How the Heavens Laughed Just Then

Weaving through trees of life and fruit and a long distant past they thought. Golem bought a coconut and drank its juice in the shell and felt younger as he drank. Long ago a star clock like pose struck some distant chord, a note. In that note lay the path to heaven, but that path was in the soul and not in the machine as some kings thought and seem to continue to think. Some kings thought they could pave their way to heaven with gold, believing that with just the right pyramid that everlasting life was possible; if the passageways were aligned just right, they would make their way to heaven. How the heavens laughed at man just then, a granite lion grinned. It was a massive beacon, nothing more, nothing less. It pointed the way the ship went and came from. It wasn’t any accident that apes and monkeys and cave dwellers suddenly became intelligent. If the earth was 46 years old the last two hours would contain all contemporary history, he had read in The God of Small Things. The ship came two hours in the past and boy did men fuck things up fast. World Wars, death through famine, endless religious ranting. The Jews and the Muslims even battled over who it was that built the pyramids. God must smile, or would if it wasn’t so grim. It was neither of them of course. A ship left, leaving an advanced race. They knew the meteor was on its way. The bird like things applauded. Or a Sun exploded leaving no trace of an advanced human race. Would anyone know just how advanced a previous epochs people were? Egyptians who were not even Muslim then seemed to understand the pyramids as machines that would bring them everlasting life … somehow shoot their souls off into Sirius. They had read that those who understand the pyramids would have everlasting life, but had not learned that it was not a physical transformation, or perhaps a single soul on earth that was referred to in the glyphs. It seemed to Golem that these Egyptians had made up a religion around a machine that had another purpose. Then again it seemed to Golem that there were extremist Jews that wanted everyone to know it was they who built them. And now it was Muslims against Jews and Jews against Muslims … so what’s new?