Her Final Gift Of Life
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twilightponyMoondancer's notes are hard to follow at times. Since she's piecing together fragments and fused bits, not everything is transcribed in narrative order. It's more in the order that she was working on the scroll at the time, or times. I remember how tired she was coming out of a Haycartes session. She probably experienced the easiest, clearest parts first and built up the content from there. Buried in the middle is a description of what I take is the end of Epona's story, about where she was trying to pull everypony out of their icy dreams.
Epona collected as many weak, dreaming ponies as she could and she led them to dream grasslands to play. She couldn't leave them for long and go collect more sleeping ponies because many would slip back into dreaming of strife, cold and snow. Nor would they wake up. But Epona would not give up. She dug in her hooves and led them on romps through tall grass wet with dew, to dust baths under a warm sun and games of tag. They grew stronger and she led them on gallops through the dreamscape to draw in more sleeping ponies and break them out of this nightmare.
Everypony would she nuzzle and to everypony she would give strength though it taxed her, for she had nary a thing to eat nor waking moment in which to do so. She grew gaunt, her years caught up with her body as her mind fought on. But ponies began to awake. At first just a few, and remembering joy and the warmth of the All Mother, they raised the others from their slumber. The crystal light in Epona's stable flickered and glowed anew.
Epona rested on her bed, a withered shadow of the eternal youth she had been. The snows melted as ponies brought Epona's harmony to the waking world. Epona had given her all to her herd, to everypony she could reach. She slipped into eternal sleep. She has joined the stars but her body is here still, in her last home and her final resting place.
That's it so far.
OK, who wrote the gold scrolls? Was it Epona? Was it a caretaker pony? Was it merely finished by the ponies that sealled the tomb, leaving it as a final chapter to Epona's story? Moondancer should be able to tell when one author ends and another picks up the story in a written work. Unless the whole thing was transcribed from the paper scrolls. Or if Epona somehow dictated most of the final chapter to a dreaming pony as she lay dying.
Well, Moondancer and professor Quest are still working on unravelling this find. I expect many other schollars will be studying it for years to come as well.
The All Mother. They found the All Mother! This is big. I see now why Moondancer sent me a copy of her notes. For safe keeping. I think I'm going to go hug a dragon now.
Epona collected as many weak, dreaming ponies as she could and she led them to dream grasslands to play. She couldn't leave them for long and go collect more sleeping ponies because many would slip back into dreaming of strife, cold and snow. Nor would they wake up. But Epona would not give up. She dug in her hooves and led them on romps through tall grass wet with dew, to dust baths under a warm sun and games of tag. They grew stronger and she led them on gallops through the dreamscape to draw in more sleeping ponies and break them out of this nightmare.
Everypony would she nuzzle and to everypony she would give strength though it taxed her, for she had nary a thing to eat nor waking moment in which to do so. She grew gaunt, her years caught up with her body as her mind fought on. But ponies began to awake. At first just a few, and remembering joy and the warmth of the All Mother, they raised the others from their slumber. The crystal light in Epona's stable flickered and glowed anew.
Epona rested on her bed, a withered shadow of the eternal youth she had been. The snows melted as ponies brought Epona's harmony to the waking world. Epona had given her all to her herd, to everypony she could reach. She slipped into eternal sleep. She has joined the stars but her body is here still, in her last home and her final resting place.
That's it so far.
OK, who wrote the gold scrolls? Was it Epona? Was it a caretaker pony? Was it merely finished by the ponies that sealled the tomb, leaving it as a final chapter to Epona's story? Moondancer should be able to tell when one author ends and another picks up the story in a written work. Unless the whole thing was transcribed from the paper scrolls. Or if Epona somehow dictated most of the final chapter to a dreaming pony as she lay dying.
Well, Moondancer and professor Quest are still working on unravelling this find. I expect many other schollars will be studying it for years to come as well.
The All Mother. They found the All Mother! This is big. I see now why Moondancer sent me a copy of her notes. For safe keeping. I think I'm going to go hug a dragon now.
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Date: 2016-03-14 12:52 am (UTC)Hopefully the author can be figured out for such a amazing discovery!
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Date: 2016-03-15 12:47 am (UTC)no subject
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