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Theatre

Ciclo de Marte

By Millán Picouto

About this book

The environmental and social degradation of the earth, the effects of war and the amazing degradation of the hardworking sculpting people living in the most isolated island in the world are the background for the development of TRILOGY OF EASTER ISLAND, which is part of the Ciclo de Marte. The general topic of this cycle is the cosmological conflict initiated by the self-affirmation of life with its ambition, aggression and bellicosity used to fight against the opposition that stops it.

This is a dramatic work in verse, unusual in Galician letters and even Spanish letters, full of strength, verbal splendour and meaning.

Book fragment

PROLOGUE

Bay of Anakena. A beach with an altar

Stone colossus; one still without eyes. It is dawning.

Atán enters and lights a fire.

ATÁN

Sovereign law that in Eternity
you preside over the revolution of the world,
this is Atán of Aón, that of long ears.
To you that raises the sun every day
so that it crosses the celestial waves,
I here light this binding fire.
You shake the hair of palm trees,
you place time on top of turtles,
you carve with a pick in my hands;
to you, spirit of dawn, I beg.
Let me swim in the braids of totora;
let me move ahead and defeat another year;
let me win a trophy on this day.
And you, who bore me the strongest,
give me back to your sanctuary of Orongo
and keep on protecting our earth,
the Link to the Universe, Rapa Nui!

Raiateo enters.

RAIATEO

Atán, why is there a sun and a moon in the sky?

ATÁN

The Being without a face and an origin
carved with its breath two stones

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