📜 The Scroll of the Broth-Borne — Foundation Covenant

✠ The foundation of the Codex — marrow, minerals, and flame bound into liquid memory.

Invocation
The Codex begins in broth. No other scroll stands without this one.

Within this parchment you will uncover:
✦ The Ancestral Rite — bones and marrow drawn into water until it becomes a nourishing elixir.
✦ The Salt Covenant — mineral balance remembered; how salt steadies the vessel and carries the flame.
✦ The Golden Simmer — time, heat, and patience: a method that coaxes depth without bitterness.
✦ Keeping & Use — clarity, storage, and daily rhythm (sipping, cooking, and sealing other scrolls with broth).

Doctrine & Resonance
✦ Biological law — collagen, gelatin, and electrolytes long tied to comfort, steadiness, and renewal.
✦ Symbolic wisdom — broth as silence before feast, the reset before abundance, the covenant of repair.
✦ Living thread — how broth weaves through the Codex (pies, bowls, re-entry rites), binding the library by flame.

Closing line
To drink broth is to remember. To hold this scroll is to begin.

⚖️ Created for remembrance and inspiration. Each vessel is unique — walk with discernment, and seek guidance where needed.