Coup D’État in the Land of Zep Tepi: A Progress Report

Buiteboer

Aug 2016 · Partridge Africa

About this ebook

If you have ever wondered where the human obsession with the apocalypse comes from, if you ever wanted to know why the world did not come to an end on 21 December 2012, as prophesied by the Mayan calendar and propagated by paranoid apocalyptomaniacs, then Coup Dtat in the Land of Zep Tepi: A Progress Report, is for you. But why? Story Hunter out on a harebrained mission from Juba (capital of the newly independent Republic of Southern Sudan) to Lake Mwitanzige (named Lake Albert in colonial lingo) stumbles upon a legend somewhere in the depths of Central Africa. This will in due course turn out to be one of the most controversial discoveries to jump from the mists of mythological time into the twenty-first century. To be precise, on the border between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, a legend speaks about the disappearance of a tribe called Bachwezi into Lake Mwitanzige. This exposes information concerning goings-on in ancient Egypt around 1450 BC. Story Hunter and Buiteboers research reveals that the Bachwezi had fled from Egypt into the depths of Central Africa. They fled from Pharaoh Akhnaten, who had out of the blue imposed a religious singularity on the ancient lands that bore a multiplicity of gods, goddesses, demigods, and godlike human pharaonic rulers. The publication of this story in turn upsets a delicate balance of forces in the realm of the heavens. It speculates that the Bachwezi may have found, in Lake Mwitanzige, a portal by way of which to transmigrate and take the rebellion against a prophecy of their doom, expressed by the singularity Akhnaten, off the world. Did they make a quantum leap of faith, like Gilgamesh, the demigod king of Uruk, to postlife outerplanetary realms where the gods reside? After the Uganda discovery, the report accounts how while on a side journey through Mozambiques Zambezi Valley, where the Cahora Basa dam lies, Story Hunter is ambushed by a strange old man. He shows Story Hunter how, in precolonial times, the Songo people built a tower to reach heaven. This causes Story Hunter to be catapulted into an off-world realm where it becomes clear that all is not what it seems in Kosher, Vegan, or even Halaal in the postlife off-worldly realms. Will it turn out that the Bachwezi may in fact have staged an insurgency or are plotting a coup in the land of Zep Tepi? Volume 1 of Coup Dtat in the Land of Zep Tepi: A Progress Report exposes for the first time how a legend from Central Africa explains the extremely violent obsession humans and their religions have with catastrophes, apocalypses, and the like. Be it said as well, the pages of this report, hastily typed by Buiteboer in the course of one very hot South African summer night, also sheds light on the question as to why the world did not come to an end on 21 December 2012, as apparently foretold by the Mayan calendar. Did the Bachwezi have a hand in staying the course of the ticking time bomb hidden in the codes of the Mayan calendar? Will we meet RA and Quetzalcoatl at the other end of dawn?

About the author

Buiteboer likes to describe himself in many different ways. Sometimes he is an outfiltration technician—meaning he finds ways of dislocating consciousness from the here and organic now of planet earth. The goal is to outfiltrate into intangible spirit or other imaginary off-worldly realms. Alternatively, he is known to say that one has to move through this planet without allowing any of the shit to stick to you on the way out. Like a proverbial Teflon man (the one to whom nothing sticks) Buiteboer can therefore at best be introduced as someone who hails from a country at the top of the world (that is, if you turn the world map upside down to have the south face the north and vice versa)—South Africa. As a result of being born at the top of the world, he is a lifelong explorer of both the physical and nonphysical realities that envelop the senses. As a curious cat among the pigeons, Buiteboer’s name itself, if unpacked in his native tongue, Afrikaans, already tells a story of its own. Buite means “outside,” and Boer is basically referring to the ethnic name attached to a white settler tribe that fought two brutal wars of independence against the British Empire in the late 1800s. He is a Boer from the outside, always exploring in places where the mist of myth overlaps with terra firma—and incognita. Buiteboer can therefore best be described in words from Led Zeppelin’s song “Kashmir”: I’m a traveler of all kinds of space.