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The next evening, the
father hurried home because he was very curious about his children telling
him the next part of the museum’s tale.
The children began like
this!
Of course, those temples
needed decoration; At the beginning, they brought flowers into the temple,
but those flowers soon lost their petals and colours and had to be changed nearly
daily because they withered. Then they carved figures like flowers, trees and
animals, the sun, moon and stars into the stone, then they used colours which
they extracted of the soil or of plants, sculptures and statues were shaped.
This was the beginning of art.
The temples were not only
a forum to gather but as well exchange information. Of course, not everybody
could remember all the commandments and guidelines, which were expressed to
improve coexistence, so they thought about a method to record them. Signs with
a certain meaning were invented. At the beginning these resembled to small
pictures, then to sounds and at the end to letters.
Naturally, everybody had
to learn them and schools were established, first for everybody and after
some generations only for children.
One day, one of the
monkeys told the others that those inscriptions had been written long ago.
First everybody looked at him in surprise but then, they understood that
there was a difference between now, ago and coming times. That is present,
past and future.
Soon all the walls very
filled with pictures, signs and letters. Another method had to be found to
transmit information. First they wrote on leaves and pieces of wood, then
paper was invented. And paper could even be sent to others in other valleys.
Monkeys were running around in the whole country to carry letters, then
pigeons were employed. At the end, those mail carriers rode on carriages and
horses.
For long, the whole
country had been discovered and some meditated what could be on the other
side of the great water. One monkey wanted to swim across the ocean but soon
came back very exhausted. Then he sat on planks but he couldn’t take food so
he nearly starved of hunger. Therefore, he built a boat but the waves were
too violent. After a number of failed attempts, others came to his help and
they constructed a big ship with sails and paddles.
A big crowd was gathering
on the beach to see the ship and its crew off when they left to navigate
across the big water.
They already knew the
track of the sun and stars and followed them. So soon, other islands and
continents were discovered.
The monkey inhabitants of
these lands with thick tails, with thin arms, with small ears, with big
noses, with short legs and long legs were very surprised to see these strange
monkeys arriving at their shores. First, they thought those arriving were
gods from heaven. The discovering monkeys spread the knowledge about the
planet all over the lands, islands and continents.
Then, they sailed around
the planet and noticed that it wasn’t a plate but a globe.
The ambition of those
monkeys had no limits and each time, they observed the birds flying, it
awakened their desire to do the same. First, they just jumped off high trees
and flatted their arms like those of birds. Of course, the result was many
broken bones.
For thousands of years,
the dream of the flying monkey just remained fantasy but with the invention
of the engine, the monkey hood was finally capable to conquer the air as
well.
Radio waves and
electricity made it possible to communicate by phone and all around the world
without even using paper.
Now the monkey raised his
eyes towards the sky. He wanted to visit the home of his sun, moon and star
gods and goddesses. Therefore, he built a rocket with turbines and left his
planet.
He discovered that the
sun was much bigger than his own home. Suddenly, he felt so small.
He found out that he was
the only living being in his galaxy. So, he decided to travel further. After
many billions of light years in another galaxy, he suddenly perceived strange
lights, din and movements, and as he came nearer, he could discern a tiny,
blue planet.
It stank, was loud, tiny
creatures shitted all around the place, killed each others because of
religion or greed, plundered nature.
With horror, he
discovered that these seemingly intelligent creature, who called themselves
humans, would sooner or later detect the peaceful planet of the monkeys and
destroy it.
That night, the father
couldn’t sleep.
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Tuesday, 19 November 2019
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