Of Love, Sol, Moons, and Death Being a treatise on the ignorance of my colleagues and the general lack of things to do at the Lycaeum --As recorded by Erethian, dedicated Scholar of Truth How many hours have I wasted listening to my colleagues debate the nature of Love, Sol, Moons, and Death? How many years have they spent deciphering the meaning of the Cards that helped the Avatar defeat Exodus? Countless. And nothing meaningful has emerged. In fact, no one knows what the cards were, much less the meaning that underlies their names. Not surprisingly, many of my peers insist they were, indeed, "cards," and cite countless pieces of irrelevant evidence to support this observation. The more imaginative extrapolate a bit: Some claim that runes and symbols were etched into the Cards, and one lad went as far to claim that a pattern of holes had been punched out in each. Others insist the Cards were circular in nature, flat disk-like objects. Then there was Mariah who, as a jest, combined every speculation into one. She claimed that they were indeed disks, but that they were contained within thin cards that had holes, thus permitting access the disks. To her chargrine, but not my surprise, her revelation kept several of our peers searching for elusive evidence to support her theory. As I've indicated, I was more amused with my peers attempt to subscribe meaning to each Card. Several attempted to correlate the Cards to Truth, Love, Courage, and the Axiom that the three Principles formed. Generally, they all agreed that if the first three Cards culminated in Exodus' death, then the fourth card, Death, was equivalent to the Axiom--the culmination of Truth, Love, and Courage. Of course, they then claimed the Card of Love represented Love. Sol seemed to speak of Truth and so, by default, Moons was equated with Courage. No evidence, of course, but damn the Avatar if it didn't sound good. One clever woman gave a more imaginative, and in my humble opinion, a more accurate description of the Cards' meaning--though again, no evidence was forthcoming. She equated the four Cards with the four elements, the combination of which was needed to banish Exodus to the Void. Thus, in her thesis, Love represented the fires that burn with all passion, Sol was as ethereal as air, the Moons represented the forces that governed the waters, and finally, she insisted, no one could deny that Death litters the earth. . .