I needed to start somewhere, didn’t I?

This kind of inaugural post usually follows to kinds of patterns:

Either you go the way of Keith Fay, the head behind Cruachan, a lovely Folk Metal band: When he started Twitter his posts read somewhat like this:

• I am writing this
• I am writing this sitting on a chair
• I am writing this
• I don’t like this

Which is amazing in its honesty.:D I would rather like to not paraphrase and give you the actual posts, but I don’t have a Twitter account and since its rebranding to X, the posts are completely inaccessible. And I am not hurrying to get on X. This way is the minimal route. You simply acknowledge the existence of your new digital voice.

The other one is more in media res - and usually results in an amazing and heartfelt communiqué. Often it doesn’t even draw attention to its inaugural nature. I don’t have a banger just ready to go in the chamber, so this is out of my reach.

But I had a WordPress blog before and I did, in this case, at least progress beyond the “Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet”. Hoorrah, aren’t I a dutiful little carpenter? :)

I must say, by the way - it recently struck me that carpenters have a rather important role in our mythologised world view. The father of Jesus, not Yahweh, but Joseph was a carpenter. When I started into Alan Moore’s Jerusalem and Alma Warren recalled a dream of carpenters speaking with her mother. It is a dream sequence and Affable Al manages the dreamlike quality better than… well, most, he’s a genius. (^_^) And there seems to be a lot of Christian imagery at play and I felt a certain whisp of holiness - the word “besinnlich” comes to mind, though the English words “contemplative” and “pensive” fail to evoke the same associations.

It does make sense, I think - the Abrahamic religions stem from the birthplace of civilisation. Not mankind, by the way, that seems to be East Africa. Though there’s been recent archeological findings in Turkey, that seem to recontextualise the time frame. Absolutely incidental, of course, I need to write a foot note component for MDX, so I can put this elsewhere…

But yes, it is the birthplace of civilisation! And since the organisation of people around their capacity to build better lives for themselves was thus the first time something informing the virtues and morals of people. A carpenter makes perfect sense to me. There have been interpretations of the myth of Enkidu (a wild man cum best friend of Gilgamesh) as civilisation taking “wild people” and turning them into people abiding by the rules of larger organised societies.

And the step-father of the son of Man as a guy able to build things? Yeah, why not.

Oh, that was long tangent. Alas, it is my blog, nobody can stop me. Apart from my waffling about ultimately inconsequential musings (not scientific, not fervent, just kinda rambly), this emptiness of actual content seems a good starting point. Ex nihilo type creation stories often have a chaotic word. And I need to invoke the genius of Alan Moore once more: “Maybe our entire universe is just a by-product of a primal information - in the beginning was the word.”

Well, and now I have both. ✌️