Hieroglyphic Masquerade

Hieroglyphic Masquerade is a seven peice band from Northern British Columbia. Their haunting mix of flute, turntables, strings (various), vocals, synth and electronic beats is unmatched in beauty and complexity.

Hieroglyphic Masquerade never plays shows in cities outside of Northern British Columbia.

by moonbug November 12, 2006

spirit bear

Spirit bears, also known as a kermode bears, are members of a rare genetic subspecies of black bear. The spirit bear is the official animal of British Columbia. Spirit bears are only found on the mainland in the rainforest near Terrace and on the islands of Haida Gwaii.

Spirit Bears are very beautiful, with their ghostly white fur.

by moonbug November 12, 2006

Glass and the Machines of God

A fable created by Billy Corgan, front man of The Smashing Pumpkins. The story of Glass and the Machines of God is propagated by the band's album, Machina. The Machina lyric booklet contains one chapter of the fable, the rest of the chapters, except for chapter four, were posted online throughout the Mystery. Chapter four, The Story of June has never been posted.

The Mystery was based on Glass and the Machines of God.

Glass and the Machines of God is very simular in concept to Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.

by moonbug November 17, 2006

MB

MB is an acronym for Magic Burst. Specific to FFXI, a Magic Burst occurs when a mage fires off a spell in co-ordination with a combo executed by bashers and damage dealers. In order to be sucessful and Magic burst must employ a spell of a type matching the combo being performed by the other members of the party. It is possible to have more than one mage complete a magic burst per combo.

We're pulling a Liquifaction combo so cast a fire spell for MB.

by Moonbug October 29, 2004

MOSer

An adjective used to describe anyone who spent a lot of time on the now defunct, official Smashing Pumpkins message board (O-Board) in the Meaning of Symbols forum. MOSers were the main participants in the Mystery of Glass and the Machines of God.

Ramdust was an archetypical MOSer. He was instrumental in finding some of the passcodes for locked sites at the height of the mystery.

by moonbug November 13, 2006

Aeneas

The hero of the epic poem by the Roman poet Virgil, The Aeneid, and also a character in The Iliad, another book length poem ascribed to the Greek poet Homer. He was cousin to King Priam of Troy, and the son of Anchises and Venus. In mythic geneology he was the ancestor of the Caesars.

In mythic history, Aeneas' escape from the fall of Troy and his journey to Italy was instrumental to the founding of Rome.

by moonbug April 06, 2005

snip

Worthy of attention, hip, awesome, cool. Snip is an adjective with no pejorative connotation. It is often used as an interjection.

Snip!

Wow, that band was totally snip.

Check out this snip book.

by moonbug November 11, 2008