Time, Fate and Spider Magic: A Brief HIRStory of TimE

by Orryelle Defenestrate-bascule

From Greek Chronos and Hindu MahaKala to the feminine mysteries of Fate - from the Moirae to the Hoerae - this mythic HirStory (a union of history and herstory) explores the far reaches of time & its warp in the Web of Wyrd. Whereas Hawking's Brief History of Time is a scientific apprehension of the subject, this tome follows Time's spiralling course through art, verse and magic, bringing us to the eternal present then offering ways to carry the ideas presented into the future through personal - practical ritual frameworks for using web mandalas to map time onto a spatial plane and explore different potentialities of our mutable destiny. Included is the Arachnean Grimoire 'The Book of the Spider' and commentary.

362 pages, Paperback

First published June 12, 2014

Reviews

[Toria · Rating 4 out of 5]

I bough this book for the cool title, not knowing anything about the author. This book hits my total jam of weird books that are themselves some sort of convoluted art piece that is not necessarily good, but is definitely unique. The detail, care, voice, wordplay, formatting, everything about this book is meticulous and obsessive and utterly consistent with itself. I was enthralled to go on a journey into this artist's mind, and devoured the entire book and all appendices in one sitting. This is not a person I want to know, or meet, or google, because I don't want to find out if this person is some sort of ultra problematic cult leader or something, but this book is going to live forever in my small collection of books that are whatever this is.

[Sosanna Olson · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book was pretty confusing. I tried to keep up but the constant change in fonts and formatting was so distracting I couldn't really get what the author was going for. I did managed to get about 1/2 way through the book before putting down and giving up. :(