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horrid hypersigil

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23:14 / 30.01.02

That's funny, when I read the "Hypersgygil" term in Morrison's site, I thought about sygils that empower other sygils, you know, lke the "I will get what I want" he explains in one of his interwiews in disinfo.

On the other hand, I had suspected that Morrison (and other authors) were casting spells/runes through their works. Could be Hypersygils.

Another one that seems to do that is Ellis. If you study his comic books, there's allways a character in which he seems to identify himself. Spider, Pete Wisdom, Jenny Sparks, Elijah Snow. And when he leaves a comic, he tries to kill that character. I had thought this was a literary/psychological respource. But his sickness conincided with his problems with Planetary...

MMhhhmmm....

13:36 / 31.01.02

Warren Ellis - crazy, suicidal comic-book writer bent on his own self-destruction, or just a guy who smokes a lot? You be the judge...

It's strange, because my understanding of the hypersigil concept was never this simple. I always assumed that a hypersigil would be a single work made up of lots of small installments (chapters, verses/poems, TV show episodes, comics) bound together as one fictional entity, which sort of bring together a whole host of symbolic correspondences, fictional servitors/godforms, and so forth, to actually effect change in the world. Thus, not only The Invisibles, but the Kabbalah and Spare's Alphabet of Desire could be considered hypersigils, of sorts...

The idea that it could just mean writing a story that then comes true never occurred to me.I swear, there are times when I just outsmart myself...

Having said that I'm definitely gonna try this.

On a different topic, not trying to threadrot this into an epic Santeria Jurisdiction Battle, but isn't Obatala the orisha responsible for writers &c? Saul Williams seems to think so, if I remember the cell scene in Slam correctly...

Less searchable M0rd4nt

17:18 / 31.01.02

I had acupuncture the other day, and whne I got home my little wax doll was dead.

Never actually got round to putting this hypersigil business into practice because I didn't find a deity I was happy with. However, it must, and shall, be done...

Less searchable M0rd4nt

17:24 / 31.01.02

quote:Originally posted by Mordant C@rnival:
I didn't find a deity I was happy with.

...and five minutes after posting the above, I find this!

Here's the full story on the bunny.

[ 31-01-2002: Message edited by: Mordant C@rnival ]

17:40 / 31.01.02

Good for anything mass media related I'd say, what with all that proverbial breeding potential....

04:41 / 01.02.02

Great find, Mordant! I'm a'gonna check out this Bunny Scribe....

12:41 / 01.02.02

Ah...'Searchin' for the one they call Evil rabbit...'

Mordant, that's the best location line I've ever seen here.

17:12 / 01.02.02

quote:Originally posted by velvetvandal:
On a different topic, not trying to threadrot this into an epic Santeria Jurisdiction Battle, but isn't Obatala the orisha responsible for writers &c? Saul Williams seems to think so, if I remember the cell scene in Slam correctly...

I think Obatala is more of a Metatron figure, possessor of the Word. Eleggua's a translator/messenger. Eleggua does word tricks, Obatala fashions things under instructions from Olofi or the Great Creator Supreme.

Interestingly, this linked page ties Eleggua with Hanuman. Odd. Later, they compare him (via Hermes) to Anubis, not Thoth. (He's over here, with Inle.)

They also compare Krishna with Obatala.
Check it.

I'm not sure I'd call that site authoritative, but still, the difference is there.

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