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[ARTIFACT] Ch. 20 (@ Berlin, Germany)

[unagi]

Re: [ARTIFACT] Berlin, Germany

[Junesun]

I will go by there tomorrow, I live only 2 km from it.

[danteIL]

With Trumpet and Drum is another 19th century book (1892), this time of children's poems:

http://books.google.com/books?id=FNQMAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22with+trumpet+and+drum%22

[Taurec]

What time exactily do you want to go there Junesun? 'cause I would really love to join you

[Junesun]

Just finishing cleaning up here and then I'm leaving. Maybe meet at Rosenthaler Platz near "5 Flavours" at 11:20?

[Taurec]

I'm currently at work and leaving that soon is not an option... *cry*
But I hope you will find it anyway, and that Theo will not show up

[Junesun]

No chance of taking an early lunch break?

Oh, would you be around to organize a Berlin labyrinth?

[Taurec]

I will try to convince my boss of taking an early break...
additionally I will send you a phone number by pm, so we can find each other at Rosentaler platz...

[Junesun]

Got the artifact! There were three of us: Taurec, me and my American Esperanto-speaking boyfriend. We found the book and the paper without too much trouble and did a translation session right there. The content is not really exciting, but might help us later identify the exact location where labyrinths should take place. Here's the URL:

http://164.109.150.213/PRUVO/PRNK/0Z3P/OWGC/S8BC/REH7.PDF

Note that I can't enter anything like this on the Omphputer because it uses a weird keyboard layout and the / key is nowhere to be found; in exchange I see two or three ways of typing Ä, # and the like.

[mr.judkins]

Well done! Great to hear about teams doing the collecting - and neat to do a translation session on the spot.

At this rate we'll have the entire Codex really soon!

[Chid12]

I'm sure Junesun's boyfriend can give a much better translation of Chapter 20 than this, but this is what I got from it:

Chapter 20

Secrets of the Omphaloi

The Ancient Greeks were the first to uncover the secret of the many worlds, at least four thousand years ago.

We remember that time as an age of mythology. Hercules and Theseus, Achilles and Odyseus, fantastic stories of the Gods. We remember it as an epoch of imagination.

Nevertheless for the Greeks, it was an epoch of inquiry, and of being truly amazed.

Their stories about the Gods were not fictional, and they are aimed to be metaphors for life on this Earth.

They were based on real events, true stories observed with sacred stones. Their myths were metaphors for life on other alternatives realities occurring in a great parallel across the many worlds.

In Antique Greece, at each main temple stood a sacred stone, or omphaloi. According to ancient history, oracles at the temples floated above the omphaloi to receive communication from the gods. According to all reports, this is the story which the majority of Ancient Greeks believed – the oracle at the omphaloi received stories, visions and messages from the Gods.

But a select group of counsellors knew better.

The oracles communicated with other worlds.

Approximately 10 years ago, we six travellers watched as spectators, were amused and were pleased, during archeology in this world presented a new theory about the temple at Delphi.

Delphi was the site of the most important omphaloi in the entire Helenic world. Based on both Ancient Greek histories and recent digging of its temple, archeology proposed that the site was built on two hidden and very active faults. These faults were rumoured (said) to form a cross precisely under the ruined temple, forming a knot of geological instability.
In many other worlds, this theory was already a proved fact.

We already knew for a very long time that if the Rapid Continental Change occurred in ancient times, the correct epicentre of the great restructuring would be directly under the temple at Delphi.

We already knew or a very long time, that the visions of the oracles at the omphaloi are why the Ancient Greeks already had such a progressive knowledge of global geography – through watching "disrompigajn" (unbreaking? Dis-breaking?) geographies occurring in other worlds.

And we knew that this is why they were compelled to perfect their own system for massive synchronisation – the Ancient Olympics.

[Elizabeth123]

Take a look at this article:

http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/sacred-places/2007/11/16/explaining-the-oracles-visions.html

It offers a really interesting explanation as to how the visions of the priestesses are related to gas leaks from the intersecting fault lines in Delphi.

(And great job translating, as always, Chid!)

[unagi]

I'm drunk tonight ....

ŝvebi = float, hover
disrompigajn = smashing, crushing (according to Esperanto-Japanese translator)

[AUZ505]

What could those graphs on the top mean? They look similar to the one in Ch. 14 (representing th number of parallel worlds). But on the left two graphs are intersecting. Can this have some meaning?