{"product_id":"the-orphic-tablet-pendant","title":"The Orphic Tablet Pendant","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"148\" data-end=\"316\"\u003eIn the ancient world, thin sheets of gold were inscribed with instructions for navigating the afterlife and tucked into linen shrouds. A map for the soul; a golden key.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"318\" data-end=\"577\"\u003eThis pendant is based on the Petelia Gold Tablet, a 3rd to 2nd century BCE Orphic inscription from southern Italy, unearthed in the 1830s. Its ancient Greek text guides the dead away from the waters of forgetfulness and toward the spring of Mnemosyne: Memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"579\" data-end=\"818\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003eCast in solid gold, the pendant translates an ancient funerary text into a wearable relic. Its words evoke thirst, darkness, memory, and divine descent: the soul not as something lost, but as something instructed, prepared, and remembered.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1123\" data-end=\"1220\"\u003eA talisman for transformation, memory, and the hidden knowledge carried beyond the visible world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe translated inscription reads:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eYou will find to the left of the house of Hades a spring,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eand by it stands a white cypress.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eYou should not even come near this spring!\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eBut you will find another one, from the Lake of Memory,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ecold water pouring forth. But there are guardians in front of it.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eSay, \"I am the child of Earth and Starry Heaven,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ebut my race is heavenly. This you yourselves also know!\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eI am parched with thirst and perishing. Quickly give me\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ecold water pouring forth from the Lake of Memory!\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eAnd they will give you to drink from the divine [la]ke.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eAnd thereafter you will reign [with the other] heroes.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis is [the \"gift] of [Memory.\" Whenever he is about] to die,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e[let the dying hero] write this [on a tablet of gold],\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e[before loathsome] darkness [might take him],\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ehaving enclosed him all around.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Common Era","offers":[{"title":"14k Solid Yellow Gold","offer_id":48616638775553,"sku":"PE-ORPHIC-14KYG","price":1500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"14k Solid White Gold","offer_id":48616638808321,"sku":"PE-ORPHIC-14KWG","price":1500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"18k Solid Yellow Gold","offer_id":48616638841089,"sku":"PE-ORPHIC-18KYG","price":2200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"18k Solid White Gold","offer_id":48616638873857,"sku":"PE-ORPHIC-18KWG","price":2200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0072\/1580\/8557\/files\/OrphicTabletPendantAncientJewelrygold.png?v=1778759410","url":"https:\/\/commonera.com\/products\/the-orphic-tablet-pendant","provider":"COMMON ERA","version":"1.0","type":"link"}