the nature of desire 2
According to legend, Koyaanisqatsi, the glittering feathered serpent, would come from the east. Would recognize that emanated from the light skin. Would bring happiness, power, glory and eternal salvation for all.
For these reasons, great were the expectation and hope.
Aliens Cortez was not a god. It was a cynical theatrical. Not even the best. A small, dark man but ready to all the tricks. It came from the east. He brought with him only a shell, a plumed hat, ten men to the extreme and black fever virus.
When he appeared, the sun was up and pounded on the metal armor. Reflections, nothing more than reflexes. A game of necklaces and trinkets. That people, who also was not naive, he was blinded by the expectation. He did not need anything else to give form to desire. Cortez
And just two seconds to see the gold shining everywhere.
So, it was a matter of pure coincidence.
This has always been, in fact, the essence of the deception that has spanned centuries, seas, men, people to come up to you unchanged.
I'm not your god shining. you who you're building on the dress of your desire. Or better, it gives me hope that your form. I am just a hard shell kissed by sparkling midday sun. A mirage empty. An obscure passage of Cortez. A ghost.
Everything else, he has built your loneliness.
(In the lord 1519 several hundred men with a few horses embarking from Cuba on their way to the coast of Mexico. At the command of the expedition Hernan Cortez, who some years before he left Spain for gold, glory and fortune in New World).
I hope you enjoyed! For me to death!
I spotted this story in the blog "the home of suspended time" by Francesco Marotta, a really wonderful blog that I discovered recently.
http://www.biancamadeccia.wordpress.com.
... well I'll come see you, Bianca!
Besos!