Snow's Eclectic Journal: 2019/07

Marjorie Chesebro - The Interview

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THE ROYAL GAME OF UR

I my long Epic story I have two characters saying their dialogue while playing a game. I did not want to use (it would feel like stealing it) my brother-in-law's Game of Kings or Chess (over used). After a little searching on the on the web I came across THE GAME OF UR; I have a city in my world named "Uruk" [next to Ur of the Biblical Chaldeans]. So I'm finishing up crafting my replica version of the world's oldest game.
I made the game from scratch. A co-worker (Stephen Hines) gave me some scrape pieces. After repairing the cover on an old Bible I realized I had a really nice piece of deer skin left over. However it is very delicate and thin and tears very easily. I don't have tools and didn't make a block of wood so drew the 'board' on the skin and then attached it with spray glue to a padded synthetic cloth material.
THE Rules of Play>

Read the Ancients

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Scribes of Ancient Egypt

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GAME: of Ur

THE GAME of UR

A place to purchase one.

http://www.dvgc.com/gk/Bens_ur.html

POEM of Sinuhe

THE POEM read beautifully aloud.

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Thinking back... to my trip

I was re-watching the video of my 2011 Colombian trip, and thinking back on all the amazing things that were so brief and now long ago. I knew then they were amazing. I knew then it would be over in a flash, and I knew then I wanted the essence of every moment to last; I'm thrilled and proud of myself for having gone and experienced such things without regret. Regret; wish I still had the hard earned and reason - teeth, they broke a few months later and have yet to be replaced.

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Thriyel: INSCRIPTIONS

NOTE TO SELF:

The actual BOOK OF KORALE was found in a Qumran LOST CAVE discovery in Israel. Enclosed in a chest with an Indus Script [[SEALS script]] Sumerian [[Dravidian languages]] and Nasilian [Text A] {This became the Rosetta Stone for Christopher Townsend's transliterated manuscript.}
INDUS deciphered?