Platara Mountain

By Lena Chere

Imagine magicians of the modern-day internet becoming involved with a parallel world where human beings are still in the Stone Age. Imagine this involvement precipitated by a kind but much-feared Horse Goddess who was created on Facebook.

Alexandra has just left school and is looking for love and a vocation in life when that scenario becomes her reality. She comes to care deeply about both the Horse Goddess and a young family in the parallel world; it dramatically reveals her past and changes her future forever, transforming her into a magician.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Austin Macauley
• Release date: Aug 31, 2018
• ISBN: 9780463433355

Lena Chere

I’m Lena Chere and I have lived for many years in southern England with my small family. I study occult and pagan subjects and write occult fantasy fiction. I enjoy taking part in events with the local writer’s group and outdoor festivities like concerts, fireworks and food markets. My stories are about the Spirit world, astral travel, chaos magic, magicians, portals and dreams.I like to be anonymous, so I write under two pen names. Candy Ray and Lena Chere. The Lena Chere books are The Eoss Trilogy.Part 1 Platara Mountain.The first instalment is about shamanism and chaos magic, and a primitive parallel world. The main character is a teenage girl, so it has a young adult flavour. It was published by Austin Macauley, so you would have to buy it from them. You can find it on Smashwords here:www.smashwords.com/books/view/890472.Part 2 Mount Clexa.This one is told in the first person by Clexa, the daughter of the horse goddess Eos. It explores the subjects of magical curses, Enochian magic and the realms which are known as the Enochian aethyrs. Published by me, and free.Part 3 Silver Manes.This time the themes are Kabbalah and Solomonic magic, archetypal symbolism and familiars. Published by me, and free.All three are stand-alone stories, and there is no need to read them in order.Coming soon: Heather of Heather Bay, prequel to the Eoss Trilogy.

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About the Author

Lena Chere is passionate about religion and the occult and once studied comparative religion at university. She also enjoys scenic walks, outdoor concerts and internet discussions. She has worked in offices and more recently in an educational centre and she lives on the south coast of England with her husband and grown-up son.

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Platara Mountain

Published by Austin Macauley at Smashwords

Copyright 2018, Lena Chere

The right of Lena Chere to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with section 77 and 78 of the

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A CIP catalogue record for this title is

Available from the British Library.

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www.austinmacauley.com

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Platara Mountain, 2018

Austin Macauley Publishers Ltd.

ISBN 9781788481267 (Paperback)

ISBN 9781528910972 (E-Book)

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First Published in 2018

Austin Macauley Publishers.LTD/

CGC-33-01, 25 Canada Square

Canary Wharf, London E14 5LQ

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Acknowledgements

I would like to acknowledge all the Facebook groups who have influenced this book: I’m sure they will know who they are.

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Chapter 1

Eoss isn’t a comfortable friend; she belongs to the chaos, and she stirs things up.

Alexandra nodded. She was sitting on her mother’s knee, wearing a white nightgown, and she had been trying to explain to her mother about the other world.

The world she saw in her visions was one where people hurried along pathways made from grey stone slabs and shiny metal shapes whizzed by on the other side of the paths.

Twelve years later, it was all the other way around. Alexandra lived on Earth, in the world she had seen in her visions, and she remembered having been somewhere else, up to the age of four. But the details had escaped her except for one name: Eoss.

She looked up ‘Horse Goddess’ in the public library and found Epona. It was Epona, not Eoss who was the horse goddess, and, officially, she was no longer worshipped. Cowboys in wild west films said ‘hoss’ which sounded closer to Eoss, but the correct word was ‘horse’ to rhyme with ‘course.’ Horses for courses.

Eoss was galloping across a field in the world Alexandra had forgotten. Someone had asked for her help to restore his settlement, and because she dealt with order as well as chaos, she wanted to help. When she arrived, the settlement was all scattered wattle and stone where the huts had been torn down, and clouds of dust lingered from the smashed boundary walls. There was grit in the air which scratched the face and nostrils of anyone there who breathed.

Eoss sought for people, to whom she would say, Build! Start now and build! Although it counts as order when you build, chaos comes first. It levels the place to rubble so that its complement, new building, can begin.

She headed for the stables and, mercifully, there were no horses left in them dying of hunger and thirst. There were no human beings around either.

If the humans had gone and had left some horses trapped in stalls, Eoss didn’t know whether the laws under which she operated, would have allowed her to unbolt the doors. She was what is known as an egregore, but she had not been developed from a servitor. A group of people had conceived her right from the start as a strong entity who serves many. This group knew one another only on what was called ‘the internet’ in that other world, the Earth.

Eoss had come here because there was no barrier to her passing through the vortices that lay between universes, and she felt drawn to this particular universe. Then one day, Sandra, her rider, had somehow travelled to Earth. Once she had arrived, she was, from that time, called Alexandra.

Eoss had no idea how her rider had moved from one universe to another, and it was perplexing the way those who called her Alexandra thought she had been there all her life instead of only from the age of four. Eoss made no attempt to move her again because she, herself, could gallop in both places, and as she did not understand the strange forces that had moved Alexandra, she thought it best not to interfere. Yet, she was saddened to observe that Alexandra often felt lost in that other world.

So now, Eoss was a rider-less horse, but she was far from lost: she always knew where she was going as she knew today, directed by a prayer rather