OuroborosA Story by psisatyrIt's a post modern story based on pastiche; a professor of divinity gets murdered and a reporter is writing it. The climax lies in the end of the storyIt all
happened one spring afternoon, when the chilly breeze blew in quietly into the
Hall of Chicago University’s divinity building. A student by the name of Worm
Wood was going into the men’s bathroom and to his shock he found his most
beloved Professor Pendinsky lying on the floor of the bathroom with a pool of
blood. He also found a strange enigmatic symbol drawn on paper beside him. The
symbol showed the Ouroboros, the ring of eternity having the serpent biting the
ring with the head at one end and the tail at the other end. Inside the
Ouroboros, there was a modified Swastika which unlike Hitler’s one, was
pointing down to the earth and also there was the symbol of the inverted Cross.
On the head of the paper, letters were scrolled in Gothic: Templar Tarot. Worm Wood called his other professors and
they reported the matter to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The FBI came to the conclusion that Pendinsky
was shot on the head with a .25 caliber Beretta. Detective Agent Shibboleth Shekinah tried to
research on the Occult significance of the enigmatic cult Templar Tarot. And to
his surprise he could come up with bewildering information. He found out that there
was no cult called Templar Tarot, neither in America or any other part of the
world. The he tried to deduce the symbolism of the Templar Tarot. The Ouroboros, resembling a Serpent biting the
ring with its head at one end and biting the ring with its tail at the other
end represents the symbolism of Eternity. Who’s Eternity? Why Eternity? The
Serpent is a leitmotif of the one and only one Devil Lucifer, a fallen angel.
Why does he want to represent eternity in that manner? Is it a sign to show
that he will be an authoritative Sovereign after the Armageddon? Or does the
biting represent the defeat of Satan God Lucifer? The Ouroboros is strangely surprising, a
paradox, and an eternity in two Worlds. The Swastika is even more puzzling.
Hitler drew it, pointing it upwards to heaven. Here the Templar Tarot
represents it as angling downwards representing earth. Is it a symbolism of a
mind in the Diaspora of psychological holocaust, a mind tormented by the fetish
totems of earthly fornication and covetousness?
Is it a manifestation of the far right wing extremists of the Country
Mytho-Disto-Utopia to establish a one World, One Government and One Economy
Order? Yes Pendinsky belonged to the country ----Mytho-Disto-Utopia and he had
escaped to Italy and then sought political asylum in the United States.
Pendinsky has been vociferous in his tirades against the Communist Iron Guard
regime of Mytho-Disto-Utopia. He has revealed to me, since I was his closest
friend, that he had received death threats from the Communist Iron Guard
regime. What about the inverted Cross?
Yes, it is used in Satanic rituals as an erotic symbol. A witch lies
nude at the altar of the Satanic temple and the inverted Cross hangs beside it
and Lord’s Prayer is repeated with beginning: “Our Father in Hell.” Yes the
inverted Cross represents fertility, sexuality, orgasms, and queerity. There is
no gender, no sex, and no norm. Everything is transgressed, violated and
enjoyed to the core. Detective Agent Shibboleth Shekinah concluded that the
murder might have been committed by the Tarot Templar cult which had its affiliations
with the Communist Iron Guard regime. But till today, the FBI has not been able
to identify the assassin. After he finished writing the article for Times Emit
Edible News, he felt a pang of guilt. Prof. Pendinsksy was his best friend. But
he was more loyal to the cult of the Templar Tarot and to his benefactors of
the Communist Iron Guard Regime of the Country Mytho-Disto-Utopia. He sighed in
sadness and then submitted the article. © 2014 psisatyr |
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Added on November 17, 2014 Last Updated on November 17, 2014 Tags: Short Fiction, Short Story, Post Modern Fiction, Ouroboros, Templar Tarot, Worm Wood, Serpent, Cross, Swastika, Chicago Divinity School AuthorpsisatyrIndiaAboutI am a pedagogist; I hail from God's Own Country in Kerala. Writing prose, fiction and poetry are my special interests. Making love, boozing are so delicacies of a fruit for me more..Writing
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