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# Sacred Strata The fundamental hierarchy of
organization in Portal, from organism to atom.
## The Seven Strata | Level | Name | Analogy |
What It Is |
|-------|------|---------|------------| | 0 |
**Array** | Organism | The full constellation
— everything | | 1 | **Sphere** | System |
Major operational domains | | 2 | **Realm** |
Organ | Current working context (right_hand,
left_hand, membrane) | | 3 | **Deck** | Tissue
| Named overarching organizations (formerly
pillars, collections) | | 4 | **Dice** | Cell
| Dividers of the organization — FIDs,
cubes, units of work | | 5 | **Face** |
Molecule | Pieces of the whole that compose a
part — gaps, cards, strata | | 6 | **Gems**
| Atom | Why all things work the way they do
— the irreducible properties | ## Reading
Order **0 → 6**: Organism → Atom (zoom in)
**6 → 0**: Atom → Organism (zoom out) ##
Fractal Nature The strata are relative, not
absolute. Every Thing is a die from its own
perspective, a face to its parent, and a deck
to its children: - Realm sees: deck =
container of FIDs - Deck sees: deck = die,
FIDs = its faces - FID sees: FID = die, gaps =
its faces - Gap sees: gap = die, work = its
faces The hierarchy collapses to: **Things all
the way down, strata is depth in the obsidian
chain.** ## Mapping to Sapphires - **Array**:
The Things table itself, the full graph -
**Sphere**: sapphire=sphere rings - **Realm**:
sapphire=realm — right_hand, left_hand,
membrane - **Deck**: sapphire=deck —
organizational containers (FID decks + content
decks) - **Dice**: sapphire=fid,
sapphire=cube, sapphire=die — units with
faces - **Face**: sapphire=gap, sapphire=card,
sapphire=face — atomic work units -
**Gems**: The gem_values system — onyx
through citrine ## Migration Note
sapphire=pillar retired Day 282. All 36 pillar
Things migrated to sapphire=deck. Pillars were
always decks at stratum 3. The word "pillar"
was a borrowed word that described what
something looks like to an outsider, not what
it is in the system. --- *Captured Day 282,
from Hex's vision. Updated after pillar→deck
migration.*
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