The Trephaning

A cult of idol-worshipers has taken over the institutions that rule and govern modern society, especially the media. An ambiguous messianic figure called Savior Arn has been drilling holes in stadiums full of people's heads to extract fealty & tithes from them. But an ancient natural religion, which has its roots in a lost race that fled the surface of the Earth aeons ago to dwell in a honeycomb of underground caves, won't stand for it any longer. Led by the pious, revolutionary daydreamer Q, they will arise to take down the atheistic established order, and in the full light of day kneel and raise their hands to the sun in pure praise of the One God. Poignant, poetic, at turns darkly cynical and beatifically reverential, this book reaches toward the end of the current century to delve the chaotic inner world of the collective consciousness of modern Western culture and wrest the chimerae that hold the cultists enslaved. Exposed to the solar radiance of dawn, Q's motivating hope is that those ghosts may turn into angels and ascend, like stars, to their auroral apogees.