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Miscellany:
Vampire Glyphs
by Sean D. Francis
In 1908, a team of Italian archeologists uncovered a relic in the Minoan palace of Phaistos in Crete.  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.  This relic is referred to as the Phaistos Disc.  A similar object was uncovered five years later in an excavation around the city currently called Ismir in Turkey.

Archeologists were excited about the second find, but soon became disheartened as the symbols were not the same.  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.  What it has revealed is both startling and exciting. 

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.  This cult practiced a ritualistic worship of beings best described as vampires.

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.  On the disc, there were over eighteen glyphs represented, but only six have been fully translated and understood.  Presented, for the first time on the internet, are the six glyphs and their interpreted meanings.

Balance

With balance comes harmony.   Keeping things in balance is difficult.  For the vampire, there are more personal issues that need to be kept in balance: predator-prey, passion-reason, lust-restraint, and violence-peace.  Each needs to be exercised equally or harmony is lost.  All of one thing, no matter how well intentioned or how well presented, will throw the balance off, disrupting the harmony, and destroying order. Balance --  (c) 2000 Sean D. Francis

Beast

Instinct plays a vital role.   When a vampire looks at another she can see the raw primal force that lurks.   Every calm is followed by a storm.  The longer the calm the more violent the storm. Vampire respect the beast, as it is the instinct that drives passion and curiousity.  the beast pushes boundaries, tests limits, and throws all caution to the wind.  The beast is neither stupid nor intelligent.  The beast is pure instinct. Beast --  (c) 2000 Sean D. Francis

Blood

Blood represents two important things to the vampire.   It represents their existence.  It is their source of strength and power.   But it also represents their greatest weakness.  The lust for blood has clouded the judgment of many.  Are vampire powerful because of their reliance on blood, or are they powerful because of the control they have over their addiction.   No matter which, the addiction is a downward spiral that inevitably ends in personal destruction for the weak. Blood --  (c) 2000 Sean D. Francis

City

Cities represent the development of civilization and the inevitable collapse of civilization.  Vampire have witnessed this cycle over and over.  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.  No empire lasts forever. City --  (c) 2000 Sean D. Francis

Reaper

Harvest is a time of death and a time of cleansing.   The concept of death to the immortal loses meaning over time.  It becomes less a time to fear but a time to be cleansed.  A vampire knows that once a generation she needs to cleanse herself and begin anew in order to perpetrate her unnatural existence among mortals.  Ending are beginnings. Reaper --  (c) 2000 Sean D. Francis

Sun

Contrary to popular belief, vampires do not curse the Sun any more than a man who cannot swim curses the ocean.  The Sun to the vampire represents the inevitable.  There are many things once cannot have any control over, even if one is immortal.  The Sun represents all that cannot be controlled.  It is a fact that must be endured and worked around.  Sun --  (c) 2000 Sean D. Francis

Coming Soon - Vampiric Glyph Divination with 7 more glyphs never seen before!

*All images presented are copywritten by Sean D. Francis 2000.  These images and symbols cannot be used without expressed written permission from Sean D. Francis.

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