UVG • VotBO • Mythos “I don’t want to be a crumbling, crumbling, crumbling castle.” —King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Crumbling Castle, Polygondwanaland (2017) But It Was a God A green mound rose…Continue readingLord Tomorrow’s Children
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Dry Brothers
UVG • Red Sky • Mythos • Ebét Three mummified wyrms mark the three frontiers of Ebét. Tremendous, dozen-legged serpentine dragons, the elder brothers of the Living God. They all failed in the face…Continue readingDry Brothers
Naga King
Red Sky • Mythos • Ebét Legendary hero of the Ebéteen wandering from the Eclipsed Lands, who accepted the ancestors’ gift-curse and became a mile-long snake to protect his people on their journey through…Continue readingNaga King
Clockwork God, Faith of the
UVG • Red Sky • Mythos • Plot An archaic mystery cult preaches an underlying mechanical logic to the unfolding of the universe. It encourages humans to ascend to the machine, abandoning emotion and…Continue readingClockwork God, Faith of the
Occultation, The
• UVG • Red Sky • Ebéteen • Mythos • The death of the old Solar Deity of the Ebéteen is often called the Occultation. In popular Second Circle legend, it is one of…Continue readingOccultation, The
Moon, Orb of
• UVG • Red Sky • Mythos • Void • Though the Orb has many faces, it is one. The moon and its phases symbolize the multiplicity of Iks. Polylunar and Alterlunar Heresies Once…Continue readingMoon, Orb of
Cosmos, 3-World Hypothesis
• UVG • Red Sky • Mythos • 3-World Hypothesis Four categories of structure form the major part of the cosmos: The Veils: the cosmosomic membranes that divide the “world that is” from the…Continue readingCosmos, 3-World Hypothesis
Solar Deity
• Red Sky • Mythos • Ebét • The Solar Deity was a chief divine guide and trickster who brought knowledge and light to the proto-Ebéteen. After its death, the Living God took its…Continue readingSolar Deity
Virgin Medusa
• Red Sky • Mythos • Ebét • The divine hero who commanded light and bent it to her will, burning those who opposed her to stone and dust. She reigned over the River…Continue readingVirgin Medusa
New Sun, The
• Red Sky • Mythos • Ebét • The only begotten son of the Living God, a beacon of light and goodness for the Ebéteen. When the Naga King brought the Ebéteen through the…Continue readingNew Sun, The