02-16-2020, 02:50 PM | #71 | |
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Re: [RPM] Gem Lore, Lapidaries and Precious Stones as Traditional Trappings
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Anyway, he told me that he briefly considered not mentioning his find to anyone and just taking the rock home. Not a single thing would have stopped him, but, then again, there is absolutely no way that he could have profited from doing so (beyond the pleasure of owning the rock personally and telling nobody, ever, about it). The evidence needed to authenticate it would have had to been left in obscure paper records no one had computerized or even thought about for decades. Ah, indeed.
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02-16-2020, 05:33 PM | #72 | |
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Re: [RPM] Gem Lore, Lapidaries and Precious Stones as Traditional Trappings
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Thinking of how to possibly appropriate the omega concept to the other cultist's culture made me realize your Chinese cultists (and possibly the Japanese-American leader of the New Age-types) probably have some thematic connection to the number "4" with their mystical paraphernalia, as that's often considered to be an unlucky number associated with death in those cultures (indeed, I know in Japanese one of the pronunciations for the number is a homophone for "death," and I believe this is also the case in at least some Chinese dialects).
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02-16-2020, 10:49 PM | #73 | |
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Re: Gemstones Useful for Evil Cultists
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02-17-2020, 04:43 PM | #74 | ||
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Re: Gemstones Useful for Evil Cultists
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I'm particularly enamored of the symbolic significance of a broken ouroboros, infinity sign or ankh as occult objects for the cutists of the Keepers of the Last Hearth. Which of these would work best as jewelry or other decoration that would be recognizable as a broken symbol of eternity or life? I'm concerned that a broken ouroboros might just look like a coiled snake and the other two as absract symbols and would be very interested in designs that clearly convey the 'broken' part. Quote:
Ah, indeed so!
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