Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Begin (Genesis)


IN CREATION MYTHS

A COMMON THEME

HAS GODS

INVOLVED IN SIBLING SEX

RAPE

MURDER

TURF WARS

BUTCHERY

STRUGGLES FOR POWER



THE WORLD MADE

BY THEIR CHILDREN'S BODIES

OR PARTS THEREOF



A CREATION STORY

AS CONCEIVED BY MEN



BUT WHEN THE JEWISH SCRIBES

SURROUNDED

BY BABYLONIAN IDOLATRY

DROWNED IN FOREIGN GODS

TO WHICH THE JEWS

WERE SUSCEPTIBLE



REWROTE AND EDITED

THE GENESIS STORY

TO GIVE THEIR DISPLACED COUNTRYMEN

HOPE

AND VISION



THEY INCORPORATED OF COURSE

SOME OF THE OLD BABYLONIAN TALES

SUCH AS THE FLOOD

AND THE TOWER OF BABEL



BUT WHEN IT CAME TO CREATION

THEY DID A HUNDRED AND EIGHTY



NO STRUGGLE

NO CONSTANT SEX

AS THE EGYPTIANS

DID WITH THE BROTHER AND SISTER

EARTH AND SKY



GOD SIMPLY SAID

BEGIN

AND IT WAS SO

GOD SAID

IT'S GOOD



NOW WHETHER IT TOOK

AN INSTANT

OR MILLENNIUMS

FOR FRUITION



IT DOESN'T MATTER

GOD SAID BEGIN

AND IT WAS



OUT OF NOTHING

IT WAS



BUT WHEN IT CAME TO MAN



THE SPIRIT THAT BROODED OVER THE ABYSS

BREATHED INTO HIM A SOUL

AND MADE HIM THE CAPSTONE OF HIS CREATION



AND GOD SAID

THAT'S GOOD



AND THE JEWS KNEW THAT MAN WAS SPECIAL

MADE

NOT FROM THE SWEAT OF BATTLE

THE BLOOD DROPS OF WAR

THE SEMEN OF SEX



GOD SAID BEGIN

AND IT WAS



GOD SAID

LET US MAKE MAN

AND IT WAS SO



AND IT WAS GOOD



NO STRUGGLE



OH GOD TOLD A FISHERMAN'S JOKE

WHEN HE ASKED JOB

IF HE COULD CATCH A WHALE ON A HOOK





BUT THE JEWS KNEW

EVEN THOUGH

THEY WERE FOREIGNERS

IN A FOREIGN LAND



THAT THEY

AND EVERY MAN WAS SPECIAL

NOT MADE BY ACCIDENT

BUT A DELIBERATE CREATION



THAT GOD

THEN

NOW

AND ALWAYS

WOULD HOLD THEM IN THE PALM OF HIS HAND





FRANK A VOLLMER

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