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Set primarily on Mithramas Day 4376 YD (with a short section set in Two collages detailing the plot of Feeling Theocidal; graphics by Jim McPherson, 2008Cluttered and Uncluttered Versions of the Images in Frontcover Frame, prepared by Jim McPherson from his own photos, 2006/7contemporaneous Rome of 376 A.D.), "FEELING THEOCIDAL" is the first book in ‘The Thrice Cursed Godly Glories’ trilogy.

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The gods and goddesses, the demons and monsters, of ancient mythologies have been trivialized, their worship proscribed and the entities themselves confined to another realm. Their ongoing battles are chronicled throughout Jim McPherson's PHANTACEA Mythos. In addition to the events of Mithramas Day 4376 YD, Feel Theo highlights a number of these tales.

Since 4000 B.C., as most Outer Earthlings count time (Year of the Dome Zero, as Inner Earthlings do), the gods and goddess, the demons and monsters of mythology have spent the majority of their often immortal existence on the Hidden Continent of Sedon's Head. At the novel’s outset, Thrygragos Varuna Mithras (the Great God of Light, Truth, Justice and so much more, including civilization) is one of the very few gods still worshipped on both sides of the Cathonic Dome (or Sedon Sphere).

Unfortunately for his continued Great Godhood, he's been losing worshippers on the Outer Earth to monotheism since the Emperor Constantine converted from Mithraism to the so-called Christian or Roman Catholic Church of the era. Consequently, he initiates an Inner Earth power play designed to usurp the worshippers of his two brother Great Gods and their third generational offspring.

He reckons nothing can stop him, not even his ever-reincarnating deviant son Taurus Chrysaor Attis, the Universal Soldier. What he can't plan ahead to stop, because he can't remember he even exists, is the pernicious influence of Smiler (who claims to be his triplet brother in Sedon), and the seemingly inanimate objects known as the Trigregos Talismans.

(These are the trilogy’s titular thrice-cursed Godly Glories. They’re named after the three long lost, yet nonetheless deeply despised, second generational mothers of devakind. As described in the graphic novel, devazurs consider them traitors to their own often-unkind kind. As for the other three Godly Glories, the Thrygragos Talismans, named after the Great Gods themselves, as far as Mithras is concerned they aren’t cursed at all. That’s probably because he has them.)

A mosaic novel, its multifarious cast of characters includes gods or devils, a few of their mortal offspring (called deviants) such as Jordan Q Tethys and Taurus Chrysaor Attis, and a number of ordinary men and women. Hardly all of these last are human. (Sooth said, there's a particularly nasty Saurian, namely Saudi the Steg Sari, running amuck throughout much of the novel.)

Full Cover for "Feeling Theocidal", a PHANTACEA Mythos Print Publication, Artwork by Verne Andru, 2008

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James H McPherson, Publisher. Cover artwork by Verne Andru, 2008. Text by Jim McPherson, 2008.

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Since Lightning Source Inc (LSI) has exclusive rights to distribute the novel, a list of LSI's distribution partners, including a number outside of Canada or the USA, is here. Or you can email your order(s) directly to me today and I'll either arrange to fill them myself or send you details as to how you can order copies of the novel wherever you live.

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Front Cover for "Feeling Theocidal", a PHANTACEA Mythos Print Publication, Artwork by Verne Andru, 2008

Cover Artwork by Verne Andru, 2008

Back Cover Blurb

The Great God, Thrygragos Varuna Mithras, has named the day. Let it be called Thrygragon, as in gone, gone his Thrygragos Brothers.

He’s reacquired his Godly Glory from his half-son, Taurus Chrysaor Attis. He’s claimed the Godly Glories of his two brothers and knows how to obliterate All, Incain’s fearsome Gynosphinx. Nothing can go wrong.

Call it what you will, Jordan Tethys is having a lousy day. His wives have discovered he’s both a deviant and a perfidious polygamist. They not only keep killing him, they’re determined to sink his soul forevermore.

No one’s happier about Thrygragon than the never remembered, ever-smiling Fiend. At least he has enough sense to stay away from his mothers’ talismans, the thrice-cursed Godly Glories.

Smiler’s myrionymous. He has many names. One of them might be Demogorgon, the Devil-Eater!

©copyright 1977 - 2010 Jim McPherson

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A variant of the front cover for"Feeling Theocidal", artwork by Verne Andru, 2008, stripped of colour then tinted; the main character is Thrygragos Varuna Mithras, the Great God of Truth, Light, Justice and so much more (of civilization itself according to him); the main entries on PHANTACEA's Mithras are here and here; in this depiction he's wearing or wielding the Thrygragos Talismans;

Other fallen angel devils who appear on the front cover are Mater Matare (the eventual Apocalyptic of Death, who's still mostly known as the Medusa), Djinn Domitian (Mithras's leontocephalic heliodromus, herald, trumpeter or main messenger), Nergal Vetala (who is still just a Mithradite Moon Goddess often addressed as Fecundity) and Klzarod Rex (the Devalord of the Flood Lands, whom Saudi the Steg Sari nominally worships in Feel Theo);

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