RITA'S RITING CHALLANGE #4 -- 2012

 

 

2012

Lord it was a beautiful night, far to nice to be working at a desk. Thankfully the conference room had a large window.

"We got it We got it!!" echoed down the hallway, the door burst open and Bernie yelled:

"We Got it!!! We got it deciphered!!!"

This project had been active off and on for over 50 years now, ever since the ‘artifact’ had been discovered in the WWII construction at White Sands. It has been behind barbed wire and fences since then. All very hush hush and need to know only type of work. This latest work had been going on for five years steady, most of us had been here all of those five years, with out much to show, until now.

We knew, or were pretty sure by computer analyze that the ‘artifact’ had something to do with

planetary cycles, either sun or moon most likely. The strange thing was, it was made of a extremely hard and rare type of granite, only a few other unworked pieces had ever been found world wide. And it was covered in unknown pictographs, much like Mayan or Aztec, but different. No one knew how old it was, nothing that was in anyway datable had been found with it, we figure it had been buried at one time in the distant past, as the ground strata it was in was far to ancient to be contemporary with the stone.

The pictographs were barely discernable when it was first found, but with advances over the years, more and more of them were able to be seen, enough now that we had been running them on a prototype software program.

"Well, do you want to hear with Sal came up with??!!" Bernie yelled, shaking us out of our shock.

Yes!! Of course! You betcha!! Read it!!! We all said at once.

Okay, most of it was translatable, here goes!! Bernie continued. "When the New Eye of

-undecipherable- in the year of -undecipherable- , settles into the Cradle of the Gods, The Time of this Journey is Full, and the Time of this Passage Ends"

"Sounds like a typical end of the world scenario, those old timers sure knew how to keep their people in line. The End of the World is near, better obey, stay in line, listen to us. . ."

"We call them politicians today!!" Someone at the back said, the room filled with quiet laughter.

"Okay, that is a start, any progress on the rest of the text?"

"With this opening in their ‘alphabet’ Sal is humming right along, shouldn’t be long before more translations are forth coming" Bernie answered. We often worried about Bernie and Sal He spent way too much time in her control room.

"Okay, every body, Team Red, cross check this translation, Blue Team some more light scans on the stone, I want the clearest possible resolution on my desk an hour ago!"

 

We gathered our equipment and went out the back. Walking towards the stone, it glowed in the moonlight, probably my imagination, it seemed to have an extra something in the reflected light. This might not be an easy scan.

We walked along the trail, The moon was almost down now, I loved this part of the job, the night air was cool and refreshing. On a moonless night the stars were beyond number, even with a full moon, more stars could be seen than in most cities. I glanced up, just beautiful, even a wisp of the Milky Way, Looking back to the stone, the moon was down now, almost touching the horizon. As we came to the flat stone we called the Dance Floor, and stood in the center, we realized the Moon was perfectly cradled in the artifact. We looked at one another in unbelief, that had never happened before!! I glance up again, the stars, the milky way were growing dim, and one after another, were blinking out. . .