Today I think about bronce age signalling and space age dito.
In Tanum there is a "World Heritage" manifesting itself as rock carvings at Tegneby. A translation would sound like "Village of Signs" or something like that.
A few kilometres away from the smoth and naked cliff,  huge white dishes, parabol antennas, probe the skies at Tanum Teleport.
Different signs for different times.
Signs with different depths and frequences.
Signs of communication.
- What do you se?
- Signs of change, signs of values...
- Where do you see it?
- Well, I am trying to do what artists always have done - penetrating into the depths of my own personality - looking for pictures, looking for words and ideas as they echo as interpretations of incoming signals.
- I have tried the same, but I feel bad when I find things in my depths that I don´t like. So I´ve stopped that.
- I have heard about people reacting that way, and certainly read about it - in all religious writings. It´s a question of standing what you have inside
- a question of ethics. But anyway you have to go inside to come anywere at all.
- What do you find?
- My mind.
- What does it say?
- Nuclear tests in India, perhaps in bilateral cooperation with former soviets in Russia. Westerners hated in Bhagdad and Irak, old allied of the Soviet empire. Nuclear tests in Pakistan perhaps in pact with certain European interests. Muslims and Christians in cooperation (as in Bosnia), with Buddhist circles to avert a Hindu explosion of power...
- What complicated ideas!
- It´s not even mine, it´s just echoes of the media of today. My own thoughts are interpretations of condensed facts. And then I go to the Edda and to the Upanishads looking for clues.
- Do you have them inside?
- In a way, yes. I can go to the texts and find what I want, strong stuff stays in my conscious memory and even stronger stuff in my unconscious.
- Things god said?
- That´s strong stuff, yes. But when you have the stuff of Buddha to consider too, it weakens. Two gods can strengthen each other as the god of Allah and the god of Christ but Buddha tells about absolute nothing - no god, no life, no nothing.
- How do you know?
- I just learn and listen, then I go for a good salary and a clean car.
- Thank god, we have something in common!
- Yes. But when I clean the car and earn my salary I think about the actions of the World. When I look around and focus on the bluish mountains far away I think about the geological transformations and the consequences for mankind. I think about changes and revolutions. I think.
- While polishing your Ford Sierra?
- Absolutely, and I see the Sierras sinking in the sea. Changing clouds of today and changing patterns of the eternal weather systems. Greenhouse Earth is a good place to be! We are here to rejoice. It´s good having the sheet of carbon dioxide as long as it´s less hot then the sheet of Venus.
- Do the ecosystem tolerate a much warmer climate?
- Yes of course, there are many examples of warmer climate through prehistorical times. Siberia will become a fertile paradise in a warmer future. It´s worse if an ice age sets on!
- Martian climate.
- Terrible.
- Brr...Burr...of the Edda. It´s a fact of the Sagas. The old sages knew of earlier glaciatons, and sang about it. In old times culture was the memories of the people. Exodus occur when cold weather strikes. Do you really think the seas of old Egypt behaved like the Old Testament has it?
- Of course.
- Well, I think we have a meteoritic and/or volcanic catastrophe to consider, with a sudden drop of desert temperature. The cold was that terrible that even the most saline seas of the Middle East for a short period of  time became frozen. But the remains of the stories of Exodus has gone through mythic transformations and religious reinterpretations and translations. Even if rare meteriological facts soon are forgotten religion is about remembering from where you came and thus where you are going. The real thing is to invent your own beeing, embracing everything, including the gods and nada, humans and absolute nothing, yes and no.
- In the (televised) civilization of the west it seems to be a question of forgetting (about, not only god or bad weather but eternity, death as well as about all boring facts of urban commuting, wheeling and dealing of every day life).
- Is it?
- I don´t really know, maybe the "Deep Impact"-films are a reminder. Otherwise I just speculate and have the privilege to think in some kind of every day life swenglish freedom...
- Then we have two things in common but why publish it on the web?
- Old artistic questions of the must to express oneself...
- As the rock carver in Tegneby?
- Yes indeed. The site is interesting as an rare example of war-like activities - mounted warriours with rectangular shields and spears.
- Why rare?
-In the world of norse rock carvings spears almost exclusivly are for hunting and/or cermonies of peacful bodylanguage but in Tegneby you can see an rather obvious   military bodylanguage.
- But in Vitlycke, close by, there are dancing and celebrations, isn´t it?
- As at most other sites where the bronce age signalling occure as rock carvings.
- And in the electromagnetic world of modern signals?
- War and peace, with one difference, the signals of war and aggressivity is dominant in the entertainment paraboles.
- Tanum Teleport deals with science, not entertainment.
- That´s all right. But if you think you are able to find out who use the edge cutting communication technics I think you know what I mean.
- I´ll think about it.

©Tomas Brusell.