One symbol has come
to dominate all others, it has during stages in its history been the
emblem of the first civilization, the herald of a new era, and an emblem
for an entire planet and race, even its name translates as ‘sign of
the people’, its Trenoc name the Trenova.
The shape of the Trenova is
quite simple it consists of three mutually overlapping circles that form
a curved triangular centre and other crossed boundaries, but this symbol
is the most potent. Sometimes the symbols is set itself inside another
circle at other time not. The simple geometry has been echoed throughout
Trenoc culture, elaborate arching cathedrals, and geometric floor
designs, but for all its exposure its exact origin and meaning is
uncertain.
The symbol was certainly
introduced to the early Trenoc by the Soroteth, a clan of the Trenoc
that advanced well beyond the barbarism of the times and left Trenoret
itself. But there is scant evidence that the symbol was important to the
Soroteth, certainly every advanced spatial artifact left by them shows
its mark, but this may be of identifying its origin, similar to putting
your name to your property. But the mark is so common, and traces appear
in its early history, that any idea that the decoration is trivial is
unlikely.
There have been many
interpretations that have been recorded, some say that it showed the
early civilization’s clan structure of three lineages that ruled as
one. Others suggest that it reflects the Three part way of their
government, the circles of founding family, founder paired partner, and
the people, all united under the church, there are endless ways in which
the symbol can be used to reflect the way that the Soroteth lived.
Of
the Soroteth symbol theories the dominant is that the symbol represents
the three major divisions in society, that the society was composed of
those that tended the land and nature, those that made things from the
land, and those who worked on things that were distinct of the land. The
archaeological finds clearly show that these were present in society,
though a lot of people draw parallels to the new churches that draw
similar divisions, which set up a new argument entirely, whether there
churches were present in the Soroteth culture and introduced to the
Trenoc, or whether the archaeologists were seeing similarities where
there was none. One thing is known however, the Soroteth gave the Trenoc
all the teachings the later churches were founded on. The question of
whether the churches were observed by the Soroteth remains one of the
big questions left to uncover in Trenoret’s history.
Some
people draw good conclusions that the symbol may be much more primitive
than the Soroteth civilization, that the three circles represent the
three different biological states that the Trenoc progress through in
life, with the great circle showing that together they form the whole,
and the overlaps the dependence on each other for survival. This is
another popular theory behind the Trenova.
Since
the symbols introduction to the modern Trenoc 35,000 years ago the
symbol has grown in meaning. To most it is the symbol of the people, it
also represents the first church, and the three new churches, which work
in harmony. The number three has been echoed throughout all
architecture, buildings with three or six sides are the norm for temple
spaces, despite the convenience of square buildings. The symmetry also
permeated mathematics which caused a long era of Trenoc believing the
universe was permeated by the sublime shapes, such as the triangle, the
tetrahedron, the cube, and many more, all with a basis on three, this
belief was also extended into the electrical age where the shapes of
molecules seemed to hark these geometries.
Today
the Trenova still represents the Trenoc, and is one of the universally
recognized symbols in the federation, it is hoped one day that the
Soroteth are found and a proper explanation can be made, though even if
its original existence is fairly trivial it has become much, much more.
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