{"id":6025,"date":"2015-09-30T10:32:36","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T14:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2015\/09\/eleusinian-mysteries\/"},"modified":"2017-11-18T11:13:59","modified_gmt":"2017-11-18T16:13:59","slug":"eleusinian-mysteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2015\/09\/eleusinian-mysteries\/","title":{"rendered":"Eleusinian Mysteries"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another fantasy story featuring maps<\/a>, Charlotte Ashley<\/a>\u2019s “Eleusinian Mysteries<\/a>,” appears in this month’s issue<\/a> of Luna Station Quarterly<\/a><\/em>. In it, a Javanese-Dutch mapmaker named Maghfira is punished for making maps of the moon that include a seemingly fanciful feature: a city named Eleusis. Naturally\u2014this is an sf\/fantasy story, after all\u2014Eleusis turns out to be not so fanciful, and Maghfira gets herself into further trouble in its pursuit. The story says a little about maps and forbidden knowledge, rather more about about alienation and the urge to strike out into the unknown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another fantasy story featuring maps, Charlotte Ashley\u2019s “Eleusinian Mysteries,” appears in this month’s issue of Luna Station Quarterly. In it, a Javanese-Dutch mapmaker named Maghfira is punished for making maps of the moon that include… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[745,1042,1041],"class_list":["post-6025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-maps-and-literature","tag-fantasy","tag-short-fiction","tag-short-stories","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4931,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/09\/you-are-here-an-anthology-of-sffantasy-map-stories\/","url_meta":{"origin":6025,"position":0},"title":"You Are Here: An Anthology of SF\/Fantasy Map Stories","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"25 September 2017","format":"link","excerpt":"I can't explain how I missed this one when it came out last fall. 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