The Portal Papers

With 127 done and dusted (much to his relief The Traveller was FAR better at this than he expected), test 2 was unfortunately NOT a test - time was running out and they needed a piece of The Uncertain Brown Portal in order to move Hatshepsut’s Obelisk.

123 could not be classified as a DOOR really, more like an arch, but this did not deter The Traveller.  She STILL did not realize this was NOT Dream Time.   Or maybe she did and didn’t mind.  Playing a sitar in a band going no-where was not the life she had planned.

The Red Giraffe was not hugely pleased with his human form - he felt LONG. And from the strange looks he was receiving, this current disguise was a trifle too fast walker.  BUT he needed to check out the arch opposite the bus station as indicated on the Phaistos Disk (#59/60) (yip - can you believe it, the disk actually has this on the back).  

The Traveller had suggested that he try a Gerald Format, but it felt uncomfortable and itchy.

The sudden shift to 56 even caught the Red Giraffe by surprise. 

It was obviously an inter-dimensional backlash from a derecho.  People don’t realize that such happenings (widespread, long-lived wind storms) are actually the result of the Moorish Darwish attempting to assail Between.  While his minions hunt for the keys with equal fervor, he attempts to twist the immaterial nature of Between.  The Traveller double blinked at 56 but further than that she was calm.  

56 was indeed a shocker - a dungeon door on the Roman Forum (known in some circles as Mars Hill).  This was a kink in the tale for sure.  The Traveller, without hesitation stepped out into the milling crowd, seemingly certain of her destination.  Erichs map had certainly come in handy and he was very grateful because from here-on-out this territory was beyond his ken.  The point of course was to backtrack to

the region of the Sof Omar Caves, where the story first began.  NOTHING would make sense until they backtracked there.

Animals Between (sighted at the Bridges)

Utopian Writing System

Utopian Writing System

The Utopian language belongs  to the realms of Utopia - the fictional land of Thomas More.  This constructed language was apparently written by Peter Giles, but of course, its close resemblance of the cursive of the scribe Lyrehc provides the interested viewer with access to the meaning of the four verbs in the Utopian Poem - and they are the point after all.

Utopian has its own 22-letter alphabet, with its glyphs loosely based on the circle,  triangle and square.  Everything else you read about the lack of a Z and a few other oddities like no q,k,x, and f - ignore.

A few corrections

agrama -  generally rendered city- should correctly be rendered populated space

chamaan - generally rendered island- should correctly be rendered populated space

isolated - as the term should correctly refer to Between - that is, the space into which none can enter.

soma - generally rendered without should correctly be rendered

inaccessible - as Between is.

Creatures Between. Here.

If you see strange

creatures

skulking under bridges

looking like they don’t

belong

DON’T

be alarmed

They’re preparing

for the job

of Opening

The Bridges Between. 

Don’t mind them

its pointless approaching them

for when you get close

they disappear

wreathes

caught between time

WAITING.

SUNDERMANN, Erich (Austria) The Bhubezi Mythology

The Bhubezi Mythology

Loose original drawings, copies numbered 1, 3 and 4.  Erich has been a long-time Mail Art contact who has consistently sent wonderful drawings and Mail art Makes the World A Town contributions.  He has also contributed to the Bhubezi mythology (see http://bhubezi.blogspot.com) on a few occasions but none as splendid as this.  I understand the time and effort this has taken.  

Erich has textually and visually re-documented The Women Who Hold Up the World.  In a way he has managed to pull all the strings of this unwieldy mythology into a volume which has allowed me to make sense of my own ramblings.  Its just - where to now? I don’t seem to have much control with Magenta and Sienna caught Between.  At least, some keys are surfacing.  Erich’s drawings will go a long way to compiling the replacement volume of The Chronicles of Lyrehc.  The original artifact has been stolen by instruments of  the Moorish Darwiche (there lacks agreement between scholars on this word).