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Roy Lewis’s ” What happened to Uncle Vanya ” renamed to ” Evolution Man ” is the back drop for my theory , but only as far as in contains intelligent Humans intent on evolving to greater things in the fierce competition of Mother Nature that surrounds them full of quick killing menace and natural phenomenon.

It’s based on a child’s nursery rhyme, author unknown, form the mists of pre history, innocuous, simple and encoded with word of mouth brilliance of an oral historical tradition that passes on in a hidden message, that i can understand now. And as I see it, this four lined poem contains the rise and fall of humankind, from the period of history pre and post great flood

Its beauty is in the fact that its dumbed down for the masses in order to be a vessel of knowledge for the initiated who are trained to recognize the true message ,as in the past Druidic lore did encode ,as seemingly simple rhyming poem, knowledge of trees, how to recognize their flower, when their fruit was harvested and where the grew. But only the initiated could decode this by ear.

This is my eureka moment

Incy Wincy spider climbing up the spout ( Insignificant and weak race of Humans climb the tree of evolution and they discover important things along the way )
Down came the rain and washed the spider out ( The Ice sheet melts and the great floods almost destroys mankind’s advances, but he survives, his great achievements and cities do not but his scientific knowledge and secrets are known only to a select few, these few are nurtured and protected in an elite priesthood. Waiting for mankind to grow strong enough again, to understand, why this sacred knowledge is needed, only after the danger of being wiped out from the catastrophe has passed . This is why religious cults have always been important to ancient civilisation )
Out came the sun and dried up all the rain ( The Earth’s weather conditions improve and a fertile place is found to conducive for cultivation and safe enough to rebuild civilisation again, and the new masses will need a priesthood for guidance. The Priesthood harvest the cream of their re-cultured re-humanised crop to educate in the mysteries of their nearly lost hidden sacred knowledge of the ancients )
Now Incy Wincy spider went up the spout again! ( Now the great cycle of evolution begins again, but this time Humans have a head start and civilisations pop up everywhere almost fully formed, with a code of law, a government helped by priestly advisor’s, religions, written languages, a trade system, scientific knowledge of metallurgies, navigation, masonry and astronomy )

This is my ” Theory of Survivalist Evolution” and it is told to all of our sons and daughters every night. This is the legacy of the incredible genius of the Human minds ability to pass on and conserve the knowledge of our ancestors evolutionary triumphs in a poem even a child can understand

We may need a new poem for the future generation of the new stone age