C H I M AE R A // Women // Added 2011/05/24 at 02:07

A fantastic and metaphorical journey from fetus (when we all are pure and simple) to chimaera; the complicate yet beautiful monster we get to be when we grow up.

chimera

(From lat. chimaera, and this from gr. cimaira, fantastic animal)



1 Greek Mythology a fire-breathing female monster with a lionís head, a goatís body, and a serpentís tail.

2 something hoped for but illusory or impossible to achieve.

3 Biology an organism containing a mixture of genetically different tissues, formed by processes such as fusion of early embryos, grafting, or mutation.



4 (chimaera) a long-tailed cartilaginous marine fish with an erect spine before the first dorsal fin. [Chimaera and other genera, family Chimaeridae.]

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press

The human being suffers along all his life, a series of emotional and conductual modifications that lead to self-reeducation of the character, and sometimes, to traumas that change (mutate) the personality creating a new creature.



The fetus is clean and pure, and is educated to stay that way, educated to tame the creature beneath. But his experiences make him react and learn, making the monster show up in some occasions. This monster does not have to be something ugly or negative. He is just different, and because of that, he causes rejection. That rejection can make the creature grow apart from his environment and the way he is supposed to be, becoming something dark and gloomy. Thatís when he learns to build shields around himself to block the sadness out, and only when he feels comfortable in his new form, will he be strong enough to emerge proudly as this complex and beautiful new creature: the chiamera.

Chimerical animal, fantastic, bizarre. Taboo became flesh. Light sketch of our nature, hidden, terrible, magical. A mutant made of scars, indelible traumas, experiences, fears, desires... Built from parts of itself or from others, sewn without an anesthetic. Unic in its species. Beautiful on its complexity. The monster is different and superior. That is why it produces fear and the need of having it under control. Made equally of dream and nightmare. It seduces and attracts because it is strange and misterious, ethereally intangible. It is splendid, hypnotic, although being fearful. It is as part of this world as good and evil, but it is quite above it and can fly overhead with its dragon wings. It sinks imaginary ships with its tentacles and devours souls with its jaws. It is carnivorous, cruel like a kid burning ants. It hides in the shadows like a cursed creature because of its fear of being hunted, judged. Its soul is dark, because it has seen the light.



The chimera laughs, mocking the human being, "And you dare to judge me?"