About Emeralda Regions

 A description of an imaginary place in the world of the ITinerate Professor

Words and pictures by Bill Ritchie

Emeralda Regions are located in about six places on Earth. However, at the time of this writing, the approximate geographic locations of only two are discussed. One is in the area of the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Southern France and the other is in the Pacific Northwest bordered on the south by the United States (Washington State) and on the North by Canada’s British Columbia.

Their exact locations have never been charted; like Mount Analogue, Emeralda’s existence has never been credited. This is due to an incredibly high concentration of the mineral beryl that creates an invisible, intangible shield of force that confounds today’s scientific methods of tangible or cardinal spatial approximation.

Emeralda Region, in at least its four sectors, are sites of the crash landings of four spacecraft (and possibly six) in prehistoric times from a place known only by the popular folklore name Flower Planet. Additionally, one (or perhaps two other craft) are thought to have crashed landed. The United States/Canadian site is now the center of research focus. This because there were four immortal sisters on those four craft who are the heroes in Emeralda folklore.

Their stories are told as a collection of writings titled Women Who Fell to Earth. Emeralda players — mostly artists, musicians, poets, and creative people using new technologies, are adding to this body of vignettes, songs and poems constantly. They call their activity Emeralda Play, and use a game structure not unlike Hermann Hesse's Magister Ludi: The Glass Bead Game.

The stories themselves suggest that a sextuplet—four women and two men—from the Flower Planet arrived on Earth approximately 30,000 years ago. The consensus of opinion is that they were on a mission to conserve Earth’s human biological sustainability. Another school says its mission is to save Earth’s trees and flowers, and that  human life sustainability is merely a tolerable coincident.

The physical character of the Emeralda Region is that of a great bottomless lake. Three mountain peaks, notable for their symmetry and equal distance from each other, form the points of a great equilateral triangle. The peaks are called The Three Sisters, and individually are named Techne, Media and Aurel.

A fourth is postulated, like an inverted, identical mountain peak at the bottom of the deep lake. It is named Tetra. The belief is that it was the tip of the huge spacecraft and it speared deep into the heart of the Earth, forming the lake’s deep center. The combination of these four points constitutes a tetrahedron.

Pure, mineral-rich water swells to the surface of the lake's center. Ice melts from the Three Sisters' peaks and flow into the lake. Ten islands ring the lakes’ edge. Four city-states are situated around the lake, each having its own capitol.

On the North is Emeralda City, capitol city of the entire region. To the east is Centri City and, across from it, Eccentri City. At the southern edge is Toxi City. Emeralda City and Toxi City are polar opposites culturally and functionally. The cities to the east and west sides of the lake have mixtures and degrees of similarities to both Emeralda City and Toxi City.

See also:

ArtsPort

E’Studios

O’Studios

MacFast

O’Studios

Perfect Press

Perfect Studios

RIISMA

SPEACON

Video

Video ‘N Print

The stamps for the ten domains-of-expertise are taken from the archives of each islands' galleries.

E'Studios - Electronic studios and art galleries

MacRitchie's

O'Studios

Perfect Press

Perfect Studios

RIISMA

SPEACON
Video
Video 'N Print