Creek World / Plaques

Every plaque in the house

The Creek World museum’s plaques as plain pages: the elements, the villages, the people and how the country works.

The Eight

• Spirit: Pair I · spirit-side
• Sound: Pair I · flesh-side
• Blood: Pair II · spirit-side
• Water: Pair II · flesh-side
• Light: Pair III · spirit-side
• Time: Pair III · flesh-side
• Fire: Pair IV · spirit-side
• Iron: Pair IV · flesh-side

How the country works

• Tem: The Innermost, also called Woyengi
• The Eight: Four pairs, eight elements
• Spirit and flesh, give and take: The foundation of the Eight
• Across the wheel: Opposites, a second kind of bond
• The cycle of force: What happens when elements meet in force
• Gunas: Bearing: start, hold, adapt
• Who keeps a village: Elders, priests, the Post and the Lord's priest
• The drift: How the rites wore down
• The route inland: The country as a journey from the sea
• An older age: The Ferry Song, at the hub, long ago
• Seven villages, one Spirit: How each village looks, and why

Villages

• Temeama: Grove / Storm · the Delta
• The water village: River / Flame · the Delta
• The hub: Storm / Light · the calling country
• The Spirit village: Spirit / Water · the calling country
• The court island: Light / Iron · the dial country
• Sand village: Sand / Blood · the dial country
• Flame village: Flame / Time · the forge country
• Stone village: Stone / Spirit · the forge country

People

• Tari: Spirit + Sound · the Called of Temeama
• Pere: Water then Fire · the Called of the water village
• Oar: A river-town child of an older age
• The Called: Coming home with the lost elements