There is talk of a black sun, it features in paintings and in architecture from a time gone by, comes up as ideas and theories and find its way into our modern time. Also having been attributed to the Nazi’s in more recent times, a sun wheel symbol with a design consists of twelve radial sig runes, 12 sections and a black centre. Almost looking like a slightly older version of the modern UN logo with its sections and decoration giving it a more Romanesque feel.

Sound Garden – that song from the 90’s ‘Black Hole Sun’, showing strange lizard-like humans, with faces distorting and revealing their hidden nature, along with the arrival of the black sun. The music video to it made quite the impact on me in my youth, some things you see are weird, and you know they are weird, but something makes you file it for later. And as it turns out, ‘later’ has arrived much more than I thought it would for many thoughts and ideas I have had over the years.

Demon faces – there exists a condition apparently, which causes people to see faces as distorted with what has been described as demon like features. It’s called Prosopometamorphopsia (PMO), and seems a rather weird thing for some brains to do. They say often caused by a stroke, a seizure or a migraine. But does everyone think to tell someone else if they started seeing ‘demons’? This is where the above music video will get a mention again, because when the faces distorted, it was more of an elongation of features, which could just be the visual effect they were trying out at the time. Eyes larger than you would expect, a sinister grin bigger than the face, and strange automated and repeated actions, showing they are here but aren’t like us. A bit Stepford kind of thing. But when I saw the imagery they are putting forward for this PMO condition, I thought of that song and those faces. Because wouldn’t be an awfully easy way to discredit if people did have the ability to see demons or shapeshifters, making them out to be crazy, or that they have a brain injury or something. Even possibly making the people themselves think they are crazy.

Rupes Nigra / Black Rock – this also comes up now and again, having been charted on old maps as a real place, a mountain it is said. Placed where the North Pole is, shown as having land and the central point on old maps, but it looks like just ocean today, but with a round shape showing as it would if you took something flat and wrapped it around a globe. But it also near to where I found old maps to show the vortex mentioned in Maps and Islands.

Much has been changed, rewritten, buried, relocated, and just plain destroyed or lost to time. But much of what was, often comes to pass again, and much of what is will become new folklore and myth and fade away until its time comes again. It seems as though we are entering a different time, where things of old might be coming back, and how we thought it was turns out to be something quite different…

(c) K Wicks