Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Sunday, June 10, 2018
"PARADISE LOST" AND FOUND
"PARADISE LOST" IMPLIES PARADISE FOUND ON NILE
Reading PARADISE LOST by John Milton it recurs to me that paradise was once real upon the earth prior to its becoming allegedly "lost". To posit 'lost,' there had to be a prior found.
I suspect that it was our ancient "African", iconic Nile River Valley cultures and civilizations whose riches are exhumed annually by European, Asian, American nations; archived; exhibited; studied; traded; bought and sold. Africa is the "paradise lost" presupposed by epic poets, like John Milton, fabulists, "historians" of all kinds, whose old literature has survived destruction in whole or in part and has come down to us as twain heirs. One heir went high . The other went low.
"Heirs" of ancient African Nile Valley knowledge divided it, bisected it, into separate spheres of operations which rarely conjoined except through seekers of all kinds, in quest of the aboriginal truth: occult, covert, clandestine, mysterious; and popular, public, orthodox, scholastic, religious-allegory, myth.
This is only my surmise, not proof. Amen.