About the Brain-egg
Ceremony with the Brain-egg
It may be surmised to represent an egg, as the promise of new life; but at the same time it alludes to the brain as the most sophisticated form of life. A great many varieties of brain-egg were made, but there is small hope of identifying the craftsmen who made them.
It is likely that what we are facing is a number of small versions of an enormous idol, now destroyed, which stood in the hall called the 'Hall of the Brain-Egg'. Plato mentions contemporary visitors to the Hall, who describe the cerebrum basin as a pit in the depths of a stinking caves, filled with a nauseating greyish brew.
More trustworthy is the account of a gigantic black oily surface, out of which rose an alabaster-white sculpture in shimmering torchlight.
Careful etymological treatment interprets the first written source as follows: this was the firs station in a long trial, and those who reached no further point were unworthy of experiencing solitary ecstacy at the brain-egg sculpture. The road, or rather labyrinth, leading there is a system of passages running through the ruins of the houses of the City…"
The Brain-eggs
