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The story of Rome... |
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Once upon a time, there was an immigrant... His name was even unclear because few human beings could understand him, as he tried to pronounce his name... But he insisted, trying to make it clear to everyone he crossed; that his name was something like Remus, or Romus, or Romulus... And every once in a while he was asking folks along his way: - Hail! I am new here! Do you know of anywhere to live...? They wouldn't tell him. They would just look at him, and look away. But they all knew that the place where he was going to, was infested with wolves... Angel Abelius A red sign along the road... Walking along a solitary road, our little hero was decided to keep on his journey; to a place he would really like. He knew that when the moment would arrive, his heart would let him know. So he went on... For days and days, he was traveling along the same road, until one day he suddenly saw a red sign next to the road...!!! It was a sign pointing to the direction he was going to, but there was something our hero couldn't understand. A sign should point something or somewhere, he thought. But there was nothing around, only the solitary red sign... Sighing, he went past the sign and looked around: Trees to the left and the far right, some rocks faraway ahead, where the road was curbing, and a nice river all along the east... And then he got the inspiration!!! Suddenly he knew that the sign was the entrance to the place where he was supposed to settle down...!!! Suddenly, he understood it...! The sign was placed there by the hand of Ceres, the goddess of fertility...!!! And, YES! He observed the yellow tuffles on the land to his right, there was fertile land...!!! This would definitely be the place, he told himself!!! I will found a city...!!! I just have to find an empty lot...!, he heard himself say in a loud voice... Angel Abelius A lone tent... As he approached to the sign, that was inviting him to stay in the valley, he was trying to think what would be the best place to think of a future farm and granary. But he was happy, so happy that he finally has found the place of his dreams... And then it happened...!!! With awe, he saw that something was coming from the sky, clouding all visibility and making the earth tremble. He went into hide, and from behind the sign, he saw a giant hand coming from the sky... The hand was holding a mouse, a giant mouse with a long white tail... He saw that the mouse was coming down to earth, and doing "click-click-click" right next to the place where he was hiding... More signs for housings appeared there, as the hand suddenly disappeared... And then the hand came again, and again the sky went darker... He looked to the sky, and saw that the hand was traveling from one end to the other, and that the mouse was being squeezed in the giant hand... And then he understood: a road was being done!!! The mouse has dragged a road all along the place he was planning to settle down, and now there were more signs for houses, all around...!!! He looked back to the place where he entered the map... Angel Abelius The blessing of Venus... He saw that the place we he has just been entering the map was now filled with people. People like himself, pulling carts with their belongings and streaming right to the place where he was hiding. He looked at their faces, and found that their attitude seemed peaceful. Breathing deeply, he adventured himself out of his hiding, and faced them... He was about to say something like "Hey, greetings!", but soon he realized that they were all too busy to talk to him. They were all looking for an empty lot, and rushing to move in. There was no time to waste, he also realized, and who knows when new lots would be available, so our hero rushed towards the nearest one... As he was about to get into what
already was a tent, an older man with a white beard came out and said: Looking around he saw no new signs. He looked upwards, and then he realized that the gigantic hand with the mouse was coming down from the sky again. But this time he wasn't running into hide; quite on the contrary - he was rushing to the place where the hand was going to. He saw that a new street was drawn, and new lots, and then suddenly there also stood a building he never saw: A temple! It was a temple, and there was a huge figure of stone in the front of the temple. The figure was the one of a beautiful woman, and she was holding something in her hand... But he also saw that there were brand-new empty lots right across the street of the temple, so he rushed to one of them, and placed his own; yes- his very own tent...!!! He still didn't finish accommodating all the little things in his new home, when a glamorous voice was heard from outside. The voice of a woman, and the tone seemed lovely to him. He went headfirst out of the tent, in order to see where the voice was coming from, and realized that it was not anyone in particular speaking, but the voice was clearly heard all over the new neighborhood... The voice expressed a blessing, a wish of prosperity and success to the new colony. It was a good omen, he thought... We need a blessing, we need so many things... Angel Abelius To be continued... |
