8 may 2024

8 may 2024

John Bjarne Grover

I have earlier referred to a(n) hypothesis of mine that the norwegian poet Per Sivle's literary work could have the peculiar property of referring inherently to (visual) aspects of the planet Mars - probably or possibly without the poet having observed a photo of the planet. (I dont know if photos of Mars were available to the public at Sivle's time). This theory would assume that the planet in its look exhibits an inherent human spirituality contained in the human semiotic endowment. It could be this which would have been Sivle's poetic interest - an aspect of his poetic language which is rather invisible - but maybe detectable in a feeling of a certain 'gravity'.

Here another observation which could be of some interest for this theory: On the planet Mars there are three volcanos along a line (source) - which could invoke associations to ideas of christian 'trinity'. Sivle's poem 'Cuba' contains at least two elements which could refer to these volcanos: 'Ku-Ba' could mean 'asked for a cow/udder', that is, something like a volcano, and 'Montezuma' which likewise could invoke associations to 'monte-zu-ma' = 'mountain-suck-ma'. (I think I recall the name of Montezuma from school but cannot find out now which Montezuma Sivle could be referring to - probably the aztec king). Here is the poem and a machine translation of it by translate.google.at - to which I have added some corrections and improvements to make it understandable:

Cuba (Per Sivle)

What is the question of life and the right of life,
where predators believe themselves to lack food?
— The spanish bloodhound is still not satisfied
and thirsts for more of the red.

And so it is, Cuba's people must bleed,
while the rain of bullets falls heavy and close,
— and Washington and London walk and joke
and each a real Havana cigar (havanese?) smokes.

Behold, what a line of sacrifice the island meets
that witnesses against the spanish fire and dagger,
from Montezuma on his bed of glows
to the pearl of the dutch people
and him, who recently gave Cuba's executioner a thrashing.
— O Spain, thou waster of life and freedom,
thy own happiness in blood is buried
on both sides of the atlantic ocean.

You fight — don't you see? — a hopeless struggle/battle.
Where God will forward, there you resist.
It doesn't help you pour in more damp:
you lose, have already lost in long days.
From being strong, you became the weak one,
but learned not in spite of getting 'tamp' (= a hiding with rope?).
— However, Cuba reaches its right with time and moments,
if even you in your madness shall go under.

Gulls sometimes have three white circular dots on their tail feathers ('tamp' means the end of something, could be like a tail) - here is a gull with three not-entire-circular dots (source). Today I photographed a gull which suggested a similarity in form with the photo of Mars (source China Daily) which I had recently studied:

The three dots on the tail would be like the three volcanos - a trinity - in 90 degrees angle.

A man in the moon and a gull in Mars?

If Kennedy got USA involved in the Vietnam war for engineering the concept of 'Great Warrior' - would even that have been for this political 'Mars' complex? Up there on the 'Himmler'?