Chapter 20 - 18 The Emergence of Murals
Al gathered the people and found a massive tree, commanding them to strip the bark from the tree.
The faces of the crowd showed confusion, no one knew what the Prophet intended to do or why they had been assembled there, so they began to ask other priests, but even the priests did not understand, not even Yarlessto knew what his father wanted to do.
Before long, the bark of the massive tree had been stripped away, revealing an expanse of the light brown trunk, Al picked up the ashes from the burnt flames, he extended his hand and smeared it on the trunk.
Following his memory, he drew a simple circle on the trunk and then added three lines around the circle.
The people of Logos watched as Al smeared on the trunk, and they couldn't help but feel it was novel and strange; they saw the pattern and felt it was some sort of sign, wanting to express something. It was as if beasts leave scratches and dig holes to denote their territory.
Al still faced the trunk, he twisted up more embers and sketched the shape of a mountain beneath the original pattern.
Only then did Al turn around, proclaiming in a solemn voice,
"People,"
"This is light, light atop the high mountains, God is light."
The people looked up at the pattern on the trunk, these patterns bore a simple resemblance to the images in their memory, and with the Prophet's words echoing in their minds, they had a moment of enlightenment.
The Prophet, upon the giant tree, described God's revelation.