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Mooniana - Author's Review
MOONIANA - AUTHOR'S REVIEW
Having read Mooniana and the Secret of the Lost Chronciles of Sophia as a reader and not a writer was a very interesting experience. I got partly caught up with mental editing along with enjoying the story. On the surface the book is a very interesting allegory and myth about the descent of six of the muses who have incarnated into the world in human form to renew the arts in the group soul of humanity and bring about an awakening to Gnosis through the Goddess of Wisdom Sophia. On another more interesting level, the book totally reverses all our comfortable preconceptions of Western culture, society, politics and religion. It is a kind of in your face book - shattering all our pretty illusions about the foundations of what our world is really built on - especially that of the foundations of our religion, which are much more corrupt, messy and violent than we generally suppose. Mooniana is therefore not a book for the faint hearted or those who don't want to be challenged in their religious or secular worldviews
The six Sister Muses who are the central female protagoists of the book are: 1) The Siren Mooniana - the embodiment of the Muse of Lyric poetry and the Harp, Euterpe, and the gentle White Witch of the tale, 2) The Siren Afranella - the embodiment of the Muse of the lyre and Harp, Erato, and the femme fatale of the book, 3) The Siren Ondine - the embodiment of Terpsichore, the Muse of the Dance, and something of a radical socialist in her politcal orientation, 4) Mad Circe-Kastanja - the embodiment of Melpomene, the Muse of Tragic Theatre - she is the radical Gnostic of the story and views the Judeo Christian God as a cruel tyrant and the Goddess of Wisdom Sophia as the true saviour of Humanity. The last two Muses in the story are 5) The Star Child Fuchsia - the embodiment of the Muse Urania, 6) The Siren Loreley - the embodiment of the Muse of sacred choral song, Polyhymnia.
The narratives of these six sisters lake place inbetween the familiar world of Scandinavia, Germany and North Italy, as well as the metarmorphic realm of sirens, faeries and the shape shifting world of our imagination, visionary archetypes and dreams. Influences from Romantic poets like William Blake and Qabalistic occultists like Dion Fortune are obvious in the book. The novel is also filled with political satire and radicalism along with sequences from the Magic Realism genre. There is also some heady romance and steamy sensuality in the novel, when the passionate Muses search for their soul-mate, the Choice. There appear to be three possible candidates for the sisters' Choice, but only one, in the end, proves to be their Chosen One.
Mad, mysterious, thought provoking, totally original and unique - this novel is an amazing twist on the familiar themes of the gods and goddesses of Greek, Hindu and Nordic mythology. The book also throws a disturbing challenge in the face of our conventional religious institutions with the revival of an old Gnostic heresy, lost to the world since the time of the Great Library of Alexandria. The Gnostics believed that the God worshipped by the Christians and Jews was not the true God, but a cruel demiurge whose only purpose was to subject and even enslave humanity. This God they identified with the Old Testament Jehovah and the Hellenic Ruler Plutonius Zeus. The Gnostics called him the Ruler, Ialdabaoth and Samael and some extreme sects of Gnosticism even went so far as to call him Satan. Interestingly, the true Saviour of the world for the Gnostics was not a Royal Lawmaker or divine Ruler, but the kind and learned Goddess of Wisdom Sophia.
The cosmic struggle betwen these two archetypal forces is explored I think in a most interesting and, at the same time, disturbing way in this unique and sometimes mindblowing book. Certainly, the portrayal of Sophia's traditional Gnostic adversary, the Ruler, totally reverses all our old preconceptions of the kind Heavenly Father that we were taught about in Sunday School!
A book that is definitely not for the faint hearted.
Having read Mooniana and the Secret of the Lost Chronciles of Sophia as a reader and not a writer was a very interesting experience. I got partly caught up with mental editing along with enjoying the story. On the surface the book is a very interesting allegory and myth about the descent of six of the muses who have incarnated into the world in human form to renew the arts in the group soul of humanity and bring about an awakening to Gnosis through the Goddess of Wisdom Sophia. On another more interesting level, the book totally reverses all our comfortable preconceptions of Western culture, society, politics and religion. It is a kind of in your face book - shattering all our pretty illusions about the foundations of what our world is really built on - especially that of the foundations of our religion, which are much more corrupt, messy and violent than we generally suppose. Mooniana is therefore not a book for the faint hearted or those who don't want to be challenged in their religious or secular worldviews
The six Sister Muses who are the central female protagoists of the book are: 1) The Siren Mooniana - the embodiment of the Muse of Lyric poetry and the Harp, Euterpe, and the gentle White Witch of the tale, 2) The Siren Afranella - the embodiment of the Muse of the lyre and Harp, Erato, and the femme fatale of the book, 3) The Siren Ondine - the embodiment of Terpsichore, the Muse of the Dance, and something of a radical socialist in her politcal orientation, 4) Mad Circe-Kastanja - the embodiment of Melpomene, the Muse of Tragic Theatre - she is the radical Gnostic of the story and views the Judeo Christian God as a cruel tyrant and the Goddess of Wisdom Sophia as the true saviour of Humanity. The last two Muses in the story are 5) The Star Child Fuchsia - the embodiment of the Muse Urania, 6) The Siren Loreley - the embodiment of the Muse of sacred choral song, Polyhymnia.
The narratives of these six sisters lake place inbetween the familiar world of Scandinavia, Germany and North Italy, as well as the metarmorphic realm of sirens, faeries and the shape shifting world of our imagination, visionary archetypes and dreams. Influences from Romantic poets like William Blake and Qabalistic occultists like Dion Fortune are obvious in the book. The novel is also filled with political satire and radicalism along with sequences from the Magic Realism genre. There is also some heady romance and steamy sensuality in the novel, when the passionate Muses search for their soul-mate, the Choice. There appear to be three possible candidates for the sisters' Choice, but only one, in the end, proves to be their Chosen One.
Mad, mysterious, thought provoking, totally original and unique - this novel is an amazing twist on the familiar themes of the gods and goddesses of Greek, Hindu and Nordic mythology. The book also throws a disturbing challenge in the face of our conventional religious institutions with the revival of an old Gnostic heresy, lost to the world since the time of the Great Library of Alexandria. The Gnostics believed that the God worshipped by the Christians and Jews was not the true God, but a cruel demiurge whose only purpose was to subject and even enslave humanity. This God they identified with the Old Testament Jehovah and the Hellenic Ruler Plutonius Zeus. The Gnostics called him the Ruler, Ialdabaoth and Samael and some extreme sects of Gnosticism even went so far as to call him Satan. Interestingly, the true Saviour of the world for the Gnostics was not a Royal Lawmaker or divine Ruler, but the kind and learned Goddess of Wisdom Sophia.
The cosmic struggle betwen these two archetypal forces is explored I think in a most interesting and, at the same time, disturbing way in this unique and sometimes mindblowing book. Certainly, the portrayal of Sophia's traditional Gnostic adversary, the Ruler, totally reverses all our old preconceptions of the kind Heavenly Father that we were taught about in Sunday School!
A book that is definitely not for the faint hearted.
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