Part 1
Stretching the sense of history by deliberate positions of history as connected, for which there is no connection yet. Sometimes confuses with Historical Drama, but informed by Art and Archaeological History.
The Myceneans calling the Minoans "one eyes", stealing cattle, on the run, avoiding brothels, focusing on plunder...as if Odysseus was Jack Kirby's OMAC.
There is a precedent...I rarely claim any original insights and more gathering of disparate things from others so:
Hesse's humor in Magister Ludi I get now. As it is told in boring overtones of a minor incident while reviewing a larger picture of the times before and after, this being a kind of chore on the way to completing a larger picture...
This works with the combo of the Steampunk-Imperial-Sci fi musical. The compression of vision into a framework, nevertheless flexible in this heterogenous way ("to digress" may be a faulty function now in language, wherein, in substantiating flexible vision in a flexible narrative I would term from a previous essay regarding the installation of camera schemes to vary from narrative art to narrative art, from 'look' to 'look', look being both art style, illustration style, animation style and lighting style and editing style...yet still cohesive.
Hesse tried this with the trilogy of short stories at the end seeking to connect everything by analogies, metaphors and narrative reach, all three being short stories in length.
But I never really got that...getting through the first of Magister Ludi is not like Burroughs, but it is like reading Stephan King as he bloats and puffs about too much.
Its funny in a way. I mean lets not deny Mr. King a sense of humor.
So as Magister Ludi is pretty accurate about the future of Media, its quaint and humorous in being cranky imposition, a chore to relate, of a minor biography analogous to Rutherford B. Hayes.
One could be the Aggrippa authority at the local classical Saytr play.
They hide their Imperialism behind Piracy.
So, the Bactrian teaching Scythians, looks pretty good. They who return to Babylon, Caucasians a small group, really, smaller than the Armenians and Georgians and coming over the mountains as Cimmerians and Kassite wave. North Caucasians wandering around after Semites on the Oxus.
They learned writing from the Hittites who learned writing from Akkadians.
So they take this back to Central Asians highlands, and the rich pastures and farms formerly founded by distant Akkadian traders, a distant colony overrun by what might be native Central Asian highlanders...perhaps it was the Harrappans who fleed at the invasion, and along with them the peaceful Aryans settling into trade with the Oxus, at that time it seemed to be room for all and kind of hard to really picture population pressures creating warfare.
No, it seems like tough guys show up to check each other out, get into some trade, and then a whole colony shows up, and for most of the time, with occasional Imperial dicks coming around, trade and intermingle. Urbanize.
The thunder god is positive because its usually bringing rain..you know, when he thunders. So, it was generally a positive story to tell to Agriculturalists. Naturally they would like your story.
So, in the Extraverted Europid, the lucky kid born on the edge of vast, vast hiway going east-west, full of horses....came back as the Scythian or Slav, or, the Caucasian or Goths, or, the Avars, the Huns and the "East Aryans"...the last tribe to propel itself into the colonizing of the European penninsula.
At that point Europe had become Urban, and mult racial...and it continues to be settled by foreign peoples...until we are now a kind of global network of curious, scientific minded people.
Yet always in the background...the not quite so blond, the Stonehenge people, Basques almost.
These from the scattered colonies stretching from Hattusa to Minoa to Mycenae...a tri-skelion banner map for the Phoenicians to read a trade association,
From there surmise the swastika a trade association based on West to East on the steppe...fairly easy and less prone to Piracy via Meroe to Harrappa.
They had good stories "...the rain bringer, and hey, were all messed up by Poseidon, and furthermore, we have Gems....from Hades...he is after our puny lives! How much for these?"
The story behind the oral tales turned novels is a double act too....Poseidon is the bad guy, and he shatters the worlds, shatters Cretan civilization....and here we are, wanding around, the Therans, without a home, and where do we go staging what story to tell?
Of course, to the threatening people of greater army, and to the kind and citadel, our own wanderings among the fantastica of the world...these Minoans now One eyes, these North Coasts of Lotus...travels that sound strange and entertaining...and then of course, they move on...attracting some followers.
Where, they reach a puny state, a smaller camp, a weaker citadel to their own small army of wandering Thebans...and to them they say "we come from successfully destroying a massive City, far bigger than yours! We had our gods powers, and we know the idiocy of these wrathful hotheaded soliders of youth. Laugh with us as I tell you the most ridiculous of all, Achilles...surely you will recognize in your own military advances and battles, what kind of soldier you should NOT have..."
and if they thought Achilles a model...they were conquered...but either way, after the story, they might very well set themselves up as colonists...pirates settling in and "taking over". These peoples wouldn't lose their local language, but the records now being kept were in a strange writing, and not just memory.
Surely, they revolted. The Thebans brought in their cavalry, the Minoan confederation on the coast, a massive army wandering the Med...the Illian a lie actually.
The Achaens lost. And they had been there so long, their old homes destroyed...they instead, wandered...up the Danube to found Hallstatte and Nordic bronze age colonies, and to Corsica, Albania...pirating Phoenician Trade.
which flung colonists...by the disaster of Thera, and also to trade success creating larger familes and reaching a kind of stasis against the crumbling again, of Anatolia, into invaders.
There must be a kind of "Free Anatolia" long vanished political movement. There was a diversity probably based on an earlier migration...perhaps the Basques related to the Lydiansn and the Cycladians.
This was like the Caucuses...a kind of outskirt or highlands quickly leading down in the hot house civilizations of Chaldea.
Kind of a witness from beginning, and from whence they moved into Anatolia...not exactly Armenians yet, too much time goes by, but Armenia has that significant skip that brings us quickly into the Iron Age, while having been a crossroads of the bronze age.
Anyway, the Aryans had probably been settling around the Black Sea, with them being now Scythians or Aryans a matter of distance from the north facing ridge of mountains draining into the Aral and Caspian sea.
All of this a kind of basic diversity, but with some picking up along the steppe of mixing groups, probably through slavery or just the joy of the ride and the hunt. All those surrounding Nations had...golf resorts from the Black Sea to Lake Balkhash.
Paid them in trade to be allowed to go hunt.
This is while centuries of agriculture would go on, during a kind of equalization along the more permeable hiway.
So, the crossroads thrived as well on trade, and mixing and developing a value in peace.
This is a connection between Hittite and Aryans. If this is posed, then the Cycladians or Mycenae, were a third cell, but from the extant of the Black Sea, how related to Lebanon?
Because the point is alphabet spread. Just because it occurs here in Greeks, does not mean it did not occur to the Caucasians before the Kassites of Babylon.
These Caucasians may have transmitted the alphabet to the Aryans.
Anyway, highly speculative, but, this can be a quick transition of states, carrying a single game around a succession of time, skipping time, not necessarily having to go to far back or to far forward...leaping from here to here across teh globe, from one generation to another, like tag.
What they tag, as evidence, is DNA, and this leads to people, and they are looking for a set of DNA markers...
lets say five. That are like J, or Rh1-Rb, or etc., trying to trace backwards to find the flawed gene's origin.
Time Traveling medical students tracing DNA by following it from a certain point into the past forward, generation after generation toward the origin of the wrong turn in humanity.
This wrong turn is some made up history. Not satire on our own, but it could be satire on today's politics.
So, the art of this time goes for representing a setting. People are always nearby when they jump forward into the future.
So, in this case, it begins with:
albatross
genetic limit
corrected lenses
belong
war king
father emperor
less than glorious
court of the free people's king (overdone, stagey, show within a show)
sing out sing out
albatross reprise
internal surgery (wishing)
est by now so far or automaton (sundays)
Forward in time but sideways from a parallel reality, starting now
Steam Punk:
Alternate History of advanced technology.
Glamor:
Electrification of Steampunk, Diesal Punk
Error:
Nuclear Spy
Belonging:
getting online
sequence of war
Declaration:
War of drones in a battlefield, a show.
Mustering:
Empty buildings.....
Engagement:
Someone running through teh battlefield of the former display of the battle of the drones proposal.
with a response in Belonging
Honoring:
Watching a fleet of space stations tumble in flames toward the earth from a terrace, wherein, the sole remaining Space Stations belong to this one floating space station harbor.
Sacrificing:
On a long distance explorer ship...jumps a few times too many and now is trapped in a black hole accretion disk, tumbling around like a minor sun, meanwhile, inside...
Dooming:
Everyone is given a test. How do they answer these questions?
Punishment:
The Aesop Fable or whatever...Taoist Koan...law against stealing...this lesson restates it, and the kids go again...
Except the role playing changes around...the setting does not begin at a alternate steam punk age, but instead as a later sci fi world, just post post Apocalypse...you know, after the ruins are being reused...
Before a Space Elevator.
But with Orbiting Colonies around distant moons, Ganymede, Titan, Uriel, Triton, Pluto,
Uranus Oberon at Crater Hamlet...
Part 2
Steam punk
Time Traveler Game Show
If three of those and
three character voices per character:
Youth
Glamer : 70's disco skating rink
Error; Space Junk Yard
Belonging: first part from the Oliver!/19th century london orphan gang/...hats, costumes, settings, the second part of the song apocalypse Inc, the third part on a space elevator, then back to the orphan gang, then the Apoc, then back to Orphan gang then end there.
External sequence of war:
Declaration: very weird schemes going on all around....historical images...
Mustering: Shakespeare Henry vth satire
Engagement: World War Two Combat
with a response by Belonging in
Honoring: Superheroes
Sacrificing: the 17th pirates are hilarious indifferent
Doom: Sauron wins in his own court
Punishment: Dante
Part 3
Future space ship
The theater or performance of the play is done on stage, and each time it is done onstage it is motion captured.
So the time traveler game show, ttgs, this starts with a scenario, a mystery the characters must follow.
What is presented are these points to choose...almost like doors in a hallway...good set..
70's cop show
World War 1 Air field
Apocalypse Inc
Crecy' Medieval
Bang they pick 70's cop show...
sequence ensues,
Bang, what option do you pick to blink out?
Some drama on how to use the Time Traveler Device...digressing into Pataphysics.
Bang, the list appears...
Fantasy Opera
Comedy Sci fi "Jetsons"
Cowboy Theater
Gothic Isolation (an empty void appears)
pause
Fantasy Opera
Wherein, they are in a space junkyard.
Stuff happens, then
You activated the Time Portal by accident; now you arrive
Can I spin it to arrive by some choice/
yes. roll
and he rolls a 4 out of ten.
okay,
Whitehall gang of time travelers pursuing Jack the Ripper
and then pursuing the brain of Jack the Ripper, discovering his brain was in storage, and then missing, they track down the brain in Apocalypse Inc.
But then we lose track of the sequence, as this part expands in time....
however, excluding what else happens, we go to the next song
Declaration is a series of behind the scenes blackmail...they come from archive photos, so its a multi generational conspiracy presented in cutting out the portrait within the scene and having that portrait become animated, so speak directly to the game players, so there is a sequence of looking around at each other...
This is all the people in the conspiracy, all of them. Now what?
They play Shakespeare Role Playing Game
then the war is fought how?
In the weird time traveler space? Flying around galaxies, zooming in and out of dimensions...gigantic star swirling center of galaxies, to frozen planets, to surface of Jupiter...and long tedious bang bang, they shoot back, bang bang...
but exactly the same motions as the World War 2 combat...Hurricanes vs. Zero's?
They look like solar carbon biplanes...the French and Spanish planes of ww2.
But altered, added to, retexturized.
But its intense with numbers.
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