Realms Frequented By The Muses

THE SECURITY COUNCIL AT OLYMPIA

Zeus:

pleased am I to see you all assembled here, blessed Immortals...as you know, all of those who would have disputed our legitimate claim to be the sole rulers of this universe have witnessed my wrath…

Mars:

_ equally devastating and unforgiving, as the catastrophe that brought the demise of the ancient rulers of earth, the reptiles…

Zeus:

… and are now safely laid to rest, never to bother us again, it be time to ask you, what is there that you think we need and is not available? Or what is that you feel you are missing? Is there something that bothers you? Is there some hidden potential in us that is begging to emerge, for I realize you do not give the impression of being self-sufficient and perfectly in peace with yourselves, as the circumstances, according to my views would warrant?

Hera:

Jove we are perfectly happy, it maybe that you still have some unexplainable urges, like the ones that keeps you seeking companies of certain mortals?

Athena:

You are right Zeus! And I know the reason why! There is still too much suffering in this world especially on earth, and the Buddha is still unborn!

Apollo: (quoting yet-to-be Bob Dylan)

Yes we need something or someone to take us away from the twisted reaches of crazy sorrow!

Athena:

Yes a Tambourine Man!

Venus:

What?

Athena:

A harp playing goddess. Venus, with due respect to your symmetry and proportions that is something you or I don’t do well!

Venus: (blushing, like a mortal)

but we have of course Pan & Bacchus, what more do we need?

Zeus:

Bacchus, my silly son, him I saved in my thigh. Of course he is a great delight but he loves the peasant folk, although unsurpassed in learning he has no great desire to bestow his wisdom in noble residences and royal palaces except to go hobbling in rural areas and enjoying life with Ariadne in Naxos.

Pluto:

You mean enjoying sex?

Venus:

Ariadne? Is she the heart broken X of the ungrateful Theseus?

Cupid:

Yes, but she is kind of happy now. Ever since becoming his priestess and marrying him, she has never looked back at those times. What about Pan?

Pan comforting Ariadne
   Acrylic on Canvas. Pluto:

Heavenly fathers, what is going on here? I believe that the knowledge of past and future is bringing you gods including Zeus in utter confusion. Bacchus is not born as yet, and he will need exactly that what we are seeking to fulfill his destiny?

Zeus:

You are right, we are a bit muddled up! I wish my father had not gone to Janus, for I could certainly use him now!

Hermes:

I know what we need first! We need to forget! Asclepios, help the gods!

Asclepios:

Quite easy. For that we need Mnemosyne, the goddess of Memory, who will help us in creating Lesmosyne, the goddess of Forgetfulness. We will place this goddess somewhere in between the limbic system & the cerebral cortex since she has a decisive role to play and then let Vulcan create a shortcut for this module to the phylogenetically older parts of the brain, so that in critical situations and decisive moments, no precious time is wasted in accessing the peripatetic-, the harun-el-raschidian-, the egyptian-alexandrian-libraries, the Encyclopedia Britannica or the Wikipedia, the Google-Engine or the still more time consuming FAQ Forums at run time and in parsing the pre-Lutheranian tech-code residing there__ which, by the way requires a subsequent updating of the decision making hypertrophied frontal lobes. No! We can bypass all that and instead react directly and much more effectively in a chaotic quantum jumpy way, that is, to use our own familiar Olympian tech-jargon we will be from then on able to at last act again in a Parcian-Pattern, that the Fates (the Parcae) have already woven or precompiled for us like a karmic Mandala or like Mandelbrot Karma.
This is a regression Jove, I know you and Apollo already divined, what we will need to compensate for this expedience, unavoidable now that Saturn and the giants have been defeated…. of course it is therefore inevitable that here exactly Lesmosyne, the forgetfulness should render us her services and to bear for us that what will more than compensate this otherwise regressive act. She shall give birth to the goddesses of new enlightenment. We will take care of rearing these new members to Olympia & the Universe. I would certainly recommend Apollo to be their guardian since they will love light and dispel darkness everywhere they go.

Mars:

I don’t understand, what is going on in here. I have no problems with data analysis, if that is what you are talking about! Clear facts, clear judgments _ there are no ambiguities in Nature!

Venus:

For once I will agree with Mars, I too don’t have problems accessing information and making a judgment, besides I know I can ask anyone if I don’t know or understand something and they are all just too glad to oblige! But then I realize I too can’t distinguish between present, past and future. Would this solve my problem Ascelpios?

Rhea (Cybele):

Lucky goddess, I always have to pay Obolos for any information I get _ even at the open-sources and the FAQ Forums!

Hermes:

But Rhea you have plenty of riches and why shouldn’t you be willing to pay a poor researcher or a data collector something he, she or it can use? Moreover it only increases your wealth!

Rhea:

Quite true, nevertheless I do envy Venus! But we are interrupting! Ascelpios what do you have to say to Venus’ question?

Ascelpios:

Certainly, we could solve her problem but it would still leave us with that big question? How, after being able to forget things, that is after having won the control over our memory with the birth of Lesmosyne, can we increase its NASDAQ value? We would still need something that increases the value of our unlimited and the human beings limited lives. Something to enhance the meaning that we, as mythical beings and as a semi-religious institution have so far failed to implement in our and human existence?

Mars:

Well divide the human existences into categories and let them compete or make wars. Make them strive for heroics in their lives and promise them prestige, wealth and in rare cases immortality…

Neptune:

Good enough for the mortals, what about us?

Mars:

As long as we had the Giants to fight against, nobody seemed to have this problem we are discussing today!

Zeus:

Mars, I am sick of fighting! I never fought for the pleasure of fighting, but to bring a new Order into this universe and where I hope we will need your services less and less or not at all. Instead I would like something that even you would love and cherish. And it will be your greatest service to us, to defend this Order, should the need arise. You see Mars you are not dismissed in fact your services will be indispensable for the right functioning of this new Order…

Mars:

Thanks Jove, you know I always speak my mind, even when it may not be what you or for that matter Venus may like to hear. Of course I am in the deal, with heart and soul … I want us to be happy and creative not destructive!

Rhea:

You said it Mars, Creative! Wow!

Olympian Chorus:

Yes that is it! Creative! CREATIVE! Cheers Mars! Creative! Innovative! Innovatively Adaptive! Superlative! Creative! Strategically-Survival-Prospective! Cumulative-Knowhow-Additive! Creative! Creative! Superlative!

Zeus:

Now hold on folks! Cool down… Now what is the matter Hera, you are the only one who is not excited?

Hera:

No, No …gods forgive me my outburst! I don’t want Mnemosyne & Lesmosyne! And I guess there is something worse coming…I am leaving and yet I don’t want to miss anything that you folks decide, and Rhea please don’t look at me like that I am not to be pitied. Jove is my husband… no I have to go..

Zeus:

Hera, please…I promise I will try not to hurt you, you know this will be different, a perfectly passionless platonic union for higher objectives and for the pleasure of us all …

Hera:

Apollo please come and sit next to me, how I cherish your company! Asclepios can be cold and I fear I am going to be disregarded as usual!

Apollo:

Goddess queen of the universe, although I am excited about the things that will be coming, I nevertheless divine and regret this may not be completely fair to you. But at the same time, you have my sincere services …

Pluto:(coughing)

Excuse me… by the blinded eyes of Oedipus and the hat of Freud, I must have caught cold! Excuse me!

Apollo:

… at your disposal and I am relatively sure also of those who may come, even when at present you seem not to welcome their appearance.

Hera:

Apollo you know you are like my own son? How I regret that I let that Python chase your mother Latona! Will you ever forgive me?

Apollo:

Respected Queen, the Fates had decreed it so.. I too regret today having taken revenge on queen Niobe for chasing away my mother by shooting arrows at her defenseless children!

Venus:

And I too regret what I was once planning to inflict on Psyche, till she became my daughter-in-law, and is now sitting next to me!

Hercules: (unofficially already an immortal)

I guess I too must admit, having used napalm fire and bio-gas out of range uh! Sorry I mean to say, having shot the poor Centaur Nessos with poisonous arrows instead of combating him, man to centaur!

Zeus:

Well spoken my son. Go on Ascelpios …

Asclepios:

Respected Queen Hera, I am not as cold and feeling less as you may think. I may not possess the magnanimity of Apollo, now sitting next to you and so brimming with divine empathy that only Zeus or Saladin can surpass, when in the right mood but I claim to be probably the only one in all of Olympia not to have a dialectical nemesis. There are here amongst us gods, who may sometimes grudge Jove’s supremacy, no less look upon with jealousy at Apollo’s stardom, but not at me or my achievements, they being by their nature for the benefit of all and sundry and the least for my own wellbeing, which I often forget in my humble pursuit of knowledge for the betterment of your divine existences! Nevertheless I know that the Fates have decreed that I be impartial in my judgment and as such I am able to make decisions that Solomon would recommend were he to know about them, but which may inevitably hurt some party! But my feelings for the person are nevertheless real…

Hera:

I am awfully sorry. I realize that I have hurt you, which more than your rightful defense, so well expressed without a trace of grudge, fully convinces me, noble god that your feelings are more genuine than mine… I am just sometimes not to be helped! Why do I have to be so! I can be bitchy! Am I a bitch or what?

Asclepios:

The Fates dear queen. But what I have to say to you now will probably hurt you more than you have been hurt so far in all of your life, but I promise you will come out stronger and willing to forgive and yes forget, but not only that, you will find a new meaning in existence which will make the trespasses that Jove invariably committed in love’s name seem meaningless! I know how it is to be the wife of the supreme being in universe and what all you had to suffer. And all of your doings, even when I would not approve them are understandable!

Hera:

Oh, Tiresias, oh Master of all the Pythian Priestesses, you wizard of Oz, you Gandalf, you Solomon, you Confucius, you Saladin, you Akhenaton, you Akbar, you Harriet Beecher Stowe, you Lincoln...do go ahead, I am willing to bear anything…. Let them come.. who ever they be....and enhance my morbid life of jealousy and hate which is bestowing me wrinkles at quite an early age methinks!

Asclepios:

So hearken ye all! It be decreed by the Fates, that Mnemosyne conjugate in divine ecstasy (and without Hashish or LSD or Ecstasy) for nine nights & nine days (in a manner reminiscent of a particularly violent sex-scene in a James-Bond Movie without Sean Connery) at a divine place far from here, with nobody to disturb them and in nine months we will have nine of them!

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