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English-Nederlands-Espaņol-Deutsch
"Obscene"
- the Era |
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| I'm an archaeologist. I have just made an important
find, in a stratum that dates back to the "Obscene",
the period that followed the Holocene, some 5.000 years
ago. The Obscene is being characterized by an earth layer
of indefinable, black, stinking pulp containing the most
miraculous objects: distorted cans, petrified hamburgers,
crushed plastic jerrycans, rusty cables, frays of fine
ladies underwear, ship's wrecks, ski's, mildewed nappies,
spectacles, flat keyboards with vague signs on them, gold
and silver jewelry, hand grenades, cellars full of manure,
tons of debris with glass and long, up to kilometres long
ribbons of bituminous material the use of which I still
do not understand. Also there are thousands and thousands
of slithery rubber fingers with curled rims, the purpose
of which is not hard to guess. Those fingers are just
about the same worldwide, and therefore they are useful
guide fossils for the Obscene. It takes some doing digging
into this earth layer, and it's even harder to bring any
logic into it. Moreover it is dangerous for it also contains
strongly radioactive bars, and bottles with toxics. |
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| I did my discovery during excavations in England, in
a pack that must date back to approx. the year 2000 AD.
In a trench in the landscape, I found thousands of perfectly
intact skeletons of large cloven-hoofed animals: cows,
sheep, pigs, all of them neatly sorted by species, just
like in a museum. Our team has spent years carefully digging
up all these skeletons, and it is absolutely clear these
had all been healthy animals. There are no traces of fights,
injuries or abnormalities caused by diseases. But each
and every one of them just had a round hole in it's head
on exactly the same place. We do not know why they have
been killed, nor why their carcasses were all brought
together. For that they did not die in this neatly digged
trench, is easy to see from the way in which they were
piled up. Next to each skeleton also a yellow label was
found. Are these indeed labels from musea, or marks from
an earlier excavation, or epitaphs? It still is a riddle
to us. From old legends it is known well that the Obsceners
worshipped the God "Mammon", but why this God
required such frantic animal-sacrifices, we do not yet
apprehend. |
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| I have only once before in my career seen something
similar, on the Balkans, also a trench from the same period,
nearby a village that on old maps is called Srebrenic.
But over there it concerned human skeletons, often with
round holes in the skulls too, but not so neat and sometimes
with smashed limbs as well. Moreover the yellow labels
were missing. It is not clear why in one case humans and
in the other case animals were being offered, and why
the humans were treated more carelessly than the animals.
Are these cultural differences? In any case the extravagant
dimension of the offerings and the comparable way of killing
and burrying prove that both cultures were extremely barbaric.
Deservedly this era is called "the Obscene".
Salomon Kroonenberg
column published April 12, 2001 in a Dutch Magazine
"Intermediair" |
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