An important anecdote about Ahnenerbe base:
at first it was planned that the base was to be built near the village of Valle Benedetta, precisely in Trumpy villa, owned by the family of a famous actress of the time, some Vivi Gioi. This villa was near a small very old church is thought to be the first built in the Valle Benedetta. The chapel was named Chapel of St. Gallen. Throughout the entire structure it was bought by Swiss authorities. To date, this villa is considered unmarketable because of Swiss properties, in a nutshell is part of the Swiss territory, a sort of protectorate.
But back to the Romitone mirror.
We could talk about it endlessly. An unclear question is why it was inside the mosque of Tanta, where Roberto da Volterra found it. In fact, the mosque was not the place dedicated to its housing, its original home was a large pyramid, the largest ever built. It is thought to have been built more than 30,000 years ago. In this huge pyramid they were kept other objects, built with the same material of which was made the Romitone Mirror. The object was part of the instrumental arrangements of the pyramid. In 1221, at the time of Roberto da Volterra, it could still see some ruins of this pyramid. The sand, over the centuries, has covered the little that remained on the surface, but the underground structure is still intact with inside incredible manufactured goods...
After this long, but necessary regression, back to the time when Leale Martelli used the romitone mirror and try to tell the story from his point of view, in first person.
After composing the music notes I sat concentrating intensely as possible. Around me I felt the movement, but I could not understand exactly what was happening. I felt that something possessed me, emptied my mind, like I was lulled by a thousand nurses, like a kitten displaced by the mother, I could not and did not want put up resistance.
At one moment the spaces and furnishings changed suddenly, I found myself sitting on a bench that seemed crystal, inside a top box with a reddish liquid. I looked around, I seemed to be inside a diamondwith a thousand facets. Every facet was a sort of hexagonal or octagonal mirror it was not clear. There was a long corridor full set of mirrors of various sizes and dimensions. The mirrors were positioned sideways, just like the facets of a diamond. It was possible to see moving images in the mirrors, but every time I approached to look better, the picture disappeared only to reappear somewhere else. I saw thousands of pictures, but I could not understand what they represented. I was frustrated, but soon after my attention was caught by a figure who was in the middle of a room down the hall. At first it seemed like a static figure, formless, almost like a shadow. gradually he became more substantial and concrete. The figure began to form nearly humanoid, then changed abruptly taken tone and color, turning several times in animals known and unknown: a kind of winged lion, a fair with hooves, a horse, a bird of prey, a harpy, a phoenix fire.
After the animals touched the human figures: dwarfs, jugglers, drummers, soldiers, knights, religious. Some with faces of people I knew, as my commander, Major Carlo Pace.
The figure continued to turn up to take the form of a hooded monaco and at that point stopped to change ...