Po, Soror E. and Frater A. were circumambulating the Glyph this day, purpose being primarily the charging of the manuscript to be sent to Llewellyn in two days.
Upon reaching the point of Jupiter, we noticed that a large amount of grafitti had been painted in the street, a few yards from the designated place. Frater A. examined them and made this sketch:
The upper set of runes was set apart by about 20 feet from the design given below. A neighbor noticed A. making notes and came over to him: "makin' a survey?"
"Pretty much. I couldn't help but notice the old Anglo-Saxon runes--I'm a Anthropology student and they stood right out� They're new, right?"
"There's some kids over there (indicates a house) that were renting. Landlord had to get them evicted�finally!"
"Rowdy crowd?"
"Oh yeah. Glad they're gone�"
It didn't take long to determine that the people who made the markings were doubtless motivated by some crude and drug-induced frenzy to make their mark upon the landscape, but after a head-count and a 40 minutes of mutual grilling, we established that it hadn't been one of us.
Frater A. undertook a quick and dirty translation and assurred himself that the runes were not being used in any normal way he could find, and were the result of either another system of straight-forward symbol-substitution or were a whole lot closer to random, perhaps drawn more to create an impression , rather than to leave a specific message. The lower symbol resembles a Chinese which means "Love", but is missing key components, as tho' it were scrawled from a vague memory.
We've come to no conclusion, just the tentative observation that synchronicity seemed to be on patrol as usual. This event is, therefor of a class lower than that event which occurred in the spring of this same year, where Frater A. and Magnus Po had set out to plot the precise lay of The Glyph on the landscape of our fair city, using bicycles for greater economy, environmental sanity and precision.
We had thought to trace the whole affair, but we soon found ourselves too tired to continue, and so left the second half off for another day. Upon the following day, we were given the news that some misguided youths had run amok during the night painting the town red with swastikas and misspelled racist slogans. Po and A both remarked that they had described the triangle servicing Jupiter, Mars and the Moon, and both would be hard-pressed to come up with a better collection of 3 planetary forces to associate to these sorts of acts. Both remarked that the last time the swastika was raised on a flag the results were a disastrous mix of War, Dicatatorial Authority and Lunacy. We promise not to do that again...
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