Ouroboros song. Words for a dream.

Rainer María Hauser Molina.

 

"Tout ce qui existe dans l´univers, est fruit du hazard et de la necessité".

Démocrite.

"Human being could not understand the world, if his spirit, the body to which the spirit belongs, and the things that the body and spirit perceive, were not integral part of one and the same reality. (...) Only an almost servile respect for the most concrete realities can inspire us with the confidence that the spirit and the body have not irrevocably lost their former unity".

C.Levi-Strauss, Le Régard Eloigné, p.163. Plon, Paris. 1983.

 

In this presentation, we will try to link human spirit unity and its historical ability to respond to the different adaptative challenges posed by its relationships with the environment, with the exposition of the founding myth of Te Pito o Te Henua (Easter Island) and the reference of a recent scientific discovery, we will consider the possibility of finding more than poetry in the content of dreams. We´ll use the biological research as a mirror, and we will elaborate some conclusions that, when placed in the political science interface, could not fail to be related to climatic change and perhaps, as chaos-theory seems to allow, with the flourishing of a human stadium for our specie.

In a particular way, we consider again the relation between biology and societies, that has haunted the history of sciences. As a recent publication in Nature has stated, a multidisciplinary group of researchers in Oxford has found that birds have in their eyes a mechanism which allows them to interpret the magnetic fields of the earth and allows them to travel long distances in their migratory ways.

We feel nonetheless, that facing the very dramatic actual conditions of the world, in calling for the understanding of this same scenario, “between reality, humans and their interpretations”, as Claude Levi-Strauss put it, we respond to the call of the secretary general of UN in presenting the 6 SYR, in March the 30th, who called humanity for a “quantic response”, a quantum leap in climate action.

Hau Maka, a man form Hiva, flew in a dream to Te Pito O Te Henua, saw the island, and found it good for his people to live there. But before returning, he went down on Anakena beach, took a handful of earth with grass on top, and seeing that the earth was fertile and vegetables could grow on it, he said, “behold a good land where Hotu Matua will come!”. He returned and the shaman favorably interpreted his dream, who oriented the voyage of his people, to the definitive occupation of the isle.

Beyond its cultural and political importance, on which we´ll develop on the full paper, we underline the fact that the myth recalls a trip by sea of more than 3.500 kms. by people who didn’t have any technological machinery, and that all the islands of Polynesia were inhabited by travelers who had the same cultural background.

 

USACH. Santiago, Chile.