Travel partners

There is a small planet in the universe which turns around itself and is called Earth. 5,8 billion people dwell on it. The people have mostly been occupied by the planets turn around itself, measuring it«s rotation accurately. While measuring the earthlings turn around themselves like the earth does. Being incautious they hurt against each other in the bustle that occurs.

 

The planet Earth also turns around the sun. That turn is so slow that people dont feel the speed very much. The earthlings have most things in common, f. ex. they enjoy taking pleasure trips with their companions. If only we would think about the Earth's turn around the sun as if it were a travel: Us on a pleasure trip with all the earthlings as travel partners.

 

The sky is unpredictable and mysterious and has no resemblance to anything. It's either threatening or protective but always magnificent in an infinite multifarious way. Those able to contemplate the sky will never be bored. Earthlings have admired the same sky for over 130.000 years. We have peered into it without discovering what it contains. It has been contemplated from all imaginative viewpoints in order to find out who it belongs to and who is it's master. Different beings have been fitted to the sky, stories told about it, paintings made and drawings, poems recited, songs sung and tunes played. The most beautiful thoughts have to do with the sky. Earthlings have put all their confidence in the sky and look toward it in hope for eternality and superior might. The moon, stars, aurora borealis, winds, rain, sun and clouds. The clouds; they say all that is needed.

 

The clouds are painted on canvas and porcelain. Goddesses travel in the sky. One of them lives on the moon. Out of vessels and tubs runs inexhaustible water. Clouds, vapor or even spirits curl up from them.

Two goddesses travel down from the sky at midnight . One arrives from the east-sky and the other from the west-sky. During night they stay in a tent in Selfoss and paint clouds which they passed during their trip. The one from the east-sky paints the clouds from the west-sky and the one from the west-sky paints the clouds from the east-sky. Early morning they stop painting and take off to the sky only to return to the tent at midnight. Night after night they stay and continue painting the clouds.

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