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Kraith Chalice
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A Kraith Chalice, "Kraith Cup (or simply, Kraith) is a fanon creation.
It is from the fan-created Kraith Universe, and is a vessel used for drinking.
Fanon
Before Surak, leaders were men who could draw lots of people together telepathically to unite them as a group mind. Called kataytikh (pl. kataytikhe),[note 1] this ability turned out to be genetic and they started breeding for it with arranged marriages.[note 2] By Spock's time the kataytikhe's task is to perform the "Affirmation of the Continuity" in which every 51.237 standard years, a group of no fewer than 57 people are telepathically drawn together by a kataytikh in order to pass on Vulcan cultural and social values. The Kraith is the chalice from which participants drink water during the ceremony. A woman with the kataytikh gene is a sterile Daughter of Tradition (T'Pau is one of these) and her life is devoted to public service. A Vulcan who misses the Affirmation is effectively outcast.
Fanac: Kraith Affirmation Ceremony
The chalice is used by fans for the Kraith Affirmation Ceremony.
From Jacqueline Lichtenberg's website:
This is modern-human version of the Vulcan Ceremony Jacqueline Lichtenberg created for her Kraith Series....One fan made original music that sounded "Vulcan" and we played the tape while another fan, a dancer, danced the Vulcan dance described in Kraith. Afterwards, the Kraith, a large ceramic cup, was filled with water and everyone drank... [1]
The Chalice in Action at Affirmations
Joan Winston (L) with Jacqueline Lichtenberg (R) from a "Kraith Affirmation" at TorCon (1976). Photo by Lynda (Martindale) Rzeszutek.
Jacqueline Lichtenberg holding a Kraith which she had just been presented by a fan. In the background is Debbie Goldstein, who with Carol Lynn, edited all the volumes of Kraith Collected
Jacqueline Lichtenberg holding a Kraith made by a fan and giving the Vulcan Salute
"Following the "Kraith Affirmation" circa 1977 – Jacqueline holding "Kraith""
Fan Fiction
- Spock's Argument by Jacqueline Lichtenberg (The theft of a Kraith chalice leads Vulcan's governing councils to propose that Vulcan secede from the Federation. The Vulcan governing council has conducted an investigation into the theft and recovery of a kraith chalice being transported on a Federation ship, and determined it had received inadequate security. It had been treated merely as a priceless antique, with no concern for its importance to the preservation and continuance of Vulcan culture. Without a kraith, the Affirmation can't happen, and (at least) 57 Vulcans would be expelled from society. In addition, a kraith has psionic properties which allowed it in the proper hands to be converted into a deadly weapon. ) (1971)
Fan Art
from Masiform D #3, Connie Faddis (1975)
a Kraith chalice, hand made and displayed by a fan wearing a Vulcan themed robe at a Kraith room party at Equicon in the 1970s
a fan's parody of a chalice, this one used as a toilet; note the Kraith toilet paper in lieu of using pages from the Sears Catalog as toilet paper -- printed in More Grope, artist was Robin Hill
Notes
- ^ According to Joan Verba, fan writer Joyce Yasner asserted a firm belief that this word was pronounced "katydid".
- ^ In Diane Duane's Spock's World, which has some influence from Kraith, the arranged marriages began as a way of breeding for "The Eye", the protective inner eyelid from the TOS episode "Operation: Annihilate". Some time later arranged marriages were also used to breed for certain telepathic traits.
- ^ from Kraith Photos