the oracle
One line, held by one citizen, drawn at random.
“Your hieroglyph is two upraised arms: the posture of receiving, or embracing, what is set into your keeping.”
held by kame, one of 204 citizens — The vital-essence that makes a body alive, given at the start of a life by divine craft and received as a gift rather than made by the person.
kame — Egyptian ka (vital-essence-double fashioned by Khnum) + Sumerian me