80g Terahertz Skull – Lohengrin

On the banks of the Scheldt near Antwerp stood Elsa of Brabant before the King's court. Friedrich von Telramund accused her of murdering her young brother Gottfried, and no one stepped forward to fight for her. Then a skiff glided up, drawn by a swan. In it stood, as Richard Wagner describes, a knight “in brilliant silver armor, helmet on his head, shield on his back,” leaning on his sword. This skull carries that armor. Mirror-smooth polished, it shines in cool silvery gray with a blueish tinge like steel in the first morning light. No markings distract from its form. Only on the left cheek, the cheekbone, and the temple lies a delicate bronze hue over the silver, like the trace of a long journey. The stranger offered to fight for Elsa and take her as his wife, under a single condition: “Never shall you question me, nor trouble yourself with knowledge of where I came from, nor what my name and origin are!” He defeated Telramund, and Elsa became his wife. But doubt gnawed at her, and on the wedding night she asked the forbidden question. Now the knight had to confess before king and people who he was: Lohengrin, son of Parzival, Knight of the Grail from the distant castle Montsalvat. A Grail knight may stay only as long as no one knows who he is. Then the swan transformed back into the missing Gottfried, and a Grail dove carried Lohengrin’s skiff away. The base material of this skull is silicon, after oxygen the second most abundant element in Earth's crust. In nature it never occurs free, but always bound, in quartz, in sand, and in countless silicates. Only in 1824 did Jöns Jacob Berzelius recognize it as a distinct element. It has always been there, everywhere, yet remained long undiscovered. Material: Terahertz (Trade name): synthetically produced material on a silicon basis with a metallic silvery-gray shine Origin: synthetically produced (Japan) Dimensions: 5.0 x 3.6 x 3.3 cm Weight: 80 g Special features: Mirror-smooth high-gloss polish with a cool, blue-gray-silvery luster; delicate bronze-brown shimmering zones especially on the left cheek, cheekbone, and temple

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