New Science

“In seeking the basic principle of the common origins of languages and letters, we find that the first peoples of pagan antiquity were, by a demonstrable necessity of their nature, poets who spoke be means of poetic symbols.” – Giambattista Vico (1668-1744). 

Gods 
The age when pagan peoples swore 
Divinity did reign 
And all they did commanded 
By auspices and oracles 
Who spoke their readings of murmurations 
In mute words and hieroglyphs 

Heroes 
The age when those superior 
By nature ruled the peons 
Whose devotion was like a plant to the sun 
Symbolic of servility 

Men 
When all did recognise equality 
Democracy and Monarchy 
And spoke in notes vernacular 
Of business, jest, and love.