Tazōzo Manuscripts
Thriving for 1,500 years, the Tazōzo civilization created many works of art, leaving behind walls of text and imagery that to this day defies translation. However, a 7,600-year-old, approximately 3-meter-long membrane manuscript, the oldest and longest of its type ever found, newly recovered from an excavated ancient Tazōzo site, may be the key to finally decoding the secrets still hidden, with archeologists still trying to piece together the ancient culture’s history and how it fits within the greater history.
Incorporating text entwined with fantastically colorful drawings and illustrations, depicting ancient cosmological configurations and possible spiritual beings, presumably featuring enchantments, spells, or medical knowledge, perhaps recited by holy elders, the manuscript likely held religious connections. It has yet to be determined but adding this manuscript to the five others surviving documents already recovered, archeologists, historians, linguists, astronomists, and cryptologists may be a step closer to unlocking the mystery surrounding the Tazōzo civilization, and what became of it after it vanished some 6,000 years ago. However, first the arduous task of painstakingly reassembling sections of the manuscript that is in tatters – seems nothing survives the sands unscathed, through times continuous, unending fall.
Illustrations on the manuscript depict early text found on funerary items, among other things, which seemingly served as a sort of spiritual map of the heavens. The funerary items themselves reportedly have dozens of drawings and texts which may have served as chants to aid the departed along their new path or into some unknown eternal life. Currently, this remains conjecture, but pieces are interlocking to create a clearer depiction of what life must have been like for ancient Tazōzo citizens. Furthermore, the manuscript contains several hitherto unseen drawings, depicted upon no other known monuments or funerary objects.
Regardless of the secrets this most recent Tazōzo manuscript holds, if it indeed holds any secrets at all, which is the contention of some scholars who argue the text man not actually be writing; other’s claim this is absurd, it must be writing, after all, it accompanies beautiful imagery. At the center of this debate are the strange symbols, which may (or may not) represent an independent writing system or language, unlinked to any other writing system or language previously recorded or discovered. If so, it would be among only two or three truly independent writing systems in known Sērbaka history. Discovery of this most recent Tazōzo manuscript came from excavation of a deep room within a carved multiroom compound, carved into a rock face on the edge of a dry lake, another, unsolved mystery.
Incorporating text entwined with fantastically colorful drawings and illustrations, depicting ancient cosmological configurations and possible spiritual beings, presumably featuring enchantments, spells, or medical knowledge, perhaps recited by holy elders, the manuscript likely held religious connections. It has yet to be determined but adding this manuscript to the five others surviving documents already recovered, archeologists, historians, linguists, astronomists, and cryptologists may be a step closer to unlocking the mystery surrounding the Tazōzo civilization, and what became of it after it vanished some 6,000 years ago. However, first the arduous task of painstakingly reassembling sections of the manuscript that is in tatters – seems nothing survives the sands unscathed, through times continuous, unending fall.
Illustrations on the manuscript depict early text found on funerary items, among other things, which seemingly served as a sort of spiritual map of the heavens. The funerary items themselves reportedly have dozens of drawings and texts which may have served as chants to aid the departed along their new path or into some unknown eternal life. Currently, this remains conjecture, but pieces are interlocking to create a clearer depiction of what life must have been like for ancient Tazōzo citizens. Furthermore, the manuscript contains several hitherto unseen drawings, depicted upon no other known monuments or funerary objects.
Regardless of the secrets this most recent Tazōzo manuscript holds, if it indeed holds any secrets at all, which is the contention of some scholars who argue the text man not actually be writing; other’s claim this is absurd, it must be writing, after all, it accompanies beautiful imagery. At the center of this debate are the strange symbols, which may (or may not) represent an independent writing system or language, unlinked to any other writing system or language previously recorded or discovered. If so, it would be among only two or three truly independent writing systems in known Sērbaka history. Discovery of this most recent Tazōzo manuscript came from excavation of a deep room within a carved multiroom compound, carved into a rock face on the edge of a dry lake, another, unsolved mystery.
Purpose
This manuscripts purpose, and the others like it remain unknown, though speculations abound, and theories are beginning to narrow, only more study can reveal the secrets of these documents and how they relate to this lost civilization.
Medium
Vellum / Skin
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