Skull and Bones: Connubial Bliss

experimentNo. 0046categoryRituals & ceremoniesrecordingpendingdataCC BY 4.0

The fly lies supine in an open, velvet-lined coffin while ten cloaked fly members stand around it, in a 45-second pre-programmed sequence beneath a white fly-head emblem and the number 322.

Setup

• A stone chamber with dark curtains, candle stands and a velvet-lined hexagonal coffin.
• Ten cloaked fly members surround the coffin. A white anatomical fly head and two crossed fly forelegs hang above a 322 wall inscription.
• Six cues over 45 seconds: an opening hold, a programmed foreleg rhythm that accelerates from 0.65 Hz to 3.8 Hz, a two-second stop, a brief body shake and a nine-second closing hold as the members bow their heads.
• Each member keeps an independent, deterministic rhythm. Five cameras: chamber, coffin close-up, overhead, emblem and subject POV. Loop is off by default.

Measurement

• Only the eye image reaches the fixed connectome, through the shared retinal-only path.
• All movement is pre-programmed; seeking computes each pose directly from scene time.

Limitations

• The sequence is modeled without a documented source and is not a verified reconstruction of a private ceremony.
• Gesture locations are approximations on the shared fly body model; no physiological process is modelled.

Sources

No external sources are cited for this experiment.