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|  | | Another Way of Being
A (shockingly) truthful autobiography with elements of fantasy, philosophy, and historical fiction.
This is a story about a boy called Sion and you probably won’t like him very much.
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Sion had a head-start in life. His Mother was beautiful and gifted and musical. And he had a magical Grandfather, who lived in a lonely house in Ireland and who hadn’t grown any older for the last fifty years. His Grandfather did wonderful things with Sion and he told him wonderful tales. He always knew what Sion was thinking and feeling, and he always found the right thing to say to him and the right way to help him. And he went on writing letters to Sion long after he had | |  | | Messenger of the Sun
The continuing autobiography of Sion Liscannor
The continuing autobiography of Sion Liscannor.
Sion's life as a dancer comes to a crisis. He encounters Anthroposophy and finds a new scope for dance in 'Eurythmy'.
The book also explores these themes:
The shaping influence of Zoroastrianism on the development of Judaism and Christianity.
The role of the conquests of Alexander in producing a fusion of the cultures of Ancient Greece and Ancient India.
The Babylonian myth of Tammuz and the Greek myth of Adonis.
Reincarnation and the influence of angels in the development of the huma | |  | | Sion Alone
‘I have to go back soon,’ says Adam one afternoon. Yes, I know he has to go back soon. He has to go back to London and to his job and his apprenticeship. He has taken the maximum number of days leave – he has taken his entire Summer holiday in the Spring. It is hard, where we are now, to keep a track of time. But I have marked one day in the calendar: the end of April is Adam’s birthday. He will be seventeen.
‘You are a Taurus,’ I read aloud. ‘Your planetary sign is Venus, your star-stone is Emerald, and your Significant Colour is pink.’
‘And what does that make me?’
‘Your planetary sign is Venus – which means you are extremely lustful and sexy. Your Colour is pink, which means you are queer.’
‘We know all that. Tell me about my star-stone.’
‘Your star-stone is Emerald – which means you belong here, with me, in Ireland, which is the “Emerald Isle”. Which means you should forget about going home. In fact, you couldn’t leave even if you wanted to, because these woods are enchanted – no-one who enters the woods of Liscannor ever comes out again.’
Sion Alone continues from the point where the first volume of Another Way of Being ended and follows Sion’s life and relationships over the following two years; so he is about eighteen at the start of the book and close to 20 at the end.
The novel begins with Sion and Adam in Liscannor, where Sion is researching into the past of his late Grandfather. Sion subsequently returns to his Cambridge College to make a new start with his undergraduate studies. He gets involved with the Gay Liberation movement in Cambridge, and he has affairs with two boys, Maurice and Trigg, both of whom are somewhat younger than he.
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In the Spring vacation Sion travels through Greece with Trigg, visiting some of the locations in his Grandfather's account of the journeys of Hadrian and Antinous. in Athens he me | |  | | The Serpents and the Persian Boy
The Serpents and the Persian Boy is Volume 3 of Sion Liscannor's autobiography (Volume 1 comprised Books 1 & 2 - Corax and Nymphus, and was published under the title Another Way of Being. Volume 2 comprises the third book, Miles, and was published under the title Sion Alone). Further books are in preparation.
The Serpents and the Persian Boy continues the story of Sion's life from the end of Sion Alone. Sion is 19 at the start of the book and close to 20 at the end. It records Sion's efforts to contact his priestly father, and his friendship with the Czech art collector and Bronze Age scholar, Harry von Raab.
p class="MsoNormal">Themes with which the book is concerned are: the history of Minoan culture, the theory of Minoan matriarchy, and the origins of Greek pederasty. It offers a critical perspective on Feminism and the Gay Liberation movement, and a new reading of the Myth |
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