Yermah the Dorado: The story of a lost raceWait, Frona Eunice
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Yermah the Dorado: The story of a lost race
Wait, Frona Eunice
Fantasy fiction; Geographical myths -- Fiction
The negative magnetic laws govern the astral and psychic qualities of
man, while the positive electric currents control the physical. Time and
space have no influence over the former conditions—facts which were well
known to primitive civilizations.
The papakoo, or cemetery of Tlamco, was a terraced range of hills, south
of Mountain Lake, then called the River of Mystery, which still lies
between Golden Gate Park and the ocean on the north. It is much shrunken
in proportions and depth, though retaining the same oblong outline. The
hills form a natural divide between the Park and Sutro Heights, and then
as now jutted into the ocean at their northern extremity.
For six weeks the embalmers were engaged with the body of Orondo, and
when they had finished, it was completely mummified. They put salt on
his breast, as an emblem of immortality, and a gold gorget around his
neck, with the inscription:
“O Hidden Being! Turn thy face toward the body of thy son!”
The corpse was wrapped in fine linen bandelettes, and a Saint Andrew’s
cross of copper was laid over the region of the heart outside the
enveloping swathes.
In the northwestern portion of the city, at the upper end of the lake,
was the Temple of Uranus, where dwelt the priesthood who had charge of
the dead.
This mound had a circular earth vallum seven hundred feet in diameter,
which is one three-hundred-thousandths of the diameter of the planet
Uranus.
It was here that Orondo’s body was prepared for burial, and it was from
this place that the funeral cortége embarked. While it was being rowed
across the lake, the mourners scattered rushes on its smooth surface as
a sacrifice and peace-offering.
Yermah, Setos, Imos and Hanabusa rowed the funeral barge; and when it
landed at the opposite end, they lifted the mummy onto the catafalque
standing ready to receive it.
All that was mortal of Orondo was laid in a bed of aloe, yew, cypress,
weeping-willow, rosemary and yellow marigolds, while over him was spread
the fated mantle given to him by Yermah. On top of this was the sword,
helmet and shield of the deceased.
A long line of warriors, with reversed spears, whose pennants trailed in
the dust, marched up a long line of mastodon-headed sphinxes, to the
judgment hall of Hirach, where the deceased would be tried for the deeds
done in the body.
“O Maker of the material world! Thou Holy One! Whither shall we bring,
where shall we lay, the bodies of our dead?”
After the body came Yermah, Setos, Imos and Hanabusa, followed by civic
deputations, priests and priestesses, and a great concourse of people.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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