Afterword
I'd like to express thanks to all of you for your patience up to this point. With this, [Magian Company 6] has been delivered. I hope you enjoyed it.
I am of the belief that if you are a writer of occult-related works, and even if you take out the writer part, if you have even the slightest interest in the occult, you may have been interested in prehistoric civilizations at one point in your life. And with the thought of an advanced civilization having been established in prehistoric times, you have surely wondered why there would be no evidence of such a civilization to be found.
It is surprising how quickly traces of modern civilization can fade away and disappear. As many have noted, electronic storage media do not last as long as documents written on paper and ink; have paper and plastic and all it takes is a small flame, and all is easily burnt away. All that will remain after tens of thousands of years is a worn-down stone monument. Later civilizations will look at it and suppose that prehistoric civilizations had only reached the stage of recording things in stone monuments.
Buildings made of iron and concrete will decay in the not-too-distant future when civilization ceases to exist. Concrete weather, iron rusts, and everything crumbles. In 10,000 years, there will be nothing left but lime and iron-rich soil. Like this, our advanced modern civilization would disappear without a trace, leaving the next civilization that has risen over time to find only the stone ruins left behind to judge the level of our civilization.
This is just one example of a response. However, I support another, also common answer case. That is, a prehistoric civilization could be built on a different foundation than the modern civilization. You could describe it as the theory of an advanced spiritual civilization. I think this one is more popular in the world of creative writing.
The good thing about this theory is that there is no need to ponder too deeply about why no ruins remain. It would not be surprising why there are no ruins left if the civilization relied on magic and/or supernatural powers.
In addition, the power of the gods of myths and legends could be thought of as the technology of an advanced spiritual civilization, and the setting could be expanded in various ways. I believe this is one of the staples of modern fantasy.
In this narrative, Shambhala is a similar kind of prehistoric civilization based on such advanced spiritual technology. The recording media is based on the arrangement of the components in the rocks and the order of the bonds between the molecules. And this would be read by "magic". The various stone tablets that appear throughout the work are set up in this way.
The idea of a shelter for an ice age was inspired by Graham Hancock's [Fingerprints of the Gods] followed by a series of his writings. I should note, however, that I have not read all of Mr. Hancock's writings. I mainly referred to [The Magic of the Gods] and [The Prehistory of Mankind]. The fact that the next story takes place in the U.S. is due to the influence of [Prehistory of Mankind], if you will.
Moving on to another topic. It has become generally accepted that it is a mistake to describe the high heat that spacecraft and meteoroids experience in the atmosphere as a result of "frictional heat". That high heat is due to adiabatic compression. ──Yes, I do not dispute that point. But isn't that a bit like saying "heat is generated by heat"? Aren't the temperature and pressure of a gas equivalent in terms of the interaction between the gas molecules? Well, I'm not a specialist, so I don't really know...
You'd intuitively think that if we trace the cause of compression, the main idea would be fluid friction between a spacecraft or meteorite and the atmosphere. If that is the case, would it be a mistake to call the high temperature a result of adiabatic compression "frictional heat"?
I was thinking about this during the writing of this volume, but I digress.
With that, I hope to see you again in Volume 7. Once again, thank you very much for reading.
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(Satou Tsutomu)
Notas
[←1]
Illusion (幻力) with Māyā (マーヤー) as furigana.
[←2]
デーモン (demon) - I'm using "daemon" as a placeholder
[←3]
魔物 (mamono)
[←4]
寄生 - "Parasitism”; The "Parasites” from the story are usually written with katakana (パラサイト)
[←5]
It would seem that it is called a K-1 Visa in the United States.
[←6]
The best I could get from 朱元允 (ジユユエンユン)
[←7]
朱大人(ジユダーレン) / 朱 + suffix 大人
[←8]
ミスター・キャオ
[←9]
式鬼
[←10]
追捕之符
[←11]
陣 (or possibly 阵法)- Battle or Spell formations. Terms usually found in Wuxia, Xianxia & Xuanhuan Novels
[←12]
縁 (en) - fate; destiny; (special) link
[←13]
八門遁甲 (はちもんとんこう)
[←14]
開門
[←15]
陣 (jin) - a "Battle Formation” that have certain magical significance in taoism.
[←16]
It doesn't say "curfew" here, just a japanese term for lockdown (it was used "lockdown” in katakana next), but it's exactly what he's describing.
[←17]
乾き切った熱風
[←18]
迷霧
[←19]
monk's stole
[←20]
唯識論
[←21]
Here it is 渾然一体 with "フンランイーテイ” as furigana. The base is a compound expression meaning "(together) in complete harmony". The furigana, despite being in katakana, I could only find it representing a slightly different japanese word: 紛乱一体. There the 渾然 (harmony) part was replaced with 紛乱 (confusion; disorder).I interpreted such as being a play with the aforementioned expression.The result was the best name I could think of —Aehein.
[←22]
雷蛇
[←23]
影獣
[←24]
I'm not sure if the characters are speaking in Japanese here. I would assume that they are not, but the "-dono” suffix is really there.
[←25]
In the first part "艦長の” means "captain of a ship” / next, in "マイケル・カーティス大佐”, "大佐” is Colonel, but in the case of the navy it is "Captain”
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