Making Facts Jive

      The characters in AWM have been given rules that they must adhere to:

l  No permanent metempsychosis without an excepting body. (ex. Earl gives back Friedrich)

l  If the body gives up living (suicide, depression, etc.) then it can be “squatted” (ex. Tuane is squatted by Leon)

l  Old bodies disintegrate upon transference into the new without “mind shares.” (ex. Rosa Luxemburg after entering the Lieutenant, the Lieutenant after entering Hitler.)

l  Telepathy possible between shared minds only in common time. (ex. Leon and Tcakwaina)

l  Distance is not a factor in common time telepathy. (ibid)

l  No future time travelling.

l  Licking a dusted finger equals one day of time travel.

l  The life expectancy of transmigrated minds remains from the original mind.

I am having kachina Tcakwaina dig up a time rock buried under the fire alter in a

Kiva so he can bring it with him when he has a rendezvous with Leon and his three traveling partners. There is 0.166666667 ounces in one teaspoon. At 1.9999992 ounces a year, 433 years (from 1925 to 1492 means) 865.99 ounces 54.124 pounds, and that is for one time traveler; four would require 216.49 pounds of dust. Tcakwaina’s 25 lb. Blue Bird sack of time dust won’t be enough. Even if Mary and Joseph joined him, each would need to carry 72 lbs.! I have to triple the original equation; three months for one can, one teaspoon to .6666 oz a year, 288 ounces (18 lbs.) for 433 years, but it would still only be enough for one time traveler. Make it one teaspoon a year and it is 72 ounces (4.5 lbs) and there would be enough time dust (288oz =18 lbs) for Tcakwaina to carry back for the five of them to travel. 400 ounces is 25 lbs. It would take 72.16 ounces per person (4.51 lbs.) 22.55 lbs for 5 travelers if one teaspoon equals one year of travel, but their travels would have to stop in 1492; they couldn’t go back much further in time unless they could return to the source and mine more. Once

Tcakwaina completes the circle transmigrating into his doppelganger Estevanico in 1527, there would be no other connection with the source in Craters of the Moon.  

      While I am busy making facts jive in my sci-fi novel, other writers have taken great liberties with the facts, for example, I found this:

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade references the "Cross of Coronado". According to the film, this gold cross, discovered in a Utah cave system, was given to Coronado by Hernán Cortés in 1521. Such an event never happened because Coronado would have been 11 or 12 years old in 1521 and still living in Spain. In addition, when Indy captures the cross from robbers aboard a ship off the coast of Portugal, the ship can be seen to be named 'The Coronado'.