Chart of Aeons and Deviations from SOMEWHITHER
More than one reader asked for these notes to my latest book. I hope this is legible in this format.
Aeon | Miracle | Magic | Race |
| CAINEM | No Exile from Eden | Immortality | Autochthons |
| ENOCH | No Deluge | Nephilim PossessionVesperomancy Dusk magic | Oeonae |
| UR | No Confusion of Tongues | Astrology. | Urrasse |
| THALASSA | No withdrawal of waters. | Mesmerism, Mermaid magic | Mermaids / Long lived Cyrni |
| ELAM | The miracles of the Seven Rishi | Psychometry, able to prevent resurrection | Astomi (Eats smells) |
| ASSHUR | The miracles of the seven Adapa | Spiritualists, able to be possessed by demonic powers | Apkallu = Macrocephali |
| SASAN | The Second Coming happened within John’s lifetime. The antichrist of Persia overruns the empire. | The magic of Vigil the Magician, which allows statues to speak with each other across intercontinental distances, and prevents cities from falling to siege. | Locusts |
| GATH | No Joseph. Egypt starves. Ethiopia rises to power. | Speed | Abarimon |
| UZ | No Brazen Serpent | Cure snakebite, defeat dragons | Ophiogenes |
| UL | The Darkness at the Crucifixion never lifted | unnatural darkness | Nyctalope |
| ARPHAXAD | Melchisedech taught people how to levitate. | Levitationalso disenchantment | Atlanteans |
| LUD | ———— | Psychokinetic limbs | Gaeagenes |
| CUSH | No Abraham, no monotheism | Small Gods only | Strega |
| SHEBA | Solomon never asked for wisdom; the Queen of Sheba never converted to monotheism but worshipped Shamash and Ilumquh | Ghost animals | Choromandi |
| EVILAS | ————– | Flight | Panotii |
| ASTABOR | ————– | Naming Magic | Melanochroti |
| SABTAH | No curse of Ham hence monsters born. | Oral pocket dimensions | Blemmyae / Androphagi |
| UD | Methuselah cured Adam by means of the waters of Eden | Fountain of Youth and of oblivion | Aigipanes |
| U-TIXO | Joseph killed his brothers, fathered a new lineage | Nightmares, incubi | Himantopedes Sciopods And Naglopers Nightwalkers |
| RAAMAH | Nimrod’s brother. | Phospermancy or Dawn Magic ylemaramu the art of banishing the twilight. | Panchaeans |
| SABTECHAH | No Star of Bethlehem. Samaritans conquer the Muslims. | Clairvoyance. | Gypsies |
| MIZRAIM | No Moses | MUMMY WORLD Geomantic Pharaochian Necromancy. | Mummies, Scorpion men |
| HADAN | No destruction of Sodom | GENII WORLD Machlyes can summon Jinn genus loci of dead lands | Machlyes Hermaphrodites |
| DAGON | No smiting of Dagon, Uzzah | GHOSTS. Necromantic Divination | Sedeclahot |
| SIDON | David Missed | GIANTS | Syrbotae |
| EPIPHANIA | No Joshua, no fall of Jericho | LILLIPUTIANS | Calingi, Pygmy |
| ARVAD | ———— | Ventriloquism | Heliades |
| ARCE | The second siege of Antioch culminated in the discovery of the Holy Lance by a monk named Peter Bartholomew. | Blood magic impregnates murder weapon with spirit of victim. Spear of Longinus can slay devils, cure the sick. | Revenants |
| AMORREUS | No miracle of Baalam’s Ass | Speech with Animals | Artabtatitae |
| JAVAN | Alexander the Great had sons: the Abomination of Desolation remains in the Temple.No crucifixion, no resurrection | Sun is dying. VAMPIRE WORLD | Cruorbibitors |
| MADAI | No water from the Rock Moses | Sauromatae Inetia | Sauromatae take food once every two days |
| VASUMATI | Miraculous birth of the Pandava in India | Daeva Aestra-weapons | Argippaei nicknamed the Phalakroi |
| RIPHATH | No miraculous cure of Constantine; no donation. West overrun by Danes, Svartalfar, industrialization | Invisibility, mist-walking, disguise | Svartalfar / Svartalfwicken |
| ASHKINAZ | Attila not turned back by Leo I | Catoudaei (underground dwellers) control the Vril (universal energy) | Catoudaei |
| TOGARMAH | Herod successfully killed the Christ child, whose blood nonetheless cured the world | Vitality Magnetism and Death Rays, Insanity rays, and other colors of the Life Spectrum | Voivodesnote that this was the first world discovered by Brendan. |
| SVAN | St Philip never overcame the dragon, hence there is no feast to begin advent | Storm Witches Zduhac who fight the weather in astral form. Also, scapulomancy.Memory needles from here. | Zduhac |
| TIRAS | Crusader kingdoms rescued by miracle. Solomon’s Temple found. | Golems | Golemsmiths |
| MOSOCH | Vilnius founded | Black Living Metal including armor from here. Lions in armor from here | Illyrians (double pupil) |
| THARSIS | Baptism of John, but no Jesus as yet. | A very wealthy world. Essenes Therapeutae have destroyed all witches here. | Therapeutae (cleanse sins) |
| TAARI | Janaidar (Underground Babel) smitten | Arimaspians. The cunning metal comes from here. Chimera magic makes it easy to lose the human shape | Rephaim = Arimaspians also Aegipanes and Hippopodes. |
| NOY | No Jonah. Whale. Nineveh did not repent, conquered Asia, which sank. | Atlantis never sank. Earthquake and earthquake prevention magic. | Gorgades Woses or Hairy Men Note that the Atlanteans here are called Pterophoroi featherbearers |
| THOEBEL | No Miracle of Maccabeus, no Second Temple, hence no John the Baptist. | Sons of Romulus WEREWOLF WORLD | Cynocephali |
| BRENNUS | Brennus captured Rome, was not destroyed by earthquake. | Galvanic Alchemy | |
| ALBION | Albyna preserved in the sea; Peter and Paul’s miracles in Rome. | Technomancy our Earth | Exorcists / Androleteirai Amazons |
| SCAEFA | Saint Brendon discovers America: Maxwell discovers Unified Field Theory. | Buoyancy and Vitality Rays | |
| VARVAN | ———— | Basajaun Can command the galtzagorriak red pants and jentil or jentilak mountain throwing giants | Basajaun (Giants) |
| YU | ———— | Taoist Alchemy & sorcery | Nine Immortals |
| TRELGEN | ———— | Theosophy, including the arts of the Soul Extracting Lama ‘p’o-‘bo | World Utterly Obliterated by Viracocha at Ur’s command |
| NUWA | Abraham slew Isaac. Human sacrifice is universal. Alexander the Great flooded the Middle East from the Black Sea, but then was prevailed upon to open the pillar of Hercules and let the Mediterranean empty into the Atlantic. | KIJU WORLD. Behemoth and other Monsters.Serpent-women from here. | Sciritae / Naga |
| AMATERASU | ———— | Amaterasu-based sun magic smithcraft magic swords. | Kitsune |
| UENUKU | ———— | Skin changing | Were-whales |
| SOTUKNANG | ———— | Power to Create Life | World Utterly Obliterated by Viracocha at Ur’s command |
| VIRACOCHA | ———— | Human sacrifice is able to maintain or destroy the Earth | Struthopodes (long feet on the men) Pharnaces (sweat venom) also Patagonians (able to endure freezing temperatures) |
| ANDRIAMBAHOMANANA | ———— | Long-ago Dreamtime | Dreamwalking |
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
August 2, 2015 @ 5:40 am
