Six of One or a Half-Dozen of Another from Vraicking

Queen of Heaven: Around the time Wm. Yost was devising the mask for Icon Number Fifty-Nine, Queen of Heaven was looking for an artist for the cover of their album In Elephantine Time. The band had hired Pete Cafferata as their producer for...

Reluctant Primordial Death: Of late, when I find myself browsing through the Geranium Lake Properties archives, I have been scrutinizing any materials related to Inultarumet concepts of death, with special attention given to...

Go Ask Alice: In the story “The Straighter Stronger Course to a Corner of the Light” Jack Loki and his traveling companions, Ivannahven Yurimlaudey and Skelty-the-Fourth, visit one of Alice Aroumbeyski’s studios. The location of the studio is not...

Rumors and Murmurs of Transfiguration: The truth is...

Five Open Doors: “We have been here for a very long time, yet there is not enough time, never enough time,” said the Fool to the Thief, to which the Thief replied: “Let us not talk falsely now. We will not...

Ravel and Unravel: It is a hard world out there among the Hahnoquimmish. Do not let anyone tell you differently. People will offer you sanctuary, but it will be a lie. They cannot offer you what they do not have for...

Two Theories of Experience at Vraicking

Seasons Without Purpose: We are pretty darn sure that Yost created these two unpublished Geranium Lake Properties comics to be part of the frequently psychedelic Fifty Cent Trip. We do not know why they were not included and...

Typical Jackalopian Capriciousity: Class is in session for Uncommon Inultarumek 1.1A to 1.8D. Let’s eavesdrop for a few minutes on a lecture given by Professor Boromir Fandellacken1 as he begins his introduction to the Six...

Two Poems Series at Vraicking

Two Poems: Today, or tonight, your attention can be scattered, or passive, or broken, or healed, or too simple to work, or in front of you right now, or the result of your past mistakess, or a verb trying to be a noun, or a celebration...

Thorny Humus and Other Stories

Thorny Humus: Today, or tonight, is Yifteyzoumaymy, the third holiday in the Three Nights celebration. We can suppose Wm. Yost had his own reasons for creating this...

Three for Kol-Koy: Two days after I included Icon Number Fifty-Seven in this post from February 20, I found the officially published1 image for Icon Number Sixty-one. This mask is a portrait of...

Reyat-suki’s Winter Heart: This winter, I have not been inspired, not particularly, not generally, to continue the tale of “The Green Man in Winter“, but I thought that perhaps, with the onset of spring, on the last day of...

Irreshkwilmat was the Correct Answer: Our best guesses were wrong. This mask was neither the demalion Ummusenyobi nor Annaistrem-teyniva of the Annsugamfe. She was a variation of...

Political Cartoon: The word “political” does not need to be followed by the word “bias”. Biases are intrinsic to politics – we cannot have a political view without being biased. Truly, basically, we cannot have any kind of view without...

Four to Vraicking

The Resemblance of Genuineness: The masks of Dpajor, the entity who provides her name to the holiday of Dpajormymy (which is today, February 6), demonstrate a wide range of variability. The education of the mask-maker, or vizardwright, can make a significant...

Do we walk in legends or on the green earth in the daylight?: “A man may do both,” said Aragorn. “For not we but those who come after will make the legends of our time. The green earth, say you? That is a mighty matter of legend, though you...

Mourning the loss of what was never there: When I first found these mask portraits of Icon Number Thirty-One, I thought they were variations on the mask of Uruburza Yennildi. I assumed these two masks were unchosen alternatives to the mask that was printed by the Bureau of Yeltik Imbarrahju, much like...

Chisel Marks in Sandstone and Chalk: I am not especially familiar about growing up in other countries, but children in the United States are taught from a young age to believe that they can, and will, change the world for the better. And they will do it by doing nothing...