Beelzebubs-Tales-to-His-Grandson-by-G-I-Gurdjieff

for the welfare of their descendants. Then, accompanied by two members ofour tribe, I went to the southern countries of this continent where, with thehelp of the local three-brained beings, I captured the desired number of apebeings."Having accomplished this, I signaled telepathically to our ship Occasion,which descended to us, it must be said, on the first very dark night And whenwe had loaded the ape-beings into the special compartment of the ship thathad been arranged for Gornahoor Harharkh under his own direction, wereascended to the planet Mars, and three Martian days later, taking the apeswith me, I ascended on the same ship to the planet Saturn."Though we had decided to carry out the experiments on the apes only inthe following year, when they would have become thoroughly acclimatizedand adapted to their new conditions of existence, I ascended to the planetSaturn without delay, because at my last meeting with Gornahoor Harharkh Ihad promised him to be present at a family solemnity that was soon to takeplace."This family solemnity, called a 'khri-khra-khri,' was the consecration bythe beings around Gornahoor Harharkh of his recently arisen first heir"I had promised to attend this family solemnity in order to take uponmyself toward this first heir of his what is called the 'alnatoorornian beingduty.'"Here it is interesting to remark that the ceremony for assuming this beingdutyalso took place in ancient times among the three-brained beings of yourplanet and has even come down to your contemporary favorites but, just as ineverything else, they have kept only the external form of this serious andimportant procedure The beings who, as it were, take this obligation uponthemselves are called by your contemporary favorites 'godfathers' and'godmothers.'"This first heir of Gornahoor Harharkh was then named Raoorkh."