Start-Here

Start-Here

A trail, not a feed. Start with the sky before the flip. Then look at what survived on the ground.

This is not a feed.
This is a library.

X is the workbench.
The book is the case file.

This site is where the pieces sit still long enough to follow. Read it in order the first time. After that, wander.

What this library is

This is a trail through evidence that did not get permission to exist.

Old maps that still say Tartaria.
Buildings half-buried with no construction photos.
Chronology that needs extra centuries and Camoflage-Civilizations™ to hide a gap.
A sky older than the one we were handed.

After the cataclysm, people did not vanish.
They rebuilt, migrated, and named provinces.

Tartaria is that later layer.
The maps, the walls, the buried first floors, the vassal kingdoms, the names/peoples later folded into Nation-States, rebranded as 'tribes' or 'dynasties', and labeled as 'myth'.

No church. No utopia. No "believe me".
Look, then decide.

Why Saturn comes first

Before there was an empire on the maps, there was a sky.

The old world did not start with Tartaria.

The gods on the reliefs and in the oldest books are not primitive inventions. They are the old sky written down after the lights changed.

If you skip this, Tartaria looks like a random name on a map.

If you start here, Tartaria becomes what it actually is: the last large civilization that still remembered the world before the flip.

Two doors. Same house. All connected.

One door is the wreckage you can still walk through.. the 'Old World', the salvage cities, the stone that looks too good for the official century, the maps that remember a different layout, topography, etymology.

That door is Tartaria.. not a cartoon empire, but the name and polity for the people who inherited a broken sky and tried to rebuild while the memory was still hot.

The other door is the sky that broke... Saturn.. the polar lock, the purple dawn, the column, the ancient writings, the seven that sat in a chord, the day the tether failed.

That is not a sequel to Tartaria. It is the reason Tartaria exists.

First the enclosure. Then the flood, the slip, the wander, then the salvage.

You can enter either way.

~If you want the cities, the salvage, the later stone, the fantastic buildings, and the Tartar-Sauce™ to back it up, take the Tartaria door. You will still meet the sky.

~If you want the cause, the lost harmony, the flip, the fossils in glass and pillars, the momumental-alignments, and Stone-Fossils™ that remember, take the Saturn door. You will still meet the cities.

The through-line is the same.. something coherent ended, and everything after is people trying to stand the column back up in rock, ritual, and story.

Choose a door.
The house is one house.

Saturn is the sky before.
The reset is the cut.
Tartaria is what was still standing when the new story started getting written.

Wall the path with me..

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Walk it in this order

  1. The Sky Before the Flip
  1. The Cut
  1. The Maps Still Say Tartaria
  1. They Found the Buildings
  1. How to Read the Book

After the trail

The book — the long form.
About — who is writing this, and the rules of the work.
Sources — maps, plates, papers, footnotes.

Start with the sky.
Then look at what survived on the ground.

~Travis Bosdell