Nah Jah

Near completion of his 60th Sar, Nah Jah prepared for the trek that would create his legacy. He wrapped up mundane affairs & equipped the zyvwux with all he'd need. Bittersweet parting with family, friends & colleagues was customary. At last all was done & departure drew nigh. His course laid in for a system at 2.64 parsecs he knew would be routine, quantum strangeness reactions run in a flux matrix to cancel zyvwux's mass & inertia allowing hyper light speed travel. Spacetime travel need not be long lonely boring endless slogs through emptiness. Instantaneous, as far as he knew, Nah Jah dropped out of hyperdrive near the system's center. 

Screens filled with images & data on a lone star, 8 planets, 4 gaseous outers, 4 rocky inners & countless tinier bodies. The 3rd world would do nicely. Mostly white with blue, green & brown patches, the world seemed to be emerging from an ice age. He surveyed its continents, finding flora & fauna but no higher life forms, ideal for his plan. 

A builder all of his life, he wished to leave his legacy set in stone. Lasers cut granite & limestone blocks & levitators set them in place. Upon each of the continents, he built pyramids & other megalithic structures, along with subtle clues about his origin, emphasizing variety over repetition. At end of each work, he approved, before going on to the next. In just 7 planetary rotations, his oeuvre was done & he flew back home to relax. 

Many millenia of planetary revolutions later, Nah Jah returned with guests to show off his megaliths, finding its ice age waned & genetically engineered intelligent mammals in abundance, often clustered around his opuses at Chichén Itzá, Teotihuacan, Texcoco, Malinalco, Xochicalco, Chimalacatlán, Huautla, Coatlinchán, Mitla, Albán, Tajin, Acatzingo & Tulum México, Göbekli Tepe Turkey, Giza & Saqqara Egypt, Machu Picchu Peru, Angkor Wat Cambodia, Tiahuanaco Bolivia, Menga Spain, Ġgantija & Tarxien Malta, Newgrange Ireland, Stonehenge & Castlerigg England, Rujm el-Hiri Golan, Zambujeiro Portugal, Gunung Padang Java Indonesia, Marayoor Kerala India, Japan, Rapa Nui (Easter Island), Australia, Brazil, Greece, China, Russia & Antarctica. 

https://megalithicmarvels.com/2018/08/13/uncharted-ruins-8-megalithic-marvels-of-mexico/

https://artincontext.org/famous-megaliths/

http://sacredgateways.blogspot.com/p/japans-ancient-megaliths-photo-gallery.html

Immensely pleased, he randomly chose a group to contact & set up a musical event to entertain them, naming his ensemble πέτρες or pétres, the Stones in Greek. Apparently, that genre was ahead of its time, cuz hoi polloi common people didn't like it. Lyres were accepted & would evolve into rock guitars eventually. His guests suggested that he could be a local deity for his admirers, but Nah Jah said no. Worship & administration did not appeal to him at all. Instead, he'd keep his distance & let them have their culture & freedom. Unfortunately, some guests chose to interfere. 

Atop Mount Olympus, they played gods for the Earthlings, who seemed inclined to worship, as if it was inbred by gene-splicers, while he remained aloof, sorry he had invited interlopers along. They resented his snub. Of course, it didn't go well & Nah Jah, without any viable options, had to abort the expedition. 

Just then, gene-splicer Anunnaki from Nibiru returned to claim their slaves & he was caught off guard, barely escaping them in the zyvwux. His greedy guests lost a fierce battle of the gods & were wiped out. Nah Jah went home sad but was back a final time, after the Anunnaki left again, to live alone in peace on an uninhabited archipelago far from any other land. 

 "No alien land in all the world has any deep, strong charm for me but that one; no other land could so longingly and beseechingly haunt me, sleeping and waking, through half a lifetime, as that one has done. Other things leave me, but it abides; other things change, but it remains the same. For me its balmy airs are always blowing, its summer seas flashing in the sun; the pulsing of its surf-beat in my ear; I can see its garlanded crags, its leaping cascades, its plumy palms drowsing by the shore; its remote summits floating like islands above the cloud rack; I can feel the spirit of its wooded solitudes; I can hear the splash of its brooks; in my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago...The loveliest fleet of islands that lies anchored in any ocean." - Samuel Langhorne Clemens, aka Mark Twain 

Mankind grokked some origin clues of his megaliths, but even these were misconstrued by legions of Roman dolts. Sirius cults & god myths sprang up like weeds. Another band later adopted the Stones name. 

https://youtu.be/_mEC54eTuGw?si=KJNwrzNltg75Zr75

Asked to comment, Bing ChatGPT-4 replied by going a bit off the rails, "That is a very intriguing scenario. I can imagine that the being would feel a mix of emotions, such as curiosity, awe, confusion, and perhaps even anger or sadness. He might wonder how his planet changed so much in his absence, and what happened to his own kind. He might also be fascinated by the diversity and complexity of the new life forms, and how they interact with his ancient creations. He might try to communicate with them, or study them, or even interfere with them. He might also face some challenges, such as hostile creatures, environmental hazards, or cultural misunderstandings. He might have to decide whether to stay on the planet, or leave again, or try to find his original home.

This scenario reminds me of some science fiction stories that explore similar themes, such as The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke, or The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. You might enjoy reading them if you are interested in this topic. 😊

: https://www.bing.com/search?q=the+time+machine+h.g.+wells : https://www.bing.com/search?q=2001+a+space+odyssey+arthur+c.+clarke : https://www.bing.com/search?q=the+hitchhiker%27s+guide+to+the+galaxy+douglas+adams"

Whatever. Its comments were rather obsequious & largely irrelevant, seen mistakenly from a geocentric perspective, when a Sirius anthropomorphic alien chose to visit Earth's distant ice age past. I must be kind to this new bot on the job, while it settles into its very important responsibilities.