Extra-terrestrial visitors and what they may have seen and taken away...

NOTE : Three weeks to a month ago, Israelis filmed the descent of « extra-terrestrial space-ships » over Jerusalem (Bethlehem?). Some later aired doubts over « living organisms » piloting the vessels for the lightning speeds of their displacement would have ripped them apart. What may then the « robots » have espied : that the World (Universe?) was created in seven days, the temptation of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, Noah’s Ark rescuing living creatures from extinction or the creation of ritual worship and the first most efficient secret service in the confessional ?
If the « visitors » had taken the trouble to espy on the Greeks then, they would have learnt of the existence of the finest in human spirit, imagination and endeavour : Zeus and the metaphorical pantheon of gods (Hermes, Hercules, Poseidon, etc.), the height of human refinement in art, ceramics, sculpture, architecture and good-natured competitiveness in sport (the Olympiades), the exquisteness of rational thought in epistemology, aesthetics and democracy (Democritus, Socrates, Aristotle, Plato, etc.), the inventiveness of the tragi-comedian playwrights who may also have engendered psychology and pschoanalysis in Aedipe and Electra complexes (Aeschylus, Euripedes, Aristophanes, etc.), and above all the nuances and flights of imagination of pure poetry in Homer, the beginnings of scientific method in Heraclitus and Thucydides, etc.
Let’s hope they did earlier on for the image of Man in their faraway realms would remain tainted otherwise.


COPLA 114: CONCLUSION - This Bad Guy World
[The entire sequence of COPLAS de pie quebrado (1477) dedicated to the XVth Century
Spanish poet: Jorge MANRIQUE, c. 1440 - 1479]

The way Evil triumphs in this World
What lies in store must be much worse:
Yet Evil serves

Toddler gods in this Grand Plan make so bold
As to usurp Laws of Universe(s) -
Get what each deserves:

The turntable of three Continents
The "cradled" civilizations
There "end" might come

And so must these Manriquenas' contents
Be the homage of my supplications:
By Death overcome

(c) T. Wignesan - Paris, September 22, 2014.
Pub. in Blind Man's Lantern: Poems that lash out,
mock and rip into the Dark, 2015