Krblin Jihn Kabin

“Kymaerica Presentation at Krblin Jihn Kabin 3PM 5/6/6 by Eames Demetrios, Geographer-at-Large sponsored by the Museum of the Bench, Abilene, TX

This year, in honor of the completion of the second Kymaerican Historical Site in Paris, Illinois, the Museum of the Bench will be sponsoring a talk in Joshua Tree at the Krblin Jihn Kabin by Eames Demetrios, Geographer-at-Large for Kymaerica. He will discuss the installation on the town square in Paris that pays homage to the Parisian Diaspora. Of particular local interest, he will shed new light on its intersection with the Inland Empire. The Museum of the Bench is pleased to announce that 50 packs of the new Museum of the Bench trading card proof sets will be given away after the talk. Though not precisely accurate, the simplest way to think of the Kymaerica project is as three dimensional storytelling. It explores the many cultures and gwomes (a cognate term meaning “footprint of the nation”) of this land, largely consistent with our own linear North America. The Krblin Jihn Kabin was the first Kymaerican Historical site, honoring the life and work of the sage Krblin Jihn—one of a number of Jihn Wranglikan prisoners-of-war kept under house
arrest in the many homestedler cabins that dot the Joshua Tree landscape.”

• from the HDTS 5 catalogue

The Krblin Jihn Cabin is the first official Kymaerica historical site. It was originally used to house defeated heretics. Jihn Wranglicans (a sect of Church of the California Christ) had their lives spared, but only on condition of a form of sectarian house arrest, where they could never leave their cabin and surrounding grounds. In his isolation, Krblin (an honorific similar to “Brother”) Jihn himself became an important Biblical translator and commentator. Site includes the remnants of its remarkable nine point compass wheel. More background and lore about Kymaerica are found at www.kymaerica.com.