/lit/ - Literature

I actually thought of this same thing a couple years ago when I first read about this bronze age bionic eye anon. This would have been within the context of the BMAC (Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex), the little known central asian urban civilization sandwiched between the great Semitic cities of Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley Civilization. One of the more interesting things we've recovered from BMAC sites are bowls that were certainly used to brew psychedelic stews, showing signs of opium, cannabis, ephedra, among other substances. What interested me about this eye is the vermiculated patterns carved into it that correspond with much later Buddhist ocular physiologies. I actually translated a text from Tibetan for my PhD that goes through an extremely detailed physiology of the eye, elucidating the complex subtle channel system that attaches the eye to the heart, where wisdom winds flow and allow one to use sky and sun gazing practices to achieve instantaneous and complete awakening. The texts these practices come from are only a thousand years old, but they claim the practices are part of an ancient tradition extending back over ten millennia. This eye seemed like a cool clue. Could make a book or short story about its ancient context with a bit of creative historiography.