Thursday, July 26, 2012

MYTHS





MYTHS


I’VE BEEN READING A LOT
OF THE CREATION/DELUGE STORIES
COMMON TO THE MESOPOTAMIAN AREA

GEOLOGISTS ARE SAYING
THAT WITHIN HISTORY’S MEMORY
THE MEDITERRANEAN
BLACK
CASPIAN SEAS
WERE FORMED
OR DEFORMED

THE FOLK MEMORY
OF THESE EVENTS WAS SO STRONG
THEY CREATED A GENRE OF DELUGE STORIES
OF WHICH GENESIS IS ONE

IN PRIMITIVE THINKING
THE FLOOD WAS THE GODS ANGER
AT MAN’S SIN
OR BY THE NOISE HE MADE
DISTURBING THEM
EITHER WAY GOD RUED HIS CREATION

LIKE DISGRUNTLED TRADESMEN
THEY WANTED TO DESTROY WHAT THEY HAD MADE
AND START ANEW

AFTER THE FLOOD
WHAT THEY ENDED UP WITH
PEOPLE LIKE NOAH AND HIS SONS

NO BETTER THAN THE ONES WHO WENT BEFORE
US
A SINFUL PEOPLE

THE GODS DECIDED
FURTHER INTERFERENCE
WOULD NOT PRODUCE BETTER RESULTS




UNLIKE THE JEWISH BIBLE
THERE WAS NO SENSE OF SIN
AND REDEMPTION


BUT ANNOYED GODS
HAVING A HISSY FIT

WHILE THE ROOTS OF GENESIS
MAY BE BORROWED
THE UNIQUENESS OF GENESIS
SHOWS A GOD
WHO MADE MAN
BECAUSE HE WANTED TOO

KNOWING FULL WELL
HIS CREATION WOULD GO ASTRAY
HE MADE US ANYWAY


FRANK A VOLLMER



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