← Back to lettersIn response to your question of January 3, 2009, please find below the information transmitted to you by our sister NABGAA 112, daughter of DORIO 34 at the time of her departure, more than four years ago. I wish to partially respond to the question you posed on July 8, 2003, regarding the compilation of the electronic messages you exchange publicly about our OUMMO civilization.
We note with some dismay that our texts are, for you and your brothers, a source of speculation that sometimes relies on trivial details and often on a lack of precision in our formulations. In the past, we have informed your brothers that your artistic development is exceptional, especially in the field of music. You must understand by this assertion that we have not encountered, in our travels, an advanced civilization that has developed this art to the level of perfection achieved by your great classical or contemporary artists. Likewise, pictorial or sculptural art is more advanced on your planet than on OYAOUMMO. These assertions do not mean that disciplines like music, sculpture, or painting are unknown on OUMMO, although in the latter domain we do not dare to claim a form of pictorial expression that you would qualify as artistic.
Our music is based on crystalline sounds and xylophonic percussions rather than a melodic sequence of standardized acoustic frequencies. Our hearing is accustomed to these sounds that we consider pleasant, which lead to an increase in our serenity and an elevation of our overall emotional state. Our architecture is difficult to compare to yours aesthetically, as monumental constructions follow totally different patterns in our two worlds. In particular, we ban all angular forms in our constructions, systematically preferring the harmony of curves. However, just as we can appreciate your pyramids, castles, temples, mosques, or cathedrals, you would undoubtedly appreciate our administrative, religious, or cultural buildings, often buried in the ground and offering to the outside visitor only a glass structure reflecting the sky, surrounded by fragrant bushes and flower beds.
Our landscape art is highly developed and practiced by our entire population from a very young age. The art of fragrance is as mastered by us as music is by you, and we have found no other civilization as expert in this field. In a sense, we do take some pride in this art, which alone gives us the opportunity to distinguish ourselves from other civilizations that we know and which surpass us all at times in one aspect or another of our social, scientific, spiritual, or artistic development. As for you, you can derive that same pride from your musical art.
It is striking to note the similarities in prehistoric pictorial art between our two cultures. Our ancestors long lived in the natural or artificial caves that dot our planet. The figurative rock art found, for example, in the caves of Lascaux or Altamira, is thus transposed on OUMMO to a significantly more elaborate level due to a better understanding of pigments and a more advanced evolutionary stage of the OEMMII authors of these works. We have already informed your brothers in the past about the existence on OUMMO of museums dedicated to OYAGAA. Your ecological, ethnological, and artistic diversities have led us to build three distinct buildings, each dedicated to one of these three spheres and located in three different colonies.
Our brothers and sisters from OUMMO are familiar with the most remarkable aspects of your beautiful planet, as well as the most significant episodes of your history, both past and present, which we do not seek to qualify with any patronizing or diplomatic condescension towards your peoples. Please know that one of our brothers, who communicated with your brothers in Spain nearly forty of your years ago under the name DAA 3, son of EYEA 502, is actively involved in the development of the museum dedicated to the artistic culture of OYAGAA, for which he himself designed the architecture, inspired by the Colosseum of Rome. He continues to work towards the dissemination of your culture on OUMMO.
I have myself witnessed, in this museum, the presentation of one of your classic liturgical works recorded in a church or cathedral. However, the culture of OYAGAA remains somewhat opaque to us at first glance. While your musical, pictorial, sculptural, and architectural arts are now correctly identified by our brothers and sisters from OUMMO and appreciated by some of our population, your literature and classic myths are truly known only to a small number of specialists. On the other hand, the splendor of your wilderness and the exuberance of colors found within your flora and fauna are unanimously recognized on OUMMO and make OYAGAA a jewel that it is our moral duty to preserve. We are undoubtedly more aware of this than many of your own brothers, blinded by a greed as futile as it is devastating.
We cannot protect you from your voluntary mistakes, but we want to gradually inspire awareness among your brothers of the existence of a common planetary identity, shared among all your peoples and encompassing your entire ecosystem. It is the responsibility of your OEMMII to maintain and evolve this global planetary network to develop all its potential. It is true that our OUAA (moral laws) prohibit us from directly interfering with any foreign civilization. However, our OUAA obliges us to protect life in all its forms. The state of emergency in which your planet finds itself thus compels us to intervene indirectly within your social network to try to mitigate the catastrophic effects that could result from the often irrational decisions of your leaders.
The military establishments of your main nations are aware of the reality of extraterrestrial presence on your planet. They have constant proof of the futility of any attempt to repress our spacecraft or atmospheric vehicles, which we have voluntarily lowered the stealth threshold of. Certain spectacular actions have been taken to convince them that our intention is not to harm, even though our coercive capacity could be formidable. Assistance or preventive actions are occasionally taken when we deem necessary and if their effects do not harm your social network.
The catastrophe that occurred at Chernobyl was a major event in your history, resulting from a succession of negligence and accidental errors. We wish to express our respect for your brothers present there during the long exhausting hours when their selflessness and dedication were remarkable. I hope I have answered your initial set of questions unambiguously. You will find attached further information regarding the anthropoids IEGOOSSAA of OUMMO, the subject of another of your questions. Please consider, Mr. Jean-François Dupouy, the particular nature of this correspondence. No objective element validates the identity or implicit origin of its author. Simply consider that responses have been provided to your questions, and that their author hopes to have satisfied your legitimate curiosity. Please accept the expression of my sincere respect, expressed, following the custom in force on OUMMO, by symbolically placing my hand against your chest.
APPENDIX: ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THE ANTHROPOID ANIMALS OF OUMMO
Your interest in our OUMMO civilization honors us, and it is with pleasure that I will answer your questions regarding the IEGOOSSAA animal species. These cave-dwelling animals are omnivorous anthropoids, primarily fond of fruits, insects, and fish, which you can compare to large chimpanzees with thick white or lightly golden fur. However, unlike these terrestrial primates, the IEGOOSSAA are completely bipedal and exhibit a strong differentiation in conformation between their hands and feet. The latter have no prehensile function, although their toes are more developed than the vestigial ones of the OEMMII.
The IEGOOSSAA differ from other anthropoid species of OUMMO by their greater size and sharper intelligence. They possess a complex communication language combining body or facial gestures and modulated cries. They are organized into highly hierarchical groups from which they only stray during mating periods. After mating, all return to the original cell within which females give birth to their newborns, expanding the group. Territorial fights are frequent among different groups and invariably escalate into lethal combat, in which only large adult males participate, strongly encouraged by the cries and agitation of females and young ones. The death of one of the dominant males invariably marks the outcome of the fight, and the defeated group is violently driven away. Individuals who die during the battle are taken care of by the females of the victorious group and subjected to a ritual funeral ceremony during which they are covered with leaves and branches, regardless of their clan of origin.
The IEGOOSSAA live in the upper part of our WOAROO colony, which is established as a natural reserve. We maintain relations only with the border groups. We voluntarily exchange edible goods with them for small polished pebbles of various colors that primarily serve our landscape art. For example, we use them to compose murals, draw paths, or embellish the beds of water features and streams that we create to enhance our family gardens and collective parks. This barter prevents the border families from expanding territorially into areas allocated to the OEMMII and allows for a peaceful relationship between our two populations.
Among the IEGOOSSAA, we distinguish the AAGA IEGOOSSAA, which originate from a selected group established at the beginning of our third age, and with whom we attempt to promote directed evolution by pairing individuals we deem most promising, hoping one day to activate in them the OEMBOUAW function - bond to the soul that we have already defined in our previous letters - thus allowing them to reach the conscious OEMMII stage. The term AAGA generally signifies a restriction of freedom of movement through constant control. We could translate it to: under constant vigilance. In the case of the AAGA IEGOOSSAA, the closest acceptance of the term AAGA in your language would be: domesticated.
The IEGOOSSAA and the OEMMII of OUMMO stem from the same phylum, and of course, we share many more common genes with them than there are between you and us. All experiments previously attempted in laboratories to achieve a crossbreed between AAGA IEGOOSSAA and OEMII have only led to the creation of monstrous, brainless, or non-viable hybrids. There are significant differences in the composition of cellular chromatin that make crossbreeding between animal or plant species between OYAOUMMO and OYAGAA completely unfeasible without the use of advanced biotechnological means.
The AAGA IEGOOSSAA are now fully domesticated. They live peacefully in families within IGOYAABII (caves or caverns) specially designed for them inside the wooded enclosures of university centers where their behavior is studied. They enjoy relative freedom and are sometimes employed in social tasks for which they are better suited than the OEMII, such as fruit picking or transporting heavy loads in difficult-to-access terrains. They are, in fact, fully integrated into our social network, and a strong mutual affection binds us to them. They understand the main words of our spoken language and communicate graphically with each other and with the OEMMII by pointing to an ordered sequence of symbols arranged in a set of 38 basic colored ideograms inscribed on a vest that serves as a sort of wearable keyboard.
However, we come to a strong conclusion of failure by comparing the evolution over more than a terrestrial millennium of the AAGA IEGOOSSAA and the IEGOOSSAA in the wild. Despite an undeniably lower level of intelligence, the latter incorporate the notions of social network and solidarity more strongly than the former, who sometimes develop depressive syndromes or antisocial behaviors leading them to reject their fellow beings. This leads us to predict that the link OEMBOUAW will occur primarily among the IEGOOSSAA left in the wild. However, it is not conceivable to reintegrate the AAGA IEGOOSSAA into their original natural environment because they would be unable to sustainably withstand the aggression of their wild brethren and would inevitably perish within a few generations.
The comparative behavioral study of the two populations over this long period of time is of inestimable interest to understand the emergence of pre-human factors in animals. It also gives us the deep conviction that directed evolution of a human or proto-human population is desirable only in certain extreme situations and in any case over a very short period of time. However, minor interactions with such a population can induce in it the emergence of desirable social phases and the decline of others that would prove detrimental to the social network as a whole.
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