The Shakroi... Part 1

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Subject: The Shakroi... Part 1

Date: Wed, Aug 27, 1997 11:11 PM

From: ErinnaM

 

 

 

Suran had said to her they were going after the six crystals.  She didn't need to think too hard or long.  There could be but one answer.  They were going after the legendary Shakroi!

 

She was familiar with their history.  It was a tale told to Vulcan children.  Her aunt had told her the tale one night sitting in her garden under the watchful eye of t'Kuht.  But as with all tales of wonder, Erinna had filed it away as a legend, something akin to the wondrous tales of Aladdin or Scheherezade.

 

As she became older and had the opportunity to travel to the worlds of the Federation, Erinna had come to realize that in all legends there is a germ of truth.  It was a puzzle which one had to think on and find that one part which would separate the truth from the fiction.

 

She thought back to that night her aunt had told her the tale of the six travellers.  Their names had always intrigued Erinna.  In Standard they were known as Sarkroi. Pamkroi, Meldkroi, Bikroi, Pakroi, and Mystkroi.  Unusual names for a Vulcan tale.  It was believed by many that this tale was proof that Vulcan had been visited by travellers from another world.  But I digress.

 

The tale went on to tell of the journeys of these travellers, journeying to far off worlds in the blink of an eye.  Travelling through the cosmos of both space and time.  Magic to children but suggesting something more to adults.

 

One tale tells of their journey to a blue world.  For the Shakroi were teachers as well as travellers.  They remained there many years and achieved great strides with the inhabitants.

 

In their gratitude, the people built them a great monument, dedicated to the travellers.  It was a marvel and provided a home for each of the Shakroi.  Five of these homes were in an open circle but the leader's home had been placed a ways apart.  Still from his home he could see his brothers.  

 

But these people were not yet ready for enlightenment.  A mistake had been made in the design and when the Shakroi enterred their new homes, they disappeared.

 

The tale goes on to tell that they became stars in the heavens and watched over the people.  Her aunt showed her a constellation of six stars, 5 in an open circle with a sixth a little below the opening.

 

She filed the story in her memory as one does with most tales told to children.  But she remembered it whenever she looked at that constellation.  After all that had happened on Orion, it was nice to be loved even if it was not admitted.  And she cherished these tales so that she never forgot them.

 

When she was teaching at the Academy, she had the luxury of spare time at the end of each semester.  During those times, she would journey to a different part of Terra and soak up not only the culture of the area but she always sought out those who kept the old ways.  These people would share with her their legends, stories which had always intrigued her.

 

It was on one of these journeys that she was introduced to Stonehenge.  At the time she had not connected the place with anything outside of the stories she had been told by the shaman.  He had described the setting as everything from a celestial observatory to a Druidic temple.  It wasn't until later when she had returned to the Academy and began to do some more work on the setting that she had thought of her aunt all those years ago and the tales she told her.

 

It wasn't the henges which had seemed such a monumental task in themselves.  It wasn't the Aubrey holes nor the Sarsen circle.  Even though the remarkable ability of these men and women to erect those stones.  It was the Trilithons.  They were 5 in number in a circle, open at the bottom.  And there sitting aways off, was the Heel Stone.  She just stared at the screen.  Had she discovered a link between the two?

 

[ To Be Continued... ]