Schon länger hege ich den Gedanken, ein Archiv anzulegen mit Texten, in denen die Schöpfungsgeschichte vom Anfang der Bibel neu erzählt, variiert oder auch parodiert wird. Im Anfang schuf Gott Himmel und Erde…
Ich könnte das als Kommentar zum Kreationismus verkaufen, aber in Wirklichkeit ist mir bloß aufgefallen, dass es ziemlich viele solcher Texte gibt – und ziemlich gute. Dieses Projekt fiel mir heute beim Abhören uralter CDs wieder ein, weil darunter auch God Shuffled His Feet von den Crash Test Dummies war (da kann sich Frau adelhaid drüber lustig machen so viel sie will, ich steh dazu) und der Text des Titelliedes da auch unbedingt hineingehört:
After seven days
He was quite tired, so God said:
“Let there be a day
Just for picnics, with wine and bread.”
He gathered up some people he had made
Created blankets and laid back in the shade.
The people sipped their wine
And what with God there, they asked him questions
Like: Do you have to eat
Or get your hair cut in heaven?
And if your eye got poked out in this life
Would it be waiting up in heaven with your wife?
God shuffled his feet and glanced around at them;
The people cleared their throats and stared right back at him.
So he said: “Once there was a boy
Who woke up with blue hair.
To him it was a joy
Until he ran out into the warm air.
He thought of how his friends would come to see;
And would they laugh, or had he got some strange disease?”
God shuffled his feet and glanced around at them;
The people cleared their throats and stared right back at him.
The people sat waiting
Out on their blankets in the garden.
But God said nothing.
So someone asked him: “I beg your pardon:
I’m not quite clear about what you just spoke.
Was that a parable, or a very subtle joke?”
God shuffled his feet and glanced around at them;
The people cleared their throats and stared right back at him.
© Brad Roberts
Außerdem natürlich die Prokrastinations-Schöpfungsgeschichte von Kathrin Passig und Sascha Lobo, T.H. Whites Schöpfungsgeschichte aus Sicht des Dachses (aus The Once and Future King) und die Schöpfungen des Fliegenden Spaghettimonsters.
Also gibt es da oben rechts jetzt eine eigene Seite für die Schöpfung, und wenn Ihnen dazu noch was einfällt, dann lassen Sie’s mich wissen.