Emerald Tablet
by hughpierre
Purpose
The tablet is purportedly a set of instructions for attaining eternal life via multiple reincarnations into newer and newer bodies as time passes.
Document Structure
Clauses
The emerald tablet is 24 stanzas of texts that categorizes the unity of all things; accompanied with strange symbols and diagrams.
Historical Details
Background
The tablet is a 4ft long x 3ft wide green crystal, or green glass, or green leather or green metal mined from coral. No one who has ever seen consistently described it as being made of anything more than a green stone.
History
The chain that this knowledge followed began with foreign alchemists, who received it from a queen a thousand years ago, who got it from the gods 2,000 years before that. But they, inturn, received it 36,000 years ago by the most advanced culture in the world.
Public Reaction
The location and possession of the tablet is largely kept secret by the emerald people. Although, some vagaries on its actually writing has spilled out. Mentioning such things as:
- Essence of the sun
- Light of the moon
- Breath of the wind
- Nurturing soil of the earth
- Sun's work complete
- Force is above all force
- Three parts to wisdom
- Below mirrors the sky
Legacy
It is supposedly THE source that many other old texts derived their stories from.
Type
Record, Historical
Medium
Glass / Stained Glass
Myth
Location
Signatories (Organizations)
Entry for Worldbuilding Summer Camp 2024
Answering: "A document of spurious or controversial attribution"
In response to the prompt Describe a treasured document or book that is completely wrong or holds dark secrets in reality.
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