Wooden humanoid figures
Wooden humanoid figures that have been grouped together for reasons impossible for us to comprehend. The Pre-Derangement Gettys site was thought to be a religious complex of art temples, but we do not really know. The priests might have hidden their idols in an underground vault during the increasing uncertainties of the mid 00021st century prior to the inundation floods. However, it seems unlikely given that they would be more at risk from rising sea gods? Maybe it was a sacrifice to appease them, not sure, but it is unprofessional not to make things up within the confines of the probable in order to fill the gaps of what is now missing.
Ancestor figures from pre-inundation pagan cult site
A cache of warped humanoid figures preserved in a waterlogged pit of a Gettys cult site (0005230 CE). Their careful placement, typical of ritual burial practices, suggests the relics were effigies ancestors or false deities. The Gettys was a globally distributed idolatrous cult in authoritarian city states of the pre-Deluge era. It gathered exotic pagan iconography as an expression of kingship in fortified palace/temple complexes disciplined by a brutal set of unified ritual practices. The world corrupted by polytheism, was drowned beneath its own false gods. These remnants of past depravity ensure our resolve in the ongoing struggle to rebuild order in the diminished realities of the post inundation world, guided by the burning light of our Neopuritan scriptures that hold back the gathering darkness.
Ancestor figures from pre-inundation pagan cult site
The story did not end in the dead of the apocalypse, but in the descendants of the survivors who managed to scrape through. People did not live well, but lived in the gaps between catastrophes. The past was held in contempt by generations that followed. Their gods became our demons, their victories condmened as crimes, their pride a source shame. The desolation of those times could not be overlooked or forgiven, survival was the only remaining dream left to survivors
Guardian figures from pre-inundation foundation sanctuary
Anthropomorphic guardian figures were powerful symbols that enforced hierarchical ideological and administrative structures in primitive human communities, eventually paving the way for civic centres, authoritarian governance, and state formation in the Western Americas. They have eerie demonic features inspired by alien cosmologies, imposed on local custom by narrow elites. Spread through arcane threatening secretive rituals, in which conspiratorial stories continued to be misspoken, and were only ever partially remembered maintaining a deliberate ambiguity. They were originally adorned with clothing and wigs to represent the ancestors of those in the community, priest kings, goddess queens, or variations on this theme.
Ancestor figures from pre-inundation pagan cult site
The cache dates from the Holocene/Anthropocene boundary (H>A>CNP) 0001950–0002500 CE. The end of the H>A>CNP in the southern Mexamerica was a calamitous environmental disaster that began while the region was enjoying its greatest florescence. Extensive overgrazing and deforestation turned the land into a desert steppe, forcing inhabitants of move their goat herds farther and farther away, leading to the eventual abandonment of the site. This forced a general disillusionment with the religious cult whose votive spells no longer provided protection from the evil of more powerful curses.
Paleo-Starfish effigies of prey used in archaic hunting rituals
Sentient Starfish in the Novocene: The sinuous shapes of these organisms depict benthic limpets, a well-known delicacy among starfish with an educated palette. Our primitive ancestors gathered these effigies for ritual purposes to ensure a successful hunt. As part of a singular planetary consciousness, we are now able to negotiate with limpets and others that bear the consequences of our actions, to agree when we are prey and when we are hunters.
An AI generated image of what these figures might have looked like before the inundation of Los Angeles
The Pre-Derangement Gettys site was thought to be a religious complex of art temples, housing the cultural symbols of others. This curated display of status was a conceited act of superiority, in which vainglorious pride was satiated by possessing other people’s treasures
Informed by McEwan, Ian., 2025. What We Can Know; Alfred A. Knopf New York. Lovelock, James., Appleyard, Bryan., 2019. Novacene, the coming age of Hyperintelligence. Allen Lane; UK