The Golden Throne
Categorization
Pragmaclast
Classification
Major; Chi (χ)
Provenance
Unknown; found at the top of the “ziggurat” of the St. Francis Hotel
Current Location
Granite Peak
Seemingly made of solid gold, this chair, or more properly a couch, has an angled headrest and is bent at the knee with a platform for lying down. It is designed in a vaguely Sumerian-Greco-Persian motif.
The Throne itself is a seat by which the gods might visit from the heavens. This is standard Sumerians-and-successors’ religious practice, using the ziggurat as a liminal space within which to meet the gods. The chair/lounge is obviously a royal, holy throne. One fit for a god, where human priests could engage in ... commerce with the divine. Whether that was the humans' presentation of worship or sacrifice (animal or human) to make the god stronger and more able to handle the stress of being on our plane, the god would need a vessel. Whichever human sat in that chair, well, they'd be filled with the spirit of the god. And depending on the portfolio of said deity, they might fight (Marduk) or fuck (Inanna) or give forth "rain" (Enlil). Whatever the case, it would be an ecstatic experience for the human vessel, one that would release him or her from all constraints of human law and morality, one that could make them into an indiscriminate god-on-earth.
This is the real deal: unfettered, direct god-magic.
