Just saw your piece on F.G. Junger's The Failure of Technology (excellent by the way) and thought you would enjoy this audio essay from him called The Titans. It was put out by the same guy who published The Failure of Technology. He is also working on a translation of Ernst Junger's An der Zeitmauer (At the Time Wall) which further touches on some of his brother Georg's work.

The Titans: 

Apparently the last thing Georg published before he passed was a translation of Homer's Odyssey.

-Montius

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Assigned Viewing: Plasma Portals?

-Charles

In Hesiod and Aeschylus the idea of the titans is closely tied to technology. Only one of the Olympian gods, Hephaestius, is involved in technology. In the Shield of Achilles, by Homer, he uses automated tripods that sound like 3D printers and silver-tongued automatons. There is also Gilgamesh who is a descendant of gods [angels] and man, much like Herakles, Theseus, Achilles, Aeneas, Theogenes, Glaukus… This generation of heroes seems couched in a fallen state. There is nothing incongruent with the heroes born of heaven, fated to perish mortally on earth, whose foot steps among men herald the Age of Bronze and Age of Iron, both worlds of war and sorrow, with the casting of Adam and Eve out of the Garden whence they had filched knowledge of good and evil.

The blood of gods and titans was ikhor, a caustic substance. One of the titans was described as having a great vein of ikhor, released by a plug in his foot that drained him of this life force, sounding very much like fuel or hydraulic fluid. Prometheus was found guilty of giving man fire, which was key to all the civilized arts, which again, sounds like petroleum. Even the cheap clothes I wear, the keys on this writing machine, are made of petrol. He was chained at God’s command by the god of technology, with the aid of two mighty angels, Strength and Force, to the Caucasus Mountains. This was a known ancient source of petrol, possibly the source of the main ingredient used by the later Greek-speaking Roman emperors of Constantinople, in the making of their “Greek Fire,” a super weapon that saved that city from numerous Islamic and barbarous fleets. Prometheus had been instrumental in permitting the gods to dethrone and imprison all-eating Time. Chained to his rock, with an eagle assigned to daily dine on his liver and release his ikhor, that titan, named Forethought, swears to abide his suffering for an age of 10,000 years, and then to return and challenge God again.

Has mankind been here before?

Plato speaks of Atlantis, having learned of it from Egyptian sources, which Herodotus claimed held the deepest lore of antiquity, as a civilization dominant to the point of hubris falling. The Bible has the tale of Babble, with man trying to reach heaven by technological means. Ovid declares that twice, God annihilated mankind, once by fire and once by flood, to purify the earth of their wicked taint. Might these tales of overreaching humanity and the fall of civilizations also be allegorical records of linked to titanry? Could the titans, the giants, have been humans, perhaps augmented through DNA manipulation, to the point where organic humanity became their social food, their disposable lessers? Could heaven-sent, or merely periodic, cataclysms have wiped one or more such civilizations out?

Native American lore of various tribes speaks of giants. There were sites named by numerous writers of the 1700s, such as Gottlieb Mitterberger and William Morely, where giant bones were held. Even if these are of extinct mega-fauna as skeptics contend, the remains are still the record of a disaster. This is redundantly proved in Velikovsky’s Earth in Upheaval.

Prometheus was the angelic prophet, his brother Atlas cursed at the gates of the Atlantic, where it is said Atlantis, an island kingdom, once reigned. If we take the calamity that Plato numbers at 10,000 years before his time, the geological record offers the Younger Dryas Event from 12,900 to 11,600 BP. Taking 12,000 years ago as the median, as the time when Prometheus was chained, we have arrived at about the year A.D. 1, chosen by the old church as the birth of Christ. That time is also the approximate date of the creation of the Roman Empire. Imperial Rome, founded by Octavian Augustus from 27 B.C. to A.D. 14 is the actual model for the modern world, a universalist system based on human consumption. Rome and Christianity would reign as one from about A.D. 300 to the late 1700s, when various republics, especially USG, would resurrect Roman social structure as a god in the making. The State has, since 1783, been progressively deified.

Beginning, in 2020, the subject of progressive deification has switched to technology, with the state retained as a kind of priesthood and police force.

From the ancient Arуan perspective expressed by Homer, Hesiod, and Ovid [writing in the time of Augustus] we are almost exactly 2,000 years into an age into which Forethought has returned to unleash the powers of all-eating Time. Towards the end of this cycle, we have lost hundreds of languages and cultures and most of our collective knowledge of the past. [1] The natural world has fared no better. The empty echoes of the shadow-haunted Hall of Norns beckon.

This hunter into the haunted past, now dedicated his remaining ability to the brief life of Alexander, a youth who seemed strangely possessed of a knowledge that humanity occupies a lifeboat of sorts adrift on monstrous seas.

Postscript Concerning Undertaken

In Regards to the Tattered State of Our Ancient Lore

James,

I am slightly overdue in following up on this exchange. I read the related articles on your website, and I appreciate the depths you’ve gone to explore this topic.

The first article alone has a lot for me to chew on. The contrast of Jеwish sexual dynamics and the ancient Arуans. Christian sterility. Academics as shitty writers, unable to touch the spirit of fighting men. Gene Wolfe as infantryman and writer. And so on. It’s sobering to grasp even a fragment of how domesticated we are. It brings with it a sting of embarrassment but a renewed vigor in charting out my own masculinity and my aims to influence the guys in my circle.

This is tangential, but just so you know…you are not writing into the void. I downloaded “Negro PTSD” (thanks for the free book). And your classification of Gene Wolfe as a taboo man has influenced me to read The Book of the New Sun, of which I’m about 150 pages in. It’s very good so far, thanks for the endorsement. I am not necessarily trying to foster an epistolary friendship with all of its obligations to read and respond…however if I find something worthwhile to discuss, I’ll send it your way or pick your brain if that’s all right.

From one paleface to another…happy new year white man

-Ryan

Thank you, Ryan. In terms of ancient inquiry, I am simply an avid reader of some 5,000 books and a writer of some 300. The former is the material, the latter the tool. To the extent that I have accomplished anything worthy as an amateur historian, it is due almost entirely to readers such as you, and Montius, whose desk I sit at, who have pointed the way. Thank you.

-James, Wichita, Kansas, January 20, 2026

Notes

1.) We may have the same books as Leonardo. But all, yes ALL, ALL!, of our educated people have been inducted into misunderstanding the past by applying recent corruptions of language and twisted methods of thought to past words written in good faith to fellows of the same fraternity. For example, the term “Indentured Servant,” used only in intergovernmental letters of the mid 1700s, and never used in bound, common or high society, by master or slave, was applied to voluntary slaves from Germany in the 1820s. By 1831, it was being used to replace actual period terms in documents from the 1600s and 1700s. Downstream from that slight of word, by 1948, “indentured servant” a voluntarily bound state that did not exist prior to 1804 and was not employed in social discourse until the 1820s has been used to obscure the bound lives and deaths of some 2 to 4 million European souls, whose legal designation was bondman or bondwoman and were known by some 30 other terms, such as indented servant man, apprentice, slave and transport. Yet the intergovernmental term invented by Benjamin Franklin to buttress his debate with military officers who accepted runaway slaves as soldiers has served as a curtain of negation to erase the reality experienced by two in three Americans over the course of 200 years. This year I intend to complete books 18, 19, 20, 21 and the final 22nd volume in the Plantation America series.