Eso’s Chronicles 258/ Act 3
Addend 18—Adam Adammovich
Act 3
© Eso A.B.

Adam: Ra-zhannychka, go ask your mothers,

if the priest Tiresias is among those

who have come for me?

Tell your mothers to lay away the knives,

and ask the high priest to come and

speak with me by himself.

Ra-zhannychka: Yes, father,

I know him, I saw him.

He comes dressed with a ‘thing’ four feet long.

Adam: Ra-zhannychka, that is unusual,

Is it not?

Ra-zhannychka: Yes, father,

he’s already told,

he’s come to see you without yours.

Adam: That is curious. Why?

Has someone told him what ails me?

Ra-zhannychka, be so good,

Bring me my three-foot long one,

It hangs on the peg behind the door,

and bring your handkerchief.

And tell your mothers to prepare

us a lethal dose of cocaine.

And, Ra-zhannychka,

Something else ….

Ra-zhannychka: Yes, father.

Adam: Ra-zhannychka,

I want you to do as I ask,

and when you are done,

steal yourself away and run

to your grandmothers and hide among them.

Do not come back to this house,

until you bear us a son.

He will be of you, your mothers, and me,

whoever the father be.

Chorus: (aside) My son, he, like me

must have four wives

and a girl like you, Razhannyk, to carry on the fight

in the event that he like we lose it.

Now, go! And bring with you your handkerchief!

(Ra-zhannychka exits…)

Story Teller: Well, I have said it before: there works within us a greater intelligence, a genee with a memory that is more enduring than our own. The French were the first to take notice of it and called it longue duree http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernand_Braudel . Perhaps this is because the French were called, at an earlier time, Franks; and the Franks came from an area now known as Romania. The Franks changed their name, because they could not bear the thought of their defeat at the hands of the Turkic tribes. Yet the Franks within them continued to live on, and their memories did not die as quickly as we now presume.

When the Franks were near defeat a second time,this time by the English (that was only six hundred years ago), and their would-be king (dauphin) was not king because of timidity and lack of conviction, there came from the midst of the Franks one Joan of Arc http://www.biography.com/people/joan-of-arc-9354756 , also called the Maid or Pucelle, the last which may mean boy-girl. This name has its own longue duree history: puika means boy in Estonian (of a Uralic language group http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_language ), and puishele (boy-girl) may be the equivalent of ‘pucelle’. How this came to be, I do not know. In any event, the role of Joan is like that of Ismene. Ismene was the only survivor of the court of Oedipus the King, who (no one said a word about it) did not have the nerve to slaughter enough Turks to keep Byzantium for Byzantines, but succumbed to the attacks of the Tartars as the Turks were then known. Ismene was the only one to survive, but disappeared from the stage of history as if she never was.

Perhaps it was meant to be, so that today, she may reincarnate herself as Ra-zhannychka. Having lived her young life in incest with her mothers and father, she grew up as a boy-girl. Like the Earth-Mother of the Aztecs, Coatlicue, Lady of the Serpents Skirt, who lived on Snake Mountain, and swept the floor of her temple until a feather drifted into her lap bearing the Sun’s own seed, Ra-zhannychka was sent after her father’s three foot Other-self, which men of the day—they wore no pants—hung from their belts and carried between their legs, to community events. Of course, I have made this up, but it fits the story.

Incidentally, one does not have to be an anthropologist to think or speak about ancient myths.

(Ra-zhannychka reenters…)

Ra-zhannychka:  Everything is alright, father.

Mothers are entertaining our guests.

Dressed in socks to their thighs

And gloves to their armpits,

they are all running naked through our field of nettles.

If you listen, you can hear them scream

(She laughs:)

Here’s your thing.

and my handkerchief.

Adam: Thanks, Ra-zhannyk.

Now turn your back while I get dressed.

(Ra-zhannychka turns her back to her father, while Adam puts the ‘thing’ between his legs, straps on the belt, and hooks the ‘thing’ to it. He does so in full view of the audience. When done, he takes the handkerchief and places it over the head of the penis. The lights on stage dim slowly.)

Adam: Ra-zhannychka , When I am done,

do not forget to put the kerchief into your zhanka.

 

Eso’s Chronicles 257/ Act 2
Addend 17—John Adammovich
Act 2
© Eso A.B.

Chorus (left): Once upon a time

War meant a fight for survival.
This is why the first war machine was
woman, man, and their children.
They were enclosed in a halo of Sunlight.
They practiced incest as soon as
They could feel their body ecstatic.
This made them loyal to each other beyond belief.
Ecstasy was a daily thing.
Like tickling one’s self, it is not the same thing
as when another does it for you.

Chorus (right): Then a tiger came into their midst.

Or perhaps they came to where
the beast of such fearful symmetry ruled the wood
and with aggressive delight ate
as sensate cats do
all flesh that comes their way.

At night, the beast—burning bright—tore through
the shelter walls of the bacchants
and with beastly ecstasy tore to death so many
that the voices of incest screamed with such pain
that Adam rose and
ordered the shelters of all bacchants,
meaning ‘incest makers’ then,
joined in a row on both sides of the path.
Entrances faced the street,
Backdoor were backed by a fence;
the ends of the street were blocked by gates.
Adam went and walked guard there.
 
Adam: The tiger feared nothing.
It came at me with fearless desire
And jumped through the air in an arc
that only my spear in its throat could stop.
It could not stop the cat from tearing from me
My chest and my heart.

Chorus: When in the morning the bacchants

found Adam dead, they sang the tiger praise
for causing Adam to make such great sacrifice,
and covered Adam with buchas
(meaning kisses in Latvian).
They did not cease their praises of him until
they had made Adam’s oldest son John their King.
and had exacted from him a promise
to be no less ecstatic in his dying.
All women made themselves available to him.

Chetseri (dream team of men):

That is when women invented handkerchiefs
for their other men. Hence their sons were named
Johns Adamnovich.

Chetseri (dream team of women):

Eve shaved off her tush,
so other men could see her slit better.
And the kingdom of John Adamnovich,
(taking the name of Jerusalem, or Nakedecstasy,
or fleeced sheep),
expanded until a hegemon,
and spared the bacchants from attacks
by leopards, tigers, and lions.

Ŗa-zhannichka: Uncle Adam, uncle Adam!

The King’s men and priests are knocking at our door.
Mothers have armed themselves with knives
and have covered their tush with hedgehog skins.

Adam: The bastards! The cowards!

Did it have to come to this?
They call their Holy Mount: Guantanamo,
where men are muted and
marines in camouflage suits
strut before their victims with carrots stuck up their arse.

Ŗa-zhannychka: Uncle Adam, uncle Adam!

Come with me. Quick!

Adam: Go tell them, dear,

We cannot fight them!
The urbanites are now like ants.
If we step on them, they will crawl up our crotches
and sting us until we wish ourselves dead.

Story Teller: So it goes. Sons born to evil urban streets are drilled straight on the parade ground by a carrot and the threat of the law. Soon other men began to envy Adam his kingdom, and we heard say that sacrifice of life is a fool’s domain. We heard that a kingdom could be had by making the bacchants feel fear. Soon sacrifice no longer was done by Adam and John, but by men taken as prisoners of war and killed before the witness of men and women invited to come enjoy the sight of a spectacle, said to be worthy of the attendance of Gods.

The Gods did not always come though. When the prisoners—said to be ecstatic—because they were forced to dance, play flutes, and ascend the high stairs of the temple to the beat of drums (three steps up, two steps down), not all could make the last seven steps to the top, but had to be assisted to the platform by prods of spears, where five priests, four seizing the victim’s arms and legs, and one making the incision below the ribcage, thrust his arm up the chest to squeeze the arteries shut, then tear the still beating heart, its arteries attched to show it to the Sun.

I have witnessed a similar scene in a travelogue video, of tribesmen, east of Lake Baikal, killing a goat for the meal of their Latvian motorist visitors: four men at each leg, the fifth doing the killing by reaching his hand up the left side of the chest to squeeze shut the arteries, then driving a wood plug into the heart to stop it from beating. I seem to recall that a spear was also thrust into the left side of the chest of Jesus after he was hung on he cross. Two women (or was it four?) stood at the foot of the cross. Such longue duree memories endure for a long time into the future—its reasons for being what it is forgot.

For another example—the author of this story does not believe that Jesus was crucified, but was cast into a pit of burning logs. The New Testament remembers this only by recalling Jesus sitting by a fire early in the morning in the high priest’s courtyard. On the other hand, the Aztecs tell the same story through the story of the lowest of their Gods (a God suffering of venereal desease) called Nanauatl (Nanauatzin), who of all the Gods was the only one who had the courage to cast himself into the pit of fire, so that the Sun, left in the sky motionless, by the speedsters of modern science, would begin to move its course.

This is difficult to say. Some will call it blasphemy. But does not the story of Nanauatzin—presuming that it reflects the story of John Basil of Bysantium--suggest that the secret that Judas whispered—and got paid thirty pieces of silver for—was that Jesus suffered from a venereal disease? The strict omission of speculation about all things sexual effecting Jesus' life makes it plausible that the secret was of an intimate nature. Is this also not the very secret that is turned against men and women who have political stature?

Eso’s Chronicles 256/ Act 1

Addend 16—Adam Adamnovich

Act 1 cont.

© Eso A.B.

 

Chorus: What happened then?

You are still here!

Your heart still beats within you.

 

Adam: The four maids. They saved me.

As priesteses of the Sun,

it was their’s to sacrifice me.

But when the time came,

They spread my legs and said:

‘We want now to hear you scream!’

And they cut off my balls.

 

The male priests about guffawed.

They had never witnessed it done before.

They appreciated the maids’ wit.

Because temple rules said that a man without testes

is not acceptable to the Sun,

they left me alive.

 

Chorus: But the maids bore you children.

Did they not?

 

Adam: Yes, two sons and two daughters.

But the priests ruled that because I went free,

These would be sacrificed in my stead.

The maids, now mothers all, were furious

and swore revenge.

 

To help cure me of my loss,

they brought before me lowly peasant men

and had them swear to them and me

the oath to the Sun

(I am a man of my testes

Sworn to be faithful to you, Nanauatzina, even unto death),

then had them fuck them before my eyes

until my Other was cured and

knew to stand again.

 

Chorus (left): How could you watch?

 

Adam: It made me young again!

As that old painter Picasso knew so well.

 

Story teller: And so it was. While Adam Adamnovich is from the Black Sea area and the worshippers of the Sun are from around the Baltic Sea (Alas! Almost all of them have by now forgotten their halo and Sun-fire embraced forebears…), who sailed not only to the seas of the South, but also navigated far West to the lands of the Feathered Serpent.

 

The Feathered Serpent, Quetzacoatl of the Aztecs, who are forebears to today’s Mexican people, who, too, have forgot their Sun gods http://www.aztec-history.com/aztec-sun-god.html , was feathered in goose feathers. This is how—though argued by our submissive historians as being untrue, though few deny that their testes are in the grasp of modern ‘democratic’ governments—the ‘Greeks’ and the ‘Balts’ discovered America long before the usurping West sent the pirate Columbus http://www.reformation.org/columbus-unmasked.html to discover what had never been lost except it was substituted by the chutzpah of the armored God Huitzilopochtli http://www.allabouthistory.org/huitzilopochtli-faq.htm , born by his own goose feathered hand. Not surprisingly, this story was later denied, and it is now said that he was born of a virgin, into whose lap God drifted down as a down feather, only to seize our planet by storm the moment he was born.

 

Another name of the Aztec Sun is Nanauatl (Nanauatzin) or Tonatuih, though I would ad to each of these names the vowel ‘a’, making read Huitzilopochtla, Nanauatla (Nanauatzina) and Tonatuiha. The last makes the Moon Goddess (known as Mehnesnihca in Latvian) a true ‘smoking mirror’, the smoke but a reflection of clouds driven by the Goddess of the Winds, Eve (Ehecatla) or Vehya (as the Latvians had her).

 

In any event, the birth of Huitzilopochtli is but the story of the birth of Jesus, who, too, was born of a down feather drifting into the lap of Mary. How so, you want to know? Don’t you know that the Egyptian Gods Atum, Ptah, and Osiris came into our world by their own hands, which were dressed in bird down by the Sun, when She waved her winged legs over Osiris’ unresponding body part, which one of the four Aztec priesteses had just relieved Adam of?

 

Adam: For all that, our world was not to be. Just as the government of Latvia today hides thousands of names of KGB agents, because the names of its own are among them, so the National Security Agencies of governments everywhere keep the mouths of writers shut and their computer keyboards print ‘different sets for different lets’.

 

Chetseri (dirty dream team): The globalizers, Christians,

Came to Latvia….

They killed our Johns, Adams Adamnoviches,

And made the children of our apple trees orphans.

 

Chorus (left) (sings): Maza biju neredzēju,

kur gulēja tēvs, māmulīņ….

 

Chorus (right) (sings): Nu uzgāju ganīdama,

kur gulēja tēvs, māmulīņ….

 

Chorus (together): Pie ābeles piespiedos,

Kā pie savas māmuliņ’s.

Birzt ābelei balti ziedi,

Birst man gaužas asaras.

 

Translator: I was too young to know

When or where father and mother died…

Now, as I herd the sheep,

I discover their graves.

 

I press to the wild apple tree,

as if she were my mother.

While the apple sheds

white blossoms, I shed bitter tears.

 

(Enter Razhannichka. She runs out of breath)

 

Ŗa-zhannichka: Uncle Adam, uncle Adam!

My mothers send me.

The President’s body guards and priests are here.

They’ve come to arrest us all,

for planning to sacrifice the government

to our Gods.

 

Adam: The bastards!

 

(next: Act 2).

Eso’s Chronicles 156
I Don’t Know What to Think (1)
© Eso A.B.

In Blog 154, I mention that ever since God became the 'Word' and lost his 'Act'-ive Self, human beings have become passive and the norm of human life is best described as vegetative (that includes vegees bungee jumping). The fundamental problem appears to be that the ‘Word’ (capped W) always manages to inject itself between me (if presume myself as part of the public) and whatever I want to do. This ‘Word’ generally is the word of Another, who always manages to ‘suppress’ and make my word insignificant.

I trace the phenomenon to the rise of the Catholic Christian Church and the imposition of its ‘Word’ [with the help of military violence and inquisitorial torture] on behalf of a ruling elite over a civilization that has nothing to do with theirs, but which does have the means of military might and the experience of a butcher. Of course, like with most everything, there are exceptions.

One exception is the, so called, “liberation theology”, which originated in South America. It perceived the perverse doctrine of the Mother Church with a critical eye and attempted to return the Church to God as an Act. As MIT professor Noam Chomsky explains it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPp3Hykjl6s , the critics ended up dead. Had the liberation theology Activists submitted to the American led Evangelical (Wordy) theology, they would still be talking today and waiting for rapture.

While the reasons that are said to have caused the various doctrinal divergences within the Christian Church (such as trinitarianism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Trinitarianism or Arianism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arianism , for example), the main split is between God as Act and God as Word. Today God as Word is the clear winner and controls ALL governments. All governments impose the Word on their subjects, and what the Word imposes at the most basic level is to tell the public “do not Act”, i.e., do not teach ‘liberation theology’, because it energizes the students to take remedial action. Since this split was begun by Western Christianity, it is justified in claiming to have brought the Bible (in so far as it is claimed by Western Christianity) to the world.

At the same time, it ought to be of a great wonder that near simultaneously with the ‘victory’ of Western or ‘Wordy’ Christianity comes its defeat not in the abstract, but real sense.

While the West has cast the entire planet into a crisis (economical, international relations, environmental, communal), the one with the most Revolutionary potential is that of the elite class. For the first time in its over a thousand year long history, the leadership of the world (China’s including) has been exposed as naked, moronic, murderous, unprincipled, and, therefore, unnecessary. There are many events that illustrate this.

Almost a fourth of Britons believe that Tony Blair should be arrested for war crimes; even as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaking from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London http://rt.com/usa/assange-kissinger-cables-wikileaks-500/ releases the so-called ‘Project K’, which consists of 1.7 million files composed of US Department of State diplomatic communications; even as this writer presents (via these blogs) the oldest known (to this time) falsified literary document, Sophocles’ “Oedipus Rex (Rewritten)” http://oedipusrexrewritten.blogspot.com .

The literary falsification, behind which hides an attempt to release the ruling elites from responsibilities (mortal sins actually) incurred during their rule, does not come alone. As the reader knows, the New Testament, too, was written less to present the world with the teachings of Jesus, than to present a different account of what happened to the spiritual leader of Eastern Christianity, Basil (King) The Avenk, whom I present as ‘BasilTheBogomil’ in a series of blogs by that name.

Needless to say, I am aware that the reader is likely saying to him- or her-self that all these words seem confusing; one no longer knows what or whom to believe, what is or is not ‘real’ history. At the same time, this is precisely what I mean by writing (above) “a great wonder” at the coincidence of seeming Western ‘victory’ with the ‘rebirth’ of the Morning Star in the Eastern sky.

Even as the government of the United States of America is presumptuously exporting its fake democracy to fake dictatorships and is killing hundreds of thousands of people who have no idea why they are being killed, the killing done by the U.S. military is nevertheless Real and without meaning. How does one tell a young Iraqi that his-her life expectancy today is only about 30 years  http://rt.com/op-edge/iraq-environmental-catastrophe-hiroshima-533/

Regarding the subject of what is Real, but at the same time has no meaning, the philosopher Alain Badiou has a wonderfully succinct explanation.  Badiou states (‘A Conversation with Alain Badiou’, lacanian ink 23, 2004, pp. 100-1; toh to Žižek):

“The simplest definition of God and of religion lies in the idea that truth and meaning are one and the same thing. The death of God is the end of the idea that posits truth and meaning as the same thing….” To wit: truth and meaning become unglued; meaning without truth is the empty holy word of today’s Catholicism.

Given the crime committed by the U.S. government in its attempt to play God, and at the same time export to Iraq an incomprehensible and meaningless death, there necessarily arises a gut call for a Second Nuremberg War Crimes Trial http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Trials . Given the definitive separation of ‘God’ and ‘meaning’ that has occurred between 1945 and 2013, the ostensible God (the government of the U.S.) having rendered ‘meaning’ meaningless, the criminals should not be sentenced to death by hanging as before, but each given a capsule of an extremely  powerful painkiller, they must administer to themselves to achieve an unfelt death.

The effect of such medicine may not be a reassertion of meaning, but a doubling of the reality of Real, or as philosopher Žižek puts it: “…when the impossibility of the conjunction of meaning and truth is imposed on us: either we endorse the ‘postmodern’ stance and denounce the dimension of truth… or we engage in the effort to discern a dimension of truth outside meaning—i.e… the dimension of truth as Real.”

Impossible though it may seem to some, we may discover that this ‘truth’ was well known by the forebears of our present civilization, the so-called ‘primitive’ Adam and Eve.

 

Eso’s Chronicles 151

The Wing-Ding of Crash, Bang, and Doom (10)
© Eso A.B.

Teeth of a Crocodile

The premise of almost ALL commentators who write about today’s global financial, business, social, and war crises is from a neoliberal capitalist point of view. This goes also for the populist BRICS countries.

Many admit that the current crises is severe, perhaps of catastrophic proportions, but the underlying presumption among most remains that: ours is a civilization of enormous achievements, our science has discovered unimaginable (Higgs boson?) things, our cities are megalopolises, our satellites circle the planet and search for ancient civilizations from five hundred miles above; who knows, maybe our brain is like a pocket radio, not a thinking machine, but a transmitter; that transmits not God’s orders, but whatever comes from the degree of ‘free will’ that is enabled by the virtual environment we unwittingly create by our chicken head mentality. The chicken head becomes operational once it sees a new white line (drawn with a Apple mobile phone?) and cannot get its eyes off it.

One of the forces that keep us focused on dysfunctional modern traditions is that in creating our bric-a-brac culture, we have sacrificed millions of human and billions of animal lives (if we count them), and plants in the process. A sense of guilt whispers in our ear that the results, no matter how unsustainable, cannot be let die with no one to remember it; therefore it must be kept going.

It is as if our ‘free will’ does not allow us to exit the trap of ‘creativity’ which our get-rich-quick ‘achievers’ have set for us. At the same time, the ‘poor’ and neglected lack the communication skills to break free from the mud http://ak8.picdn.net/shutterstock/videos/2864026/preview/stock-footage-phnom-penh-slums-june-garbage-gatherers-assorting-trashes-in-slums.jpg at the bottom of our globamare civilization.

Along with such optimism, comes a pessimism whose holders say they are expecting a total wipeout of humankind. Unfortunately, the DOOM people do not move their fantasy projectors further than visualizing a temporary surge in the rat population feasting on our corpses and whatever stuff is left in abandoned warehouses.

As correct as such visions may be, it has not occurred to the DOOM people that besides being DOOM promoters, they may also be Revolutionaries.

So, how to we get from doom promoters and conspiracy theorists to revolutionaries? What is the line of progression?

It is not as complicated as it may seem.

First, the doom promoter may no more than intuit something as not being quite right with the way our society functions.

Second, after receiving criticism for being a negativist, the doom promoter notes that the reflection of society in the media mirror is one sided, and that this is the result of the media being owned by the wealthy and governing class.

Third, we note that the poor or have-nots have no say in the way society is being created by the ‘creative people’. Moreover, the creative people are creating things not for the betterment of society, but to make Money.

Fourth, it appears that the so-called ‘democracy’ is not a democracy in the full meaning of the term, but excludes the have-nots. It is also noted that ‘democratic government’ is controlled by the banks, which are controlled by the ‘haves’. The recent example of Cyprus, coming under a ‘by-proxy’ control of fascist serving German banks, is proof of this.

Fifth, some of the ‘haves’ and most of the ‘have-nots’ note that of the many anthropologists with PhDs none has volunteered or is being recruited to live out his-her life in, say, Calcutta slums. Some of us may voluntarily live among guerillas and chimpanzees in the jungle, but—unless by an unfortunate accident such as struck Robinson Crusoe, no one has volunteered to spend their adult lives as a non-missionary Mother Theresas in Calcutta’s slums http://www.sonic.net/~evolve/wp/human_ecology/slums_calcutta.jpg .

No academic has been told that such a service may earn him-her a Doctors Emeritus and a pension that guarantees life in an upper middle class retirement village.

Sixth, we see that the great majority of humankind, which incidentally belongs to the have-nots, is almost totally ignored by the media. What the media presents of the have-nots are superficial glimpses, photographs of shanty towns, dirty faced children, stories of ill health, sexual abuse, all of which scenes and stories blend in with the tent camps of refugees from wars http://refugeeafrica.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/08_zam_zam_camp-640x318.jpg waged by the haves against the have-nots.

When DOOM prognosticators are viewed from the point of view of the majority of humankind, we begin to see that the story of he FALL of Adam and Eve is as much a False Flag as the story of King Oedipus http://oedipusrexrewritten.blogspot.com . The reason God chased Adam and Eve (or did he actually chase Eve in the same sense that he chased Adam?) from the Garden of Eden has nothing to do with God’s anger or disappointment in his creation, but with a violent king or prince (standing in for God) who for economic reasons wanted the Garden (a wood in reality) for himself..

Once we look at the story of Adam and Eve from such a perspective, we see that Adam as well as Eve are happy to remain in the wood for ever. They like to work, but only in the sense of a subsistence economy. All additional work over and above subsistence may be viewed as taxation.) Yet in Western civilization, we have been raised to believe that God expelled Adam and Eve from the garden because they (or was it Adam who made God jealous?) overindulged in sex as some chimps (bonobos) are still http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/07/3/l_073_03.html .