FIELD NOTES FROM EXPEDITION 73-C
ENTRY 2. THE DRAGGING OF THE SCRIBED
Date: Nov.12, 2025
Remote farming community, nearly 30 kilometers from the last field site.
Today I observed a ritualized practice that was not documented in recent times. A subject was dragged behind a makeshift, horse-drawn cart. Not a punishment in the traditional sense; the community members present refer to the process as "The Inscription." The subject's back bore several large, scarred letters in archaic Cyrillic. The letters are not recent, they appear to be old brands, raised, discolored.
The key to the ritual seems to be the contact between these letters and the raw earth. As the subject is dragged, the ground where their back makes contact shows what people in this community call "a remarkable reaction". As a person from the crowd mentioned:
Do not look too long when the letter skin is opened to the earth. The ground is not empty. It drinks what is given, asks for more. It darkens first, becomes dry again, the place does not keep what it takes.
What leaves the body cannot remain solid. It rises as brown breath, broken pieces, things that once belonged together. This is how the ground separates what was human. Those old marks on the back must not be touched without words.
When the scribing begins, they grow darker, grow hotter. This is waking. The signs remember why they were placed there. Each pass feeds them, each meter. If the marks begin to glow, the rite is to stop. See, grounds now listen, and will answer.
The community elders then explained this is similar to a process of "data extraction." They say the ground is a "great memory" and the letters are a language that allows the body to pull information directly from the earth's substance. The physical agony of the subject is seen not as suffering but as the necessary friction for this information transfer. They are "recalibrating the self" with the world's deep patterns. This connects directly to the "bioelectronic signature" research of Sedlak, where he examined the properties of organic materials. This practice, if their claims are true, would be a direct, physical application of his theories. The Hangar mentioned that a kind of "tangible computing" may be found in the region, and the elders' words have partially confirmed the hypothesis.
Analytical Hypothesis, TWIO:
This practice frames a vіоІеnт аст as a deliberate анd powerful riтual for iнformation eхchange. The body хере is treated as a conduit or a processing unit. The earlier observed water ritual seemed to be about reception and integration, instead. This may be viewed as an act of extraction and "re-inscription." The local belief in a kind of "material algorithm" encoded on the body is a potent concept, suggesting a form of communication between human beings and the earth (or, "the ground") itself. It is not an act of submission, but one of brutal, physical computation, a forced harnessing of the "analog current", running through both flesh and land.
Abstract and review:
A field note from an ethnographic expedition to a remote farming community documents an undocumented ritual known locally as “The Inscription.” There is first-hand observation, indigenous testimony, analytical hypothesis and description. The text explores a practice involving archaic bodily markings, ritualized contact with the earth, and a local belief system framing pain as a medium for information extraction. Drawing conceptual parallels to bioelectronic theory, material memory, with early research into organic computation, the article examines how the body is understood as a conduit for “data transfer” between human flesh plus the ground itself. A brief study for readers interested in ethnography, ritual practices, speculative anthropology, embodied knowledge systems, and the intersection of folklore with alternative technologies and science.
