Star Jars (Superorganisms)

By Filip Redaszka

Ancient cultures try to survive and explore different forms of governance. Discover mysterious empires of various tribes in a comical story full of absurds.

 

War, peace, music, alcohol and the intricate relationships between communities with their environment. 

 

Extereme conditions of life among crucial role of psychedelic substances in survival. Delve into the power of collective behavior, freedom and the resilience of the human spirit in the face of adversity.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Filip Redaszka
• Release date: Mar 17, 2024
• ISBN: 9798224780785

Book preview

A parody book:

Star Jars

Star Jars (a.k.a. Superorganisms)

Chapters:

1. Earth

2. Cosmos

3. Survivors

4. Nature

5. Hierarchy

6. Matriarchy

7. Monarchy

8. Patriarchy

9. Oligarchy

Chapter 1. Earth.

Earth - English, Ziemia - Polish, Aarde - Dutch, Terra - Italian, Jord - Swedish, Föld - Hungarian, Jorden - Danish, Země - Czech, Erde - German, Tierra - Spanish, Maa - Finnish, Γη - Greek, Земля - Russian, 地球 - Chinese, ضرلأا - Arabic, Terre - French, Bumi - Indonesian, 지구 - Korean, Dünya - Turkish, Pământ - Romanian, Ardhi - Suahili, Umhlaba - Zulu, Ụwa - Igbo, Anyigba - Ewe, Lupa - Filipino, Земя - Bulgarian, Dhulka - Somali, Zemlja - Croatian, Honua - Hawaiian, ن

یمز - Farsi.

Somewhere in prehistoric Mesopotamia... There's a lush cloud forest, and in the middle of it there's a fortress with water around it, there are only two not very pretty bridges. The fortress is quite huge, so it can hold a decent big city all together. There are stone walls which are higher than trees. Apparently, there are clouds and seasons, so raining is regular enough even for farming inside and especially around this city. The forest looks almost exotic, but it's not a jungle, there's a warm, not very hot weather that makes it easy to farm inside the city. People have many fruits or vegetables, there are domesticated animals like cows, dogs, pigs or birds, but not cats.

People there communicate with animals and plants mostly by sounds or gestures, people use single words repeatedly and sing it along with their instruments for potential better growth of plants. People there play music for animals too, people there have different kinds of milk according to types of music cows listened to before giving all milk for a seasonal portion. And people there don't wear that much clothes except colder weather when they use clothes from animals also, they only hide their intimate parts with cloth, they don't use shoes though. Of course, when they are in a battle, they have special hemp suits for that as well, but usually they don't take part in any battles.

People there grow a lot hemp, cannabis, salvia and mushrooms inside the city. Outside the city, just nearby they grow psychedelic cactuses, wheat, trees, and flowers with LSA seeds. If somebody destroys or steals surroundings of this city, then security wizards use bombs with salvia extracts, so they can catch all invaders by disorientions and intoxications. Archeries are very common in this city's schooling even among the youngest children, or the oldest enthusiasts. Invaders aren't for slavery though, invaders are for experiments there, so shamanistic prehistoric scientists can test unknown mushrooms or other substances on those kinds of prisoners. Sometimes those invaders can survive, and after evaluations they can even become members of this city's citizens if those invaders want to, but if they don't some of them can leave, so they can spread stories about this city. This city's name in translation to English sounds like Uasua. How's their language called? Perhaps its name's called Uasuan in English.

People there have a lot of land to live, farm or even hide, sometimes they have to hide from wild cats or other cataclysms. There is a decent underground lifestyle, they can see under the ground because of lights from big bioluminescent mycelium, mushrooms, glowworms and various luminous stones. Uasuan people store food deep down apparently too. When animals are old enough and they die, only women can prepare dead animals' meat for a ritualistic consumption. Only women can do ritualistic funerals, because there's a cult of Mother Earth which is giving birth, and funeral places afterwards. One of those funeral female cooks is a middle aged woman (she looks quite young though), her name in English-like translation sounds like Bububa, and she's one of 500 (approximately) elitist community members of funeral cooks out there in Uasua. Bububa had to get birth first to be allowed there, because only mothers are allowed in this group, but she has already 6 children with different men, so those male figures are mostly taking care of little girls or boys. Bububa's very busy with her funeral responsibilities to her social collective, and she can not spend too much time with her children, still she's giving a few shamanistic lessons per week for her 3 daughters at least. Basically, every person in this city is quite shamanistic, but there are different kinds of shamans, she's just from a dead-meat-food shamans' caste, those shamans can prepare meat so it doesn't rot, and it's more palatable or digestible after their traditional preparation. People there don't eat dogs though, but sometimes when even a young predator attacks, and they kill in a self-defence, they eat it with a ceremonial respect. You can see different kinds of meat out there, in restaurants they serve for instance lion meat, tiger meat, bear meat, bison meat, beef, pig meat and even crocodile's meat, but people make funerals for those animals too. People there don't use grounds for cementeries though, they put corpses into the water around Uasua, even corpses of dead famous people to make ancestors always able to fight for its offsprings, that's why it's more legendary, and more awful for potential enemies because of death. Citizens are quite immune after hundreds years of evolution, Uasuan have very good immune systems because there's a lot of sun too, and they have many medicines from plants around, they don't swim in water near borders though, they don't swim in underground water neither. Local people are cleaning themselves in lakes or in a big river nearby, but they can do it only in bigger groups because outside Uasua safety is much more random out there. Uasuans are not that sentimental about dead people, because death is quite noticeable on a daily basis there, alive people would rather check their ancestors' writings or paintings on hemp papers and other remaining traces, buildings, knowledge, crafts, traditions, cultures, because the city was founded by the cult of Mother Earth and various psychedelic honeys, so people are working like bees there. There are many queens though, kings are not that popular, men have a lot of work when they are in responsible positions, and males can not be priests there.

People there eat mosty plants and mushrooms though, they eat a lot of hemp proteins of course, or many non-toxic shrooms, fruits or vegetables which they farm. Sometimes they eat predators' meat or meat of cows, birds, bulls or goats in special ceremonies. They hunt fish though, Bububa doesn't like fish that much, but they eat fish 4 days per week. The cult of Mother Earth is deeply connected with water for many reasons. One of those reasons is a basic utility, so they have always enough water... Under the ground of this city there's a water source, and it's much colder out there deep, that's why they founded Uasua in this place. And people there love this cold water in caves under the