21 February 2001...April 2001
(24 pgs.)
TITLE:
The Fields We Know is an allusion to a short story
collection by Lord Dunsany
entitled Beyond the
Fields We Know
SYNOPSIS
Summer 2000: Sophie is determined to go off in search of
Barbara. She sets up Stacia to take over the role of Promethea in her absence as
she expect to be gone for quite a while. Transforming into Promethea she
explains to Stacia a bit about the Kabbalah and manages to convince the other 4
previous Prometheas to let Stacia take over the role while she's gone. Stacia
will be merging with Grace Brannagh as the substitute Promethea. Promethea(6)
talks to the Universe and an allegorical figure from the 16th century before
stepping onto a boat steered by an old man who turns out to be Charon and tells
her she's dead.
QUOTES
"You say, 'Meet me in the park. I've got something to tell
you. I'm thinking she's going to admit she's gay" - Stacia, pg. 1
"It’s all a
tapestry of our perceptions. Matter’s just a state of mind.” – Sophie
“Oh
please. I mean, spare me the Jedi philosophy, okay?” – Stacia, pg. 2
"When I
said I was going away, Stace...I meant from earth" - Sophie, pg 3
“There’s
the planets, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, whatever. Big physical balls of gas and
rock, hanging in space. Then there’s what those planets mean…”- Sophie
“What,
like cheap real estate?” – Stacia, pg 4
“Magic…it’s an attempt to map
existence, both physical and non-physical”- Sophie, pg 4
“Stacia Vanderveer,
you are a rude, conceited, selfish $&&-hole, but you are my best friend”
– Sophie, pg 5
“…this is still earth…it’s just that this is the upstairs
part” – Promethea(6), pg 6
“…even the earthly material plane has graded
levels. They range from the dense blackness of the underworld up to this
highest, most ethereal and symbolic level of awareness” – Promethea(6), pg.
8
"Hey, what happened to those bratty tourist kids I saw earlier?" -
Stacia
"They're still there. You're just seeing them now as whey they
symbolize. It's the four princesses of the tarot pack. They're attributed to
this earthly sphere. It's like each of the four elements in their earthly
manifestation" - Promethea(6), pgs 8-9
“It’s as complicated as one needs it
to be. It’s got big general measurements, and fine gradations, like any system.
If you like, it can be as simple as a child’s game” – Promethea(6), pg
9
“What’s this? Hopscotch for the color blind?”- Stacia, pg 8
“…this is
like a map, or maybe a circuit board. It’s the structure of things, whether
that’s the universe or each individual human soul” – Promethea(6), pg 8
“It’s
also the road atlas for heaven” – Promethea, pg 9
"What's going on?" -
Promethea (3)
"Me Grace. I'm going on…after Barbara - Promethea (6), pg
12
"Honey, the higher you climb the tree the bigger the chance you don't come
back" - Promethea(?), pg 14
"…humanity desperately needs a Promethea right
not, to lead them up from the dark of matter into the blaze of spirit" –
Promethea(6), pg 15
“Darling, are you trying to upset us? As if just any
little schoolgirl could be Promethea…” – Promethea(?)
“Hey, like I’m
desperate to be on some cosmic chorus line with Xena’s mom here!” – Stacia, pg
15
“Imagine it, Grace. Being able to adventure in the physical world again!
And you, Stacia. Imagine being a famous science-heroine.” – Promethea(6)
“Are
you insane? Me, as some sort of celebrity icon? That’d be…actually, thinking
about it, that’d be sort of cool” – Stacia, pg 15
"Margaret, Darling, You're
at least a hundred and twenty-five, whereas, I'm still on my first century" -
Promethea(?), pg 16
“Our dance is in your eyes…and all the ssstarsss are
inssside your mind” – Universe (snake), pg 20
“Didn’t I just pass you, down
the road?” – Promethea(6)
“Hum? Oh, no. that must have been somebody else. We
symbolic old men tend to look very much alike” – Charon, pg 23
“As for
introductions…I’m Charon…and you’re dead” – Charon, pgs 23-24
NOTES & ANNOTATIONS:
Kabbalah
Malkuth
Reality Creator Workbook
Series
Page 1 Panel 1: The dog turd which is referred to in Panel 3 can be
seen here.
Panel 4:
The dead British guy being referred to is Luke
Howard (1773-1864). Here are three different web pages about him.
How are clouds named
and who named them
The Man who
named the Clouds
The Godfather of the
Clouds
Cumulo-lingus combines Cumulonimbus (which is a type of cloud)
and cunnilingus (which is a type of sex).
And Goethe used to write him
letters
Here's a poem about Howard by Goethe in the original German sent
to me by TL:
Goethe's poem on Howard is called "Atmosphäre/ Howard's
Ehrengedächtnis" (in honour of Mr. Howard). He wrote it between 1817 and 1821,
it was published first in 1822.
Goethe inserted the poem in the section "God
and world" of his collected poems (1827). Here's the beginning of the original
text:
Howards Ehrengedächtnis
Wenn Gottheit Camarupa, hoch und
hehr,
Durch Lüfte schwankend wandelt leicht und schwer,
Des Schleiers
Falten sammelt, sie zerstreut,
Am Wechsel der Gestalten sich
erfreut,
Jetzt starr sich hält, dann schwindet wie ein Traum,
Da staunen
wir und traun dem Auge kaum;
Nun regt sich kühn des eignen Bildens
Kraft,
Die Unbestimmtes zu Bestimmtem schafft;
Da droht ein Leu, dort wogt
ein Elefant,
Kameles Hals, zum Drachen umgewandt,
Ein Heer zieht an, doch
triumphiert es nicht,
Da es die Macht am steilen Felsen bricht;
Der
treuste Wolkenbote selbst zerstiebt,
Eh er die Fern erreicht, wohin man
liebt.
Er aber, Howard, gibt mit reinem Sinn
Uns neuer Lehre
herrlichsten Gewinn.
Was sich nicht halten, nicht erreichen läßt,
Er faßt
es an, er hält zuerst es fest;
Bestimmt das Unbestimmte, schränkt es
ein,
Benennt es treffend! - Sei die Ehre dein! -
Wie Streife steigt, sich
ballt, zerflattert, fällt,
Erinnre dankbar deiner sich die Welt.
[Goethe:
Gedichte (Ausgabe letzter Hand. 1827), S. 746. Digitale Bibliothek Band 1:
Deutsche Literatur, S. 19998 (vgl. Goethe-BA Bd. 1, S. 551-552)]
Pages 2-3 top panel:
Note the 3 black men in the foreground are
smoking a joint. The hovercraft like scooter descending, someone flying a kite,
etc.
Pages 4-5: Nice plant splitting up the two pages. The circles or
spheres on it are colored to represent the Kabbalah sephiroth.
Page 4
Panel 2: the man with his girlfriend feeding him some sort of sausage will
reappear in a more memorable guise on pg. 7 and we will see them again much
later in Issue
#23.
Panel 3: the four girls will also reappear in a more
recognizable guise on pg. 7.
Panel 5: the image of the cat jumping to
catch a bird is very similar to one in Miracleman Book Two page 107 except that
in Miracleman the cat actually manages to catch the bird.
Page 6 bottom
panel:
The woman feeding the birds has taken on the body of the cat who
was trying to catch them and become a sphinx.
Page 7 right hand panel:
I'm not sure who the four armed girl looking down on the scene from above is.
Probably some Hindu deity though I'm not sure which one. The four girls have
been transformed into Indian women each holding one of the four trumps of the
tarot deck: Pentacles, Wands, Swords and Cups. The man is now being fed an apple
by the woman and being naked the couple seem to represent Adam and Eve.
Not
sure who the Egyptian statue(?) looking at the fire in the vase is supposed to
represent.
Claire Jordan thinks that
it's an actual live (astral)
Egyptian man. And he's not looking at the fire in the vase or urn or whatever it
is - if you look at its base you'll see the vase/urn is right in the foreground
of the picture, whereas the Egyptian is a long way behind it
Pages
8-9 bottom panel:
Nice representation of the kabbalah drawn on the ground.
The color of the
sephiroths are:
Page 10 Panel 1:
Planetary symbol for
earth
The four colors are:
Pages 16-17: Note the 5 different sun logos splitting up the panels. Each one represents a different Promethea.
Page 16 Panel 1: Little Margie is referring to events that occured in
the story Little
Margie in Mystic Magic Land which is not part of Alan Moore's scripted
Promethea cannon.
Page 17 panel 2: Does anyone know if the lines
Stacia quotes are from Conan the
Barbarian (1982) or Conan the
Destroyer (1984)? From the way she pronounces them they must be spoken by Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Perhaps she just made them up.
Pages 18-19: Nice huge two page spread.
The figures I can make out are:
The Universe represented by the Woman &
snake
Man pouring water(Aquarius?)…flying saucers…winged smiley faced birds
turning into scissors…lion…folded paper…fairies…boot with spider legs…living
bricks...possible anticipation of Daath and several planets and the crescent
moon. Also the orange/lemon looking like the sun on the horizon.
Page 20
Panel 1: Note the dice insects at Promethea's feet.
Page 21 Panel
2: "We love you of course we do" from the Rolling Stones song We Love You.
In
February 1967, Mick and Keith are arrested when Keith's Redlands home is raided
by the police. Thus starts the run of high-profile court appearances that divide
the nation's generations and are widely believed to be part of some greater
conspiracy to silence the unbelievably powerful Stones. But despite all the
charges hurled against Jagger, Richards and Jones, no Stone went to jail for any
extended period.
In August, the hastily assembled "We Love You" single is
released to thank the public for their support during the Jagger/Richards
trials.
from this
page
Page 22: panel 2 "I'm just an allegorical figure from a
sixteenth century engraving".
Probably this one
