#jackalopes — Public Fediverse posts

Beantoss Mandala Time Ends Today

The last day of Beantoss Mandala Time is not a Jackalopian holiday and I have written no new material. Yesterday, or today, or tomorrow may be the holiday for the Passeggiata of Kalkatura Pumkta, which you can read about at the link provided. Or (also) you may enjoy reading about the holiday called Rakjangrimko, aka Ingrimko Unwa Walks Out, which was celebrated last week, or on July 13 for some people. One day in the future, the two holidays may become a five-day festival. I have been told […]

https://vraic.wordpress.com/2026/07/29/beantoss-mandala-time-ends-today/

Two Dilemmas

Included in today's Geranium Lake Properties comic are two dilemmas from The Forty-Nine Dilemmas of Elmer Olpuk, a book written by onetime-Buddhist-monk-now-a-barista Yixilmaq Alkupera. Alkupera borrowed the name of Elmer Olpuk from the Inultaru legend of a hero who is given twelve impossible tasks by an odious man named Uhratambo Drubjoy, who is a corrupt viceroy of the Hahnoqqiplu.1 Elmer Olpuk fails to achieve even one of his tasks. He attempts each of his Twelve Labors with meticulous […]

https://vraic.wordpress.com/2026/07/27/two-dilemmas/

Hecate

This evening, after sundown, arrives the dark moon, the time for Hecate's Deipnon in the continental west of the Americas. Coincidentally, over at Bluesky, it is that time of year for making sigils for the community's summer solstice project. Yost and I were taught to spell her name with a "c", not a "k". I have considered bringing myself into alignment with the new scholarly consensus of "Hekate", but that spelling does not land with any oomph in my heart and mind (and possibly not in my soul either). Jackalopes of the Skeondil House are likely to spell her name as "Heca-tei".1 She sometimes wears the mask of the demalion Iffarresh-wut-Kyyatsee - or does Iffareesha wear the mask of Hecate? That is always the question. […]

https://vraic.wordpress.com/2026/06/14/hecate/