Becumma Of The White Skin
Автор книги James Stephens
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There are more worlds than one and in many ways they are unlike each other. But joy and sorrow, or in other words, good and evil are not absent in their degree from any of the worlds. For wherever there is life, there is action. And action is but the expression of one or other of these quality. After this earth, there is the world of the shit.
It beyond it again lies the mini colored land. Next comes the land of wonder. And after that the land of promise awaits us. You will cross clay to get into the shed. You will cross water.
To attain the mini colored land fire must be passed ere the Land of Wonder is attained. But we do not know what will be crossed. For the Fourth World, this adventure of Khan, the Hundred Fighter and his son Art was by the way of water and therefore he was more advanced in magic than Fion was all of whose adventures were by the path of clay and into fairy only. But Khan was the High King and so the arch magician of Ireland. A council had been called in the mini colored land to discuss the case of a lady named Bikuma Kinesga that is, Bikuma of the White Skin, the daughter of Eojan Invre.
She had run away from her husband, Labrade and had taken refuge with Gadia, one of the sons of Manan Mcleir, the god of the sea and the ruler, therefore, of that sphere. It seems then that there is marriage in two other spheres. In the ship, matrimony is recorded as being parallel in every respect with Earth marriage and the desire which urges to it seems to be as violent and inconstant as it is with us. But in the minicolored land marriage is but a contemplation of beauty, a brooding and meditation wherein all grosser desire is unknown and children are born to sinless parents. In the Shit, the crime of Bikuma would have been lightly considered and would have received none or but a nominal punishment.
But in the Second World a horrid gravity attaches to such a lapse and the retribution needed is implacable and grim. It may be dissolution by fire and that can note a destruction too final for the mind to contemplate or it may be banishment from that sphere to a lower and worse one. This was the fate of Bakuma of the White Skin.