“On the bank of the river he saw a tall tree: from roots to crown one half was aflame and the other green with leaves.” – Peredur, from the Welsh Celtic Mabinogion (12th century) I love Celtic literature and how my ancestors portrayed everything with a stark ambiguity. This idea of a greening tree cast […]
I was Darkly Dreaming
The Three Fates
The concept of the Three Fates comes from a very old Indo-European mythological cycle. The original myth of the Three Fates comes from Greek Myth and the concept of three women who decided the fates of men and women in this world. Their names were Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, and later tied to the Gods […]
A Conversation with Nothingness
In the novel Phantammeron Book One the main protagonist, Ana, falls into a pit. There at the bottom she discovers a cave and a dark pool filled with putrid black waters. An amorphous cloud filled with many eyes then rises from the waters, the evil Nothingness. Ana then has a conversation with that being and […]
