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Anonymous
#255782
1 year ago
Ohgod is this from that creepy fleshgolem ponyfic?
Anonymous
#256168
1 year ago
Pretty sure it's a reference to the old Jewish story of the Golem, or possibly the 1920s movie, not sure which. But the writing on its forehead is supposed to bring an inanimate form to life.
DaisyHead
#256618
1 year ago
emet. i think it is the story
Anonymous
#256632
1 year ago
link to the story please?
Anonymous
#258545
1 year ago
Here's a fairly good summary version:

http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/golem.html

And yes, per DaisyHead, the writing ont he forehead is "Emet", Hebrew for "Truth". However, this was usually written in Hebrew cos then if you needed to de-activate the golem, you would erase the first latter, rendering it "Met", which means "Death".

Later on the idea came of putting a scroll or tablet of words inside the golem itself, usually instructions and/or guiding principles. This is the most popular version these days. I highly recommend Terry Pratchett's take on them in his Discworld books, starting with "Feet of Clay".