American Demons

Sovereign Commercial Dictatorship

At the beginning of the 15th century, three popes ruling simultaneously caricature the Christian world view. Anarchy from above eliminates the safeguards and stabilizers of rule. It destroys the foundations of medieval society. The chivalric loyalty of followers loses its grandiose dimension. The serfdom loses its binding force for the serfs. The patriciate loses its barrier and bar functions. In his "History of the Modern Age", Egon Friedell quotes Petrarch's description of the Pope's court in Avignon: "All good has perished there ... the more stained a life is, the higher it is valued, and fame grows with crime". 

Heroic age of Philistinism

Friedell describes the power of the Hanseatic League (in its medieval heyday) as a "sovereign commercial dictatorship". The scholar diagnoses an "inane technical dilettantism", which resulted from a narrow approach; from a "tenacious adherence to the compact matter of existence". Friedell recognizes an epochal mark in the cultic respect for the tool; in the "devotion to the object of work" in the "heroic age of philistinism". 

Mounted Prairie Monarchies

Sailors disgruntled by Henry Hudson's hysterical explorer's perseverance and fed up with a supply shortage after being trapped in ice for eight months off the Canadian coast in 1601 dared to mutiny when the ship sailed again. They forced the captain, his son and all the sick into a boat. A volunteer joined them. The castaways drifted for two days on the ice-covered mirror and then landed merely hypothermic, but not at all frozen, on the doorsteps of people who called themselves Sakâw-iginiw-ok and loved to breathe in intoxicating fumes in sweat lodges. Among them were light-skinned descendants of Europeans. The genetic enema had been given to the settlers in the Frobisher era.

Martin Frobisher (around 1535 - 1594) was another one of those sixteenth children of poor people who had to see where he was at an early age. He signed on with a soul seller as soon as he could walk and soon became a passionate privateer - first in the fight against the English crown, then vehemently in its service. Frobisher began his career as a brigand on the Channel Islands. He saw the horrors of Portuguese dungeons, sailed as second-in-command under Francis Drake, married beyond his means, almost single-handedly defeated the Spanish in a naval battle, received a knighthood and, as Walter Raleigh's right-hand man, lost an eye in battle.Frobisher's importance did not depend on success. He failed in all his highly anticipated and consequently popular explorations of the Northwest Passage to the Oriental markets. 

Sir Francis Drake (* around 1540 - 1596) was an English corsair. Elizabeth I, the maiden on the throne and daughter of Henry VIII, knighted Drake.  

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Sir Walter Raleigh ( *1552 or 1554 - 1618 executed) was an English navigator, spy and poet.  

Hudson ordered quarantine for the sick. To deprive them of their torment, they were soon killed. The Sakâw-iginiw-ok recognized Hudson and his son as dignitaries from the spirit sphere and the volunteer as a servant. Hudson and his son admired Stone Age rock paintings and studies of hunting scenes from the Upper Palaeolithic. They dabbled as landscape and portrait painters and experimented with popular drugs. The Adlatus assimilated into the care of a shaman. He survived a rebirth before losing his bearings in a social labyrinth. His feelings were strong, his expression poor. He was to end up on the gallows as a conch brother aka Coquillard (the name was given to members of a criminal gang in northern France und southern Germany). 

Arctic Avoidance

From time to time, the hosts pulled scattered Europeans out of the bush. The new arrivals marveled at the blond Sakâw-iginiw-ok and unbiased couples de personnes de même sexe. The Sakâw-iginiw-ok existed over a thousand kilometers in a network of relationships that was more economic than kinship. There were canoe communes, distribution centers and loading stations. The future founder of the Hudson Bay Company recognized the Hanseatic structure in effective processes. In his "History of the Modern Era", Egon Friedel describes the "power of the Hanseatic League (in its medieval heyday) as a "sovereign trading dictatorship".

lamellae and other offcuts from raw pieces were used in home-made composite tools such as axes and arrows. Friedell would undoubtedly have criticized the "intellectual dilettantism" that resulted from a narrow approach; from a "tenacious adherence to the compact matter of existence". The scholar would have noticed the cultic respect for the tool and the "devotion to the object of work". These Canadians embodied the "heroic age of philistinism" hardly any differently than their European counterparts had done in an earlier century. The Sakâw-iginiw-ok belonged to the Ayisiniwok community (les Cris). In a broad concept of (in any case not ethnically defined) affiliation, there were semi-urban variants, outcrops to white communities, arctic rejections of such contamination, subarctic separatism, trapper cooperatives, and mounted prairie monarchies.