Podcast/The Secret Artifact
From LostRing
(Difference between revisions)
Revision as of 17:06, 12 March 2008 (edit) Ouroboros (Talk | contribs) (→Prophecy back) ← Previous diff |
Revision as of 17:18, 12 March 2008 (edit) (undo) Thebruce (Talk | contribs) m (→Slide details) Next diff → |
||
Line 64: | Line 64: | ||
|[[Image:Prophecy.jpg|120px]] | |[[Image:Prophecy.jpg|120px]] | ||
|width="100%"| | |width="100%"| | ||
- | <blockquote cass="trans"> | + | <blockquote> |
- | :''transcription'' | + | :'''I.''' When the time comes, |
- | I. When the time comes there will be no more time | + | :there will be no more time |
- | if traditions have failed | + | :if traditions have failed |
- | if you can no longer see the (layer) of reality | + | :if you can no longer see the |
- | The committee will send six to teach you the | + | :(layer) of reality |
- | limits of your world | + | :The committee will |
- | + | :send six to teach you the | |
- | II. The athletes will show you the way | + | :limits of your world |
- | Your games will save you. | + | :<br> |
- | + | :'''II.''' The athletes will show you the way | |
- | III. When travelers appear | + | :Your games will save you. |
- | they will be washed clean by | + | :<br> |
- | Lethe just as we six were | + | :'''III.''' When travelers appear |
- | in the third year of | + | :they will be washed clean by |
- | the 666th Olympiad | + | :Lethe just as we six were |
- | + | :in the third year of | |
+ | :the 666th Olympiad | ||
</blockquote> | </blockquote> | ||
|} | |} | ||
Line 89: | Line 90: | ||
|[[Image:back.jpg|120px]] | |[[Image:back.jpg|120px]] | ||
|width="100%"| | |width="100%"| | ||
- | <blockquote cass="trans"> | + | <blockquote> |
- | :''transcription'' | + | :'''IV.''' When you are ready |
- | V. As you wait for | + | :to receive data |
- | the six you can build | + | :look to Delphi: |
- | a House of Solomon | + | :<br> |
- | + | :'''V.''' As you wait for | |
- | VI. You will want to tell others | + | :the six you can build |
- | but you must not | + | :a House of Solomon |
- | Guard with your life the | + | :<br> |
- | scientific discoveries of the | + | :'''VI.''' You will want to tell others |
- | Ancient Olympiad. Remember | + | :but you must not |
- | always that your agonothetai are | + | :Guard with your life the |
- | the secret ones | + | :scientific discoveries of the |
- | + | :Ancient Olympiad. Remember | |
- | Instructions for preparing The Lost Ring | + | :always that your agonothetai are |
+ | :the secret ones | ||
+ | :<br> | ||
+ | :Instructions for preparing The Lost Ring | ||
</blockquote> | </blockquote> | ||
|} | |} |
Revision as of 17:18, 12 March 2008
Eli Hunt - Thelostgames.com - Podcasts
Contents |
The Secret Artifact
- Watch the podcast at thelostgames.com
- Watch the podcast at dotSUB
- Downloadable slides are included in the transcript below
- This is the most difficult story I've ever had to tell. I've waited 30 years to tell it. And I hope, when it's over, you'll understand why I've kept it secret until now. [onscreen] The Story of The Secret Artifact With Historian Eli Hunt
- I'm Eli Hunt and this is my own story. The story of the secret artifact.
- You already know how this story starts. When I was 10 years old, my parents took me to the ruins at ancient Olympia. Most of the tourists were paying attention to the best preserved parts - the Temple of Zeus, the palaestra colonnade, the entrance to the stadium. I was more interested in the piles of rubble, the places no one was looking. My parents didn't even notice I had left their side. It was 2 hours before they found me digging through the dirt a few meters behind
- Pheidias' Workshop, the site where supposedly one of the seven great wonders of the ancient world had been made - the great gold and ivory statue of Zeus.
- They were quite mad at me for running off, until I showed them what I'd found - mall bronze statue of a snake goddess. And as you know from my biography, I turned that statue in to the museum, although of course I really wanted to take it home with me.
- Later, their researchers authenticated it as a lost work of Pheidias. They were thrilled, my parents were as proud as could be, and the media dubbed me a young hero of history. I've been an avid fan and researcher of the ancient Olympic games ever since.
- As fantastic as it sounds, all of that really is true.
- But it's not the whole truth.
- Yes, I discovered an ancient bronze artifact, and yes I gave it to the museum.
- But I found something else that day.
- And I didn't tell a soul.
- I kept it, and I've studied it, for decades. I still don't know if I completely understand it. That’s why I'm sharing it with you now. Time is running out. You may understand what I have failed to.
- Here is the truth.
- The sculpture was hollow, and when I ran my finger along the inside, I felt something rough - a piece of old, weathered paper. A tiny scroll, written on both sides, in English - not ancient Greek.
- I had no idea what it was. Was it some kind of riddle or poem or prayer? I couldn’t tell. But somehow, the fact that it was written in English - that made it okay to keep the scroll. It wasn’t ancient. It didn’t belong to the museum. It belonged to me.
- I've long since memorized the words I first puzzled over that day in ancient Olympia. The cryptic directions begin with
- "When the time comes, there will be no more time... When travelers appear, they will be washed clean by Lethe... As you wait for the six, you can build a House of Solomon..." And so on.
- At the end, a simple line, "Instructions for preparing the Lost Ring."
- You can read all of it for yourself. But what I want you to know is this: I have been building that house for decades.
- Now, it's time to share what I have built with you.
- I realize at this point, you may not trust me completely. Surely, some of you will feel as though I have been cheating you by withholding what little I do know about the lost ring. So let me share one more story with you.
- Do you know how the agonothetai and the hellanodikai punished athletes who were caught cheating at the ancient Olympics? They created a giant statue of the cheater and put it on a pedestal right in the center of Olympia. It was the ultimate public shaming.
- Now if this were 160 BC, maybe you would want to make a statue of me, for cheating you of the knowledge I've had. I wouldn't blame you. But the Greeks had another tradition – extending the olive branch when it was time to make peace. That time is now. I know that I can trust Ariadne, and that I can trust you. No more secrets. I’ve opened the portal to you. From now on, what I see, you see. We are in this together.
- www.TheLostGames.com