When's the last time you thanked Prometheus for his gift of fire?
Forged from fire into princely aristocracy then back again into starguts
When's the last time you thanked Prometheus, for his gift of fire?
Perhaps the dawn of consciousness did start with fire.
Our fires came before our writing, before our early civilizations.
The fire, what is essentially a release of stored sun, came from timber that the sun created from the air.
When civilization came later,
just as hunters learnt to imitate animals,
planters learnt to imitate plants,
leaders learnt to imitate the stars above.
We became aware of the movement of the planets through the fixed stars,
And calculated and recognized that these planets were moving in mathematically inevitable courses,
the observation of these celestial bodies served as indicators for the right times to plant and harvest.
Our leaders dressed up like the stars too, the king with his crown shaped like the sun
From the nitrogen in our DNA to the calcium in our bones or the iron in our lungs, all the carbon and everything else comes from the interiors of collapsing stars. Stars will be born from the elements dwelling inside us now. So don't leave them waiting.
The gods, projections upon the stars from the myth-making imagination of humankind, wait to delight in you.