The Legend of Ankh-Helos

 

By Glen L. Bledsoe 

Ankh-Helos (Achilles or Achilles as his story was retold later by the Greeks) was a mighty pharaoh of the early Iron Age who while crossing a shallow stream in a remote area of the lands of the Egypto-Dutch Empire was bathed in the light from a mysterious disk in the sky. Some say it was a meteor of dark matter. Others suggest it was otherworldly visitors. Whatever its source he soon discovered that the parts of his body not submersed in the water became impervious to any weapon known: wood, stone, bronze or iron.

During a battle with the Sea Peoples he lost his lower right leg. To protect his left leg he tasked the Hittites to forge him a war boot made of iron. Then commanded the magicians of Mesopotamia to conjure a throne with feet that would carry him to battle where he would swing his scepter scattering his enemies before him by the score.

The Bather

 By Glen L. Bledsoe 

This illustration depicts the legend of the moment before Dooth, the leader of the Funnelbeaker peoples, first gazes upon Mar-Thol (who is about to disrobe to bath in the Nile) and becomes besotted with her beauty. They marry only later to be cursed with immortality with the memories of each other's face erased by Arka-Arkitutti, the Witch-Queen of the Sea Peoples. For eternity they criss-cross the planet searching for one another with aching hearts.

Somebody needs to write an opera around this.

The Bather

This illustration depicts the legend of the moment before Dooth, the leader of the Funnelbeaker peoples, first gazes upon Mar-Thol (who is about to disrobe to bath in the Nile) and becomes besotted with her beauty. They marry only later to be cursed with immortality with their memories of each other's appearance erased by Arka-Arkitutti, the Witch-Queen of the Sea Peoples. For eternity they criss-cross the planet searching for one another with aching hearts.

Somebody needs to write an opera about this.

The Curse

 

By Glen L. Bledsoe

The story of how a group of Funnelbeaker tribespeople from the area which today is the Netherlands were driven south by a megadrought 1400 years BC must wait for another day. How Dooth their leader joined forces with Egypt to defeat the Sea Peoples must also be delayed as well as the history of the establishment of the brief but powerful Egypto-Dutch Empire.

Today the tale you will learn is how Arka-Arkitutti, Witch-Queen of the Sea Peoples cursed Dooth when her ships were sunken, and her army made slaves. How she blessed and cursed Dooth as she was about to die.

As Arka-Arkitutti stood bound to the stake she said, "Dooth, you are a mighty warrior and leader of your people. You have defeated me in spite of all my magics and charms. You and the Egyptian Pharaoh will build a mighty but short-lived empire. You and your wife Mar-Thol will live forever as is your reward. Your punishment: you will be separated, perpetually seeking one another across the world and across time. Dooth, while your heart continues to burn with love, you will be unable to remember your wife's face as she will be unable to remember yours. You may cross paths a thousand thousand times looking for each other and not recognize each other's features."

And so across time Dooth, now known as Father Duvall, searches without hope for his wife. He knows not to waste his immortality. He performs good deeds wherever and whenever he is.

The Magical Shepherdess

By Glen L. Bledsoe 

A Shepherdess by the name of Miss Gowz

Tended Sheep the size of large cows

She sold wool to the spinners in town

So they might knit socks, scarves and gowns

Retold Children's Rhyme from the Egypto-Dutch Empire

The Value of Now is Always One (1)

By Glen L. Bledsoe 

The true nature of time is counterintutive to the every day experiences of our daily lives. Everyone would agree that the present is fixed (that is simply is), but what is not apparent is that the future and especially the past shift to assure the stable experience of the present. That is to say, the Reliability of Now. 

History, memory, archeological reilcs and records of all kinds are soft, malleable. Events can ony be measured as numeric probabilities, and as such given values only between zero (0) and one (1). The farther back into the past, the less certain the event becomes, the smaller the value, the more flexible the event becomes, the more stable the present. It may be thought of as less an issue of altering the past to suit the present and more an adjustment as to the likelihood that events did or did not occur as they are understood at the present. Which leaves events of the past as shadowy, nebulous and as open-ended as the future. 

The closer to an event to the present, the higher the probability value until we reach the present, which is the only thing we can give a value of one (1)--simply because it is. 

The future is much like the past. The future shuffles itself to make certain that the value of Now is always one (1). The future and the past have only a single purpose, which is to create the present, the Now. The Past + the Future = Now. Only in this way can we move through time. Without it we become unstuck.

How will this understanding change your life and how will it improve your experience and appreciation of Now?