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ComaWhite.com was launched shortly after the release of Mechanical Animals which was the first of the many Marilyn Manson hidden/sister sites. Its existence was revealed in one of five hidden messages in the album booklet which can be made visible using the blue CD case to separate the overlayed blue and yellow texts throughout. ComaWhite.com is revealed appropriately enough under the blue text of 'A PILL TO MAKE YOU NUMB' above the lyrics and 'photo of Coma White.

The site itself consisted of the above medical chart known as the Glasgow Coma Scale depicting the various stages and severity levels of human (un)consciousness, which can also be seen behind the Mechanical Animals CD within CD the case. Apropos to Mechanical Animals and the many numerological correspondences alluded to during the era, the coma scale is a 15 point scale; the recurring number throughout the era's videos, artwork and lyrics. By clicking on various cells of chart certain images are revealed. Anyone who is familiar with the site should know that the original ComaWhite.com is far too labyrinthine to archive in its entirety but the original cell names and links are intact as the images that are visible from the main chart image.

The most interesting aspect of the site is that by following the links which make up various song lyrics hidden images are also revealed. For example following the links "Even-Machines-Can-See-That-We-Are-Dead" to "ARE YOU?" reveals a hidden mini-vignette which links to the Official Marilyn Manson bulletin board. Again, as the site is far too complex to archive totally I've displayed the hidden images clicking below.

The sister site of MarilynManson.com launched in the Summer of 2000. The site went through five transformations/additions all to illustrate Manson's own transformation and to illustrate the five pillars and themes most prevalent throughout Holy Wood; Christianity/Martyrdom and mankind's morbid fascination with it, Alchemy, Death Valley, JFK as the second Christ in the eyes of America and the Occult.

A complete and in-depth analysis and breakdown of TheLambOfGod.com can be read The Lamb Of God.com section on The NACHTKABARETT via the menu to the left. But as it is one of the Marilyn Manson hidden websites a link to its original configuration is also included here.

Preview of The Love Song, the first of the four previews of Holy Wood released in the summer of 2000. The image is a cover of Manson's novel HOLY WOOD. As stated elsewhere within The NACHTKABARETT, the original title of the album was intended to be In The Shadow Of The Valley Of Death, the release of which was going to coincide with the release of Holy Wood the novel. The Love Song is one of the most prominent tracks on Holy Wood which deals with America lust of violence, guns and death, the subject matter of which is the theme of Holy Wood the novel.

Preview of Cruci-Fiction In Space, the second song preview of Holy Wood. The image accompanying it is quite obviously a diagram portraying the stages of human evolution. In keeping in the theme of The Love Song which illustrates America's gun lust, Cruci-Fiction In Space portrays this theme as humanity has evolved to the complex and sophisticated state which it has today, yet mankind's primary preoccupation is that of creating and devising new methods of murdering each other. "The Monkey, The Man, And Then The Gun".

The use of the image is also slightly more multifacetted in that one of the most prominent underlying themes in Holy Wood is that of evolution and transformation, not only in terms of mankind but more importantly personal evolution. Nothing changes the world and its predisposition towards violence but you can always change yourself, as Manson has often stated.

Preview of 'Burning Flag', Holy Wood's most scathing attack on American hypocrisy. The image featured is a photograph taken at a senatorial press conference on violence in entertainment, shortly a month after Columbine. The Senators shown are Joe Lieberman who has demonized Marilyn Manson as "The sickest group ever promoted by a mainstream record company" and Orrin Hatch who can very visibly be seen holding a copy of Antichrist Svperstar.

The absurd irony involved in this scenario is both that Manson has absolutely no involvement as inspiration for the murders at Columbine, and the sheer fact that Manson has never promoted violence to begin with. Whilst a plethora of rap and hip-hop stars make no qualms about graphically depicting rape and murder in their lyrics and simultaneously invoking the name of Christ at any given opportunity. It is precisely this type of hypocrisy that the song 'Burning Flag' is a scathing anthem against.

The fourth and last audio preview of Holy Wood, The Death Song. The use of the image to compliment the song is rather self explanatory given what the song is about and its relation to the constant theme of mankind's, but specifically America's, lust for death and violence in and as entertainment.

ThisAsValentinesDay.com was launched on February 14th, 2001 as Manson's gift to the MarilynManson.com official messageboard. The site was revealed on Valentine's Day in a post to the messageboard Manson made while on the European leg of the Guns, God & Government tour with the headline of "They'd Remember 'This As Valentine's Day'". The central image is the cover of Time magazine, dated February 14th, 1964. By clicking on Marina Oswald's broach, widow of the late Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused lone gunman in Kennedy's assassination, reveals Manson's true intended Valentine's Day gift, the text of Chapter 10 of Manson's (still unreleased novel) novel Holy Wood. A plain text transcription can be viewed by clicking below, for ease of reading:

By also clicking on 'February 14th, 1964', on the top right corner of the image, links the visitor to ComaWhite.com. Thus acting as another method of Manson thematically tying Holy Wood to the previous era of Mechanical Animals, respectively the third and second pieces of the conceptual Triptych of consecutive albums Manson began in 1996 with Antichrist Svperstar. A link to ThisAsValentinesDay.com was also subsequently placed on the mercury symbol on the Third Pentacle Of Mercury from TheLambOfGod.com.

Click above to view the original CELEBRITARIAN.COM which The NACHTKABARETT has archived and was first to do so as well as to identify the song which plays during the intro.

Celebritarian.com was very ambiguously viewed as a hidden Manson site when it was first discovered in mid 2000 but there were a number of parallels which would allude to it as being Manson's. For example, the pistol used in the opening movie sequence is identical to one of the pistols used on Manson's gun crucifix on the cover of Holy Wood the novel; there are a number of thematic references in the questionnaire including references to Kennedy whom Manson denotes as the patron saint, of sorts, of Celebritarianism; and although launched circa the release of Holy Wood the web counter's starting year is 1996, the same year as the release of Antichrist Svperstar, year one of the Triptych of Antichrist Svperstar, Mechanical Animals and Holy Wood (In The Shadow Of The Valley Of Death). During a live performance in Denver 2001, the highly controversial performance which was Manson's first return to Colorado since Columbine, his performance, which inspired by numerous death and bomb threats, promised to be his most violent while balancing his performance with readings from the Bible which told of "murder, death, sex and pestilence". It was during this Bible reading that Manson quoted from PSALM 137:9, which is the message received after submittal of the questionnaire from Celebritarian.com. This speech can also be heard during the credits of the Guns, God & Government tour DVD and on 'The Nobodies' CD single which contains live versions of both the title track and 'The Death Song' recorded in Denver.

The site was hinted at in the lyrics to Holy Wood in the song 'The Fall Of Adam' in which the term was used in the line "And Abraham Lincoln town cars arive to dispose of our king and queen / They orchestrated dramatic new scenes....for celebritarain needs". What brought specific attention towards it was in the liner notes which reads "Celebritarian ™ used by permission". It was later revealed via a query on the US patent office online database that Manson himself coined and trademarked both the terms 'Celebritarian' and 'Celebritarianism'.

For more on conceptually what the significance of Celebritarian and Celebritarianism is in relation to Holy Wood, read THELAMBOF GOD.COM, KENNEDY: KING KILL 33º, VALENTINE'S DAY sections and the continuously updated MARILYN MANSON.COM UPDATES & ANALYSIS page, as well as the exclusive interview "Dramatic New Scenes For Celebritarian Needs" on The NACHTKABARETT's affiliate site The Heirophant.

Within the opening movie, which The NACHTKABARETT is the first and sole archiver of, the faces of the dead stars that are seen were also shown on the large screen behind Manson during the live performance of The Death Song on the Ozzfest portion of the Guns, God & Government tour.

The song played throughout the opening vignette is "I'm Leaving It Up To You" by Dale & Grace. Originally penned in 1957 this rendition was the number one song in America on November 22nd, 1963, the day Kennedy was assassinated.

Website domain names designated for but never made manifest for
Holy Wood (In The Shadow Of The Valley Of Death).

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The Golden Age Of Grotesque.

The above alchemical image, which was unveiled on Decmeber 15th, 1999, served as the new introduction to MarilynManson.com and the new era's site design. This date also marked the now famous webcast which was the unveiling of Manson's new direction, aesthetic, imagery and sound; previewing song clips of The Love Song, Disposable Teens and Little Child (commonly referred to as "Mommy Dear" which was sung in the 1964 film noir The Naked Kiss) while Manson also revealed the title of the new album to be named In The Shadow Of The Valley Of Death (which was to coincide with the release of his novel Holy Wood) as well as his new identification with the symbol of Mercury.

This was the beginning of the Holy Wood era and it was also Manson's first act of retalliation against the world after scapegoating him for Columbine. The above imagery, glittery like dead stars, is preserved in its original form. Each of the alchemical words and symbols linked to various sites of individuals, organizations and information to show how sick this world we live in is; sick particularly in that these morbid fascinations and hypocritical evangelists are the same who demonized Manson; hypocrites such as Jerry Falwell and organizations as morbid enough as to call themselves the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement. This was the world who scapegoated Manson as blame for the corruption of youth, a world for a whom a mirror would more appropriately and accurately reveal for whom to lay blame unto who molded these children and gave them more inspiration than Manson ever could to pick up a gun.

The date for this unveiling was not unintentional either. There are many parallels which Manson drew between the end of the sixties and the end of the nineties, the death of the innocence, Altamount and Woodstock '99, the Manson Family murders and Columbine, much of which is discussed in The Lamb Of God.com section of The NACHTKABARETT and coincides directly to this. December 15, 1969 was the date which the bloody clothes from the Manson Family murders were found. Up until that point there had been little evidence tying in the real murderers to the Tate-LaBianca killings. December 15th, 1999 marked the beginning of Manson's retalliation, laying blame back at those whom the evidence now pointed towards.

By Brad Jaeger

According to Greek mythology, the Horai (The Greek word for 'hours') were revered as Goddesses of the seasons, as well as the heavenly measurers of time. The twelve Horai were tutelary Goddesses who were each assosciated with a different hour of the day; from just before sunrise to the final moments after sunset. As the ancient Greeks did not have the means to measure time as accurately as we are able to today, the twelve Horai were each allocated a certain hour of the day in relation to the movement of the sun accross the Sky. The Horai were thought to have accompanied Helios, who drove his golden chariot throughout the sky, dividing up the day from the night.

The four Horai which Manson made mention of during Holy Wood added yet another element to the already multi-faceted Adam Kadmon. Not only was ADAM the heavenly man, as described by the Kabbalah, and representative as the tangible form of The Tree of Life, but his name was also an acronym in relation to four of the Horai which most served Manson's creative vision. The four Horai identified were as follows:

Thematically, Manson chose these specific Horai to reaffirm the numerous elements of rebirth and regeneration already present within the Triptych. Humans since the beginning of their time on Earth have been able to trace the apparent progression of the sun throughout the sky by way of the naked eye. This is yet another illustration of the continual theme transformation and rebirth parallels the Triptych.

Intro splash image to the Golden Age Of Grotesque era design of MarilynManson.com which contained many elements of the opposing extremes of Expressionism and Fascism, slowed to show more visibly the images subliminally contained within which hinted at the influences of the album and era. With the following both contained within the introduction as well as those which were images of an earlier version of it that illustrate this same thematic element.

There existed more than one version of this introduction with differing images in both. At top is the full speed introduction which existed up until the era's close, containing photos of Manson as well as the elements of the era's influence. Following are as many as found the images contained within both vignettes but above however is an image depicting the first incarnation of the site's introduction which if anyone has the original The NACHTKABARETT will gladly add it here.