Icon Number Forty-six I am happy to announce that I am returning to my duties as housekeeper of the Geranium Lake Properties archives and Makyrinth Animist Sanctuary. Almost five years ago, I was demoted to the position…

vraic.wordpress.com/2025/09/18/i... You may have missed this bit of #mythopoeia. Pro tip: whenever I write about business at the GLP archives, I have donned the guise of the #UnreliableNarrator - it's fun, it's #fable and it helps me write.

Book Two: Myths from the Vault and Song of Binding How gravity broke, form was born, and worship gave shape to the world

📖 Just released:
Book Two of The Mirror Cycle

Myths from the Vault and Song of Binding
Gravity broke. Form was born. And the first worship began.

Cosmic art by WisArts

#Mythopoeia #SpeculativeFiction #MirrorCycle #Poetry #ArtCredit #SubstackWriters

Seven Questions Asked If you asked the AI cemented immovably into a well-known search engine what was the date for Ghost Day in 1986, it will not answer you with August 20. Depending on how you asked, the AI will give y…

vraic.wordpress.com/2025/08/26/s... Another post in our #Ghost Festival series. Also how to talk to a #sphinx. A hidden #poem and why jackalopes invent stupid #calendars. A scrap of #asemic magic and #mythopoeia as always.

Valley of the Ghosts I know nearly nothing about the Chinese traditions for honoring or celebrating the Ghost Festival; I know that Ghost Day, the mid-way peak, falls on the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, wh…

vraic.wordpress.com/2025/08/22/v... #Download a #free #image #art by Lin Tarczynski for #GhostMonth. Suitable for printing. #gift #ghosts This is how to do #mythopoeia.

‘Cept for Me Everybody’s got something to hide ‘cept for me and my monkey There was a time, when Geranium Lake Properties was appearing in newspapers between 1984 and 1997, it seemed like all the cr…

vraic.wordpress.com/2025/08/18/c... #coloring #Beatles #WhiteAlbum #mythopoeia

#EdithHamilton was born #OnThisDay in 1867, most famous for her "Mythology" (1942) which I read in junior high school & which stimulated a life-long interest in & passion for #mythopoeia:
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#EdithHamilton was born #OnThisDay in 1867, most famous for her "Mythology" (1942), which I read in junior high school & which stimulated a life-long interest in & passion for #mythopoeia:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4b1...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_H...

The Sea of Monsters Floating down the stream of time, of life to life with meMakes no difference where you are or where you’d like to beIt’s all too much for me to takeThe love that’s shining all aro…

vraic.wordpress.com/2025/08/11/t... #yellowsubmarine #mythopoeia #monsters #monstermovies #beatles

The Passeggiata of Kalkatura Pumkta You are allowed to quit. You can call time out, take a break, walk out. Nobody else needs to allow this, nobody needs to give you permission, this is an allowance you give to yourself. You do not n…

vraic.wordpress.com/2025/07/29/t... #mythopoeia #asemicmagic #occultsky

Saints for Idiots, or A Weird Kind of Glee By necessity, the word demalion is constantly used by adherents of the Maskyrinth Animist Sanctuary, since it is the Jackalopian word for… well… For what? Since the Sanctuary is an anim…

vraic.wordpress.com/2025/07/20/s... #mythopoeia #animism #saints #icons #asemic #arcane

Labyrinthine, Serpentine and Byzantine After I posted Icon Number Thirty-Four on Wednesday, my former boss, Haarukka Yazimyek, my predecessor at the Geranium Lake Properties archives (which is also the Maskyrinth Animist Sanctuay, thank…

vraic.wordpress.com/2025/07/13/l... #mythopoeia #icons #animism #esoteric #occult #art

Flood Brinnuzem Ruk is the Inultarumeyk name for the demalion of summer rains in the northern hemisphere. In the southern hemisphere, the demalion is called Guytrem Bisni, and is probably, as far as I ca…

vraic.wordpress.com/2025/07/09/f... #icons #mythopoeia #asemic #gods #OccultSky #occultart #rain #floods

This past February I performed Tolkien's "Mythopoeia." To prepare for that, I wrote it out with a quill pen. Here is the title page.
#tolkien #mythopoeia

Three Magic Words Because they are somewhat obscured, here are three magic words that appeared in this Geranium Lake Properties comic from the summer of 1994: snehmuzimru, geytrumbisna and brenyomdanshuk. Asemic mag…

vraic.wordpress.com/2025/07/06/t... #abstractcomics #asemicwritng #asemicmagic #occult #mythopoeia #magic

#Apologetics #Aslan #ChristianApologetics #ChroniclesOfNarnia #CSLewis #DivineEncounter #EcumenicalCouncil #Iconography #Incarnation #JesusChrist #LionAndLamb #LiteraryAnalysis #MetropolitanAnthony #Mythopoeia #Narnia #OrthodoxChristianity #PublicOrthodoxy #RichardPevear #RussianLiterature

Residue In today’s Geranium Lake Properties comic we have the residue of the summer solstice, which the Inultaru call galynary gusigarra or galynary otmuparyn. In this particular occurrence1 the resi…

vraic.wordpress.com/2025/06/24/r... #asemicwriting #sigils #asemicmagic #mythopoeia #chaos

Invoking the Solstice This is an unpublished, undated Geranium Lake Properties comic with no title, no notes, but we are sure this is a portrait mask of Solitude, the Fourth Carthaginian Bodhisattva. We know this becaus…

My offering for #ProjektSolarsigil is complete & posted at Vraicking, which is my tradition for casting #asemicmagic - also there's an (imperfect and way too long) essay that insisted on being written. #mythopoeia #solstice #asemic #OccultSky #ChaosSky #panopticon
vraic.wordpress.com/2025/06/20/i...

Observing the Proprieties of the Midpoint A few days ago, I fell into a summer solstice project on the Bluesky social site. The project’s creator/manager Gavin Fox made it easy to take part, plus the requirements of posting one sigil…

vraic.wordpress.com/2025/06/17/o... In the tradition of Oppandavtudyr niyo keskehgatinnen - which I just made up right now because #mythopoeia #occultart #solstice #wip #asemicwriting #visualpoetry

📘The Bloo Bouk is the chief legacy of a forgotten knighthood of scribes, said to descend from Aldhelm. It preserves a learned, evolving spelling — a beacon of beauty and clarity amid the sea of chaos.

#BlooBouk #LiteraryFragments #Spelling #mythopoeia

“I have seen this evil before…” “…and they were overcome by their own malice. They started a war but they lost it all. Did they forget that wars accomplish nothing but loss? I do not know. There will always be a few m…

vraic.wordpress.com/2025/06/10/i... I think we should all indulge in more #revenge #fantasies. #curses #ice #magick #gods #mythopoeia #occultart #magic #asemicwriting #art

Rainbow Gods It was my mother who fostered my love of irises, and for the maximum sentimental effect I suppose the ideal date for publishing these iconic portraits would have been Mother’s Day. We are now…

vraic.wordpress.com/2025/05/24/r... #mythopoeia #rainbows #magick #occultart #iris #asemic

Landscapes & Shelter for Frogs, Part 2 Yost’s first design for the third album by Chansons de Geste. After the release of The Empty Space album by Chansons de Geste, Teri Ainsworth and Ross Kerrinza jumped back on the bandwagon of…

One tag I have never used is "fiction", possibly because once you tell it as a story, everything is fiction. vraic.wordpress.com/2025/05/22/l... #albumcover #mythopoeia

The Unnamed Haddock From a series of posters Yost made for the Black Clatter Café and Thrift Shop. The word “motrose” (found in The Common Pryaer — which you may want to read before you read today&#8…

vraic.wordpress.com/2025/05/18/t... #asemic #magick #asemicwriting #magick #animism #religion #mythopoeia #occultart #jackalopes

The Common Prayer Once upon a time, there was a large faction of jackalopes who put a substantial amount of effort into trying out the Catholic religion for a century or two. They gave it up around four, five hundre…

vraic.wordpress.com/2025/05/15/t... #invocation #magic #asemicwriting #mythopoeia #religion #jackalopes #magick

Mother’s Day Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote a short story about motherhood. “The Yellow Wallpaper” is not your Hallmark Mother’s Day card with pink and blue flowers and sentimental verses in c…

vraic.wordpress.com/2025/05/11/m... #mothersday #feminism #mythopoeia #asemicwriting #occultart #literature #women #holiday #art

Sands Be Toast, Part 2 This is the second part of today’s post. Go here for Part 1. I am not sure if this panel, from the story “Paper Decorum Built on a Flimsy Scaffold”, was published on April 22nd or…

vraic.wordpress.com/2025/05/04/s... #holiday #icons #mythopoeia #part2

Sands Be Toast, Part 1 The mystery of the twenty-first demalion in the Icon series is not who she is – everyone knows who she is. The Wostimendiannut is the high priestess of the Druid King’s Council of Wild …

vraic.wordpress.com/2025/05/04/s... #part1 #holiday #mythopoeia #icons

Tree Hoarding Today is Arbor Day, and for today’s post in the Cabinet of Curiosities that is this blog, I have chosen to showcase two pieces from the Geranium Lake Properties archive that have almost chirp…

vraic.wordpress.com/2025/04/25/t... #holiday #comics #abstractcomics #trees #asemicwriting #esoteric #art #mythopoeia