incident report 002

The Imperial Decree

Unverified

Ottoman imperial firman — warning decree

Recovered: Ottoman warning text (firman)

Found near: Kurul Kalesi, northern Anatolia

Issued: Muharram, month of Safar, 1287 AH (1870 CE)

Reign: Sultan Abdul Hamid Khan

Recovery coordinates: 41.00, 37.88

Original Text

قوت زیر کارناول
تحذیر اهالی القری

بدانکه هرگاه در صحرا خیمه سیاه ظاهر اولوب
و زرین چراغ یاسنه و نغمه غریب اشتیتسه
هیچ طفل و جوان بدان نزدیک و رمیه.
هر که اندرون او کرد، اسی و خاطره سی بد
هر خانه و هر قریه بدون اعلان آگاه اووله.

بو فرمان، بحضور امام و کدخدایی قره،
بر هر خانه ده ابلاغ اولونسون.

محرّم فی شهر صفر سنه ۱۲۸۷
فی عبد السلطان عبد الحمید خان
نصرة الله و ایّاه

Translation — English

Force Beneath the Carnival
Warning of the village people

Know that whenever a black tent appears in the desert and golden lamps shine and a strange melody is heard, no child or young person should go near it or throw themselves toward it.

Whoever enters inside it, memory and thought become ruined.

Every house and every village should be informed without announcement.

This firman, in the presence of the imam and the village headman, should be announced to every house ten times.

Muharram, in the month of Safar, year 1287
By Abdul Sultan Abdul Hamid Khan
May God aid him and protect him

The woman in stone. See Cybele. See the seated figure. They are the same. 2,100 years between the statue and this decree. She sits on a throne. She has always sat on a throne.

Same pattern as Incident 001. The tent. The golden light. The woman. The man in the hat. Different century. Different continent. Same story.

"Memory and thought become ruined."

Same as the Russian tale. The child forgets. The parents forget. Everyone forgets. It doesn't just take people. It erases them.

He cannot leave.

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