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As Miss Fortune translated the book on Ancient Japan, my already erect mystic wireless-ed brain cells regurgitate all the stimulating information accumulated over the last month or so. It appears that the 5 countries that made up Ancient Japan at the time of the Ainu were indeed soaked in legends of the ‘First Family’. As I hear the stuttering interpretation of the text in simple English, I realize that the earlier you go back in one country’s prehistory, the more in common there is with other countries. For instance, writing was brought into that country by the Rice Culture (Chinese), the equivalent of the Romans in Europe. Legend has it that the First Men or the ‘First Families’ roamed the WORLD at ease, as calamities and natural disasters happened from time to time in an eternal (to human lives) concept of Time, a kind of Dreamtime. I remember the bones of the First Man in a big temple on the outskirts of Nara which belongs to the cryptic (for me, anyway) Tenrikyo Buddhist sect. The bones lie crushed under a huge stone barely discernible from the tatami area around which most prayers repeatedly sing and sing an almost stream-of-consciousness melody. The atmosphere in one of these temples is sometimes breathtaking. A couple of years ago, in an obscure shrine above Miyajima, in the summer of 1999, I even heard THEE exact drumming pattern of the ever-ur-zeitgeist-glory of Suche Und Liebe (A.R.T.’s Schwingungen) played by a bald monk, you know the bit as the bell-like cosmicness gives way to epic thunderous kosmische-ness. As I have said before, although I consider myself non-pious, I appreciate the respect shown in the Buddhist temples to the ancient worshiping of the natural, the stones and the land, where Life, Art and Sacredness merge in a form never seen anywhere else except in our most ancient pre-christian megalithic shrines. I had always heard that the Ainu (or aborigines of Japan) had mysteriously ‘disappeared’ but the truth is, as with the other only truly genetically different Human Race, the Neanderthals, or as is the case with the Celtic exodus, that historians tend to simplify things when movements of peoples are concerned for the sake of the writing of their books and to add a bit of drama to their stories. A quick look at the looks of the northern/eastern Japanese testifies to this ancient Asian/Central Asian/European mixture. After all, the Welsh are not uniquely Celtic but +Welsh+. It is time historians explained what this really means. They are not more Celtic than the English or any other European nation for that matter, but more Ur-Ancient Europeans in a more essential, less blurred, prehistoric state, like the Basques or the Georgians, last known refuge-nations of the Ur-Europeans. Our ancientness goes back a long way and the whole of the continent was peopled way before the Celtic-Greek-Italo-Germanic peoples arrived around the time of the blossoming of the megalithic culture and blended in. It is time we reclaimed our REAL ancientness and legacy. As I discover that the word Kami (=god) in Japanese comes from the Ainu, I wonder how much of our culture really goes back to our own ancient prehistoric wisdom. I always get tremendously bored by school-like stories of kings and queens and wars and invasions as if the REAL history of the people of the land amounted to nuts. So next time I get out there I will AGAIN ignore the monasteries, churches, castles and battlefields for time reasons and get to the gist of our past.
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