OCTOBRIANA: The Genesis Of A Comics Legend -- page two
 In the Maya Prophecy Of The 20th Year Of The 11th Ruler, there
is written: Zactunlah Pal Tal Ti Caan (The Girl With The White
Face Is Coming From The Sky). the prophecy continues: 'Fire will
burst from the ends of her fingers. They call her the Avenger.
She is the mother of seven red stars'. The Prophecy Of The 20th
Year Of The Eighth Ruler says: Enom Chimal, Emo Halal (With her
will descend flat shields and arrows). The Prophecy Of The Priest
Na Puk Tun says: 'The heavens will flame with lightning and the
Earth will burn'. Bin Ka Cikbech, Bin Ka Kanantech (We shall honour
you and protect you) the Royal Salute of the Maya Indians to
their white ruler.
These original texts are pre-Christian and they give descriptions
of the 'Devil Woman', which fit in with those from Arabic or Chinese
texts: eyebrows meeting in the middle, with a triangle or a star
above them, large breasts on a slim body, a black snake on her
wrist, and so on. Most sources agree that Mahari was born the
daughter of 'the White Warrior From The Northern Lands' (Jutland),
and of a native female ruler, and (here the sources differ) of
either the old Indian Harrapa tribe (about 4,000BC) or from the
middle of the Ancient Toltec Empire (about 6,000 years ago).
All sources absolutely agree that the baby girl was entrusted
to a caste of priests, and when she grew up was subjected to some
sort of operation (the most frequently used word is literally
'radiation'), which have her immortality. Mahari is a person of
strong emotions, but obviously also of considerable intellect,
which leads to tragic conflicts. Her father was a 'noble savage',
but her beautiful mother had definite tendencies towards perversion.
And their child, in its terrible immortality and loneliness, undergoes
a crushing cycle of transformation.
 The first transformation is the pursuit of sexual satisfaction,
which culminates in the killing of her partner. Once her passion
has cooled, depression moves in. Mahari gets rid of the horror
of her deed through a stormy, perverse, passionate wave of killings.
The depression that follows is even deeper. The horror becomes
unbearable. And Mahari goes away voluntarily to die in some elemental
hell -- volcanoes are the most frequently mentioned -- but instead
of death she finds a psychological rebirth. There follows an unaggressive
period. Mahari is of course still immortal, but she can be wounded
and raped. And the fear of pain gradually breaks her initial passivity.
The girl acquires great physical strength, and there follows a
period of supermanship, with a longing to help people, and an
immense wealth of understanding and feeling. But with her awakening
love of men come the first signs of another cycle, leading into
another bout of uncontrollable sexual passion. Only by presupposing
such a cycle can we account for the same woman acting in such
diametrically opposed ways at various periods of her existence.
There have been several reports from the present century among
the 600 varied sources I have perused, which when thoroughly checked
and interpreted, lead us to the conclusion that this being, Mahari,
is still living now as Octobriana. So do take this adventure seriously.
It is a more important matter than reading stupid detective stories
about the Soviet Militia. Forget your civilised world for a moment
and let us set out on the traces of this greatest of adventures...
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