Friday, March 27, 2009
Book of Four's
I have a bad habit of jumping ahead on when writing so -- my latest addition is such a jump ahead. I no doubt will revise it but if I dont write it down I forget it or get sidetracked. I think I will be focusing on finishing the Fae flags and getting in some reading before I write again.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Book of Four's
Prologue:
We were here,
We were there,
We are everywhere,
We are now gone.
Hidden from most of mankind is the realm of Fae where magic is still practiced. Long ago they retreated from the world of man by casting spells to deceive our senses. Shrouding magical creatures’ great and small, the kind, the gentle to the fierce and out right evil beings they did this all in an effort to keep them from the savages of mankind.
Yet from time to time mortals would tell tales of faerie sightings and magical creatures keeping legends alive.
The kingdom of the faerie is phased just out of reach of our sight and understanding but they are there never the less. Most of the sightings take place in pockets spread all over our planet; scattered over our world where the veil of their spell is weak. Such weak places are prominent in our world and are such places as The Great Pyramid of Giza, The Leaning Tower of Pisa, The Great Wall of China, The Taj Mahal, Machu Picchu and Stonehenge are a few of the many crossovers. The spell the Faerie cast those long ages ago also took from our landscape places of wonder. The Isle of Atlantis, Castle Camelot, The Colossus of Rhodes, The Mausoleum of Maussollos and of course Avalon lost to us either seemly destroyed or separated by the rift in time and space caused by their powerful spell. So powerful was the spell they cast that even today we lose places to their magic; Mount St Helens, Twin Towers are examples of recent losses.
Many cultures of our world such as the orient consider the number two as lucky; in the western hemisphere it’s the number seven. It is no coincidences that faerie have lucky numbers and why sometimes mankind deems them unlucky.
In Fae the number one stands for unity, four stands for “everything done as wished” and thirteen represented the natural number after 12 and before 14. It is the smallest integer with eight letters in its spelled out name in English. These are considered lucky by all faerie.
We kept secrets,
We hide ourselves,
We look in splendor,
We look afar.
Chapter One: The Book of Four’s
In a glade underneath the tree of life was the altar of Fa”dum which was surrounded by a circle of magic. The tree of life and the altar of Fa”dum were located in the ether of the circle. Carefully placed within the boundary of the circle were four megalithic stones: The eastern stone had a carved out hole in its center, thirteen lines were etched laden with gold representing the light of the sun. Opposite the sunstone stood the western stone; its center was a hole in which a silver hoop was inserted to represent the moon. The northern stone bore thirteen carved vertical lines filled with orange amber to represent fire. Opposite the firestone was the southern stone in which a four peaked wave was carved in it center filled with sapphires to represent water.
Set upon the altar Fa”dum laid the “Book of Four’s” in its pages all the secrets of the faerie are contained its a sort of guide to understanding their realm.
The “Book of Four’s” is square in shape and is leather bound. On its cover a silver hoop was embedded, inside the hoop were four thin bars of gold forming yet another square, its edges countering the placement of the megalithic stones. The corners of the square bore the following symbols. A green leaf representation of spring, a sunflower was opposite representing summer. An acorn was the representation of fall and opposite this was a white snowflake representing winter. Counting each side of the book and continuing towards the center count each item and any sides see that the numbers one, four and thirteen can be found.
There are many tribes of faerie also called houses each of the houses adopted a flag to differentiae between the houses. Faerie also wear silver necklaces with their house emblems attached, which is a powerful source of their individual magic.
______
We were here,
We were there,
We are everywhere,
We are now gone.
Hidden from most of mankind is the realm of Fae where magic is still practiced. Long ago they retreated from the world of man by casting spells to deceive our senses. Shrouding magical creatures’ great and small, the kind, the gentle to the fierce and out right evil beings they did this all in an effort to keep them from the savages of mankind.
Yet from time to time mortals would tell tales of faerie sightings and magical creatures keeping legends alive.
The kingdom of the faerie is phased just out of reach of our sight and understanding but they are there never the less. Most of the sightings take place in pockets spread all over our planet; scattered over our world where the veil of their spell is weak. Such weak places are prominent in our world and are such places as The Great Pyramid of Giza, The Leaning Tower of Pisa, The Great Wall of China, The Taj Mahal, Machu Picchu and Stonehenge are a few of the many crossovers. The spell the Faerie cast those long ages ago also took from our landscape places of wonder. The Isle of Atlantis, Castle Camelot, The Colossus of Rhodes, The Mausoleum of Maussollos and of course Avalon lost to us either seemly destroyed or separated by the rift in time and space caused by their powerful spell. So powerful was the spell they cast that even today we lose places to their magic; Mount St Helens, Twin Towers are examples of recent losses.
Many cultures of our world such as the orient consider the number two as lucky; in the western hemisphere it’s the number seven. It is no coincidences that faerie have lucky numbers and why sometimes mankind deems them unlucky.
In Fae the number one stands for unity, four stands for “everything done as wished” and thirteen represented the natural number after 12 and before 14. It is the smallest integer with eight letters in its spelled out name in English. These are considered lucky by all faerie.
We kept secrets,
We hide ourselves,
We look in splendor,
We look afar.
Chapter One: The Book of Four’s
In a glade underneath the tree of life was the altar of Fa”dum which was surrounded by a circle of magic. The tree of life and the altar of Fa”dum were located in the ether of the circle. Carefully placed within the boundary of the circle were four megalithic stones: The eastern stone had a carved out hole in its center, thirteen lines were etched laden with gold representing the light of the sun. Opposite the sunstone stood the western stone; its center was a hole in which a silver hoop was inserted to represent the moon. The northern stone bore thirteen carved vertical lines filled with orange amber to represent fire. Opposite the firestone was the southern stone in which a four peaked wave was carved in it center filled with sapphires to represent water.
Set upon the altar Fa”dum laid the “Book of Four’s” in its pages all the secrets of the faerie are contained its a sort of guide to understanding their realm.
The “Book of Four’s” is square in shape and is leather bound. On its cover a silver hoop was embedded, inside the hoop were four thin bars of gold forming yet another square, its edges countering the placement of the megalithic stones. The corners of the square bore the following symbols. A green leaf representation of spring, a sunflower was opposite representing summer. An acorn was the representation of fall and opposite this was a white snowflake representing winter. Counting each side of the book and continuing towards the center count each item and any sides see that the numbers one, four and thirteen can be found.
There are many tribes of faerie also called houses each of the houses adopted a flag to differentiae between the houses. Faerie also wear silver necklaces with their house emblems attached, which is a powerful source of their individual magic.
______
The number four and multiples’ of the number offer balance to the houses of which there are sixteen. Each house contains a subset of four groups thereby maintaining balance. That is not to say that within the subsets the multiples’ need be taken in to count for their overall population. Their counter balances can be seen in their choices for house groupings; spring, summer, fall and winter or east, west, north and south. The counter balances have an impact on spells that are cast. By adding members from polar opposites they are able to intensify the spell. Spell casting by the entirety of Fae is uncommon.
It is responsible for the cataclysm, a separation of their world from our own. Aeon ago in an arrogant attempt to hide from mortals all the magical beings they cast the “Separation Spell” the end resulted a dimensional displacement of their world, which is quite apart from our own.
The separation spell caused outrage among the magical beings they placed blame on the Fae causing an out right war. The other spell casting species demons warlocks, witches, wizards and elves each group for their own reasons attempted to undo the magic of the Fae. Their anger took on the adage of good versus evil their differences of views all but assured a wanting to cast a spell for only their own kind. But for all their attempts the best that could be managed was a weakening of the original spell.
As the centuries past it became apparent to all that the “Separation Spell” did achieve a goal of keeping their species alive, the warring nature of mortal men would have diminished or perhaps cause their extinction. The magical creatures were constantly reminded of mankind’s savagery as man conducted hunts of different species such as witches and unicorns. Mankind also took to killing of vampires, dragons and werewolves’ any time they happened upon them. Even to this day the sightings of magical creatures that cross the boundary or fall through veiled cracks caused by the reversal spells ends in mankind taking its savagery out upon the magical beings.
It is responsible for the cataclysm, a separation of their world from our own. Aeon ago in an arrogant attempt to hide from mortals all the magical beings they cast the “Separation Spell” the end resulted a dimensional displacement of their world, which is quite apart from our own.
The separation spell caused outrage among the magical beings they placed blame on the Fae causing an out right war. The other spell casting species demons warlocks, witches, wizards and elves each group for their own reasons attempted to undo the magic of the Fae. Their anger took on the adage of good versus evil their differences of views all but assured a wanting to cast a spell for only their own kind. But for all their attempts the best that could be managed was a weakening of the original spell.
As the centuries past it became apparent to all that the “Separation Spell” did achieve a goal of keeping their species alive, the warring nature of mortal men would have diminished or perhaps cause their extinction. The magical creatures were constantly reminded of mankind’s savagery as man conducted hunts of different species such as witches and unicorns. Mankind also took to killing of vampires, dragons and werewolves’ any time they happened upon them. Even to this day the sightings of magical creatures that cross the boundary or fall through veiled cracks caused by the reversal spells ends in mankind taking its savagery out upon the magical beings.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Fae Flags
I am proud to post the Fifth Fae House flag which is the top image.
The Visual aid below the Flag is part of explanation to a question posed by Nathan- see the comment section below for the Q&A.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Fae Names
After much pondering naming the Queen and King of the Fae has been very difficult.
I have decided to go with a standard not at all original but the history of the names is in itself rich. There will be some sort of introduction of Titania and Oberon. I have been stuck in the naming process for several days along with flag designs.
I find myself very distracted how does one fit in reading, keeping current in news however depressing it is, writing, working - I find myself pressed for time. AHHHHhhh!
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Fae notes
revise -- two lines below:
I give fire to water-- it will not return
I take fire from water I give it ...
Fae magic in transmuting their glade at the rising of the sun -- sometimes its in the mountains, sometimes its in the desert, sometimes its in the sea never in the same place twice.
Possible King's name = Ai'dan , Jaron
Possible Queen's name = Alid'ya, Lathyn
"Sad little king of a sad little hill"
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Fae Royal Flag
Still in creation mode a circle a square in the diamond shape, each square has an 1/2 circle on its outer edge-- the color scheme is outer circle half in gold half in silver. Squares colors one side orange for fire, Blue for water, Tan for earth, ? Color for air. 1/2 circles colors. White for Winter, Green for Spring, Yellow for Summer, Brown for Fall.
Friday, March 13, 2009
Notes to Self for Book of 4's
dense body structure despite fragile appearance.
magic- by gestures - mental thought foresee outcome
aurora borealis spell explosions
Striations are a product of a mineral's crystal habit. They can be very diagnostic and can even be an enhancement to the attractiveness of a specimen. They are incorrectly referred to as scratches, especially on transparent crystals. The most common cause of striations are the convergence or juxtaposition of two crystal faces
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangaea
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Xing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_elements_(Japanese_philosophy)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahabhuta
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_element
magic- by gestures - mental thought foresee outcome
magic-by vocal in groups strongest by involving 4's - opposites
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymath#List_of_recognized_polymaths
Historical -- A genius is an individual who successfully applies a previously unknown technique in the production of a work of art, science or calculation, or who masters and personalizes a known technique.
Brother name - May mental abilities
ability to bend light photons form walkways, shields, doorways for escape.
ethereal voices
nature assists in growth
communion with animals
Wings opaque -- in use sounds like wind --
attracted to
musical savants
Mozart showed prodigious
A polymath (Greek polymathēs, πολυμαθής, "having learned much")[1] is a person whose knowledge is not restricted to one subject areahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymath#List_of_recognized_polymaths
Historical -- A genius is an individual who successfully applies a previously unknown technique in the production of a work of art, science or calculation, or who masters and personalizes a known technique.
Brother name - May mental abilities
accelerated intervention steps forward and backwards
aurora borealis spell explosions
Striations are a product of a mineral's crystal habit. They can be very diagnostic and can even be an enhancement to the attractiveness of a specimen. They are incorrectly referred to as scratches, especially on transparent crystals. The most common cause of striations are the convergence or juxtaposition of two crystal faces
Ancient map of the world single content
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangaea
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Xing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_elements_(Japanese_philosophy)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahabhuta
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_element
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Prologue:
We were here,
We were there,
We are everywhere,
We are now gone.
Hidden from most of mankind is the realm of Fae where magic is still practiced. Long ago they retreated from the world of man by casting spells to deceive our senses. Shrouding magical creatures’ great and small, the kind, the gentle to the fierce and out right evil beings they did this all in an effort to keep them from the savages of mankind.
Yet from time to time mortals would tell tales of faerie sightings and magical creatures keeping legends alive.
The kingdom of the faerie is phased just out of reach of our sight and understanding but they are there never the less. Most of the sightings take place in pockets spread all over our planet; scattered over our world where the veil of their spell is weak. Such weak places are prominent in our world and are such places as The Great Pyramid of Giza, The Leaning Tower of Pisa, The Great Wall of China, The Taj Mahal, Machu Picchu and Stonehenge are a few of the many crossovers. The spell the Faerie cast those long ages ago also took from our landscape places of wonder. The Isle of Atlantis, Castle Camelot, The Colossus of Rhodes, The Mausoleum of Maussollos and of course Avalon lost to us either seemly destroyed or separated by the rift in time and space caused by their powerful spell. So powerful was the spell they cast that even today we lose places to their magic; Mount St Helens, Twin Towers are examples of recent losses.
Many cultures of our world such as the orient consider the number two as lucky; in the western hemisphere it’s the number seven. It is no coincidences that faerie have lucky numbers and why sometimes mankind deems them unlucky.
In Fae the number one stands for unity, four stands for “everything done as wished” and thirteen represented the natural number after 12 and before 14. It is the smallest integer with eight letters in its spelled out name in English. These are considered lucky by all faerie.
We kept secrets,
We hide ourselves,
We look in splendor,
We look afar.
Chapter One: The Book of Four’s
In a glade underneath the tree of life was the altar of Fa”dum which was surrounded by a circle of magic. The tree of life and the altar of Fa”dum were located in the ether of the circle. Carefully placed within the boundary of the circle were four megalithic stones: The eastern stone had a carved out hole in its center, thirteen lines were etched laden with gold representing the light of the sun. Opposite the sunstone stood the western stone; its center was a hole in which a silver hoop was inserted to represent the moon. The northern stone bore thirteen carved vertical lines filled with orange amber to represent fire. Opposite the firestone was the southern stone in which a four peaked wave was carved in it center filled with sapphires to represent water.
Set upon the altar Fa”dum laid the “Book of Four’s” in its pages all the secrets of the faerie are contained its a sort of guide to understanding their realm.
The “Book of Four’s” is square in shape and is leather bound. On its cover a silver hoop was embedded, inside the hoop were four thin bars of gold forming yet another square, its edges countering the placement of the megalithic stones. The corners of the square bore the following symbols. A green leaf representation of spring, a sunflower was opposite representing summer. An acorn was the representation of fall and opposite this was a white snowflake representing winter. Counting each side of the book and continuing towards the center count each item and any sides see that the numbers one, four and thirteen can be found.
There are many tribes of Faerie also called houses each of the houses adopted a flag to differentiae between the houses. Faerie also wear silver necklaces with their house emblems attached, which is a powerful source of their individual magic.
We were here,
We were there,
We are everywhere,
We are now gone.
Hidden from most of mankind is the realm of Fae where magic is still practiced. Long ago they retreated from the world of man by casting spells to deceive our senses. Shrouding magical creatures’ great and small, the kind, the gentle to the fierce and out right evil beings they did this all in an effort to keep them from the savages of mankind.
Yet from time to time mortals would tell tales of faerie sightings and magical creatures keeping legends alive.
The kingdom of the faerie is phased just out of reach of our sight and understanding but they are there never the less. Most of the sightings take place in pockets spread all over our planet; scattered over our world where the veil of their spell is weak. Such weak places are prominent in our world and are such places as The Great Pyramid of Giza, The Leaning Tower of Pisa, The Great Wall of China, The Taj Mahal, Machu Picchu and Stonehenge are a few of the many crossovers. The spell the Faerie cast those long ages ago also took from our landscape places of wonder. The Isle of Atlantis, Castle Camelot, The Colossus of Rhodes, The Mausoleum of Maussollos and of course Avalon lost to us either seemly destroyed or separated by the rift in time and space caused by their powerful spell. So powerful was the spell they cast that even today we lose places to their magic; Mount St Helens, Twin Towers are examples of recent losses.
Many cultures of our world such as the orient consider the number two as lucky; in the western hemisphere it’s the number seven. It is no coincidences that faerie have lucky numbers and why sometimes mankind deems them unlucky.
In Fae the number one stands for unity, four stands for “everything done as wished” and thirteen represented the natural number after 12 and before 14. It is the smallest integer with eight letters in its spelled out name in English. These are considered lucky by all faerie.
We kept secrets,
We hide ourselves,
We look in splendor,
We look afar.
Chapter One: The Book of Four’s
In a glade underneath the tree of life was the altar of Fa”dum which was surrounded by a circle of magic. The tree of life and the altar of Fa”dum were located in the ether of the circle. Carefully placed within the boundary of the circle were four megalithic stones: The eastern stone had a carved out hole in its center, thirteen lines were etched laden with gold representing the light of the sun. Opposite the sunstone stood the western stone; its center was a hole in which a silver hoop was inserted to represent the moon. The northern stone bore thirteen carved vertical lines filled with orange amber to represent fire. Opposite the firestone was the southern stone in which a four peaked wave was carved in it center filled with sapphires to represent water.
Set upon the altar Fa”dum laid the “Book of Four’s” in its pages all the secrets of the faerie are contained its a sort of guide to understanding their realm.
The “Book of Four’s” is square in shape and is leather bound. On its cover a silver hoop was embedded, inside the hoop were four thin bars of gold forming yet another square, its edges countering the placement of the megalithic stones. The corners of the square bore the following symbols. A green leaf representation of spring, a sunflower was opposite representing summer. An acorn was the representation of fall and opposite this was a white snowflake representing winter. Counting each side of the book and continuing towards the center count each item and any sides see that the numbers one, four and thirteen can be found.
There are many tribes of Faerie also called houses each of the houses adopted a flag to differentiae between the houses. Faerie also wear silver necklaces with their house emblems attached, which is a powerful source of their individual magic.
Sunday, March 8, 2009
21 years and counting
A migration from the dark, cold and ice in more ways then one. The difference between an inviting place to call home where one could blend and not have to worry about being looked as an outcast. Many left for the same reasons with notes of encouragement and urging others to come into the light! I left Billings on Northwest Airlines on Dec 7, 1988 the temperature minus 5 with a windchill factor of minus 20, to Seattle where it was 55 degrees and raining.
It used to be that by my birthday in early March the weather was well in its way to spring with mild weather but that has changed. Now the normal is winter is hanging on with it's icy grip for a few more weeks. AHHHH..
Still I am glad to be here --
Friday, March 6, 2009
My ties with my immediate family has always been strange since late 1980's- My relationship with my parents was a factor of my moving from Billings to here. Since then its been an on and off again from OK to outright spooky.
So it was with a great amount of soul searching that I decided to visit them over last Thanksgiving. My brother and his wife were going to be there as well so had things gotten out of my comfort zone someone else would be there to ease the potential bad visit. I had not been on any aircraft since 09'11 the hassle with all the airport security was adding to my stresses.My parents became involved in politics a few years ago and I was able to keep tabs on their actions by searching google. My parents seemed to be aligning themselves towards a more liberal point of view and they were rooting for Obama. I saw this as a sign that perhaps their point of view would have softened.
As it turned out the trip was a good one. I extended an offer to have them come visit for a couple of days the next time they were going to visit my brother Julian, who lives in Billings it adds about 250 more miles to the trip. I told them if they were apprehensive about meeting Greg they could skip meeting him. I told them with they way the economy continued to worsen I might not be able to come visit them; how little did I know that things would be much worse and still could continue to spiral downwards.
Both my parents and brother asked me last November what I wanted for Christmas and my birthday --strange on their part since we rarely exchanged gifts so I answered before I really thought about it I really wanted a Bluray DVD player and an Amazon Kindle!
I had been researching a model by LG which could be hack to be a region Free HD/Bluray- this player supports all the old disc I have and some of my other region discs from the UK and other parts of the world.
Well for Christmas to my surprise got 2 LG players apparently my brother was bidding on EBay and accidentally purchased 2 players. He asked me in a phone conversation if I still had 2 TV's to which I answered yes to. When Christmas came so did my new players. I thought that was the end however to my surprise gifts however I got an email from my parents who said they all had chipped in last November to buy the disc player I wanted and at the same time they bought me a Kindle.
My birthday is next week and today I got a package and inside was a new Kindle version 1-- Since I have such a small home buying books takes up space having a Kindle offers me a way to get back into reading without taking up space. I just bought a 8 gig SD Card for $17.00 so I can hundreds of books on new Kindle without taking up space at home.
I am sure that if they had not pre-order/purchased these the situation of money would be out of reach for such purchases -- my brother business is way down his wife lost her job, my parents who are retired say their retirement have not been affected too much. As for me work continues I am crossing my fingers that Greg's position at his work continues. My new gadgets will keep me happy for the time being.
Oh by the way if you click on the title of my post you can see 3 sites that are offering a chance to win your own Kindle...BUT HURRY some of the contest end SOON!!
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