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The 2nd-born Mithradite Apple GoddessesThe Little Green Apple of Juvenescence The Ruby Red Apple of Concupiscence The Golden Apple of Discord (sort of) |
9th-born MithraditesThe Pauper Priestess Tralalorn: Demon Child or 9th-born Mithradite? |
'Domus Delle Gorgoni'The Legendarian claims that the 3 Mithradite Gorgons (the Medusa, the Cockatrice and the Basilisk) are, in reality, from the same brood of lowborn triplets The re-embodied Medusa may not be a 12th born Mithradite but, howsoever grandiosely, she declares herself Mater Matare (Mother Murder), the Apocalyptic of Death, on Thrygragon, 4376 YD Until " - Repeat - Continue - |
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Apocalyptics RowThe main entries on the Apocalyptics that appear in Should mention that, within the phantacea Mythos, there are at least eight Apocalyptics excluding Death. They include Plague, War, Disaster, Drought, Famine, Flood, Illness, and Pestilence. The main lynx for most of them are here, here or here. There are also a number of Deaths, including three whose last name is Thanatos, one Nergalid, at least one Byronic, and Mundane Murder, who as per here egocentrically started calling herself Mater Matare (Mother Murder), the Apocalyptic of Death, during the course of Feel Theo. All except Pestilence appeared, howsoever briefly, in Feel Theo. Only the big four depicted in the lower part of the Apocalyptics collage next column down appear in War-Pox. - double-click to enlarge images -- Top of Page - Web Page Contents - Top of Section - Downwards - |
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There are numerous depictions of Apocalyptics and/or the consequences of them riding by. Perhaps the most famous of them is by Albrecht Durer (1471-1528). I dutifully cut it out (along with a different Death and a Devil from another of his woodcuts, this one entitled "The Knight") and incorporated it into this collage. However, to my mind Durer's Apocalyptics are more representative of Thrygragos Lazareme and his three Unities (as per here). After all, this Death (blue) carries a trident, the same as Unholy Abaddon (Chaos), whereas this War or Conquest, as he's sometimes identified (brown), has a sparking blade, the same as Lord Yajur (Order). The clincher would be the main fellow, who wields Scales of Justice like a slingshot. I've read that this figure represents Famine. I've further read that, in this iconography, the scales are those used in markets to measure produce (of which, in times of hunger, there wouldn't be much). Be that as it may, just as it's Drought, not Death, who carries an hourglass in the phantacea Mythos, I tend to associate scales with Datong Harmonia (Balance). I say that even though her power focus is the Necklace of Harmony whereas her most renowned manifestation of it are her manacles and still-attached, broken chains. Unfortunately for my theory — namely that Durer was on the Hidden Headworld when he witnessed this particular (hence therefore non-Apocalyptic) ride — Harmony's resolutely female. Unfortunately also, Lazareme the Libertine (masquerading in my version of Durer's ride as Disease) has never been shown, or described as, carrying a bow and arrow. Nor would he likely be any good at firing it — let alone riding a horse. As per, especially, Feel Theo, neither are exactly his style. Then again maybe Durer had to alter his original woodcut after returning to Outer Earth. The then approaching-omnipotent Church might have objected to him depicting a powerful woman and a clean-shaven Great God in any sort of Biblical display. That would also explain none of them having three eyes. And, of course, in Durer's time you messed with the Church in fear of a decidedly earthly Last Judgement. The Inquisition was at its height, Torquemada was Spain's Grand Inquisitor from 1493 until 1498 and ... whoa, hey, maybe he was on the Head too, around the same time as young Durer. Hmm ... (NOTES: a Byronic, Libra No-Eyes, has as her Tvasitar Talisman the Scales of Justice.(As for the ostrich feather Egyptian Maat was often depicted using as a counterbalance when weighing someone's soul, Tvasitar gave it, in the form of a clipped quill, to Harmony's younger brother, Rumour of Lazareme.(Further to the Apocalyptics' collage at the top of this column, some of the phantacea Fiends were taken from here while others were taken from here and here.(Nakba Ramazar, being headless, is somewhere in the cluster. I threw in Demon Land mostly because, if it weren't for him, the primary Apocalyptics wouldn't have had anyone to possess once they reached Damnation Isle in the cosmicar.(As for why Smiler's depicted when he never appears in War-Pox, well, um, now's hardly the time to get into that. But here's a hint anyhow.)======== ... on to next panel, down to the Apocalyptics photo essay |
I shot this image in the British Museum. It and its three fellow Apocalyptics were hanging from a ceiling in a huge room off the main courtyard. (Another shot, this one with most of them in it, is here. The Young Death figures with the top hat — the ones I incorporated in a different collage as per here — were shot in the same massive space.)I'm not absolutely certain which Apocalyptic it's supposed to represent. Could be Famine, I suppose, but the big bug strongly suggests Pestilence. The Apocalyptic of Pestilence may have been mentioned in War-Pox, though no one has as yet connected Kinsecto, an apparent supra (from the Forties and Fifties beyond the Dome) with devazurkind. As for pHant's Famine, she's generally called Famish. As follows, along with that of Flood, a brief description of her appears in Feel Theo:
With respect to Durer's version of Death next door, as noted there the devil who wields an hourglass in the phantacea Mythos is none other than Cathune Bubastis, the Apocalyptic of Drought:
The Leper's Lady (Milady Malaise, as he calls her) also appears briefly in Feel Theo:
Speaking of Flood, here's a shot of an Olmec head taken in Villahermosa, Mexico, during a truly devastating flood in 2007. (NOTE: Long time pHant-followers will recall that I tend to use Olmec heads like this one, which date to well before the common era, as representative of Bodiless Byron; another example is here whereas an even earlier one is here.)======== ... on to next panel, down to the Apocalyptics photo essay |
In Spanish this painting is entitled "Sequia, Peste, y Hambre" (according to the sign beneath it, that translates as "Drought, Plague and Famine"). One of over a dozen fabulous works hanging in the Governor's Palace across the road from the Grand Plaza of Merida, Mexico, it's by Fernando Castro Pacheco (1918- ). I've used his work to illustrate aspects of the phantacea Mythos previously, notably — almost from day one of pH-Webworld in the mid to late Nineties — to represent John Sundown and again here, where there are cutouts from two separate Pachecos, both of which can be seen in Merida's Governor's Palace. Yet another Pacheco I've been using online is here. In English it's entitled "Mexico's Eternal Struggle" and it too can be seen in the Governor's palace. Finally, although it's meant to represent the West, where the sun dies everyday, I was struck by this one, in the palace's public staircase. To my mind, it has some decent Mars Bellonas in its background. This rather remarkable diorama is ages old. I can't remember exactly how many ages, as in centuries, but please take my word for it.
I spotted it in the Victoria Albert Museum in London, England, a number of years ago but only recently extracted it from the archives. It's entitled "Disease", though I cut what I assume to be him (Carcinogen the Leper) out of the small shot mostly because he's depicted with wings and a long beard. Phantacea's Plague has neither. Nor do any of the Deaths referred to above, in Apocalyptics' Row, lack either skin or clothing. One of them does carry a scythe, however. That'd be the Byronic antique Illuminaries named Vanthysces Vastness. (Vastness refers to death. It'd be ubiquitous were it not for devils, who are damn near ever-enduring.) Since his fellow devils call him Scarecrow, that gives me a chance to mount a particularly good looking just that, which I spotted in Hamburg, Germany, in the late Spring of 2008. (NOTE: Vanthysces, Byron's Grim Reaper, has never appeared in any of the phantacea Mythos print publications. However, as the former devic Dand of Greater Iraxas — 1980-nowadays Hadd, the Land of the Ambulatory Dead — that will no doubt change come
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Mithras's Ninth| Pyrame Silverstar | Tralalorn | Cathune Bubastis |- double-click to enlarge images - |
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Pyrame SilverstarThe Fabulously Female Perpetual Presence| As the Pauper Priestess | As the Sed-sons' Half-Mom | The Eye of Pyrame | Ab Fab | More Lynx | |
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Lynx to Scads more Silverstar onlinePyrame didn't feature in either the comic book series or the graphic novel (all of which can still be ordered in one form or another). She features, often prominently, in many of the online PHANTACEA web serials, however. Here are a few lynx to notes re her and them:
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Cathune BubastisThe Apocalyptic of Drought| Deliberately Dried-Up | Devic Goddess | Once Purred for Mithras | Then War | |
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The Sands of Drought in an Hourglass
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TralalornThe Fabulously Childish Perpetual Presence| Dilly-Saddy | Devil or Demon or Both | Poorly Possessive | Mithras's Bane | More Lynx | |
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Demon Child or 9th-born Mithradite?The fabulously childish Perpetual Presence shown with her faces-roiling, feces-reeking, faeriedust-spitting Powder Puff Power Focus Trala adopted by the Korant Sisterhood early in Headworld History
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The Devil Child as a horrifying ventriloquist
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Lynx to more of Trala's nonsenseUnlike Pyrame. her maybe-sister in Mithras's Ninth (maybe-mother according a theory prevalent in She's often mentioned in them, however. Here are a few lynx to some notes re her:
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Marut KaninThe Golden Apple of Discord| Devic Half-Mother of the Universal Soldier | Seemingly vapourized circa 4000 YD | Yet many devils thought her Mithras's post-Thrygragon Golden Avenger | Survives as Strife at least into the 1980s | Mom no More | |
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Mithras's Ewe for Aries
Spousal ReprisalDespite her unsavoury reputation, Chrysaor Attis remains fiercely defensive of his half-mothers
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Commonly Called StrifeIn the first part of 1000-Daze, a number of devils believe Strife has somehow returned to both life and the Hidden Headworld; that, acting as Mithras's post-Thrygragon Golden Avenger, she is responsible for wiping out so many of her fellow Master Devas from all three tribes.
Mithras's Golden AvengerStrife-Marutia may not appear in 1000-Daze but someone wearing her likeness certainly does:
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Kore-Marutia in the PHANTACEA Mythos web-serialsAlthough Strife doesn't appear in either Feel Theo or its immediate sequel, Nor did she feature in the comic book series or the graphic novel (all of which can still be ordered in one form or another). She often features in the online PHANTACEA web serials, however. In phantacea-fact she may be the main boo-hiss villain in both 'Coueranna's Curse', which is set in 1938, and 'Aspects of an Amoebaman', which is set in 1960. She isn't altogether a devil come the Outer Earth's 20th Century (the 60th Century of the Dome), though. As for what she is, there are loathsome loads of lynx to entries re her over in pH-Webworld. Almost all of them can be found here or here. As per both Feel Theo and 1000-Daze, the notion that Strife couldn't abide possessing pregnant women stemmed from Mithras dumping her, his ewe for Aires, in favour of new blood, a fishwife for Pisces, when one age gave way to its successor circa 4000 YD:
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Divine CouerannaThe Little Green Apple of Juvenescence| Mithras's Boss Cow for Taurus | Gives birth at the Solstice | The Angriest of the Mad Goddess | Whose head it is? | Despises Discord's Darling | Attis returns the sentiment | Pyrame hates her too | Apple-Kore Online | |
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Myrionymous KoreAs Mithras's Boss Cow, Concord was worshipped as the Upper Head's Mother Goddess until the end of the Age of Taurus. Replaced by Discord in Mithras's bed, she fled to the Outer Earth for a further 500 hundred years atop the totem pole. Also Ancient Rome's Great MotherYes, Magna Mater is shown using someone's severed head as an armrest. Given where I shot it (Ostia's sanctuary of Attis), it's pretty obvious whose head it represents. The PHANTACEA question is: Whose head is it really? (There's a note on that here.)Must be Attis'sExcept the sanctuary of Attis in the Imperial Roman port of Ostia was already abandoned by 376 AD, wasn't it? Attis hates Apple-Kore
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As Cybele, a mother goddess imported to Rome from Phrygia in the moderately remote past, Kore-Coueranna was sometimes revered as Attis's mother instead of his greatest enemy. She wasn't much of either/or come Thrygragon, sooth said.
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Queen of Heaven or just Queen of her own Hell?As Magna Mater, the Great Mother or Great Goddess, Apple-Kore (as many refer to her throughout Feel Theo) was worshipped on the Outer Earth during the Mad Goddesses' Middle Sea Matriarchate (circa 2000 to 2500 Years of the Dome or 2000 to 1500 Before the Common Era). In this picture, which I believe is called 'The Queen of Heaven', and which I took in Rome's Capitoline Museum in 2008, Apple-Kore may be speaking with Hot Stuff (Methandra Thanatos); aka Hot Stuff, she was another great goddess of the era, one who apparently remained Mithras's Virgin until the 60th Century of the Dome.I'd like to think that whoever is shown painting their portrait could be Jordan Tethys. However, since he isn't around during the Middle Sea Matriarchate it may be his devic half-father, Rumour of Lazareme.Kore-Concord in the PHANTACEA Mythos web-serialsMyrionymous Kore, under any of her multiplicity of names, never featured in the comic book series or the graphic novel (all of which can still be ordered in one form or another). Truth told, she never actually appears in any of the online PHANTACEA web serials either. However, since one of them ('Coueranna's Curse') is named after her there are plenty of lynx to entries re her over in pH-Webworld. Here are a few of them:
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aka Lady LustSinistral Belialma, Lady Lust of Satanwyck, has as her power focus the Ruby Red Apple of Concupiscence, called thus because it means 'sexual desire'. Apple-Kore's Charioteer
Multi-Horns on Parade
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Hell's Belle and the Beast
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The Medusa pre-ThrygragonMuch less Kore than gore, the re-embodied Medusa may not be a 12th born Mithradite but, howsoever grandiosely, she declares herself Mater Matare (Mother Murder), the Apocalyptic of Death, on Thrygragon 4376 YD Harbouring Homicidal Humours
(small photo shot in San Jose, Costa Rica circa 1995; larger double-click photo shot in the same place, outside the National Theatre, in 2009)Miss Myth mistaken for Minerva(Image of Minerva (Athena) with the Medusa's head on her shield (aegis) and the face of a gorgon on her belly as shot in Frankfurt, Germany in 2008.)The reference is to Metisophia telling her half-son, Jordan Tethys, that Dark Sedon ended up with a gorgon instead of his real target Methandra Thanatos, Mithras's Virgin. (NOTE: There's a different Athena with Medusa on a shield in the double-click behind a close-up of her on the shield here.)- Next Column - Next Row - |
Constellation Consternation
Stone Stare Astray
Weakness as Wrongness
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What a difference a day does not make
As Mater Matare (Mother Murder), the self-proclaimed Apocalyptic of Death, the Medusa first appeared in the PHANTACEA comic book series (Beginning with pH-3, which can still be ordered in one form or another as per here.) War-Pox MamaAs per here, she should therefore be expected, she also appears in (Ordering information re 'War-Pox', the second mosaic novel featuring Jim McPherson's PHANTACEA Mythos and the first book in the Launch 1980 story cycle, is here.)By the way, in addition to the 1995 Costa Rica Medusa, some of the images that went into the 'War-Pox' graphic can also be seen here, here, and here. House NotesAs for the images that went into the 'Domus Delle Gorgoni' graphic, some are here whereas one is over there. BTW, you too can see the Domus (or 'House'). It's in Ostia Antica, which is maybe 20 minutes from Roma Italy by subway train. Very near it is the 'Campo della Magna Mater' (the Great Mother Kore-Concord in the PHANTACEA Mythos), which I incorporated into its image. - Repeat - Continue -
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The Gorgonic Triplets (?)The Legendarian claims that the 3 Mithradite Gorgons (the Medusa, the Cockatrice and the Basilisk) are, in reality, from the same brood of lowborn triplets Mithras, however, thinks differently:
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Fowl, Saurian and Humanoid
[Metisophia speaking to her half-son, the deviant known as Jordan 'Quill' Tethys, aka the Legendarian]
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Re the two Gorgon CollagesWhile there are numerous lynx to Mater Matare over in pH-Webworld, there are only a couple about the other two definite gorgons, Stheno (Cockatrice) and Euryale (Basilisk). Respectively they are here and here. The main entry re the three gorgons, with the Medusa listed as one of the triplets, is here. NOTE: Jim McPherson took one of the cockatrice images off the Web; another's a Max Ernst also used here; on the other cockatrice collage, the big chick was scanned in from a Vancouver newspaper; the Parisian Basilisk is from a shot Jim McPherson took from Notre Dame in Paris in 2004. As for the 'Medusas I have met' graphic, the Carvaggio is from a postcard Jim McPherson bought at the Uffizi in Firenze whereas the others are shots I took in Firenze, London, Venice and Lisbon in 2008. An animated GIF and more info re Jim McPherson's Medusas collage is here; - Repeat - Continue - |
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Fecundity on ThrygragonNot yet 5980's Blood Queen of Hadd| Waxes and Wanes with the Moon | The Growing Nergalid | Bent Nasty | Lathakran Beneficiary |
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Vetala as a Mithradite Moon GoddessUntil ' Many more lynx re Vetala can be found starting hereAll goes well she'll be a featured character in Here's some foreboding from War-Pox:
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Nergalids are Seasonal (sort of)Zuvem Nergalis plants them, Nergal Vetala grows them, and Yama Nergal harvests them. Except they don't just do so yearly. They do it monthly, at the very minimum. No wonder Vetala waxes and wanes with the moon. Plus, the male Nergalids interchange. Zuvem isn't just spring-like. Neither is Yama altogether autumnal. They also aren't the only ones with the privilege as much as the pleasure of her company. Which is only one reason Mithras's Moon is called Fecundity throughout Feel Theo. It is, however, why she voluntarily becomes a ... come 1000-Daze.
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Nergal Vetala as a PHANTACEA Mythos mainstayVetala, whose main entry over in pH-Webworld is here, is one of the first Master Devas (3-eyed devils) to appear in the original PHANTACEA comic book series. Her debut came in pH-2. She made the cover of pH-5. Her-story, not to mention her fate, was one of a number that dominated proceedings throughout pH-6. She also made the cover of 'Feel Theo' as one of the 4 devils desperately seeking cover within their triumphant father, Thrygragos Varuna Mithras. (BTW, the other three are Klizarod Rex, Djinn Domitian and Mater Matare, who claims to be her triplet sister but probably isn't.)Since she also appeared in the graphic novel, Hey, what can I tell you? Scantily covered, but beautiful, vampires (even ones with three eyes and a particularly nasty bent) sell books. All the more so when, as per Manoa, 4824 YD
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Took over Cerebrus David Ryne on Damnation Isle
A plague mask from VeniceBleeding ignorant doctors actually wore masks like this as prophylactics when the plague was rampant in Europe a few hundred years ago. Another one – from a photograph I shot (as opposed to a postcard I bought) in Venice 2008 – is here. Such things always remind me of the bird-headed, man-eating, man-pooping Prince of Hell in Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights, hence the double-click. BTW, Hieronymous Bosch (1450-1516), a Dutchman called Bosco in Imperial Spain during his lifetime, was a contemporary of Durer and Torquemada. Hmm, wonder what that forebodes?- Next Column - Next Row - |
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Mars and the Medusa were an item once
Might he be a she?Me, I've always reckoned Bellona was a Goddess of War, not a god in the exclusively male sense. Then again, this Bellona, scanned in from a book I bought at the van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam circa 1996, might be male. This one, though, as shot down some stairs in the refurbished museum atop Rome's Capitoline Hill in 2008, is not only definitely male. It's actually called Mars. (You'll notice that he also sports a Medusa pendant, a token of her long ago affection perhaps.) As for why Illuminaries named a skull-faced bonehead Mars Bellona when he doesn't look anything like either/or, well, Master Devas are shape-changers. They can look like anyone they want to, male or female. War and Drought still are an itemLike War and Murder, in the phantacea Mythos War and Drought were also an item once. (Until she grew sick and tired of his profligacy Cathune was but one of many mothers of War's Sangazurs, of which there's more here, here, and here.) Shouldn't have to stipulate that War-Pox is fantasy. Sadly, even pathetically, war and drought are not fantasies in the Yemen of 2010. Still, judging from this picture, which I cribbed from the BBC online on the day I was preparing this column, one still needs to do one's laundry. - Next Column - Next Row -
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There are of course any number of masks, paintings or statues featuring skull-headed nasties virtually anywhere you go in this world of ours. Mexico, with its ages-old veneration of the Dead, does seem to lead the pack, though. Then again, as part of the Americas — so-called by the Dual Entities apparently, long, long before the Great Flood of Genesis — it is supposed to be territory deeded to Byronics and all the Pocks are Mithradites. Still ...
The 'Tor-na-do' of War
Valkyrie Swan Maidens were still gathering the Glorious Dead in 4376 YD
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Deathless WarHard to feature a devic god of war not being allowed to kill but such was and is the case when it comes to Master Devas.
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Catastrophe lost his head in love, literally
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Took over Blind Sundown
Power Foci are, however, mutable.
And, lest we forget, though D-Brig on Damnation Isle in late November 1980 obviouly did, as a proper tale-teller once said ... The man does better who runs from disaster than he who is caught by it. Homer (900 BC-800 BC)
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Disaster's a headless chatterbox
As for how he speaks when he doesn't have a head, well, as per here, evidently the maybe Demon Child Tralalorn isn't the only devic ventriloquist - Repeat - Continue - |
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Mater MatareThe Self-Proclaimed Apocalyptic of Death| 1st Impressions | 4-Armed Alarm | 4 Extra Talismans | The Gorgon of Gore | A Bellyful of Baneful | Paired with Air in Venice | Warrior Mom | |
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Mundane MurderImages of Medusa aren't hard to come by. Finding them with 4 arms are, however. On closer look, this one seems to have somewhat more than four arms. Sooth said, this Mater may even be a Pater. She, if she is a she, does hold a hatchet in one of her too many hands, though.
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Took over Wilderwitch
Goddess of Gore
Life brings Death but this Death also carries Life
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Once a Medusa, always a MedusaMedusa makes for great masks. Airealist-types do too, when they're Apollo-like.
This shot, taken in Venice in 2008, has both. The Sangs' Main MomAs for why Murder can get away with calling herself a mother more than 1500 years before War-Pox even begins, as per Feel Theo, during the early centuries of the Mad Goddesses' Middle Sea Matriarchate she was almost as fecund as Fecundity.
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The VultyrieDisaster's devic mount| 1st Impressions | A Gaggle of Vults | Sphinxes Aside | Vultyrie Benches in Costa Rica | 2-Headed Vults | A 2-Headed Crow | How a Headless Dickhead Talks | |
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The Glorious Dead in Feel TheoThe devic Vultyrie has descendents. Rather, not being very bright, she probably thinks she has them. The ones at issue, also called Vultyrie, can't really be considered her worshippers either. While, like her, they're birdbrains, unlike her (because she's a third generational Master Deva) they've an excuse. Some of them might be as big as her but they're still birds - birds with one howsoever large body, one set of proportionately gigantic wings and only two eyes. As follows, Chrysaor Attis observed a gaggle of these Vultyrie and/or their riders, all of whom are Sangazurs, foolishly taunting All the Invincible She-Sphinx in Feel Theo:
All as GinnyBy the way, according to my dictionary there are dozens of different kinds of sphinxes. In Feel Theo, though, and indeed thus far in terms of phantacea Mythos print publications, there are only two, a male and a female. They'd be Andy (the Androsphinx) and Ginny (the Gynosphinx). - Next Column - |
Took over Raven's Head
Vultyrie BenchesHave to admit I cheated when I prepared the Vultyrie collage. For example, as immediately above what appears to be one bench with the 2-headed, and 2-bodied, devic Vultyrie as its back support in the collage is actually two stone benches with two different vultures. (NOTE: This twilight shot, and the two daylight shots I used in the collage, were taken in Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica, back in January 2008.)So how the heck does Headless Ramazar talk anyhow?
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Double-Headed Vultyrie(s)As one might expect it is difficult to find shots worth taking of two-headed vultures. I have, however, snapped a couple. (And, yes I realize that's three, not two. Thanks for pointing it out to me, friend.) Frankfurt VultsI spotted and shot the top one in Frankfurt, Germany, in 2008. Muscular Man VultsI spotted this one in the Met Museum when I went to NYC in 2009 hoping to bluff my way into publishing houses that might be interested in the phantacea Mythos. I never got in to meet any potential publishers. I did, however, get plenty of good shots. One of them, of Magna Mater, the Great Goddess known as Cybele in Imperial Rome and ancient Phrygia, is up above. Vults + an Aerod bonusAnother, just above the part I incorporated into the Vultyrie collage, is immediately below. (NOTE: I considered using the omega-shaped loop above the actual double-head vulture in the Airealist collage over on the deviants' webpage but opted for consistency instead.)Haligonian HappenstanceThere's also a serendipitous sighting of two-headed crow, from Halifax, Nova Scotia, here. I reference it due to, as per the adjacent quote, what happened to D-Brig's Raven's Head on Damnation Isle in November 1980. - Repeat - Continue - |
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