hell and heaven part 3

hell and heaven part 3

see parts 1 and 2

fiction
edward w pritchard

Owen's patriarch status emerged as soon as he felt his niece Violet enter the forbidden passage way behind the barn. Owen tore the large stem off the green pumpkin and lit it for illumination as he lowered his large body carefully down into the descending passage, and looking back over he shoulder; he took a last glance at the moon in the sky before he was traveling solely into artificial light.

Owen was no longer an individual for he had taken on the persona and understanding and experiences of his entire now dead clan and family. As soon as his wife's niece Violet rolled the green pumpkin off the ancient passage way away from the farm his awareness had simultaneously merged with her actions as she descended the long dark passageway into ancient temptation.

Racial memories of passages in the social evolution of communities are forgotten by humans once the new ways are practiced by a major of the folk. In Owen's and his niece Violet's case however, their family still maintained the ancient memories of the transition from an agricultural society to a mode of living based on commerce and trade. The original transition was difficult, and the morals of the women were the most effected by the sudden transition from a settled community of farmers to the mobile risk taking habits necessary for trade and commerce. One societies virtues become the sins of the new society following one of these invisible transitions[ and vice versa]. An Agricultural existence's stern code required to be practiced by women, of early marriage, loyalty and fidelity, and sobriety in all morals did not ideally suit the community; once growth, progress, and social evolution required the transition to an industrial and trading society. Violet and Owen's family still carried the conflict deep in their subconscious and Violet's violating the families moral dictates had triggered the ancient racial memories.

In Owen's case, he was going to save his niece Violet from sin and sexual excess for the ancient passageway behind the barn that Violet now traversed somewhere ahead of Owen as he descended the dark passage lead to the the sea ports and bacchanalia and precocity.

As he traveled by the light and odor of the burning stem of the gourd, Owen ceased to be himself, having taken on out of necessity the sentiment of invincible power and a singleness of purpose that would be required if he was to endure the ordeal he faced in the coming days ahead. Although he was now capable of heroic action, Owen likewise was now capable of a limitless brutality when necessary to accomplish the secret preordained goals that he no longer was able to consciously judge.
end part 2

source idea thanks to Will Durant and Gustave LeBon