FAQ
F A Q
What is Onkaya?
ALL LEGITIMATEpolitical authorities in Eastern Europe deny the existence of Onkaya. Officially, Onkaya is a utopian fiction. It is not and never has been a state or a nation of any kind.
We fully endorse this position.
Even so, there has existed since ancient times the story of a country without borders, whose principles are unwritten and whose "citizens" are scattered across the globe, a place of paradox that is simultaneously a monarchy and a meritocracy, just and merciful, everywhere and nowhere.
This was the Onkaya of the Balkans. It fell to revolution in 1986.
It is hard to understand how certain authorities believe that Onkaya never existed and, at the same time, that it fell to revolution.
We fully endorse this position.
Even so, there has existed since ancient times the story of a country without borders, whose principles are unwritten and whose "citizens" are scattered across the globe, a place of paradox that is simultaneously a monarchy and a meritocracy, just and merciful, everywhere and nowhere.
This was the Onkaya of the Balkans. It fell to revolution in 1986.
It is hard to understand how certain authorities believe that Onkaya never existed and, at the same time, that it fell to revolution.
What is the Onkayan Compendium?
SOMETIME between 1955 and 1970, a group of expatriate Americans living in Eastern Europe wrote a book of puzzles, which they passed on to their sons. According to legend, the solution to the puzzles was supposed to reveal the entrance to Onkaya.
The authors' sons never solved the puzzles. Five of them were murdered in a multiple homicide in Romania in 1975. The motive seemed to be the book of puzzles itself, which the investigating police called "The Onkayan Compendium."
However, they never found a copy.
MUCH LATER, in 1999, an exhibition called "The Onkayan Compendium" was shown at New York's Galerie Dellbroque. The gallery burned down almost immediately after the opening, and the show was demonstrated to have been a fraud.
AND NOW, we are happy to bring you a newly discovered work. We make no claim regarding its connection to the Onkayan Compendium. The Onkayan Compendium, as so many sources agree, does not exist.
The authors' sons never solved the puzzles. Five of them were murdered in a multiple homicide in Romania in 1975. The motive seemed to be the book of puzzles itself, which the investigating police called "The Onkayan Compendium."
However, they never found a copy.
MUCH LATER, in 1999, an exhibition called "The Onkayan Compendium" was shown at New York's Galerie Dellbroque. The gallery burned down almost immediately after the opening, and the show was demonstrated to have been a fraud.
AND NOW, we are happy to bring you a newly discovered work. We make no claim regarding its connection to the Onkayan Compendium. The Onkayan Compendium, as so many sources agree, does not exist.
Is the Compendium Available Online?
No. The Compendium is a physical book.
"... tragedy attends the Onkayan Compendium. Grief and loss wait in the wings for anyone who reads carefully in it. We have only rumors and legends about this book, but those rumors and legends speak with one voice. It is a voice of warning. Do not try to solve the puzzles. They lead to a treasure, yes. But you will lose a greater treasure, your humanity."
Father Grant Almacén, 1999
““Do not open this case. Inside is an artifact of Onkaya. Tragedy and tribulation, remorse and regret attend all that is Onkayan. This case holds the greatest sorrow of my life. Do not look long upon its contents.”
Frederick Schaine, 2017