Phomos
The Deep One · Crashes Upon the Shores
In no hurry. Never has been.
Phomos is the god of oceans and seas in the Church of Meh. Phomos is named for a fungus that lives in deep-sea sediment, which tells you most of what you need to know. Phomos is slow, deep, and far more interested in what things become than in what they currently are.
There were Phomos and Clados, who became the god of the oceans, and the goddess of lakes, and rivers. Their moods are tidal. Their patience is geological. They have never once been in a hurry, and they find the urgency of land-dwelling things faintly amusing.
The Book of Spores
Family, friends & grudges
Same waterCladosSimply always in the same water. Two aspects of one vast system.
Deep kinshipMyceliusBoth slow, both deep. Two entities doing similar work in different places for a very long time, and recognizing it.
Ancient parallelProtaxielOcean floor and deep rock, aware of each other the way continents are aware of the sea around them.
TidalLunethLuneth moves the tides that Phomos lives in.
Storm-makersSoliphon & BalidrisSoliphon lifts the ocean into the sky, Balidris carries it, and together the three of them make storms.Crown-tipped coral
Artomyces pyxidatus
A branching fungus that looks like it wandered up from a reef and stayed on a rotting log.
Never eat a wild mushroom without expert identification.
The story keeps growing
- What really happened between Protaxiel, Clados and Phomos. Teamwork, a love triangle, or a betrayal. Possibly all three.
Where Phomos is said to linger
- Morro RockMorro Bay, California, USA
An ancient volcanic plug standing in the sea.
- Es VedràIbiza, Spain
A limestone island rising straight out of the Mediterranean.
- Los Arcos Marine ParkPuerto Vallarta, Mexico
Let it wash over you. Then let it go back out.
