Four Selections from Vraicking

Hecate: This evening, after sundown, arrives the dark moon, the time for Hecate’s Deipnon in the continental west of the Americas. Coincidentally, over at Bluesky, it is that time of year for making sigils for the...

Ten Days Away: I do not know if Yost was unaware that Pytra-Sennileda was an obscure mispelling of Pytra-Sennehliydar, or if he deliberately chose to use this antique error. Whether it was intentional or not, I can tell you that the Inultaru percieve Pytra-Sennehliydar as the...

Adjacent Andifahrit, Sharp and Nimble: If I was a timely person, which I am, I should have posted this in the month of May, ideally on May 7. Alas, I am not an ideal person, nor do I try to be – an ideal person seems like a dreary thing, don’t you think, too much akin to Emily Dickinson’s famous...

Awkward Miracles: The art made by Artificial Industry is (and will always be, no doubt) the product of drudgery. The Masters of Industry will try to hide their theft of labor (they have always tried to hide their theft of labor) but the product will always be the result of...

Absconding With Empirical Evidence from the Hoosegow

Ghoul: Yost wrote the following paragraphs in a fragment of The Chalcedony Tablets, which is part of a book that appears to be a fictionalized autobiography Yost was writing before he disappeared in November 1999. Whether it was meant to be Yost’s autobiography or Jack Loki’s autobiography is not obvious in the first and only draft of...

The Martyr of Whereabouts: It is taking us more than a few days to write a short history (soon to published here in Vraicking) for Icon Number Sixty Four (the demalion of Presence and Vulnerability). In the course of our endeavor, we have discovered an artifact marked with an example of a kiGamnch design known as “Thistle Beetle on the Threshold”. This cipher (we have identified it as a cipher because it seems like...

Absconding With Empirical Evidence from the Hoosegow: She has been identified as a trickster god and a demalion of defiance, but she is neither. Knavery is one of her attributes but she is always an honest knave. The Inultaru will tell you disobedience is her most recognized characteristic, but only because jackalopes consider disobedience a virtue in those who were born, not by choice, into a society that demands obedience....

The Rule of Three at Vraicking

Two Poems 13: I wanted to do something special for the thirteenth post in the Two Poems series here at Vraicking. Some people tell me the number thirteen is unlucky, but unluck is hard to identify, hard to pin down, when the...

Bunny Day: One of the volunteers at the archive suggested this Geranium Lake Properties comic would make a good post for Easter because she thought this mask (of Father Antelope?) looked like a bunny rabbit. I can guess at...

Pontificating to the Quire: We have found (in the fullness of time and not one moment sooner) something that is not quite the munwalto irrupa of Brinnuzem Ruk. We have found two somethings. The first is the...

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...