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From the journal of Professor Caleb Blackthorne
III, discovered May 1899, near the great Temple at
Tiahuanaco, Peru:
23 September: 1893 Upon extensive examination of
the nefarious arcane codex known as The Epsilon
Exordium, I believe my search may at last be
drawing to a close. Indeed, I feel that perhaps
the great discovery which has eluded me for so
long may finally be within my grasp. And yet I
must be cautious, for twice more have I seen the
figures in the night, watching me in silence from
the confines of the darkness. I cannot discern
their features, only that they are vaguely human
in shape, save for their arms which seem
abnormally long and oddly jointed. My native
guides are becoming increasingly agitated and
skittish, babbling incoherently about the
guardians of the tombs... citing legends from
their ancestral past which speak of mysterious
travellers who reputedly came down from the stars
in great silvern chariots drawn by steeds of
flame. At any rate, I have my trusted
Martini-Henry .45 calibre breech-loader should
these silent stalkers prove malign and ever deign
to lay hold of me in the night. I have at last
translated the carvings on the stone fragment I
unearthed amidst the ruins of Angkor Wat. To my
astonishment, I found that it predated the
construction of the temple itself by countless
thousands of years, and that it spoke of the same
subject as did the hieroglyphs I beheld on the
wall of the concealed chamber which I and Lord
Blakiston discovered within the Great Pyramid in
Egypt. Successive examinations of the edifices at
Giza and Karnak revealed further parallels too
precise to be mere coincidence. The pieces of this
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great cosmic puzzle are finally beginning to fall
into place...
2 October: 1893 Yes, it is as I suspected. I have
long felt that the Sumerians of Mesapotamia were
among the first peoples to attain elucidation
concerning the dread matter I pursue. My
excavations at Lagash, Eridu, and most notably the
ziggurats at Ur, have revealed truths which
subsequent finds at Angkor, Egypt and Sacsahuaman
only serve to consolidate. I now know that the
Olmechs, the Aztecs and the Mayans were also
undeniably key tendrils of this grand global web,
and the unnerving truth I hitherto felt compelled
to deny now seems inexorably to point to some
grand and terrifying universal axiom. It seems
however, that the closer I come to enlightenment,
the greater the danger becomes. Last night, one of
our expedition's chief guides disappeared without
trace. His native compatriots could find no
tracks, nor offer any evidence of his departure to
suggest that his superstitions had finally
compelled him to abandon the party... the man
seems simply to have vanished inexplicably into
the oppressive, sweltering dark. In light of the
disappearance, I opted not to inform the group
that during the darkling hours before sunrise last
night I had peered from my tent to behold what I
perceived to be three of the shadowy figures I
have previously described moving furtively in the
gloom, keeping ever just out of the illuminatory
radias of our campfire. By the time I had brought
my rifle to bear, they had melted away into the
fathomless shadows of the benighted jungle...
10 October: 1893 The inscriptions on the tablet I
discovered seem to be a fragmentary piece of some
mysterious, perhaps apocryphal, larger work;
evidently a lexicon of some description,
undoubtedly of antediluvian origin. The first
section, as far as I can discern, tells of an era
thousands of years past when countless great and
advanced civilisations, apparently with the
legendary Atlantis foremost amongst them, spanned
the circumference of the globe. The initial
passage, seemingly a celebration of Atlantis
Ascendant carved by a renowned chronicler of the
day, speaks thusly: |
