Ilha do Desterro (Sep 2009)
Fiction And Fission: Twentieth — Century Writing on The Founding Fathers Fiction And Fission: Twentieth — Century Writing on The Founding Fathers
Abstract
In Australia, tribesmen trace their origins to a rain-making python who drowned a set of incestuous sisters because they polluted his watering place with their menstrual blood) In Tibet, families derive their descent from a beautiful boy in a conch .egg which came from the immense ovum exuded from the essence of the five primordial elements. 2 In Polynesia, islanders tell tales of the emergence of their clan forebears from holes in the ground.' And in every other quarter of the globe, other people proclaim other origin myths which are beyond reasoning but not without reasons. In Australia, tribesmen trace their origins to a rain-making python who drowned a set of incestuous sisters because they polluted his watering place with their menstrual blood) In Tibet, families derive their descent from a beautiful boy in a conch .egg which came from the immense ovum exuded from the essence of the five primordial elements. 2 In Polynesia, islanders tell tales of the emergence of their clan forebears from holes in the ground.' And in every other quarter of the globe, other people proclaim other origin myths which are beyond reasoning but not without reasons.
