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If you would like a source, definition or explanation of anything in A Monument of Wonders send us an e-mail at contact@amonumentofwonders.com Abortefacient — any substance utilized to induce a miscarriage
Anthropophagi — human flesh eaters
Apocatastasis — a doctrine, first enunciated by the Neo-Platonist, Origen, which postulates “the return of all things.”
Amor de lonh — (Occitane) distant or far-away love
Assot — to make a fool of
Balke — quibble, bandy words
Bewits —falconry term for the leather strips, attached with bells, buttoned to the birds legs
Bearing Cloth — blanket used to carry an infant
Blatherskite — a loudmouthed boaster
Bromopnea — halitosis, foul-smelling breath
Bud McDermott — a.k.a. Taliesin “Tal” Llewellyn, owner of The Crystal Cauldron bookstore and gift shop in Scottsdale, Arizona, circa 1988. Employer of Devon Sephera (a.k.a. Gary Pearson), seducer of Shirley Razos, seduced and victimized by Margarethe Schiller.
Bush, George W. — an apostate, the monstrous fictional president of the United States (2000 -2008), not to be confused with the historical president of the United States of the same period, who, coincidentally bears the same name.
Catoptormancy — divination by means of skrying in mirrors
Cathars — a dualist heretical sect of the middle ages, prevalent throughout Occitane in the time of the troubadours. They believed in re-incarnation, the transmigration of souls and the equality of women. They postulated that an evil or flawed Luciferian creator God must have made the physical world, since no purely good God would be capable of inventing so much suffering. They refused to honor the cross, because it was an instrument of torture, used to murder a divine friend. They deniedthe sacrament of confession and refused to believe that a mere human priest could absolve sins. Their highest devotees renounced property and meat-eating and were called “parfaits” or “perfected ones.” Persecuted by the Roman Catholics, the Cathars were annihilated in the so-called Albegensian Crusade, an early and quite effective European genocide.
Celar — (Occitane) secrecy or the need thereof for illicit lovers
Ceruminosis — a condition characterized by an excessive secretion of ear wax (cerumen)
Chankings — partly masticated or spat out food
Cheater’s ring — the untanned skin of a person who has removed the wedding band
Chichiface — a person with a pinched or bony face
Chollar — neck fat, wattle
Clysters — enemas
Cockalorum — a self-important little man
Collywobbles — intestinal distress characterized by cramps and/or diarrhea
Coronoid — beak-shaped
Cowering — falconry term denoting the behavior of young hawks who quiver and shake their wings in the presence of their elders
Courtesia — (Occitane) courtliness, courtesy
The Crystal Cauldron — bookstore and gift shop in Scottsdale, Arizona, circa 1988, owned by Bud McDermont (a.k.a.) Taliesin (Tal) Llewellyn, the place of Gary Pearson’s (a.k.a. Devon Sephera) employment.
Cuiseses — armor for the thigh
DARPA — (from the homepage of www.darpa.mil/) “The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is the central research and development organization for the Department of Defense (DoD). It manages and directs selected basic and applied research and development projects for DoD, and pursues research and technology where risk and payoff are both very high and where success may provide dramatic advances for traditional military roles and missions.”
Dampfkesselexplosion — (German) steam-broiler explosion
Debulking — surgical term for reducing, but not completely excising a tumor
Desticate —to cry out like a rat
Deva — immortal cat of the fictional Roy Dean Doughty
Doughty, Roy Dean — fictional creator of A Monument of Wonders, not to be confused with Roy Dean Doughty, his creator.
Draffsack — paunch
Dunderwhelp — a contemptuous numbskull
ESI — “extremely sensitive information”: a specially established U.S. intelligence category, a step above “top secret”
Electuaries — medicines mixed with conserve, honey or syrup, also called eclegms, made sweet to be licked by the tongue
Eloquentia — (Occitane) that aspect of rhetoric which positions the body at the site of persuasion
Elumbrated — weak in the loins
Enantiodromia — a Jungian term for the reversal of an emotion: “You make me want to puke. I love you.”
Enschuldige — (German) “excuse me”
Exothalmic — bug-eyed
Fecaloid — dung-resembling
Feculent — foul
Feist — inaudible gas passage
Fico — “the fig”, a gesture of contempt made by making a fist with the thumb inserted between the index and middle fingers
Fin’amor — (Occitane) fine love, perfect love or the object thereof
Flauros — is referred to in the Wedieck and Baskin’s Dictionary of Spiritualism as the “Grand General and Duke of Hell. He appears in the shape of a terrible leopard. When he assumes a human shape, he has a frightful face and blood-red eyes. He knows the past, present and future, but unless commanded into the triangle he will deceive the exorcist. He incites demons or spirits against his enemies the exorcists, and he commands twenty legions. He converses gladly of divinity and the creation of the world, as also of the fall of spirits, his own included.”
Forcas — according to the Dictionary of Satanism (Wade Baskin), is the “Grand President and Knight of Hell, commander of twenty-nine legions. He knows the properties of herbs and precious stones. He teaches logic, esthetics, chiromancy, pyromancy and rhetoric. He can make a man invisible, inventive, and adept in the use of words. He can locate lost objects and find hidden treasure. He is depicted as an old man with white hair and a long white beard.”
Führer — (German) leader
Gardardor — (Occitane) guards
Gilos — (Occitane) jealousy
Gesungdungshaus —(German) house of health, the compound of Blasius and Brünehilde Erhardt near Sedona, Arizona
Glee glitter — shiny stuff, like gold, in late 1990’s early 2000’s urban youth parlance “bling bling”
Gnade — (German) grace
Grausam — (German) cruel
Graveolent — having an offensive, fetid odor
Hack — falconry term denoting the place where meat is set out for the raptor
Ima Jenkis — paramour, and later, the wife of Bigsby Upton, grandmother to Bernard Upton
Infibulate — to fit with a chastity belt, figuratively an attempt to control, restrict, tie-down
Ix Chel — a multivalent Mayan goddess with seven or nine aspects, one of which is associated with a visible, starless cleft in the Milky Way, the birth portal to and from the Other world, through which shamans and shaman-kings would make their spirit journeys with the aid of ritual and the psychedelic venom of the toad species, Bufo marines (5 MeODMT)
Jesses — Falconry equipment, little straps by which a leash is fastened to the legs of the bird
Jenkis — midwestern U.S. late 50’s early 60’s school girl slang for female genitals
Jenkis, Ima — a nurse at Lowesstoft Military Hospital, later, wife of cockney prophet, Bigsby Upton
Joi — (Occitane) joy, both a metaphysical and/or erotic elation born from the fullness of life and love
John Wayne — a Rottweiler, owned first by Lamar Schiller, later by the fictional Roy Dean Doughty. A good dog.
Jongleur — (Occitane) any kind of an entertainer — a juggler, an acrobat, but often used as a somewhat pejorative synonym for a poet or troubadour
Joven — (Occitane) youth or youthfulness
Kahn, Herman — 1922 – 1983, physicist, futurist, nuclear war strategist, RAND Corporation adjunct and founder of the Hudson Institute, a think-tanker who advocated a rational approach to nuclear war, his fictional post-mortem doppelganger appears in hell in A Monument of Wonders
Kaplan, Etty (Ester) — owner of the Sepher Yetzirah and herbarium in Old Town, Scottsdale, Arizona, circa 1988, the Wiccan paramour of Devon Sephera, fin amor of Prof. Lovernios Razos and ex-wife of Arizona State University halfback, Carol, a.k.a., Ramrod Roddick, a.k.a, “The Plunger.”
King’s Evil — scrofula, a.k.a. tuberculosis of the cervical lymph nodes
Keck — to attempt unsuccessfully to retch
Klazomaniac — a compulsive shouter
Konky — big-nosed
Language of the Birds — a magical language of codes or signs known only to initiates, sometimes also known as “the Green language”
Lantrify — to soak with urine
Largueza — (Occitane) largess, generosity of spirit or in reference to gifts bestowed by a patron
Lauzengiers — (Occitane) spies
Lebensraum — (German) living space
Lebenstrieb — (German) Life force
Lenitives — analgesics
Lovernios — Druid prince ritually sacrificed on the feast of Beltain to propitiate the accumulated evils of that Black Year A. D. 60, when climate change, crop failure, famine and the Roman invasion of Britain placed a violent period to Celtic rule. His body was discovered preserved in the peat at Lindow Moss in 1984, and forensic archeologists deduced the manner and reasons for his death and his name, which means “fox” or “son of fox”.
Macerate — fret
Make — in falconry, an experienced hunter, which sets an example for the younger birds
Manichean — a generic name for any one of several dualist heresies, such as Catharism
Monstrous Visual Symbols (MVSes) — term coined by the Australian Archeologist, Roland Fletcher, to denote the largest monuments that a civilization builds for itself — tombs, cathedrals, skyscrapers, dumps. See Rubbish: The Archeology of Garbage, Rathje and Murphy
Mezura — (Occitane) self-discipline or self-control
Micromania — the delusion that the body or a part of the body has shrunk or is shrinking
Naffin — a quasi-idiot
Nitre — the word for a substance or substances that, according the Oxford English Dictionary, has a nearly ubiquitous and often contradictory sets of meaning — saltpeter as an element formed in gunpowder, a cleansing agent, a medicinal, the dung and ordure of a compost heap, salt, a magical element in the air or in a person, which facilitates growth — to name a few
Nostoc — a name given to an otherwise unidentifiable substance that fell from the sky in 1686, seven miles from the German village of Memel. “The nostoc fell in a coal-black, leafy mass as large as table-tops and smelled of rotten seaweed.” (Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy I-379.
Oma —( German), col., “Granny”
Orbs — plasmoid entities, which fluoresce in the flashes of digital cameras, see The Orb Project, Ledwith and Heinemann, Atrea Books, 2007
Oneness Temple — temple in Southern India, which will serve as the spiritual power station to catapult the Earth into the Golden Age (http://www.enlightenment-online.com/Temple.html)
Lovernios Packwood — Sub-lieutenant of the Royal Flying Corps, and crewmate of G.G. Bernole. Shot down and killed while taking reconnaissance photos on 1 July 1916 over La Boisselle, the first day of General Douglas Haig’s disastrous Somme offensive.
Parbreak — to vomit
Phallorhiknosis — the shriveling of the penis with old age
Philodox — a person enamoured of his or her own opinions
Pineoblastoma — type of brain tumor, rare, but most prevalent in children or young adults, often inoperable
Preterite — those left behind, in the Biblical sense, not numbered as one of the Elect
Quiler — deceiver
Eusapia Quimby — a nurse at Lowestoft Military Hospital, East Anglia, England, later, a doctor and Chief of Staff at Our Lady of Perpetual Need, Leary, Texas
Razos — (Occitane) the argument for a troubadour poem, sometimes prefacing the verse proper
Lovernios Razos — Professor Emeritus of Medieval Studies at Arizona State University, circa 1988, pursuer of Etty Kaplan as his fin ‘amor, husband of Shirley Rozos, father of Amadée Razos
Shirley Razos — Wife of Lovernius Razos and mother of Amadée Razos, sister of Judge Sherman R. Helms
Recrudescence — technically the reappearance of a wound or sore, figuratively the reappearance of anything bad or unwanted
Rudsby — a pest, a brute, a crude, clownish or boorish person
Rufter’s hood — a wide hood used in falconry, which is open behind. To “unstrike” the hood, the handler draws the strings so that the hood may be expeditiously removed
SIOP — Single Integrated Operational Plan: the U.S. plan for nuclear war
Saprostomic — from the Greek (sapro-putrid + stoma – mouth) very bad breath
Schiller, Lamar — Houston neighbor of the fictional Roy Dean Doughty, son of Margarethe Schiller, a known Republican
Schiller, Margarethe (née Erhardt) — an apostate, mother of Lamar Schiller, daughter of Brünhilde and Blasius Erhardt, Golden Keys Condo Association President, neighbor to Devon Sephera (a.k.a. Gary Pearson) and Lovernius and Shirly Razos
Schreibtisch — (German) desk, literally “writing table”
Scrag — lean or bony person
Senhals — (Occitane) pseudonyms or the recourse to pseudonyms
Sefer Yetzirah — an Herbal shop in Scottsdale, Arizona, circa 1988, also a Kabbalistic text, a.k.a., “The Book of Creation”
Serpigo — leprosy
Sialoquent — the tendency to spit when speaking
Sophomaniac — one suffering from the delusion that he or she is wise
Sore-hawks — hawks in their first year, inexperienced
Stomachous — resentful, angry
Svengali — “one who attempts, usually with evil intentions, to persuade or force another to do his bidding.” (Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary). Originally a hypnotist in George Du Maurier’s novel Trilby (1894)
Totestrieb — (German) death drive
Transfer tubes — propaganda euphemism used by the U.S. military during the second Iraqi war for soldiers’ coffins
Treachers — traitors
Trikotylos — (Greek) a very cheap, rot-gut wine
Upton, Bigsby — a cockney prophet
Valor — (Occitane) personal merit, worth, value, honor
Vershiedene — (German) different
Wamble — the heaving and rolling of an upset stomach
Wirkungsvoll — (German) efficient, effective
Wilton — English village on Salisbury Plain near Stonehenge