A RAY OF LOVE

A cosmogony according to the children of the Class 3, Le Frick in St.Josse School
Brussels, Belgium, March 2008
Teacher : Bérénice
MUS-E theater artist & storyteller : Serap Güven

Original French version

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“In the beginning the universe was wrapped in darkness. Everywhere there was silence and night because life was still immersed in a deep sleep.
There were no mornings to make the world light,
no azur (blue) to enlighten the sky,
no people to walk on the earth,
no trees,
no animals did exist.

During thousands of years nothing happened.
Nothing was moving.
It was absolute silence.
It was only after thousands of years that on one day
one could hear, at first scarcely perceptible and
then stronger and stronger,
a song.

It’s words told about the beauty of the sun and….
The sun came to existence and with her the first light.

And then the song told about the beauty of the moon and…
The moon came to existence.

Then the song mentioned how it all came to be.

The sun was a woman. She was of magnificant beauty.
She was a person of immense warmth who had the power to transform sadness into happiness.

The moon was a man. This man shined in the darkness.

One day, the sun looked at the moon and the moon looked at the sun and they fell in love with each other.
They wanted to approach each other. The moment the moon moved  to the direction of the sun, the sun moved in her turn to the direction of the moon. And that’s why they follow each other.
You already have understood: they chase each other constantly. But you have also understood that this way the days and nights were created.

The sun and the moon were looking at each other deeply in love without being able to come near each other.
But they were loving each other so much that one day, they created by their willpower, sparkling shiny arms that could touch and finally….. the earth, their child was created.
The moon send with the help of his breath a kiss to the sun and….the first star of the firmanent lived that day.
The moon was very fascinated by his child, the earth. And ever since, in the form of a face he watches his child -who looks a little daze- all nights.
The sun on the contrary wraps the earth all days in her motherly love.

The child, the earth, had a blue skin.
Her body formed reliefs of soil: small and huge mountains, hills, valleys and cuves…..
Lying on her back, the earth saw her benevolent parents, the sun and the moon.
They smiled.

But over here, the earth was lonely. Really lonely.
So lonely that she was bored.
She was bored a lot.
She was so bored that she began to cry.
Her tears were streaming and streaming…and then little sources of water came up on the surface of the earth. Rivers, lakes, ponds, enormous extents of water, the seas have the same source: the eye of the earth.

One day, from the middle of the water extents, one could hear a funny sound: “bloub, bloub” and a little piece of wood emerged: the first root.
It came from inner regions, from the depths of the seas.
Rocked by the soft murmuring water, the root let itself float on the ocean for a long time, on a journey without goal, without beginning without end.
One day it touches the beach and left again, but it came back and left again, came back left…..
One could say they were two lovers that root and the beach.
Two lovers who caress each other in a delicious soft coming-and-going.

Thanks to these caresses a bud formed at the heart of the root. It opened up little by little like a promiss of life, pushed against the soil and it became the first tree: the father of all vegetation on earth.

Let us leave the first tree and go back to our child, the earth. Do you remember, she was bored and after she cried she slept and had a beautiful dream.
She thought: ” I’m going to make my dream come true. Then I will never be alone again. And of all, I really like massage and this way I will have something that knead my body without stopping.
She contracted herself with all her might and colossal force. This caused  an enormous shaking of the earth and from her own flesh an enormous book was born.

On the pages of this book were images. In this images one could see all kinds of human beings. The first humans are born from tese images: they bwalked out of the pages.

In the book it was also described how to let the animals come to existence. Then the human beings planted themselves a tree. Once it became big the wind blowed so hard on this tree that it fell backwards. From it’s roots came out the first animals. On the earth there were now: water, plants, human beings and animals.

Leaning over in the univers, between the stars, the sun and the moon were watching. They were astonished to see their child the earth develop itself in that way. Within her maternal belly, the sun who was filled with happiness. She wanted to prove her immense love to her man the moon. So she created from her own flesh a strong ray of sunlight; a ray of love.
It radiated what it touched with light: a tree.
Immediately the branches of that tree caught fire.
It was as if to say: le coup de foudre (french expression, literally : struck/ a blow by lightning, when people fall in love: a moment when you feel the heath of love very strong…)
Eh, yes!
That’s love, struck by lightning which brings fire on earth.

And it is on this last words of love that….
We want to finish our story about creation.
In the meanwhile, an accident, a problem, a mistake on the way occurs, name it as you want it. Anyway, “something” slipped into our beautiful story. At the moment this story is threathened with it and the earth as well.
Remember how the animals were created in our story?
Well, from the roots of that tree came also certain “incest”…..
Eeeh pardon, certain “insects” who carry in them all the bad luck of the world.
They carry for example illnesses, deceit, war and inequality of chances into the world.

But, to find a solution for all these problems we have created a person who’s name is “The Constructor”, a human being who is never wrong. It is with him that today we want to repare everything that goes not well on our earth.
But that is another story.

So for now we say to you, thank you and see you soon.”