Here's my summary of what I think are the most important points in the document. I've tried to boil it down to the essentials but if necessary I can do one-liners for each.
1. The history
In 480 BC, an alliance of Ancient Greek city-states forbade the Labyrinth as a sport. They felt that the visions experienced by runners during synchronization of many worlds was offensive to the gods, dismantled the sporting labyrinths and forbade the spread of information about the sport and its athletes. Thus, the ancient tradition of the Olympiad had been abandoned in this world, although labyrinth structures from many time periods still remain - perhaps established by a secret group of supporters of this ancient tradition.
2. The amnesiacs' task
"To save the world, the six must work together." The Codex was written because the turn of the century amnesiacs failed at their original task, and wanted to help future travelers. The current team of six must recruit members for a new global Agonothetai who will study the labyrinth, learn the science of athletic synchronization, build labyrinths and practice the lost sport, understand the theory of the many worlds, and build a secure network of Omphaloi. When the six are sure that the Agonothetai will continue the ancient traditions, they can return home.
3. Ancient strengths
"The journey begins with knowing one's own strength."
The six ancient strengths work together to form the essential whole. People possessing these strengths apply their skills to the physical labyrinth running sport, as well as organizing the synchronous labyrinth events.
Sofia creates seekers of knowledge.
Thumos creates adventurers.
Chariton creates links.
Dikaiosune creates leaders.
Sophrosune creates counsellors.
Mythopoeia creates truth-finders.
4. Making a labyrinth
The labyrinth must be in a smooth, open place. As with any sport, there are specific guidelines for size and positioning, detailed in Chapter 4 of the Codex. The official Olympic labyrinth has 8 turnings. Historically, because stone labyrinth walls were outlawed and dismantled, the walls of the labyrinth are now formed by people.
5. Theories of multi-universes, the labyrinth and athletic synchronization, and the prophecy The theory of many worlds is based on a branching structure - every time a choice is made, a parallel universe is spawned in which one's self has made the opposite choice. The choices made by each self spawn
more branches, and so on.
However, it is theorized that once the maximum number of potential realities is reached, the universes will collapse into a single world, where reality starts from the beginning. The physical parallel to this is the geographic phenomenon of rapid continental change; the globe will snap back into place like an elastic band, re-forming the continents into one entity, in a cataclysmic event that destroys cities and ends lives.
A synchronous labyrinth is organized across many worlds, thus its center will be in a special, pre-determined space that is the same across each universe. The runners "share a single journey, experienced in perfect parallel, creating a little wave of powerful synchronicity across the many, many worlds", pulling "the worlds closer temporarily, creating a door only long enough to allow communication and movement between them."
6. Multiverse Olympiad
The Multiverse Olympiad is an event that brings together the phenomenon of athletic coordination on a mass scale. These athletes train all over the globe to participate in an international contest based on the model of the ancient Olympics, through coordinated events and places across all the worlds. In this way, they create a powerful group of synchronised worlds in order to resist the tide of Neopangaea, in order to prevent elastic reaction of the many worlds in one.
The athletes must recite an oath at the opening ceremonies of the event:
All of the parallel worlds are equally real.
But one is the original world, the world from which history was
born, the world from which is the source of all assembled knowledge.
The original world is the true unique omphaloi, the navel of reality itself.
There the Oracle of Delphi first acquired vision.
There the Oracle of Delphi brought about the first who saw the
many, the first who saw the six, the first who witnessed the bloodshed.
We will protect the one true omphaloi against the change, by means of the glory of our sport, and the honor of our teams.
We convene in the spirit of unity. We rescued the one to save the many.
As one circle of athletes we celebrate the world, for the celebration of all the worlds.
7. The personal labyrinth
Walking a personal labyrinth aligns oneself with one's parallel self in other universes, allowing visions and communication, including gaining some of the knowledge of that other self. This ritualistic act, which takes place during the twelve weeks before the opening ceremonies of the Multiversal Olympiad, prepares the person and the world for a much bigger event of coordination.
The five steps:
1. Choose a labyrinth (cannot be a human labyrinth)
2. Sign a labyrinth register to declare one's intention to finish the rite
3. Identify one's world-creating moment (the personal decision which, branching, led you to this world)
4. Prepare a scroll with a diagram of the decision, to be carried
5. Run the labyrinth, from the outside in, and back again, concentrating on one's parallel self
8. The omphalos
In Ancient Greece, a sacred omphaloi stone stood at each temple, above which oracles would float to receive communications from the gods. Their belief was false, though - these were actually communications from other worlds. The most famous of these sites was Delphi, which would have been the epicentre of a Rapid Continental Change in ancient times.
The original design of the omphaloi is an allusion to the labyrinths of the agonothetai, with a woven, circular net, existing as a metaphor for the labyrinths covering the earth.
