Adeu Blue Mountains

Part 4 : Dance of lights

Gargi, Prakriti da, boatman Bora da was spellbound in nice mystery of nature and woman with tiger. She directly came to Gargi and asked something in a language which they don't know. Gargi folded her hand in front like namaskar and then touched herself saying Gargi, Gargi. The lady smiled but with a question in her eyes. She also touched her chest and said Gargi, Gargi. Then gestured them to follow her. They followed the lady; they understood her name is also Gargi. They walked about a mile and saw colourful mist spreading from a lake. Five different coloured waterfall is falling into the lake Blue Water, Red Water and Leaf green colour water. They stopped in front of a big rock face beside the lake. The lady with tiger called herself Gargi made a gesture with her hands and they found themselves within a bubble. Then the lady took the through the rock wall, as the bubble stayed, they couldn't feel any barrier. Other side of the rock slab they understood, standing in a huge river basin like place, surrounded by slowly up hilled blue mountains, five colourful rivers flowing through different steps of mountain. They found a village spreading wide with huts women wearing metal ornaments to cover their upper and lower body parts and men wearing fine barks of wood or deer skins. People were looking at them. Gargi wearing ornaments raised her hands in front of her chest and crossed wrists. Villagers looked satisfied and went to their works. Gargi took them for a round in village. They saw most of them are engaged in pasture and hunting. Women go to nearby forest to collect fruits, forest fallings for fire and medicinal plants. Then they saw few people are using fire to semi melt copper to make spear heads and swords. They saw few people are using spear heads to make open cast mine they understood them as copper and gypsum ore mines. Then Gargi with the tiger took them to a lake where a river is falling from a small waterfall and has a outlet through which the river is again flowing out, they couldn't see its end.
The lady sat down a draw a circle and a crescent then once directed towards sky then to the river. Gargi understood the name of the river may be moon or the river moon. They saw many dolphins are playing in the lake and swimming and out of it through the river. Then they came to a place which is firmly barriered with saal logs as high as three or four persons. There is gate and a wicket gate. They could see few tigers buckled by creepers roaming in the arena and few men and women are trying to get closure to them again trying few gestures. They understood that the persons within the arena is trying to make friendship with the tigers. In another arena tiger cubs are fed by few women. Then they came to a big hut with roof made by grass and wall by small rocks. They entered. The hut is made with a single room. There is big mirror on the wall, they understood it is made by ancient procedure of making glass by heating sand, rubber resin which is available in the rain of forests of north east, though the village is clearly felled of forest wood, and gypsum. They used something else behind the glass as the alternative of hydrogen (Pb).
They sat on the floor. The lady with ornaments were trying to communicate with them and finally showed another hut. Gargi gets out of the hut. The tigress was taking rest outside and said nothing. She walked towards the hut, opened the door with slight push and spellbound. This hut also has windows wide open but with a rock made table and few round rocks to sit. She found innumerable round folded barks preserved with any unknown chemical. She understood they are books. Then she found one book where many constellations drawn and signs and symbols. She understood those are their basic numerical and letters to form words. She compared with other writings on folded barks and eventually distinguished which are words and numerical. Then after two or three hours try, she found folded barks, here we call books, to know alphabets and numerical. She took them and returned to the lady. Prakriti da and Bora da were busy eating fruits and smoked fish. The ornamented Gargi smiled seeing Gargi with folded books with her. Then she started teaching them the pronunciation, use and different pronunciation of them in different situation. Then the numerical. Numerical are in simple decimals. They write left to right but the letters and numerical are very simple signs like scratches, small curves and geometrical shapes. They started their language and eventually came to know the village committee is living here from time immemorial and worshiper of the moon but they believe tigers and dolphins as their primary ancestor and totem. But there are few other valleys here and villages where totem is hawk, leopard (though not panther), elephants or viper snakes. They have good relationship between them. But they never go beyond the lake they saw, and confirmed its name is the eye of the moon and the river is named the river of the moon. As they believe in the small hillock forests and grasslands are 'valley of the deads' and they shouldn't bother them with presence. Slowly Gargi and others learnt their language and numerical which the us as well as to make the positions of constellations and their movement or the dimensional geometries of the copper and gypsum mines. They know how to understand the relationship of fire, its temperature, heat and their effect on metals, non-metals, few chemicals and on living creatures. They know that they live on a sphere like others they see in night sky or moon. They have idea of solid geometry as the blue mountain range they call the mountain of La Vega, which they identified beyond a constellation and in their language La Vega is the Woman of Substance. There is clan stay in deep woods who normally mix with other and they believe that their primary ancestor is La Vega or the woman personified and therefore they don't have any other shift to carry the worship of woman as their Totem. Few written barks get attraction of Gargi, she asked Gargi, wearing ornaments, who is eventually the princess of this clan, who wrote them. Princess Gargi told she had little idea, as many of the folded barks and deer shins are not within her knowledge, only one very old person who died recently was interested about the library work, and now a very overfluous boy from hawk clan is interested and go to the library. Gargi may see him anytime. The boy does nothing but obsequre experiments and observation to forests and roam around. Gargi took few days and understood those scripts very little, as few of them seen to her a route map to reach a place some by the direction of constellation and the pole star like a sailor do and few are through land. But the destiny denoted several times with pyramid like drawings and coloured golden, always another pyramidal structure countered it in opposite direction which is black and with at the top. Few other scripts on barks and deer skins attracted her as they were trying to say something about biology. Very primitive sketches of operated leopards, tigers, snakes, fishes, birds with inner body parts. She was astonished to see few lines showing within body with red colour lines and indicated in clan language "The Life Lines". Few trees also shown and some life lines started from the below portion of the leaves to roots and then to other tree roots and one place just showed one human being and a tiger standing and the red lifeline coming from the root entered their body through feet and pugs and went to a pond. She thought it may be the basic understanding of the ecology of those people who may be called modern primitives or anthropological communities who didn't mix with outer world but evolved modern scientific knowledge by their own experience. Then this may interest people like his father. As she thought, sometimes they knew sailing through boats, which they now forgot and sailors map denotes this. Only one thing haunted this idea that the clan know they live "On" a sphere which we call earth, they call the depiction of moon. So, this may have relation with any ancient sailor who sailed through Pacific or Bay of Bengal long ago and reached here. Again, she thought those people are only learning the art of quarry and know only gold, copper and gypsum. Therefore, we may easily call them equally timed people before age of iron, that is copper age and t4500 B.C. Therefore, the sailors map like a plano-sphere was very uncomfortable. If twicked Gargi's mind time before Plotemis Alexandria library destroy and again turning the scientific age in the hand of Marcopolo, Alberuni, Cho-Namgial, Magelan.
Gargi, Prakriti Da, Bora Da went to the clan chief's house with their only daughter Princess Gargi. Gargi was astonished to Princess Gargi's father. He looks very similar with her father. Anyway, the clan chief and her husband took them with warmth and offered them food. They were drinking soup of bamboo shoot, banana and grilled lamb meat. Gargi asked them that she went through the library and found maritime maps indicating a very specific place. Whether any person came here anytime who was a sailor from outside valleys of the river moon like them. Chief lady said frankly, we don't have the idea daughter. You may ask Kite, the boy from the falcon clan. Otherwise, the alternative is very tough and smiled. Princess Gargi understood her mother, she explained, alternative way is to contact the mysterious tribe who believe their primary ancestor was a woman like other woman and thus worship only womanhood. Prakriti da said, what is the problem, we may meet them and ask, does they speak the same language as you? Father of Princess Gargi answered, yes they speak the same language but normally they contact other clan, because there are only two ways to reach their place, either through the valley opposite side to the river moon which is prohibited as they understand this is not ethical to bother dead souls. Princess Gargi added that the other way is one of the toughest journeys and long as it went through the natural tunnels, curtains of mists and other dangers of the mountain of Venus, the Blue Mountain, you call. Bora is young, he said we are ready. Gargi told, but first we may meet Mr. Kite from falcon clan. What is the hurry? Princess Gargi asked. Gargi said it is long they are out of home and as she lost her mother in childhood, father feels insecure. Then it is logical, Chief lady said.