Thursday, December 3, 2015

The performance of gods

The story of the book my love my love seems so completed even though most of the settings are all made up. Even  the gods of the peasants believe in their small village. There are four gods in total, and two of them are goddess. They are Asaka, the goddess of Earth, plants and Erzulie, the goddess of love. And the two gods who are male. Agwe, the god of ocean and Papage, the god of death. The male and the female god are opposite to each other, for example the goddess of Earth towards to the god of sea; the goddess of love towards to the god of death. 
For me if I will stage them into a play, I think I will make them look significantly. The goddess of earth Asaka should wear a long dress with green color on it. It represents earth, plants and lives and also the color of hope. The god of sea Agwe should wear a kind of ancient clothes with water blue color. It represents the deepness of the sea. It is also in every fairy tales. This "pair" of the two gods are the true and real origin of life and our plant. Every places can't leave without them. So they should always stand together, and have a kind of connection. Because there won't be land for human beings to live without water, and in another way there can't be sea without land or even islands for human beings to live with. When it relates to the story of the novel my love my love, although the island is in the sea, but it's still dry out of raining and water. So if both of the two gods and goddess don't have close relationship, people can't live well. So this is also another reason why the native people set them into different gender. 
The goddess of love Erzulie can wear the dress with either red or pink color. She should make up or dress either with live happiness or romantic and mature. She should be bright warm, kind, and hopeful. Then her "partner", Papage the god of death should be silent, cold, strict and hopeless. Just like the opposite of the goddess of love. Because love and death are always opposite in our society right? He should wear a full white robe, and bring a sickle with him. His face should be strict, no emotion on it. A scared, strange mask would make this better. He is doing his job every second, and judge human beings sins. The face of the god of death would be remembered in everyone's heart, deep inside, with the name of fear. Both of the god or goddess of love and death are the symbols of two ending point of our lives. One part is the reason why we have chance to come to this world: love. The birth of human being's life is the collection of love. But then it also brings us death, as the same time we have our life. 

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