The Gallic Brass Mirror is a brass plate about two and a half meters tall, its frame inscribed in Gallic, set facing north on an island among burn marks and circles of bonfires. Fed with the yellow egg of the Order of Dagon, it opens and summons manifestations from the other side.
| Type | Object (ritual device) |
| Material | Brass, polished bronze |
| Height | About 2.5 m |
| Owners | Esoteric Order of Dagon |
| Spanish entry | El espejo de latón gálico |
Description
It stands in the peat, among black burn marks and bonfires laid in circles. It is not glass but brass — polished bronze — and its frame is covered in inscriptions in Gallic, which some present read as Gaelic. Whoever looks into it does not see himself: it faces north, toward the sea and toward what sleeps beneath the floor of reality, and returns not a reflection but an answer.
Function
While the Gallic phrases of the frame are spoken and the onlookers keep vigil, the plate becomes a device that calls. What it calls was named the “Joyboard”: manifestations that emerge from the other side of the metal.
It needs feeding, as the lighthouse stone needed blood. The key is the yellow egg the Order of Dagon unearthed on the island: a hollow, whistling ovoid that seems to enclose a world. Exposed before the plate, the egg opens an eye, and through that slit the manifestations emerge. Mirror and egg together form the apparatus with which the Deep Ones of the South Atlantic probe beneath reality, toward the dream sphere; the egg later serves as a compass toward it.
What the mirror lets be glimpsed matches the vision inside the egg: a land of two suns, the yellow realm of Carcosa. The plate is one of many doors through which that realm filters.
Fate
Unlike the egg, which was carried off the island, the mirror stayed where it was, too large and heavy to move: an installation, not loot, left standing in its circle of bonfires, facing north — a door left open behind.
See also
- The Chthonians — the “Joyboard”, dwellers of the interstice who come when the brass summons them
- Blue Stone
- Esoteric Order of Dagon
- Carcosa