STORYLINE TO THE CARNIVAL OF THE ANIMALS: OLYMPIC PARK 27th JULY 2014- BY PAUL MCLAREN 
                                    

We must imagine the park as a huge savannah surrounded by sea in all directions. The creatures of the savannah have been living their own private lives in troupes, bands, swarms, parliaments, gaggles and flocks since time began. They each have their own way of doing things.  

There are occasional squabbles, but generally they are a happy bunch and see no reason to make a fuss. Sometimes, different creatures meet one another, by chance and this becomes an opportunity for great celebration. Judging by the way one another’s appearance surprises the other as the have not seen such alike before, they are bound to show off and perform.  

The only way they can tell whether the other creature is a friend or not, is to make a sound or a movement gesture, this can take a while, until they become familiar. It is quite literally ‘a song and dance’ routine. This situation pops up now and again, but the full picture of life on the savannah is never fully understood.  

When everyone had gathered where they all held together, they noticed the cheeky monkeys were already way ahead of all the other creatures of the savannah, and were already making a song and dance.  

For the first time creatures with big wings and a variety of beautiful colours in their dress had gathered and began to move in rhythm with the music.  

Eight very large figures moved slowly toward the structure as though they were drawn to the towers like beasts to water. The monkeys had realised by this time that the tower at the centre of their world was something sacred and it was important for everybody else to gather around.  

As if by magic, the eight large figures could fit onto the frame of the tower structure and with a little help from some of the creatures were helped into place. By this time the musical rhythm had become a powerful pulse of energy. Those gathered around the structure were compelled to move around the structure to see all sides and angles. This movement created an energy not unlike electricity, which, of course, nobody knew existed as yet, but they could sense the feeling anyway.  

It also became clear that these large figures weren’t animals at all but, were comet stars. They had dropped onto the land many years ago and had been unable to leave. Later they were to be known as angels by a specie of creature called humans who knew everything and nothing all at once. They were to be known by the the humans as messengers from the heavens and fallen angels and they carried with them DNA which was to be important for all those creatures that had been and were yet to come. In fact we all have a little bit of the comet angels in us right now. As all the creatures looked towards the heavens a communal gnosis was apparent, with the most beautiful crescendo of music reaching its final stage being heard, as the Angels began rising skywards, cheering and chanting was heard. As this point of no return was reached, the creatures were gyrating in a wild frenzy and some had been so enchanted they were in a breakaway trance, just like in some of the major carnivals of the world.  

This was a ceremony after all, and to help the comets on their journey, special magicians from a far west land had sailed with their floating vessel, and brought their new fangled invention, called ‘fire’. They set to work to and the smoke rose to the heavens and all those gathered could see the fire worked until the fire went out and all was done.