Mayan Goddess Ixchel Comes to LA in New Short Story

WHITE MOON (A Short Story), by Theresa CraterWhite Moon

When you call the Ancient Ones, sometimes they come. Mason and Gail struggle to reignite their passion. Jacqueline has a surprise encounter with the love of her youth. When Mayan Goddess Ixchel comes for her divine lover, lost in human form, she spreads magic in her wake.

Previously published in Ride the Moon.

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New Egyptian Short Story

The Nile floods when Sirius rises just before the sun. And when the Priestess of Hathor and the Priest of Horus perform the Sacred Marriage ritual. Read it now.

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Reprint from The Aether Age:  Helios (2012).

The Serapeum

On our tour to Egypt in April, I was finally able to visit the Serapeum, and Oh My God!

We walked down steps into the ground, then down some more. We turned left next to a large box and walked down to a corridor filled with niches. I turned left and went to the first one. That’s when the visions began.

I wish I could go through it niche by niche and describe every world and every operator, but I can’t remember it that clearly. But I saw the attendants in mostly every niche and images, colors and feelings of the worlds that niche connected to. The attendants reached out and touched me with their scepters. Some on the third eye, some on the shoulder. Others nodded an acknowledgement of me. Others made hand gestures or motioned for me to come inside.

The boxes were filled with liquid light. They were transport devices to other worlds. I asked how they worked, and the third or so guardian told me, “They work much like the crystal you described in your book.” The person lays in them and is transported to the place this niche connects to. Just sort of dissolved into energy. In others, I saw people turning into Neters. In some, people were healed.

Some were solar worlds, filled with light and gold and sun. Others had many colors. Some were night worlds. These began toward the end of the corridor and mostly on the other side. Some were very green and filled with plants. Some desert and sand. Some were water worlds. In one of the night worlds, the guardian came forward to greet me and a big black Jaguar came out and licked my face.

There were 27 in the hallway. Later I realized that’s how many letters there are in the Hebrew alphabet. Then I went down the hallway that intersected them, sort of like an H, but not even. The boxes were being made or repaired on that side. Stephen went further and said there was a workshop back there. He says there’s a door blocking another tunnel and there are more—who knows how many.

I went back and that’s when I counted them. At first, I counted the box without a lid next to the door. If there are more, I’m curious how they are grouped. In certain numbers or what?

I’d like to go there with a master toner and see what happens, or do what my friend Jeanne suggested and each of us sit in one and tone. Holy cow. I can feel the place turning on just thinking about that.

When we left, the vendors were waiting just outside the door. A Neter-like being, at least seven feet tall if not more, walked out with me. The vendor said to us, “Five dollars American” and I completely cracked up, imagining if this Neter were really there fully in our dimension, him looking at some chronometer on his wrist and thinking, “Blast, I’m in the wrong year.”

When I was in the Serapeum, I thought I was seeing other worlds, other planets that make up our stellar family. But later I thought perhaps they were dimensions. Perhaps it’s not a matter of time—that in the distant past we used this place in this way, but a matter of layers—that in some higher frequency we still use this place as a transportation and healing nexus.

In either case, I want to visit the Serapeum again.

Me in Serapeum

 

 

New Short Story

The Judgment of Osiris — A modern retelling of an ancient myth. The ancient gods of Egypt reach through time and claim Owen as their next sacrifice. On the last day of the tour he leads, Owen accepts a gift from a rival tour guide Simon. The miniature sarcophagus contains a mysterious white powder  that takes Owen into the mythic Egyptian underworld. Will resurrection come for him as it did for his namesake Osiris?

 

Reading for Auraria Writers Week

osiris31I’ll be reading from my short story “The Judgment of Osiris,” Monday, March 18, at 11:45 a.m. in Tivoli Room 320 AB on the Auraria Campus in Denver. The story will appear in spring in the anthology Tales of Firelight and Shadow edited by Alexis Brooks de Vita for Double Dragon Media.

On Tuesday we have our State of Publishing panel, and on Wednesday Gish Jen will present. (See the post below for details.)

Aether Age: Helios

Ever wish Ancient Egypt had never faded? So does the Aether Age series. This alternative history anthology imagines a world where Egypt and Greece still rule.

My latest short story, “Bringing the Waters,” is one in this fun collection.

Buy Monday, November 29th!