Fire, Water and Ice

Sitting on balcony in the morning, digesting food. A most important part of any mobile creatures day. In the distance can be seen the place where water meets the land, a determining spot created about 12,000 years ago.

The last ice age finished about that time, over a period that is referred to as the great flood, in cultures founded around and after that time, Middle Eastern, Mediterranean mostly, but also in other coastal dwelling humans stories.

My belief is that said stories are based on fact, but changed over time to inculcate and evoke a religious theme to keep the proles in line. After all, humans are a superstitious lot and those with power have always yielded knowledge over those who have no knowledge, except for taught and hand me down beliefs.

Humans are herding animals, like other mammals, and whilst the ice age kept the packs to hunting and gathering, when the ice began to melt and once bountiful lands for such foods diminished as the water rose, humans began to try to grow their own food. It would have been a trial by failure, but success was gained and the first civilisations began to form. The herding instinct helped create the first towns, as those without wanted what those who had.

Over those breaking years of civilisation, fire forged the new tools for farming, defense, conquest, and with time now in their hands, those early civilisations retold their stories, made Gods, remembered floods, created extended life.

Etruscans, Greeks, Romans, British, all have made great civilisations that have gathered knowledge, passed it onto new generations, created better lives and livelihoods, increased the human genome and made greater order out of chaos.

The aim of life is to create an image of yourself to keep your RNA and DNA immortal, humans have far outshone all the other mammals in creating a better model over the passage of time. What we have and can do now would seem like Gods to those from 12,000 years ago. The simplest being fire in your pocket, to cook the food, to light the night, to show the way.

So a cooked meal and ice in your drink, the epitome of desires.