Fata Morgana
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- 1971
- 79 min
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And it is told how once...
...the earth swayed in deep quiet...
...swayed in deep silence,
r ested in stillness...
...softly r ocking, and lay ther e,
lonely and void.
And this is the first testimony...
...the first word.
Ther e was no man...
... nor beast, fowl, fish, crab, tr ee...
...stone, cave, gorge,
grass-tuft, nor bush...
Only the heavens wer e ther e.
lnvisible was the face of the earth.
Only the seas gather ed
under the firmament...
That was all.
Nothing was ther e to take form...
...or become audible...
... nothing to move, trickle...
...or rush under the firmament.
Ther e was only the nothingness.
Only the waters gather ed together...
...only the sea lay calmly ther e,
Truly nothing was ther e,
which might otherwise have existed.
Only the cr eatr ess was ther e
and the cr eator...
...the Mighty and Cucumatz,
Herself, the child-bear er...
...and the begetter of sons wer e
ther e upon the unfathomable waters.
Omniscient and omnipotent
was their essence.
And likewise ther e
truly was Heaven...
...and also the ''Heart of Heaven'' ...
...this is the name of the God...
...this is how He is named.
And his word came thither...
... unto the Mighty and to Cucumatz...
...wher e ther e was
darkness and night...
...and talked to the Mighty
and to Cucumatz.
And they talked and
bethought themselves...
...and consider ed car efully,
took council among themselves...
and considerations into accord.
Ther e emerged fr om their plans
the dawning of a light...
...and the conception of man.
And then they ponder ed the spr outing,
the gr owing of tr ees and cr eepers...
...the springing up of life...
...and the cr eation of mankind
in darkness and night.
...on the str ength of Him,
who is the ''Heart of Heaven'' ...
...and whose name is Huracan.
Huracan-flash-of-lightning
is his first appearance...
...the second is
Tom-thumb-lightning...
...the third, at last, is gr een-lightning.
By these thr ee is the
''Heart of Heaven'' encompassed.
And they came to the Mighty
and to Cucumatz...
...and consider ed light and life...
''ln what manner shall life be sown...
...and how shall light shine?
Who shall be our ward and keeper?
O that it may come to pass!
This thou shalt ponder!
Recede o ye waters,
abate ye fr om the earth!
Let ther e be earth and her union...
...and she shall become level...
...so that life can be sown...
...so that light shall be
in heaven and on earth.
For ther e is no splendor
nor r enown, nor glory...
... in this, our work, our cr eation...
... lest man be built, man be cr eated.''
Thus spake they.
And earth was cr eated by them.
Y es indeed, thus it came forth.
So that earth might come forth
they said...
...''Earth'', and at once it appear ed.
Mer ely like a cloud, like unto a haze
when it first took shape...
... in its first manifestation.
Then the mountains wer e heard
rising out of the waters...
...and they wer e majestic instanter.
And Cucumatz r ejoiced...
...''lt was good that thou
camest down unto us...
...thou 'Heart of Heaven',
thou Huracan...
...thou Tom-thumb-lightning,
thou gr een-lightning!''
''Our cr eation and our work
will be well-made,'' spake they.
Earth, the mountains, the plains
thus came forth.
And everywher e the courses
of the rivers wer e set...
They meander ed and wound...
...at the foot of the mountains
and between them.
Well-parted the rivers wer e...
...after the high mountains
had come forth into light.
Thus came this earth into being.
And further they now thought
out the beasts of the mountains...
...the keepers of all for ests,
the inhabitants of the mountains...
...the stag, fowl, puma, and jaguar...
...the snake, rattle-snake, and viper,
the wards of the cr eepers.
And the child-bear er and the
begetter of the sons spake...
''Shall it be all void...
...shall it be all still under
the tr ees and cr eepers?
Would not it be wise now...
...to have somebody watch
over them?'' spake they...
... bethinking themselves and taking
council the one with the other.
At once the stag and
the fowl wer e shaped...
...and now they showed the stag
and the fowl their habitation...
''Thou, stag, shalt sleep near the
course of the river, in the gorges...
... her e thou shalt dwell,
betwixt grass-bushels and herbs.
ln the for ests shalt thou multiply!
Let it be so !'' they said unto them.
big birds r eceived their abode...
''Y e birds of the tr ee-tops
and the cr eepers...
... may ye dwell and nest her e !
Her e may ye br eed and multiply
on the branches of the tr ees...
...and on the tendrils and cr eepers.''
So it was told to
the stags and the fowl.
Thus was the earth
haunted by them...
...and each was given his bed
and his r esting place.
ln this manner, the child-bear er
and begetter of sons...
...gave the beasts of the earth
their habitation...
...thus all the stags and
fowl became alive.
And the stags and fowl wer e told
by the cr eatr ess and the cr eator...
... by the child-bear er and
the begetter of sons...
''Speak orderly...
...do not clamor or
shout without sense...
...speak coher ently...
...everyone in his manner...
...everyone after his family...
...everyone after his kind.''
However, it came to pass
that they spake...
... not as human beings would.
When the cr eatr ess
and cr eator heard...
...that they failed to speak
as human beings do...
...they said to each other...
''They have not in the least master ed
the calling of our names...
...although we ar e their constructors
and their cr eators.
That is not in order.''
Ther efor e the cr eatr ess and
the cr eator...
...essayed once mor e...
...to build living beings,
''Without fail let us try anew!''
Time dr ew near for the dissemination
of man and for the illumination.
''Let us build ourselves a keeper!''
The flesh of man was
made of tzite-wood...
... but when woman was carved by
the cr eatr ess and the cr eator...
...the flesh of woman was made
of r eed-grass marr ow.
But still the cr eatur es wer e
without sense...
...they spake not befor e the face of
their cr eatr ess and their cr eator...
...who made them, who formed them.
And so wer e they destr oyed,
dr owned.
For their sakes, the face
of the earth was darkened.
Ther e r eigned a rain-darkness...
... pelting-rain by day,
and pelting-rain by night.
Small beasts and big beasts
flocked together.
Tr ees and r ocks cried
shame upon them.
They determined to
climb up the huts...
... but the huts made them tumble,
and they fell.
They determined to
hide in the caves...
... but the caves closed befor e them.
ln this manner the second destruction
of the beings formed...
...or cr eated like man took place...
doomed to perish, to fall.
They wer e extinguished...
...they wer e all, r oot and branch,
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Submitted on August 05, 2018
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