Tallats Codex

Tallats Codex is a corpus of papyri found in a variety of locations believed by some to be from the notebooks kept by the scientist Tallat, widely believed to be the intellectual behind the resurrection of the Army of Shades, the rediscovery of The God Machine, and even The Rending itself and The Rending War. The provenance of many of the pages is highly controversial and for a long period, some if not all of the pages were considered to be forged. While some Scholars, such as SDAC Tabishka, believe that the pages are mostly, if not entirely, genuine and have developed consistent arguments to connect them, others remain skeptical.

Document Structure

Clauses

The notes in both sections are fragmented in terms of content. They deal with a range of subjects, some of which appear to be linked between the two sets of pages (something which contributed to the theory that they may be from Tallat herself, or somebody who worked with her). The pages are unnumbered, and several have been written in a cipher that has hindered reading since its discovery. Given that it was widely believed to be a forgery, the pages have, until recently, not received much interest other than for minor research projects (such as those conducted by SDAC Tabishka and others).
Many of the notes concern spurious theories about the nature of Kata, Ana, and even the potential to control Heka.

Publication Status

The various surviving pages are held at Amin Duum Taijis Nil Museum. Initially, only the sheets that had been found in Amin Duum Exclusion Zone were kept here, while the sheets found in The Great Takla area were stored at Nas Ashca. During the 4620s, however, there was an increased interest in scholarship around early Kata research around this time, and the pages from the Nas Ashca were eventually transferred during a small project at the Taijis Nil Museum to clarify whether there was any foundation to the theory that the two corpora were, in fact, from the same source.
Katarisation of the material in the Amin Duum Taijis Nil Museum, along with investigations into the likely origin of the Aaru reed that formed the support for each page, confirmed that they had the same likely origin and age. Further paleaographical analysis by Tabishka has strongly argued that these pages are, in fact, in the same or a similar hand and written at a similar point in time. All this has revised assumptions that the pages belong to two different individuals. This is, however, contested by some researchers at the Nas Ashca, who have raised valid questions about how the pages became distributed over such a wide area. Translation remains difficult, owing to the cipher used on some pages appearing to be inconsistently applied, and the difficulty deciphering which parts of the manuscript are ciphered and which written in an unusual dialect of either Tikhtai or Basati.

The Bone Moth

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Type

Journal, Personal

Medium

Papyrus

Authoring Date

5–0 FEA

Myth

The Bone Moth

Location

Cir Nacayjil

Authors

• Tallat