• When most people think of Ancient Quatria, they’re actually thinking of what scholars refer to as Classical Quatria, from which most of the myths & legends we know of today ultimately descend.
  • Before that though, there were millenia and eons which passed in that place, each with their own unique histories and peoples.
  • One of the better known precursors to Classical Quatrian civilization was the Hieruthians, or Old Ones, who were hyper-intelligent rodent-like creatures (some scientists have identified them as the ‘Silurian’ Civilization, but this is a later Pentarch word, which we reject).
  • Even the Old Ones were not the first, however!
  • The true First Civilization of Quatria is known as the Archaeans. They loaned their names to the scientific terms Archaean Eon, and the domain microorganisms, called Archaea.
  • Extremophiles, the Archaeans lived among the so-called microbial mats which grew into stromatolites in shallow water along the Great River at the Dawn of Time.
  • The Archaeans fed on the nutrient dense stromatolites by gnawing and burrowing within these structures, gradually hollowing them out over time, as can be seen in the image reproduced above.
  • The image above is a reproduction of a damaged drawing discovered among the personal effects of Edward Allen Oxford, whose adventures are described in more detail here.
  • Oxford claimed to have visited Quatria, and been shown a great many things by the inhabitants of that mystical land, including glimpses of its ancient early history.
  • The drawing also appears to depict an archaic ancestor of prototaxites, which as a type of columnar fungus which could grow up to 25 feet or taller.
  • Conspiracy theorists believe that the obelisks found at Quatrian ruins near the South Pole, as well as all over the world, are actually symbolic representations of these ancient upright fungi which once dominated the landscape.
  • The trees depict are believed to be among the earliest ancestors of tree species such as Wattieza, similar to what is known from the Gilboa Fossil Forest. Wattieza had fronds rather than leaves, and reproduced with spores.
  • The arrangement depicted of the Archaean settlement amidst islands in a river is typical of that civilization, whose manifestations that we know of were always along nodes in the Great River.
  • In Quatrian mythology, this configuration is also sometimes described as the “World Vine.”
  • In actuality though, the most similar comparison today would be the bladders or vesiscles found in seaweeds, such as the egg wrack or bladder wrack.
  • What are seen in these seaweeds as air bladders can be compard to in terms of Quatrian meta-symbolic brane cosmology as worlds unto themselves.
  • We know that in that world view, each world-pod started as a seed or impulse within the Great River, which grew and accumulated, and drew nutrients from the flow of that River.
  • Some world-pods expanded, branched off, and developed into their own fully fledged worlds, the agglomeration of which we know of as the “Wide Lands” in Quatrian myth.
  • The Wide Lands are something like the Multiverse of modern theoretical physics, but traversible by the wise or gifted in those tales.
  • Within that conception, the “seaweed” of each branching set of pod-worlds can be thought of as held within the higher-dimensional manifold scientists refer to as the “bulk,” (something like the Cosmic Ocean in Quatrian myth) affixed by a holdfast to that source of Life and Growth, Anthuor.

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