Separately they would have amounted to nothing more than
a curiosity, but together, well, that was a different matter. Together they
spelled the change of everything that was known.
For years there had been reports of humming noises from
the skies, sometimes it sounded like distant thunder, other times it was more like
a ‘heavenly organ’ – as one pastor from Minnesota had described the phenomenon to
a local TV station.
Then there were the strange lights – at the start, they
were never close enough together for anyone to find a pattern in them. But one
woman eventually did - she was a professor of logic at a north-eastern university
– she realised their increase and intensity was following a logical path and it
might look as if there was an intelligence behind it.
They called her, The God Woman. Most western governments
did their best to destroy her quietly and slowly and they nearly succeeded –
except for one thing, the skies were growing noisier and brighter. The
Americans and the British tried to blame it on extreme weather conditions, but
gradually those who looked to the skies knew that something else was happening –
a change was coming.
The higher mammals had sat on a little rock for millennia
and had explained everything away in stories of darkness and light; Gods and
monsters were all you needed to keep you stuck to a rock circling the Sun and
not to question why.
The Sun would burn out in so many years, the universe
would collapse in a certain time in the future, life would go on forever. That
was what they told themselves – just like monkeys locked in a pitch-black
cellar – guessing what was in the dark and feeling safer in the process.
But there was something else out there, something
stronger than a god or science – the universe itself. It was this that had decided
to bring things into being, and it was this that had decided to destroy and
move on.
The noises in the skies was the universe singing to
itself, getting ready to end what it had made, and no monkey (or human – it’s your
call) could scream at the heavens with crosses and icons and try to make it
understand.
It was the beginning of the end.
Video:
Noises in the sky - 2014 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCAgmtB4j7w)
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