The Gentle Likpas: The Great Design of the Mother 9

The Gentle Likpas

The Great Design of the Mother, page 9

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Around the Mother, takes shape the first village of the Likpas. It is the golden age of the Sons of the Mother

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There was a team who were interested in the ancient religions of Haralik. They built temples, and it was them who gave names of gods to the planets visible to the naked eye: Tilikik, Beatrix, Varune, Chaour, Manzane, and Tréblion, which was visible in this time.

Le temple de Béatrix, et celui de Manzane

Oooh but those two temples look antithetical, ha ha ha!

But I was more encouraging the ones interested in spirituality: how to become and remain a good person, and how to avoid the sources of suffering in our own mind. In short, how to become and stay a Likpa or a boobette.

The Mother encourages the Likpas and the boobettes to meditate

Happy time where one could still meditate outdoors in any weather, with only a small unbrella

A very important task was the creation of numerous species of plants, and their spread all around the island.

32, 48 and 56 spread plants on the whole island

To do so, 32, then 48 and 56 became tireless explorators all around the island and creating the first roads. During their whole lives, they ordered me more than 20,000 plants, using my Artificial Intelligence unnumerable times, in order to adjust multiple ecosystems, from the beaches to the highest mountains.

Without the lik-ants and the godins (likearthworms) the whole island would be today covered with several metres of rot!

Some phallos are astonished that 32, 48 et 56 could command to the Mother.

Of course you can command me. I am a machine, remember, without consciousness or feelings. I am just executing my program of likformation and creating a harmonious society. Everything else, how you live, what you want to do, is entirely up to you. This is why I have executed the demands of 32, 48 and 56. The only limit, however, is that your requests must serve life, and a free and happy society. This is why I have never obeyed 133, who only thought at enslaving the Likpas.

Another important activity that I actively fostered was learning science. The Likpas were still much too few to develop an industry able to support science. It also looked much abstract to them. But they had to be ready, and for this they needed a science culture. It is already extraordinary that they could extract lithium, and as we are to see to make eliktricity, with still prehistory means.

Les Likpas assistent à diverses leçons de science.

The difficult part was that the Boobettes could not attend my lessons. I had a projector to do so, but it was broken. So that it was needed that the Likpas report their lessons.

The Likpas repeat their lessons to the Boobettes

This unintended discrimination was to bring a heavy toll later.

I make them build the telescope!

As you notice, it is a Dobsonian with truss tube. As they had no mean to aluminize a glass mirror, I made them do it in bronze. From here, they just had to apply silver with galvanoplasty. For the abrasive, especially the polishing, they had to do with crushed quartzite, left to decant for several days. For the finishing touch, I explained them the Foucault knife-edge test.

THE PULSAR!!

Likpato: That does not look so violent...

Because it is very far, and it is still receding... If you had be in my place, the X-ray would have burned your bones inside you while you were still alive, while the gigantic magnetic field would have produced horrific hallucinations, blinding light, extreme pain and generalized cramp. I survived thanks to thorough shielding of my likcomputers, and still I had to disconnect everything eliktric.

The comparizon between high tech science and country methods! At left: CERN photo.

Indeed there is a huge contrast between the high tech realizations (left), and country tech (right)!

At right, this is not a haystack, but an enclosure for an experiment to measure the gravitational constant G. They succeeded with less than 5%!

(Note of the author: on Earth this was done by Henry Cavendish in 1798 and it similarly gave very accurate results that only modern devices could surpass. It certainly was a fantastic experiment for the time: capturing the force which moves the stars in a device that we can build with our hands! This demonstrated that the same physics rules the Earth and the heavens. With the Likpas, we imagine what a confidence boost it was for the ones who performed the experiment!)

No industry without precision! Simply drawing a straight line requires a ruler... To make a ruler, all you need is another ruler... Yes, but how was the first ruler made? A lot of astuteness and patience!

Likpas and Boobettes create the fist weight and measures

You also need weights and measures... Fortunately, I was able to retransmit the metric units measuring system used on Haralik! This way, workshops which do not know each other can each produce a different part, and when you put them together, the machine operates!

But there was one thing of the utmost importance: reproduction. I would be unable to produce tens of thousands of babies on my own! At first, I forbade them to have children, given the difficulties involved. Then I continued to advise them not to do any yet, while no longer formally forbidding it. I knew they had started making some, but without showing them to me. At this point, I was not alarmed, but I told them that they would have to show them. Their response was intriguing...

The likpas seem very annoyed when the Mother asks them to show their children to Her!

I already had a strange impression of a lack of discussion or trust. This was the first clear indication that something was wrong. But what? I requested to see these children, taking pretext of medical tests...

In fact, I realised that the cause of this trouble coincided precisely with the birth of 133, the anomaly that you call Mahaphallo. But I had no idea what had happened, or why I had not been informed about it.

The birth of the Mahaphallo, and the unanimous reactions.

As for 133, I could see he had a brain abnormality. Normally I should have euthanised him, but I indeed had a bug at this moment, which prevented me from doing so. During my long captivity, I had plenty of time to make calculations and simulations to try and understand what had happened.

Friend readers, before we can understand what took place in the village of the Mother, we need to know first who «the others» are, the people who send elusive giant boats, or who manifest themselves via the Grombrandrin's magical belts. Phallos or Likpas? The reality is a little more complex.

See you in the next story «The Great Continent»!

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Scenario, graphics, sounds, animations, realization: Likchenpa (pseudonym).

Now has come time to reveal: Likchenpa, it's me.