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[edit] May 4, 10:17am

We've already learned three important lost traditions from the Codex-- the lost sport, athletic synchronization, and the personal labyrinth.
Have we just discovered a fourth lost tradition? Ariadne's dance?
I'm honored to have a dance named after me. (Ha ha) But I have no idea how to do it myself. Does anyone know this dance?
The Codex authors say they taught many people in this world how to do Ariadne's dance before they left. (If they left -- I suppose we're still not entirely sure yet that they made it home safely. Although presumably in some worlds they did -- that's how the omphaputer got built, right?)
So somewhere there must be a record of it. Can anyone dig up proper instructions? Or find evidence that it exists in this world? Our only clues, I suppose, is the name of the dance, and the fact that it's labyrinthine...
We finally found Chapter 24 in Brest, France. Here's the English translation. To get the six of home, we have to coordinate with our home worlds by observing them and synchronizing ourselves.
Once we make the omph knot, will we be able to watch our own home worlds through the omphaputer?
Navigation by means of flares
Even if we can construct travel omphalos, safe travel home is not certain.
Millions and millions of worlds exist and it is no simple matter to navigate from one specific world to another. Indeed it is an extremely complicated matter. It becomes necessary to master the technique known as flare navigation.
As best we could determine, the traveler is automatically transported to the one world with the most strong correlation of human activity upon the precise moment when the trip occurs. In other words, the multiverse journey sends the traveler along the shortest possible distance- to the world moving the same as the door world, the world where you create the portal.
For reasons that we still don’t fully understand, coordination of geography, building and other immovable differences is a lot less important during the trip than the synchronization of living movement.
Therefore, when you try to travel multiverse navigation, you should create human synchronization between your world and world you are aiming for- flare of movement which guides your way more nearly towards the world you are aiming for. In order to create enough powerful flare you must be exactly in front of the place and activity of many thousands of individuals in both worlds. And if you can’t, your trip may carry you to any place entirely unanticipated.
If you fail to make the strongest possible coordination, still you will arrive in the world that is sufficiently close to your aimed for world that you still find that your friends and family exist but their lives may be very different from what you remember.
How to prepare the flares
Huge quantity of prior communication by omphalos is necessary before your departure to make sure of the success of your flare.
If you have two-way communication by omphalos you can work with agonothetai in the aimed for world to prepare a common event that synchronizes as many human bodies as possible.
The more complicated the movement, the stronger will be the coordination that you create.
If you have one-way communication through omphalos, that you can see but not be seen, you must study the information and visions that you receive from the aimed for world in order to create an event in your world that will most parallel activity that you anticipate in your aimed for world.
Look at the situation in which we actually find ourselves.
Our aim is to profit the custom of dancing the labyrinthine dance, as if upon the large floor of Ariadne herself. Each of us six remembers that this custom happens nightly during the first two weeks of August on each of our domestic worlds.
During our travels around the world to prepare the travel omphalos, we taught others the labyrinthine dance, and also gave the tradition of our world to dance it through the late summer upon the hour of sunset in Crete.
We can only hope that they would remember that, which we showed to them, and that you will be enough to send us home.
Download the big, pretty version of Chapter 24 from the omphaputer.

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