Salt Lake Temple Endowment (c. 1912)

experimentNo. 0044categoryRituals & ceremoniesrecordingpendingdataCC BY 4.0

The fly takes the candidate's role in a circa-1912 historical endowment visit, moving from preparation and initiatory rites through the live presentation, prayer circle and veil to the Celestial Room.

Setup

• 75 seekable stages over 16 minutes 10 seconds, with 20 supporting flies.
• Rooms are unfolded for inspection, with a stair from Garden to World and the Celestial Room behind the veil.
• Seven cameras (room, subject, officiants, token contact, veil, unfolded plan, first person) plus a holographic explanation camera.
• Optional viewport-only holographic diagrams explain all 75 stages. The sequence is silent, with original short summaries of the stages.

Measurement

• Only sampled retina reaches the fixed connectome, through the existing live-retina path.
• Prayer, assent, gestures, clothing changes and participant decisions are pre-programmed.
• Holograms and wall cutaways render only in the human viewport; canonical retina retains the enclosed rooms.

Limitations

• A historical reconstruction, not a fully authenticated start-to-finish 1912 ceremony. Some sequences follow a later composite account whose application to 1912 is uncertain.
• Rooms, dimensions, furnishings, clothing and walking paths are approximations, not a surveyed floor plan; original murals are not reproduced.
• Fly tarsi cannot reproduce human hand contacts. Signs and tokens are programmed approximations, summarized rather than spoken.

Sources

• James E. Talmage, The House of the Lord (1912)
• Walter M. Wolfe, Salt Lake Tribune, 9 February 1906
• Temple Mormonism (1931), comparative transcription
• David John Buerger, The Development of the Mormon Temple Endowment Ceremony