The Last Moon - 4

Fourth  SCENE

(Rumisu is alone on the Throne. The Nakigia’s soldiers will come to take him away)

First soldier of  Nakigia

-         Rumisu! The sun is sinking down!

Second Soldier of Nakigia

-         And your mother Nakigia is waiting for you!!!

Exeunt

 

                                  FITH SCENE

 (The King Gonario, in  form of a ghost,  appears on stage and solemnly recite   the song of Akinta Qamar. It encloses the very meaning of the drama and will continue until the closing of the curtain.

  AKINTA QAMAR’S Song

Do not forget my sons

 Those ancient laws

That came long time ago from the sea

And of your mothers

Who rest under the grass!

Go, go, go

Go and love each others

Sons of the Earth

Where women

Are free to love anyone

And men

Do not want to master them!

The waters of the sources

Of the Earth

Have done a long march

Through the subterranean veins:

the water itself it’s only

the visible part.

The same thing happens with the men

 When they are born:

they are only the visible part

which we can see

of our ancestors!

 Do not forget my sons

 Those ancient laws

That came long time ago from the sea

And of your mothers

Who rest under the grass!

Sixth Scene

All the People celebrate the victory of love over the hate with the dance of the Last Moon!

The End

The stonefire's island

It's a 2.000 village inhabitants in the east of Sardinia; its name "Perdasdefogu", which reminds on its roots the ancient spanish conquerors who called it "Pierdas de fuego", means "Stones of fire".

And Sardinia it's a land of stones: the megalitic culture has left a great print all over Sardinia which praisies the rest of 30.000 nuraghes (7.000 of them still erected); giant's coffins, fairytale houses, and on therir ruines, after millennia of civilisation, you can easily find the rest of Phenician's and Roman's domination, with imponent cities on the strategic coast skyline and even a roman amphetheatre of the II century in the centre of Cagliari, the capital of Sardinia. And after the Romans, fierce enemies of unbendable ancient nuragic people, the decline, mostly in the second millennium A.D. with the Spanish and the italian Savoia.

Thera also the singing stones (but that's another story which deserves another post).

And there are the living stones: the Melises (see the link below for detailed newyork's report).

The Melises are stronger than stones: they have deserved a place in the world's guiness of record. The Melises are a family of nin siblings who sum up 825 years all together: the oldest being 105 year old; the youngest being 79 year old.

The american papers underlines the lackness of work making a great contrast with the capacity of living so long.

Also this is another story. I can only say that sardinian people are too much fatalist.

And  if they  will find the way to remember that their ancestors were so strong to be able to built such imponent and majestic buildings as the nuraghes, they are easily sorting out of all economic and financial  crisis. It would enough to value their culture and to organize the international tourism after that (not only after the three months sea season).

But that a hard way to be found.

Read more on this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/18/world/europe/celebrating-the-elderly-with-a-nervous-eye-on-the-future.html?ref=world&_r=2&