The Temple of Immortality is a location from the Jungle River Cruise: Curse of the Emerald Trinity overlay of the Jungle River Cruise
Description[]
The Temple of Immortality is a flooded temple located somewhere in the jungle. It was used to contain the Emerald Trinity, three supernatural jewels which could bestow immortality on those who took one of them from the jungle. However, the jewels also controlled the jungles around them, using it to attack those who tried to steal the jewels.
Points of interest[]
- Altar of Souls: This was a skull-shaped altar used to hold the Emerald Trinity.
History[]
Background[]
The temple was constructed centuries prior to 1932 and was run by a, "Voodoo tribe" which presumably practiced vodun. The tribe and temple both disappeared in the temple and remained missing for hundreds of years.
In the early 1930s, the jewels were sought after by criminal archaeologist Professor Garrett Reed who wished to obtain immortality. Reed located the temple and stole one of the jewels on the December 8 of 1932 before taking it away to his base-camp. The night of December 8th, a skipper for the Jungle Navigation Company followed Reed's trail to the temple while performing a, "Jungle Cruise" tour and secretly stole the remaining emerald.
The skipper later happened upon Reed's camp where they witnesses his death at the hands of jungle vines. The jungle subsequently turned on the skipper too, with them narrowly escaping murderous plants, the resurrected tribe, and zombies emerging from the water. Eventually the boat entered the Canyon of the Gods where the canyon's deities reclaimed the stolen jewel. The gods attempted to kill those aboard the boat only for the boat to escape to the JNC boathouse.
Development history[]
The temple was created from the Shir Lee Temple of the normal Jungle River Cruise.
Appearances[]
Jungle River Cruise: Curse of the Emerald Trinity[]
The temple is travelled through in this attraction where guests encounter the Altar of Souls and the skipper secretly steals a jewel.
Trivia[]
- The jungle which the attraction is set in is not made clear. Certain theories and pieces of evidence can be taken.
- Given the identification of the, "Voodoo tribe", it is likely that it is either located in Africa or South America. This is as Voodoo is a religion originating from tribal African religious practices being adapted for the Americas as a result of the transatlantic slave-trade. Because of this it is possible the tribe simply practices traditional African religion preceding voodoo which the colonist characters identify as voodoo, or less likely that they are a tribe occupying South America following the results of the slave-trade and practice actual voodoo.
- The boathouse for Jungle River Cruise is traditionally associated as being set within Africa, likely along the Congo basin given its proximity to Tarzan's Treehouse.
- If the Canyon of the Gods is the same canyon from Jungle River Cruise, this would make it set in Africa.