by Ruth Salles
Note – In quotation marks: in the Atlantis part, an excerpt from a Mayan manuscript extant in the British Museum, and notes from the Codex Boturini, 16th century; in the Indian part, a hymn of the Brahmins and quotations from the “Bhagavad Gîtâ”; in the part of Egypt, excerpts from the “Hymn to the Sun” by Pharaoh Amenhotep IV, called Akhenaten. The verses of the Greeks, I tried to make them in Greek hexameters, sometimes in pentameters.
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The students who make the Voice of Time and the Voice of the Aztecs should move on a separate plane, perhaps higher, being extra-myths.
VOICE OF TIME (Mayan manuscript):
– “In the 6th year of Khan,
11 of Muluk,
month of Zac,
until the 11th of Chuen,
we had news of tremendous earthquakes,
and then Atlantis came to an end.”
VOICE OF THE Aztecs (Boturini Codex – 16th century):
– Wait! Wait! We are the Mexicans!
Our myths say
who formerly called us Aztecs,
of the seven tribes that fled from the island of Aztlán,
that trembled and sank into the waters.
And the date was 1, flint. Yes, 1, flint!
ATLANTES:
– Atlantis, Atlantis, the ices thaw,
run out in waters that engulf the earth!
Man!
O Master Manu!
Our lives need to be saved!
MANU:
– Leave spells and jewels!
Drop the beautiful palaces!
ATLANTAINS OF MAGIC:
- No! Not that!
We will never leave!
Oh, the waters come,
come coming! Ooohhh!
MANU:
– Only conscious Atlanteans follow me!
Come!
Board the boat carrying seeds.
ALL:
- On the edge of the bay,
the ripples move.
They go down and land on the docks,
like naiads, nymphs,
and roll, roll,
and then come back.
The waters swallow the grains of sand in the waves,
and call the foam: ch…ch…ch…
and run outside.
There are some islands,
but they give in again, and disappear.
We have nothing left of ancient Atlantis.
Let's run far away,
sailing, sailing,
until the entrance of another land.
INDIA
THE THREE GODS (Trimurti) (to the arriving Atlanteans):
- Welcome!
Bow your knees before the god of India!
We are the Trimurti, we are three in One, we are the Whole!
BRAHMA:
– Receive the blessing of Brahma,
the creator of all things.
I breathed and blew all the worlds,
stars, stones, plants, animals
and all human beings.
VISHNU:
– Whoever hears the voice of Vishnu,
knows that I am the caretaker of all that has been created.
SHIVA:
– Shiva has the key to the eternal.
I restore everything that dies.
THE THREE (Brahmin hymn is sung):
– “May the Lord of the Universe
protect you and always be
merciful, in seven forms:
like the sun and moon regulating time;
like fire carrying incense to heaven;
like the infinite space where the songs of love vibrate;
like air and water sustaining life;
like the earth that is mother, oh, oh, mother,
oh-oh, and nourisher of every germ! May the Lord protect you!”
VISHNU:
– The eighth avatar of Vishnu was Krishna,
along the paths of life,
he is the driver of men's chariots.
KRISHNA:
– “A good man is like a sandalwood tree,
that perfumes the ax that wounds her.
Among the stars I am the Sun, among the stars I am the Moon.
I am he whose face is turned on all sides. (face movement)
Among the letters I am the A (arm movement).
Between the words I am the conjunction (holding hands with everyone).
I am the one whose face turns every which way (movement)
I am the harmony of sounds…
I am the wind of the air...
I am the radiance of fire...
I am the taste of water...
I am the sacred perfume of the earth…”
ATLANTES:
“We salute the holy Trimurti then.
And let someone teach us meditation.
and show us the way that goes high,
in the mountains where the gods surely are.
BUDDHA:
– Listen to me! I am Siddhartha Gautama!
I rejected human nobility.
I became a Buddha, the Enlightened One.
A little bit of the love that's in my light
later it will be donated by me
to the divine child called Jesus.
Listen to this teaching today,
O Atlanteans, time travelers!
There are eight steps to the right road
The first step is the right action.
And, for you, the most correct action
is not, now, meditation
nor in search of the gods to walk,
but to put your feet on the ground
and look for good soil to plant.
Soil must always be remembered.
Whoever lives needs to be fed.
Plant and care for the blessed soil!
ATLANTES:
– So let the Buddha obey.
Goodbye friends! See you later!
PERSIA
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE OF PERSIA:
– Persia awaits your steps.
The Persia of the people who teach planting.
AHURA MAZDAO:
– I am Ahura Mazdao, the god of light, shining!
I bring the sun's rays to the ground in an instant!
I bring the veil of rain and the swift wind.
And the people of Persia are then amazed
seeing the plant's strength increase.
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE OF PERSIA:
– Ah… Against the god of light, who is born in the morning,
there is the atrocious god of darkness: Ahriman!
He's always trying to win
Ahura Mazdao with his power.
AHURA MAZDAO:
– But this victory was not won,
for the Golden Star was born to the Persians,
the child that at birth, instead of crying,
laughed loudly:
Zarathustra!
ZARATUSTRA:
– Ahura Mazdao's messenger
took me to the kingdom of heaven.
What I learned from the angels, I, Zarathustra,
I passed it on to my disciples.
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE OF PERSIA:
— In Persia,
later the magicians who study the stars,
following the Golden Star of great light,
will lead to Bethlehem of Judea,
the wisdom of Zarathustra
and bless her
the divine child called Jesus.
ZARATUSTRA:
– It is in rude huts that we live.
We don't have better houses yet.
Seek the land where the people already think,
already lives in houses and starts science.
ATLANTES:
– Farewell, people of Persia! We will follow!
BABYLON
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE OF BABYLON:
– Welcome to Mesopotamia,
“land in the middle, between two rivers”,
on one side the Euphrates, on the other side the Tigris.
When the rivers are full, the field is flooded
and you can see the mud spread all over.
And from this mud houses, walls, avenues are built
and ziggurats, a kind of tower that we Babylonians
we raised high in Mesopotamia.
EA's VOICE:
- I am Ea,
the god of Wisdom.
My robe is the Sun.
I gave my people the science of writing
engraved with wedges on clay plates.
My son, the hero Gilgamesh,
its history is preserved.
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE OF BABYLON:
– We also have the science of the stars in the sky.
We know that a year has twelve months,
the month has four weeks,
the week has seven days,
the time of day has sixty minutes,
and every minute, sixty seconds.
the hourglass,
where the sand of time flows,
we created it.
ATLANTES:
– Thank you for your science.
We learned a lot! We continue the journey,
for there are many steps ahead of us.
EGYPT
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE OF EGYPT:
– Welcome to Egypt,
desert of sand and mystery.
For in August, the gentle river Nile
descends turbulent
and overflows in the dryness of the earth.
We open canals, irrigate the soil,
and the water is so much
that we can plant everything that is plant.
We draw hieroglyphics on papyrus
and thus we leave our writings on record.
VOICE OF THE PHARAOS:
– We are the pharaohs, the kings of Egypt.
we worship the gods
Frog,
Amon,
Osiris, Isis and Horus.
We have temples of mysteries to teach men:
mighty pyramids.
And the sphinx that asks questions
that no one deciphers, no one answers.
VOICE OF PHARAOH AKHENATON:
– I am Pharaoh Amunhotep IV!
I should have been born much later,
because I only believe in one god: Aton,
who sends his blessing through the rays of the sun.
That's why I was called Akhenaton.
One day, one day,
some people will understand me.
I honored with a hymn the greatness of Aten in the sun.
VOICE OF THE HYMN TO THE SUN OF AKHENATON (excerpt):
– “Live disk,
life maker,
on the horizon of the East you rise,
you give your fullness to the whole country.
You lie on the horizon of the West.
The universe will sleep in darkness,
for darkness reigns as mistress of the Earth,
while your Maker rests in the West.
You rise at the dawn of the horizon.
You, Shining Disc, shine in the day.
You light up the darkness.”
AKHENATON'S VOICE:
- Keep walking
in search of the land of more teaching.
Everyone needs to learn to know the land.
GREECE
VOICE OF THE GREEKS OF ATHENS:
– Today, to the Atlanteans, travelers who arrive from afar,
Greece will help. This is the city of Athens,
where democracy takes care of the lives of men,
thanks to Pericles, our archon who rules with the laws,
laws that the wise Solon created for the people of Athens.
There in the city of Sparta Lycurgus' law is harsher.
PERICLES' VOICE:
– Enter, haughty Atlanteans, who come from a distant land.
Enter the land of art. Phidias, the great architect,
made on the Acropolis hill, the beautiful Parthenon,
to the abode of Pallas-Athena, daughter of Zeus.
Zeus is the greatest of the gods, root of the earth and the stars.
VOICE OF HIPPOCRATES:
– I am the physician Hippocrates, I follow the famous Aesculapius.
Son of a god, he healed the pains of men.
HOMER'S VOICE:
– I am Homer, the blind singer of ancient stories.
Fables made Aesop, a slave of great renown.
We created the alphabet, and Socrates is the great philosopher.
And the remarkable Herodotus, tells the history of peoples.
ATLANTES:
– Master Herodotus, we heard about Magna Graecia.
If it exists, where is it located?
HERODOTUS' VOICE:
– Magna Graecia exists, many Greeks migrated.
Today they reside there. Located in southern Italy,
a peninsula west of Greece and Athens.
VOICE OF THE ATLANTIC:
– For when the gods will,
we will go to this peninsula.
Praise all the lands we know.
Friends, while fate
don't tell us to follow, here we will stay.
For the words of philosophers make us think.
The beauty of art makes you feel.
The justice of the laws teaches us to will and to act.
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