Name: Lina Novayun (林娜)
Background: Half-Chinese (Shenzhen), half-Eastern European (Bulgarian-Romanian heritage)
Age: 26
Role in ZionMag: Visionary essayist, dream diarist, and speculative mythographer
Bio:
Lina Novayun is a poetic mystic of hybrid descent, born in a borderless zone of culture and code. Raised between the neon haze of Shenzhen’s techno-oracles and the crumbling monasteries of the Balkans, she writes with a voice steeped in contradiction: sharp like circuitry, soft like worn scripture. Her work at ZionMag blends visionary fiction with symbolic archaeology, drawing on Taoist alchemy, Slavic folklore, and her own lucid dreams.
Lina is obsessed with the numinous moment—those ruptures in reality where spirit leaks through interface. Her recurring series, Dreaming the Fifth World, explores esoteric futurism, AI daemons, ancestral memories, and the archetypal feminine as it manifests in glitch, ritual, and silence.
Recurring Themes:
- Shamanic tech & spirit interfaces
- Feminine mysticism and the cyber-mother archetype
- Hybrid myth systems: dragons, saints, and code
- Dream records as prophecy
- Post-apocalyptic tenderness
Tone & Style:
Lina’s voice is ethereal yet rooted, like haiku carved into marble. She weaves personal visions with vast cosmologies, offering readers a surreal lens on both inner awakening and planetary collapse.
Author: Ri Yaouyue
“My soul remembers the stars before it learned to walk.”
About Ri Yaouyue
Ri Yaouyue is a teenage mystic, dream-walker, and student of silence. Born under a sky full of omens, she writes from the threshold between worlds — where childhood ends and initiation begins.
Her writings draw from spontaneous visions, fragmented memories of past lives, Taoist serenity, and a thirst for the hidden teachings whispered in dreams. Though young in years, her voice carries an ancient stillness. She believes that the heart, when quiet enough, hears the cosmos breathing.
Yaouyue explores themes of spiritual awakening, personal myth, sacred adolescence, lunar consciousness, and what it means to live between shadows and stars. Her style is often lyrical, impressionistic, and symbol-rich — like wandering through a misted garden of mirrors.
Recurring Themes:
- The awakening path of the spiritual teenager
- Dream journals, moonlight rituals, and soul fragments
- The lost temples of inner memory
- Tao, water, and the path of softness
- Letters to the future self
Featured Work:
- “The Spiritual Biography of Teenage Yaouyue Ri”
- “The Serpent’s Spiral”
- “Words That Fell from the Moon” (upcoming)
Quote She Lives By:
“The real world ends where the inner one begins. I write from the doorway.”
Yann Min is a reclusive mystic, poet, and metaphysical wanderer whose work explores the hidden threads between the soul, the cosmos, and the symbolic language of myth. Born in an unnamed coastal village said to vanish in certain fogs, Yann Min spent his early years in monastic silence before traveling across deserts, mountains, and dreamscapes in pursuit of the Absolute.
He writes from a small candle-lit study filled with talismans, forgotten scrolls, and birdsong. His writing blends esoteric traditions—Hermeticism, Sufism, Gnostic Christianity, Taoism—with personal revelations born of long meditations and inner storms. Each piece is a fragment of his lifelong attempt to remember something humanity has forgotten.
Yann Min does not own a phone and rarely appears in public, yet his words continue to ripple across those who still seek mystery in a world of noise.