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        <td width="100%" height="19"><strong>Miscellany:</strong><br>
        Vampire Glyphs<br>
        by Sean D. Francis<br>
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        <td width="100%" height="21"><small><font color="#000000">In 1908, a team of Italian
        archeologists uncovered a relic in the Minoan palace of Phaistos in Crete.&nbsp; This
        relic was a disc inscribed in an unknown language using stamps, signifying an example of
        movable type being used around 1600 b.c.e.&nbsp; This relic is referred to as the Phaistos
        Disc.&nbsp; A similar object was uncovered five years later in an excavation around the
        city currently called Ismir in Turkey.</font></small><p><small><font color="#000000">Archeologists
        were excited about the second find, but soon became disheartened as the symbols were not
        the same.&nbsp; While the Phaistos Disc remains a mystery and possibly a historical
        anomaly, the second Disc, commonly referred to as the Belzeit Tablet, has been partially
        decoded in the late 20th century.&nbsp; What it has revealed is both startling and
        exciting.&nbsp; </font></small></p>
        <p><small><font color="#000000">For lack of a poetic description, the Belzeit Tablet was
        created by a unique Mystery Cult operating in the shadow of the ancient Greek city-states
        with clear connection to Egypt and the Hebrew tribes on the other side of the
        Mediterranean Sea.&nbsp; This cult practiced a ritualistic worship of beings best
        described as vampires. </font></small></p>
        <p><small><font color="#000000">Whether these vampiric beings truely existed or were
        simply a variant on the Bacchus rites that were performed is still left for debate among
        the scholars.&nbsp; On the disc, there were over eighteen glyphs represented, but only six
        have been fully translated and understood.&nbsp; Presented, for the first time on the
        internet, are the six glyphs and their interpreted meanings.</font></small></p>
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            <td width="62%"><p align="center"><font color="#800000"><strong>Balance</strong></font></td>
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            <td width="62%" valign="top"><small>With balance comes harmony. &nbsp; Keeping things in
            balance is difficult.&nbsp; For the vampire, there are more personal issues that need to
            be kept in balance: predator-prey, passion-reason, lust-restraint, and
            violence-peace.&nbsp; Each needs to be exercised equally or harmony is lost.&nbsp; All of
            one thing, no matter how well intentioned or how well presented, will throw the balance
            off, disrupting the harmony, and destroying order. </small></td>
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            <td width="62%" valign="top"><small><p align="center"></small><font color="#800000"><strong>Beast</strong></font></td>
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            <td width="62%" valign="top"><small>Instinct plays a vital role. &nbsp; When a vampire
            looks at another she can see the raw primal force that lurks. &nbsp; Every calm is
            followed by a storm.&nbsp; The longer the calm the more violent the storm. Vampire respect
            the beast, as it is the instinct that drives passion and curiousity.&nbsp; the beast
            pushes boundaries, tests limits, and throws all caution to the wind.&nbsp; The beast is
            neither stupid nor intelligent.&nbsp; The beast is pure instinct.</small></td>
            <td width="38%"><img src="../Images/beast.gif" alt="Beast --  (c) 2000 Sean D. Francis" width="150" height="150"></td>
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            <td width="62%" valign="top"><small><p align="center"></small><font color="#800000"><strong>Blood</strong></font></td>
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            <td width="62%" valign="top"><small>Blood represents two important things to the vampire.
            &nbsp; It represents their existence.&nbsp; It is their source of strength and power.
            &nbsp; But it also represents their greatest weakness.&nbsp; The lust for blood has
            clouded the judgment of many.&nbsp; Are vampire powerful because of their reliance on
            blood, or are they powerful because of the control they have over their addiction. &nbsp;
            No matter which, the addiction is a downward spiral that inevitably ends in personal
            destruction for the weak.</small></td>
            <td width="38%"><img src="../Images/blood.gif" alt="Blood --  (c) 2000 Sean D. Francis" width="150" height="150"></td>
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            <td width="62%" valign="top"><small><p align="center"></small><font color="#800000"><strong>City</strong></font></td>
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            <td width="62%" valign="top"><small>Cities represent the development of civilization and
            the inevitable collapse of civilization.&nbsp; Vampire have witnessed this cycle over and
            over.&nbsp; When a vampire sees something being built, she can remember what used to be at
            that location before and knows that eventually the current structure will collapse over
            time, or be demolished.&nbsp; No empire lasts forever.</small></td>
            <td width="38%"><img src="../Images/city.gif" alt="City --  (c) 2000 Sean D. Francis" width="150" height="150"></td>
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            <td width="62%" valign="top"><small><p align="center"></small><font color="#800000"><strong>Reaper</strong></font></td>
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            <td width="62%" valign="top"><small>Harvest is a time of death and a time of cleansing.
            &nbsp; The concept of death to the immortal loses meaning over time.&nbsp; It becomes less
            a time to fear but a time to be cleansed.&nbsp; A vampire knows that once a generation she
            needs to cleanse herself and begin anew in order to perpetrate her unnatural existence
            among mortals.&nbsp; Ending are beginnings.</small></td>
            <td width="38%"><img src="../Images/reaper.gif" alt="Reaper --  (c) 2000 Sean D. Francis" width="150" height="150"></td>
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            <td width="62%" valign="top"><small><p align="center"></small><font color="#800000"><strong>Sun</strong></font></td>
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            <td width="62%" valign="top"><small>Contrary to popular belief, vampires do not curse the
            Sun any more than a man who cannot swim curses the ocean.&nbsp; The Sun to the vampire
            represents the inevitable.&nbsp; There are many things once cannot have any control over,
            even if one is immortal.&nbsp; The Sun represents all that cannot be controlled.&nbsp; It
            is a fact that must be endured and worked around.&nbsp; </small></td>
            <td width="38%"><img src="../Images/sun.gif" alt="Sun --  (c) 2000 Sean D. Francis" width="150" height="150"></td>
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        <p align="center"><font color="#000000"><em><small>Coming Soon - Vampiric Glyph Divination
        with 7 more glyphs never seen before!</small></em></font></p>
        <p><font color="#0000FF"><em><small><small>*All images presented are copywritten by Sean
        D. Francis 2000.&nbsp; These images and symbols cannot be used without expressed written
        permission from Sean D. Francis.</small></small></em></font></td>
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