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piratejournal2013-09-25 06:15 pm
aucella) wrote in piratejournal2013-09-25 06:15 pm
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Entry 2 - date ???
The storm has passed, and I hope those of you who read this find yourselves in safer waters. The Sun has been refitted and left port once more.
I found nothing of substance on the island of Yuezhong as I did not have the opportunity to go far inland. It was a hostile environment and once we had come into port there had been little to no one who would speak to me much less allow me to work for some coin. I wish I could have found a decent library or archives of some kind while we were there as it seemed a place of culture. Surely there might have been something about this jewel - the ruby I've seen mentioned. Granting a wish sounds great, but is it real? Or just another legend now?
I've been thinking, working through my own memory of my textbooks to try and find something similar in any ancient lore. There are a lot of 'wish-granting jewels' that are especially prevalent in Buddhist and Hindu culture. Some pearls, some sapphires, emeralds, ect. The list is extensive but they all have one thing in common, their power to grant wishes.
One of particular interest is the Chintamani Stone, in Hindu tradition it is often depicted as a fabulous jewel in the possession of the Naga king. I remember in my theology courses that it was spoken about in the Yoga Vasistha.
All of the mani jewels are meant to be simple metaphors for enlightenment. But could this be real?
This isn't any sort of lead, and I hope - that when the time comes for our 'question of the week' there will be some curious minds who would like to ask this.
[And, hours later, there is a hastily scratched name down below it.]
- Croft
I found nothing of substance on the island of Yuezhong as I did not have the opportunity to go far inland. It was a hostile environment and once we had come into port there had been little to no one who would speak to me much less allow me to work for some coin. I wish I could have found a decent library or archives of some kind while we were there as it seemed a place of culture. Surely there might have been something about this jewel - the ruby I've seen mentioned. Granting a wish sounds great, but is it real? Or just another legend now?
I've been thinking, working through my own memory of my textbooks to try and find something similar in any ancient lore. There are a lot of 'wish-granting jewels' that are especially prevalent in Buddhist and Hindu culture. Some pearls, some sapphires, emeralds, ect. The list is extensive but they all have one thing in common, their power to grant wishes.
One of particular interest is the Chintamani Stone, in Hindu tradition it is often depicted as a fabulous jewel in the possession of the Naga king. I remember in my theology courses that it was spoken about in the Yoga Vasistha.
All of the mani jewels are meant to be simple metaphors for enlightenment. But could this be real?
This isn't any sort of lead, and I hope - that when the time comes for our 'question of the week' there will be some curious minds who would like to ask this.
[And, hours later, there is a hastily scratched name down below it.]
- Croft