MARESE Mythology
Songs and Sagas of
MYTHIC ANTHOLOGY
The Marese sang before they wrote. They wrote before they were scattered. They were scattered only after SEEDing the womb their heirs would one day romanticize, calling their legends The Terra-Martian scriptures of Cosmic Antiquity.
Their myths are drawn from oral traditions of unknown origin. Lost to time and grief. These songs and sagas have long outlived the authors who preserved them. Some sources agree, others do not.
The Marese wrote all and never dared call either untrue.
The Oath of Akkad and the Judgment of Theseus
What becomes of a sacred oath when a king’s own children hunger?
Beneath the alien sun of a Super-Earth, Akkad’s gravity-plagued kingdom withers—the vessels bearing its dwindling, life-saving serum come no more, and his brothers vanish beneath the forest in search of forbidden alchemy.
As the royal bloodline falters, who shall be forsaken—and what shall the gods demand of his choosing?
VOL 1
A Saga from the Galactic neolithic
The Song of Koine-El and the Odysian Crossings
Whither shall the children of Earth flee when the heavens themselves turn to poison?
Koine-El gathers seventy souls aboard an ancient vessel and sets his course toward the fragile red world, where mankind may yet draw breath.
But what shall deliverance ask of a man who remembers those left beneath the ashes?
VOL 2
A distant song from The Long Vigil
VOL 3
Whose voices call from the heavens to a near-immortal Terran tribal leader?
Through the long winters of a post-apocalyptic Earth, a Messiah has guarded generations of mortal kin; now, as his ancient mind begins to falter and his body starts to fail, he leads his people west, toward the last sanctuary of the Titans.
There, beyond the shifting sands, what awaits beneath its cloud-veiled spire—and can they trust a prophecy borne by a memory beginning to fail?
Another legend from The Long Vigil
The Prophecy of The Metal Chiefton and The Titans of Spired Island
The Caging of the Trappist Beast – A Deep-Space Folklore from Trappist One
How do seven planets come to define a civilization, and can human ambition ever truly be killed—or only ever caged?
In an age of effort, the hero Kaelan The Brave steps into the heart of a raging white star—and forces the heavens into obedience, birthing the seven Terra-Martian virtues.
But what of the seven worlds, and how will they be remembered?
VOL 4
A foundational myth from the middle eras
VOL 5
What does a mortal man do with the power to kill Gods?
Upon the tidally locked planet Anularis, six immortal powers contend for the narrow twilight between everlasting flame and frozen eternity—into which Aeneas and the allied human tribes descend seeking a homeland.
When the mortal woman Freyja refuses the Lord of Flame, what strength can preserve their fragile ships from the wrath of both horizons?
A legendary Epic from The Middle Eras
The Epic of Aeneas and The Anulari Wars of Fire and Ice
The Judgment of Tharos and the Treasonous Tales
Who shall weigh the law when treason wears a brother’s face?
As war gathers over Mars, a guardian bargains with outcasts for the passage of children beyond the burning worlds—and his own brother, Tharos, is summoned to judge him.
When blood and law bear witness against one another, where shall a just man set the scales?
A brother accused. A compromise offered. A city that forgave neither.
VOL 6
A cautionary tale from the Decaying Late Age
VOL 7
Whither do the Gods turn when their own world draws its final breath?
What price must mortals pay to keep their dying civilization’s continuity?
Gælam of Priam leads the final scattered remnant of a dying Mars to a Keplerian world that has already turned away every tribal refugee before him—and is summoned before the gods themselves, given one impossible choice: to found a new world for his people, or let every memory of the Marese die with him.
But what have the seven Gods of the sacred Martian Mons left unspoken?
A Heroic Legend of The Late Age
The Decree of Gælam and the Forging of New Ares
THE KAELAN SYNTHESIS
The upcoming far-future science-fiction archaeological mystery novella by A.R. Lopez with original artwork by Brazilian Illustrator Carvalho and Italian Illustrator Schiavo. Follow Doctor Wilusa Ludwig Hisarlik, from The Priam of Gælam Institute on Planet Défteri-Orbis, as she pursues her passions for the ancient Marese culture and confronts her demons along the way. Discover how she romanticized the legacy of her ancestors by reading what she read: Songs and Sagas of Marese Mythology.
SOON
2027
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