Fragment of Dream
Aug. 24th, 2005 08:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
featherynscaleI dreamed last night, which I apparently haven't done in Quite Some Time, and woke up with a piece stuck in my brain, all splintery-like.
There was a book (like a library book -- hardback with a paper dust jacket wrapped in plastic). I was reading from it, possibly from the inside flap. It said "Of course, there were inter-racial clans, clans that would accept anybody, but they were the poorer clans. Most of them had never felt the bite of gold on their fingers. But then, in my nearly 8 centuries upon this earth, no man has ever offered to make me Queen, either. Or at least, no man of worth."
In context, it seems that the speaker was a member of a clan that all looked alike and pretended to be a family. The advantage to this was that the younger-looking ones could go out in public for some years, and then the older-looking ones could take over the identity, and in a few years, the younger-looking ones would re-emerge, pretending to be the next generation. The 'bite of gold' seemed like a badge of office, a ring that designated the rulers of all the clans. The clans didn't seem to be vampires, but they were some sort of immortals. I believe that the speaker was a voudoun practitioner. She later clarified her age as being either 758 or 785.
It seemed like it might be a good story. I'm thinking of writing it someday, if I don't read it first.
ALSO YES EDIT:
At some point, I was in the house of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
chaosdruid and niveus_tigris, and erusumbros was also there. It was raining outside, really pouring buckets. As I crossed the threshhold, someone inside shouted 'Fire!', which I thought might have been related to me leaving the premises (not that I started a fire, but that in some way, my being there was preventing the fire).
AND THEN AGAIN:
I was thinking that one or the other of the numbers would correspond a la gematria to something interesting... and maybe they do. 758 could relate back to 'ambush/unexpected destruction', 'copper/worthless', or 'the fifth part of something/one-fifth'. 785 could relate back to 'until I set'. Maybe one of those things will be useful.
There was a book (like a library book -- hardback with a paper dust jacket wrapped in plastic). I was reading from it, possibly from the inside flap. It said "Of course, there were inter-racial clans, clans that would accept anybody, but they were the poorer clans. Most of them had never felt the bite of gold on their fingers. But then, in my nearly 8 centuries upon this earth, no man has ever offered to make me Queen, either. Or at least, no man of worth."
In context, it seems that the speaker was a member of a clan that all looked alike and pretended to be a family. The advantage to this was that the younger-looking ones could go out in public for some years, and then the older-looking ones could take over the identity, and in a few years, the younger-looking ones would re-emerge, pretending to be the next generation. The 'bite of gold' seemed like a badge of office, a ring that designated the rulers of all the clans. The clans didn't seem to be vampires, but they were some sort of immortals. I believe that the speaker was a voudoun practitioner. She later clarified her age as being either 758 or 785.
It seemed like it might be a good story. I'm thinking of writing it someday, if I don't read it first.
ALSO YES EDIT:
At some point, I was in the house of
chaosdruid and niveus_tigris, and erusumbros was also there. It was raining outside, really pouring buckets. As I crossed the threshhold, someone inside shouted 'Fire!', which I thought might have been related to me leaving the premises (not that I started a fire, but that in some way, my being there was preventing the fire).AND THEN AGAIN:
I was thinking that one or the other of the numbers would correspond a la gematria to something interesting... and maybe they do. 758 could relate back to 'ambush/unexpected destruction', 'copper/worthless', or 'the fifth part of something/one-fifth'. 785 could relate back to 'until I set'. Maybe one of those things will be useful.
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Data!
Date: 2005-08-24 09:24 pm (UTC)I note Isabella of Aragorn born in 1247, but she actually was a Queen (as consort). In the conetxt of Africa, you might take a look at the Epic of Sundiata and the founding of the Mali Empire; there's a sorcerer-king involved in the losing kingdom. The early 1200's were also the time of ascendancy of the Khans in Asia, continuing on through most of the Century. St. Francis of Assisi made inroads of Christianity in Egypt in 1219 during the Fifth Crusade.
Interestingly, Adelaide of Holland was born c. 1222 but while she had several relatives who were Queens and Kings, she was never one herself, though she was regent. And Saint Isabel of France (daughter of Louis VIII, born 1225) was made a saint after a virtuous/virgin life and her body being exhumed uncorrupted after 9 days.
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Date: 2005-08-24 09:33 pm (UTC)One day, when I'm a novelist like
Mali looks profitable, actually.
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Date: 2005-08-25 03:02 pm (UTC)kept manresearch assistant when you get rich and famous...Re: Data!
Date: 2005-08-25 03:12 pm (UTC)(I am such a dork.)
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Date: 2005-08-26 01:50 pm (UTC)