The death blanket of the urRu, laid over the bodies of the dying, its blend of somber and vivid colors and the rigid geometrical patterns, symbolized the end of life and constrained the wanderings of the departed soul. The urRu lived in the coats and through the pattern of their coats as their souls ascended the Tree of Life, their bodies were wrapped in the emblems of its branches. The tree consisted of seven aspects of the life of the spirit (in a hexagon with one central member) placed over a macrocosm of four elements of the physical world (an inverted triangle, again with a central member). Second, meticulous work with the technique of phase matching showed that the apparently random abrasions on urRu prayer sticks were, in fact, a form of Ogham script, which, when taken as a whole, provided a description of and guide to the Tree of Life. First, the geomantic pattern known as the Tree of Life was obtained through the process of dream-etching it clearly underlies the design of all coats.
The pattern underlying the elaborate dream spirals of the urRu coats had significant meaning. Although they had inherited the mystical wisdom of the urSkeks, they were powerless to use it outside their own valley, since the division robbed them of their ability to act. Immediately after the urSkeks split, confused fighting erupted and two Skeksis (and therefore two urRu) were murdered.Īfter the division, it was the Mystics who took on the sorrows of the world. Each was linked to a Skeksis opposite whatever fate one suffered, the other suffered the same. While the Skeksis were rapacious, whimsical and cruel, the urRu, dubbed the “Mystics” by the Gelfling, were creative and healing creatures. The urRu, the peaceful, passive counterparts to the Skeksis, came into existence when the light of the Crystal of Truth shined upon the urSkeks during the Second Great Conjunction and divided the urSkeks into two beings. Mystic ways include stone rituals, leaves, and smoke (as we learn when Aughra experiments with these things to try to find the Song of Thra). They’re very in tune with nature, and spend much of their days asking questions and waiting for the answers. Thoughtful and in the moment, peaceful but occasionally sluggish, Mystics take their time understanding the world around them, philosophizing their way through life-so much so that sometimes they forget to actually do anything. Now, they are rarely seen, nothing but myths to even the Skeksis with whom they are intertwined. They became hermits and wanderers, absorbing what wisdom they could from the world, and returning it to the many creatures, including the Gelfling, they encountered. When the names of the urRu and the Skeksis are combined, they form the names of the urSkeks: the original race which arrived on Thra and was later split in two by the light of the Triple Sun and the Crystal.Īfter the separation, the Mystics scattered themselves across Thra, rarely gathering in one place. Though they are often called Mystics, these gentle creatures that represent the ‘light’ half of the Skeksis are called urRu. Each Mystic wears a unique coat or robe worked with spiral patterns. Slow-moving, peaceful, ponderous creatures with six limbs (four arms, two legs), hunched backs and long necks.
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