recurring deviants, the Legendarian and the Goat, Pusan Wanderlust – could recall with any degree of confidence, had turned out to be craven crayfish, again to quote Cabalarkon’s then reigning Master, Morgan Abyss.

Because Cabalarkon the Undying Utopian lay inanimate deep within the catacombs of Cabalarkon the city proper, Dark Sedon safeguarded Cabalarkon the Weirdom, his Devic Eye-Land. Its cowardly Masters were too afraid of losing his protection to do what they should have been doing all along: exerting their anti-devil goodwill and no matter how unwelcome influence, as well as their not inconsiderable might, trying anything to annihilate said Sedon and his diabolical descendants.

... from "The 1000 Days of Disbelief"

Eye-staves are usually topped with eyeorbs or prison pods, which are conceivably related to the Biblical Shamir; most Trinondevs manifest gargoyles from the eyeorbs atop their eye-staves;

Megaera born Kinesis become Zeross became, in effect, a Living Eye-Stave in 5938; she thereafter gained the codename of Meg-Aura;

Demios Sarpedon has the oldest eye-stave in existence; it was given to him by Ubris Nauroz, the father of Augustus Nauroz (Hush's Gush, the Voodoo Child, Aug the Dog, the male trickster, Augustus Nauroz, Auguste Moirnoir, Young Death to Hush's Young Life, who like her in the 1938 serials has been an apparent seven year old for something like seventeen years);

Ubris was therefore the grandfather of Saladin Devason, the Master of Weir in the 59/1980 serials, and Morgianna Somata (1938), later Superior Sarpedon (1960 as well as 59/1980), the Hecate-Hellions' Morrigan;

a mini-essay on Utopian eye-staves entitled "Manifesting Gargoyles" can be found in the Winter 2004/5 edition of pHpubs; there's more on Djinn Domitian, phantacea's version the Mithraic 'leontocephalic' god, here; a webpage dedicated exclusively to Utopians of Weir starts here;

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GARUDAS (Avian Humans)

As one might expect from the fact they were hollow-boned, avian-humans were yet another product of old Eden’s twisted experimentations with upper-level-intelligent, biological specimens. Lightweight, small of stature and arboreal, with pinched faces and pronounced noses – what they, being ironic, called their beaks – they were nevertheless human. Were live-born, viviparous, had no tail, no fur, though they were moderately hairy, and had ordinary skin, of varying pigmentations. Self-evidently they could interbreed with both regular humans and Utopians like the late Granny Garuda, who was born Kanin Nauroz and, as such, was Augustus Nauroz’s aunt. Was also Aquilla’s maternal grandmother.

What made them Garudas was their regalia, their feathers, which had decidedly daemonic qualities to it. Truth told, which Garudas seldom did, especially to non-Garuda-outsiders, there was a great deal of the daemonic about them. It’s said of them they’re simultaneously twice-born: one side, the avian-human side, is born externally while the other side, their feathered side, is born internally, as in not so much inter-spatially as inner-spatially. Both sides grew together, one visibly, the other invisibly. Around the age of seven, their wise men and women performed certain rituals and, lo and behold, their feathered side became physically accessible.

It continued to grow as you did but it was removable; could actually be hung in a clothes closet along with your regular outfits and put on the same way, one leg or one arm at a time. A parent might think this a great way to save on a new wardrobe at the start of, say, every school year. However, as with all things daemonic, fairy-like if you prefer, a Garuda’s regalia came with a catch. You’re a Garuda. Wear it too often you can’t get it off anymore; not unless you’re dead anyhow. You are then anyone can not only get it off you; anyone can also put it on and use it to fly just like you did. Which basically is what happened to Granny Garuda in Brindisi, on the Outer Earth, back on the Fourteenth.

Conversely, you didn’t wear it often enough it went into a huff and actually molted. You go off to one of Godbad’s many universities, most of which are well up in the mountainous north; far away from where you live in Djerridam-Goatwood, Sedon’s Goatee. You leave your feathers behind in a closet at your parents’ nest, call it a cabin if you must, way up some tall tree way down there. You get caught in a student demonstration against the subcontinent’s imported, orange-skinned, and orange skin-textured, Bandradin aristocracy. You’re sent to prison for a couple of years. You’re finally released and make your way back home. There’s not enough of your feathers left to stuff a proper pillow.

Tough tiddlywinks, as they say.

-- from "Cry Helios"

there's a picture of Garuda as well as some additional notes on them in the India '05 webpage;

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GENESEA (The Noachian Flood)

The Great Flood of Genesis; caused by Xuthros Hor, the Biblical Noah, approximately 4000 BC or Year Zero of both the Cathonic Dome (YD) and as time is counted backwards Pre-Dome (PD);

Alorus Ptah, the Biblical Adam, was born in 1656 PD whereas Amemp Tut, the Biblical Methuselah, was killed in the same year as the Genesea; this information is straight from the Bible; the details are provided in Golden Age Patriarchs, a long-running PHANTACEA on the Web Feature;

'Forever & 40 Days - The Genesis of PHANTACEA', a graphic novel published in 1990, ends with Xuthros Hor calling down, as well as welling up, the Genesea. It is still available for ordering.

NOTE: There's a section-by-section overview of the graphic novel online. The image of Xuthos Hor, complete with rain and Raven's Head (or her primogenitor), can also be found here whereas a short summary of the sequence it came from is here. There's a reference to the conjuration Xuthros Hor uses in an Autumn 2007 entry of Serendipity Now. The front and back cover for the graphic novel can be found here whereas the biggest reproduction of its front cover is here.

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GOLDEN AGE OF HUMANKIND

- lasted from about 5600 BC (5656 BC when Alorus Ptah, the Biblical Adam, was born) until the Genesea of 4000 BC, Year Zero of the Cathonic Dome (YD) or Year Zero Pre-Dome (PD); in the PHANTACEA Mythos, the ten Biblical Patriarchs from Adam to Noah were born exactly when the Bible stated; all lived as long as it said as well; contemporaneous with Adam's line through Seth/Azura were the Anti-Patriarchs, Adam's line through Cain/Awan;

- Golden Agers aged normally until they reached puberty but thereafter, at least from the time they were twenty, began to age very slowly indeed. One rule of thumb is to consider everyone of their years a month. In human terms therefore one could think of, say, Amemp Tut, the eighth patriarch and the one who lived longest, as being the equivalent of eighty years and nine months when he died;

- peculiar to PHANTACEA, the main reason for their extraordinary long lives is explained by the Mnemosyne 3-Thing, speaking to Big Max Maxwell, during a segment of 'Helios on the Moon'. An extended excerpt of their conversation is quoted in the topic section of the Winter 2000 Web-Publisher's Commentary;

- parts of both '4-Ever & 40' and 'Feel Theo', both of which can still be ordered, are set in the Golden Age;

- a dedicated webpage containing plenty of other references to the Golden Age of Humankind is here;

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KERES OR CEREBERANT HELLHOUNDS

Psychopomps that can travel between-space by themselves; they can track people through it as well; Cereberant Hellhounds pulled Divine Coueranna's Wheeled Cauldron when she still ruled Apple Isle from her home in Kore's Hell; Cybele St Synne, like many other Korants on Ap Isle, had her own pet Keres; its name was Celery; a telling BLOCKQUOTE re this Celery can be found here.

Cereberant Hellhounds appear most notably in 'The Volsung Variations', which I began to serializeout here in pH-Webworld during the Summer of 2006 but abandoned due to an apparent lack of readership. Cybele, Sed's Redhead, appears there as well as in 'The Moloch Manoeuvres' and 'Coueranna's Curse', two Web Wheaties cereals that've come and gone.

There's picture of a pendant I spotted in NYC's Met Museum here. It features the Phrygian (as well as early Roman) Mother Goddess Cybele (aka Magna Meter) acting as her own charioteer. In it Cybele's chariot is depicted as a dogcart being pulled by, you guessed it, Keres Hellhounds.

In "Feeling Theocidal", which I based on the Thrygragon story sequences, the Demon Child Tralalorn (unless she's a Devil Child) transforms a Keres into her chimera. Its name is Stynx:

“All?”

“She-Sphinx stinks. Besides the slides, Daddy Taurus said no. All might eat me. More is the pity and less is the shitty. So I Chimera-Keres rode here, tra-la that’s clear. She stinks too the boo. That’s why I call her Stygian Stynx.”

The Styx was the molten Brainrock flow separating this side’s innards of Mt Maenalus from the between-space orchard of Kore’s Hell, where reputedly still grew golden-apple-bearing trees. Korant youngsters called it the Stynx because it stank, like the brimstone magma it was, and Trala’s best gal-pals were Korant girls never forever her age.

The Demon Child was sitting on the back of this Stygian Stynx. Visually it wasn’t a 3-headed Cereberant identical to the ones Divine Coueranna, Plathon as her charioteer, employed to pull her wheeled cauldron to the Mole. Beyond the Dome, when they served as ferocious as well as fiercely loyal pets for Kore-Concord in her aspect of Cybele, Magna Mater – arguably the greatest Great Mother of the Goddess Culture’s matriarchate – such like chthonic canines were known as Keres Hellhounds.

On Apple Isle, Sedon’s Human Eye-Land, where he ruled from atop his Mithradium mastaba on the summit of Theopolis Hill, Cereberants were seldom seen away from Mt Maenalus. Stynx – a neverending succession of Stynxes, put better – went wherever Tralalorn went and, mindful of Sedon’s affection for the little horror, Mithras gave her free rein to go wherever she wanted to go so long as she stayed away from his Mithradium.

The reason for that was, except for the three heads, Stynx appeared to be a chimera in the sense that that, in Outer Earth Latin, ‘chimaera’ meant she-goat. To this day, even though it had been Varuna, his nocturnal yet nonetheless bi-solar alter ego, sucking it in as the baby Zeus, the mere sniff of goat’s milk made him nauseous. A Great God vomiting off the balcony of his palatial domicile overtop his prayerful adherents whenever Trala and Stynx were in the vicinity was neither stately nor conducive to his devotees coming back to repeat their devotions.

... from "Feeling Theocidal"

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