Emergence 3.0
A Novel – In One Page Per Day
Day 142, Tuesday
May 22st, 2018
Chapter Two: Kin
As families become clans the bonds of loyalty are fixed in
the body, constructed by chemicals and enzymes, by proteins and amino acids, by
the songs and rhythms unique to each group, and through which they reinforce
the knowledge of their history, their ancestral memories, passing them on from one
generation to the next.
These are bonds that we do not see, and we never
question.
Rituals are developed to lift up and remember the common
ancestors, whose great deeds, or terrible failures were such that the clans
wrote songs about them, and passed them on to their children, and their children’s
children.
Every person reared within the group learned to see
themselves as a continuation of the clan’s broader narrative. They saw their
own deeds as a reflection of the deeds of their ancestors.
They imagined their departed dead as living beside them,
all around them, and they were not wrong.
The departed spoke to them through the ancestral memory,
and the pattern of their consciousness remained with the clans and tribes, with
the individual families, bound to the planet in the electromagnetic field
called the nous-sphere.
The ritual remembering, the songs they sang, the drums
the beat, these reinforced this connection and strengthened it, keeping it
vital through that period when the groupings of human beings were still small
enough that every person could trace their connection to the other by blood
line.
They were migrating, and wandering, and navigating by the
stars. They marked their narratives by the movement of the constellations, and
projected their own stories into the heavens. They were together, and they were
one.
Every individual saw themselves as a part of the tribe,
and saw the fullness of the tribe as manifested in them. The clan was the
clearest representation of the structure of human unity. It had a sufficient
critical mass to draw the individual outside of themselves, and yet it was not
large enough for the individual to feel lost within it. The clan was the family
writ large, it was intimate, and
still offered the safety of numbers.
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