tale 19 history
of the technical monkey 1
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That evening, when the father came home from
work, he was very surprised because the children did not want to listen to
his tale but wanted to tell him their own. That day they had been to a museum
and now both were talking at the same time.
History of the technical monkey
Their teacher at school took them to a special
museum. At the entrance, there was a big sign with an inscription “history of
the technical monkey”. When they entered, a guide greeted them.
“My dear children! Welcome in the museum! I will
show you everything and tell you the history of the technical monkey,” he
began. “Have you ever been to a museum before?” The children looked at him
with big eyes and open mouth and the expression on their face made it obvious
to the guide that they would listen to him very attentively.
“Once upon a time, there were many tribes or
better say bigger families of monkeys in all parts of the land,” and he
pointed to a big map that was leaning against the wall at forty-five degrees.
Many valleys and mountains, rivers and flatlands, forests and grasslands
surrounded by a big ocean could be seen on the map.
“At the beginning, the monkeys lived on trees and
collected the fruit they found on them,” and the guide showed the pupils a
picture. “But when it rained or in winter when it snowed, the monkeys always
got wet and were cold.” Some pupils put their notebooks above their heads and
imitated the shivering because of cold.
The guide smiled and continued, “so one day, one
of the monkeys decided to climb down onto the ground because he had discovered
a cave.” Another picture on another wall showed a monkey sitting in a cave.
“At that time, when they saw lightning, they were
afraid and hid in the cave. They thought that some kind of ghost wanted to
hurt them. Nevertheless, once, a thunderbolt struck a tree and it caught
fire. The most curious monkey went out and looked at the fire a bit closer.
Of course, first he burnt himself, but then, he put a torch on the ground and
laid some more wood on it.” The pupils began to laugh, one blew his hands and
they looked at another picture. “Then he took a torch to the entrance of the
cave and made a campfire there.” Everybody imagined sitting in the cave and
warming themselves at the campfire.
“Of course, there were not enough caves for
everybody, so one had the idea to build a kind of roof for himself. First,
these roofs looked like tents and then they resembled to houses.” The pupils
looked around them and imagined what a house meant at that time. “When they
built a chimney into the house, they had tamed the fire and it wasn’t a ghost
or holy soul anymore.”
Suddenly, he put his finger onto his lips. The
pupils thought he wanted to tell them to be quiet. “Our lips and our mouth!
What do we use our mouth for?” he asked them. “To speak!” everybody shouted.
“That’s it! And why do we speak?” he continued. “We want to tell others what
we think,” was the answer around him. “You are right!” he smiled, “we want to
exchange information.” With big eyes and open mouth, the children stared at
him. He looked around and went on, “when we want to build a big house
together, we need to communicate. Peter, hold this bar! Mary, put that piece
of wood over there!” The children understood that language in a simple form
was invented to make it possible to work together.
“Next, they wanted to make their life easier, so
they began to plant their food trees, bushes and plants around their houses.
In the middle, there were houses and around them, their gardens and fields.”
“The first villages!” shouted the pupils.
Suddenly on the ceiling of the auditorium in the
museum, the sun, then the moon and the stars appeared. “Now, those monkeys
began to think about day and night, and seasons, and as they had not been
able to understand that part of nature, they imagined them to be gods and
goddesses,” he looked at them and waited for questions. But the pupils were
so astonished that they could only open their mouth but not talk. “Yes, you
guessed right, they built temples.”
The pupils thought about churches and temples
they had already seen and asked themselves how those big stones could be
transported at that time, when there were no machines. The guide seemed to
read in their minds, “First, those monkeys experienced that those immense
stones could easier be moved on planks of wood, there they built the first
sledges.” “Did they only build their temples in winter?” the pupils asked.
“Good observation!” the guide replied. He put a long cloth on the floor,
asked one of the pupils to sit on it and began to pull it. The pupils nodded
with their heads because they had understood this part of the technique. Then
he put some thick tree rods on the floor and put a plank on them. A pupil was
asked to stand on it and the pulling was even easier. “Probably, this was the
predecessor of the wheel,” the guide explained.
That night the father fell asleep with a
satisfied smile on his face.
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Freitag, 13. März 2020
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