Chapter 1:5 © The Rebellion - rho

“This composite image of the Medusa galaxy (also known as NGC 4194) shows X-ray data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory in blue and optical light from the Hubble Space Telescope in orange. Located above the center of the galaxy and seen in the optical data, the "hair" of the Medusa -- made of snakes in the Greek myth -- is a tidal tail formed by a collision between galaxies. The bright X-ray source found towards the left side of Medusa's hair is a black hole.”

From: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/multimedia/photo09-018.html

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           The boulder strewn hill to the West appears as a miniature mountain from a distance but it is no more than a thousand feet high in the reality of the Place. The mountain setting is caused by an atmospheric optical illusion similar to seeing the night rising moon in September and October back Home. No one Dead knows why or needs to.

This is near where Aeneas is to meet the Supervisor. The mountainous appearing hill basically serves as a stone pit in reverse. The newly Dead takes a few one by two foot stones off the lower side to build privacy a room for one’s self while an older Dead makes an Oak door for the privacy room. Carts exist as someone has taken the time to make them. The newly Dead pull the cart, load it with stone, and return to where a foundation is set. The next day the Dead return and more almost cut stones are waiting to be delivered.

Once the small room is built and the newly Dead is inside and closes the door sheorhe is as good as the body Home is under the ground, at the bottom of a deep blue sea, or floating like ash in the sea or air. It is not the same though because you cannot get wind of the Living. Not a sound to be heard as you are essentially shelled within your own soul.

No one climbs the thousand foot Stone Hill to the other side because there isn’t any as far as the Dead know. This is the place where Aeneas is to meet the Supervisor for a one on One, as it were.

This is any easier task for Aeneas than it might be for most others in the nearby vicinity of Elysium. During life he believed his mother was Aphrodite, the goddess of love. He had acted as though he was goddess born, and since everyone else had heard the same story they also believed it and acted accordingly. This bit of fiction had helped Aeneas survive many trials and adventures in life.

When Aeneas was newly Dead and arriving in Elysium he was met at the pool by his father, Anchises, who upon seeing his son appeared amused but said nothing. Aeneas immediately understood the silence behind the smile as he realized he was not being greeted by his mother on Mt. Olympus. Aeneas happy to see his father good-humoredly asserted, “I see the story of my birth was but a misconception, my true mother was not Aphrodite the goddess of love as I was lead to believe. I was a true love child instead.”

This primary fact weathered well and both laughed that the fiction had crept stealthily into a fact for child and neighbors alike. Within a day Aeneas set out on first adventure being dead; to discover his real earthly mother.

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            I see Stone Hill, envisioned Aeneas. Indeed it does look larger at our sunless dusk. This mound appears so lonely. I miss the bright light and heat of our daily sun more than almost anything other than my son, Ascanius. Apollo, would you help here dropped from his hesitant mind into securely sincere heart.