Tale by Ariadne Gallardo Figueroa
Those magical birds were the ones that were there the day they appeared on earth, for most people this is not relevant, I don’t know what our friend would think specifically, however it was not the first and not the last time that their appearance it would lead him to discover vital matters in the universe.
The world was preparing for something necessary and as an entrepreneur and visionary, he was not going to miss the show, analyzing that if people had not realized what they needed, they would never have undertaken a new way of living together.
That ancient building that was considered the house of a monarch in 1937, became a historical site and the ships that at one point in history had become ships where cunning and brave crossed the wide sea were placed.
An enormous chestnut tree was the one who welcomed the three doves, silent observers of the event; well it is better to go back to the moment of the appearance of our character and this takes us back in time to the chestnut tree and the seventeenth century, the three doves listened to Wren’s exclamations, that man was unstoppable and had in mind something vital and that many over time they would change, but not their cunning and sagacity to see what the future held.
From 1645 to 1948 the gaze of the sky and its stars changed, what was in one place was removed and placed in another, the pigeons were not disturbed by all these matters since 303 years are exactly the numbers that led them to follow the passage of time without alterations, we must understand that for magic there are no obstacles and the doves were not exactly sculptural beings, they were the spitting image of transmutation.
The character who gives life to this story reminds us that it is not necessary to get upset with details, however minute they may be, life must always find the channel through which life flows; That sailboat that brought tea from China was for many the most amazing feat and had it not been for the transatlantic and circumnavigation voyages, the world would not have understood the need to encourage the power of time.
Over time, many of us have wondered what gave relevance to a place that could have been another, because Greenwich describes an imaginary line (semicircle) that goes from the North Pole to the South Pole, but it is from this specific meridian which establishes the division of the planet into two hemispheres of 180º each: the western hemisphere and the eastern hemisphere.
Perhaps the pigeons can explain this event to us and make it valid for this story, however, the simplest answer is the place of appearance of the main character of this story, becoming a reference point for any other place on the planet, thus the distance from any place on the planet would from then on have its reference in that space that bears its name and from that place determines the time of other places in the world.
Being the first in the vast universe is not true, but it was true for the first pigeon that exclaimed when it saw it appear and thus decided that degree zero would be forever in its place of appearance concerning other equidistant points to which it appeared. it was called meridians.
Then the clamour of his croak placed the preamble saying: Ares has given you light, Arietis is your name and your personality begins the journey of the solar year on the planet, with Pisces to the west and Taurus to the east, you are and will be the Ram.
The second dove had to pronounce itself and slowly waved its wings to evoke its omen: Meridians and parallels measure longitude and latitude, you cannot escape from that rule that marks a balance between the Sun and the Moon, between day and night, being this synchrony zero point would be impossible.
The third dove prepared to issue its sentence and pointed out seriously: To the east, you will count to the right, 12 lines and each one will contain an hour; but when looking to the west those other 12, to the left, will be understood with the subtraction.
Each meridian will have 15 degrees and you must spread this to the entire world, since 360 divided by 24 results in 15, it is so and not otherwise. Of course, there were many moments of discussion between the countries, being able to get hold of the zero meridians required voting and a series of issues in which human beings sometimes disagree, but in the end, what the three doves exclaimed was as they indicated.
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