{"id":14508,"date":"2021-07-02T22:45:17","date_gmt":"2021-07-03T02:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gornahoor.net\/?p=14508"},"modified":"2021-07-05T09:11:28","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T13:11:28","slug":"why-ants-are-so-small","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/?p=14508","title":{"rendered":"Why Ants are so Small"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nI enjoy nature shows. The world of insects is fascinating with its odd looking creatures, subtle beauty, and especially unbearable cruelty. They forged an evolutionary path distinct from the one that led to humans.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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And Solomon was David’s heir. He said: “O ye people! We have been taught the speech of birds and on us has been bestowed a little of all things: this is indeed Grace Manifest” And before Solomon were marshaled his hosts, of Jinns and men and birds, and they were all kept in order and ranks. At length, when they came to a valley of ants, one of the ants said: “O ye ants get into your habitations, lest Solomon and his hosts crush you under foot without knowing it.” Surah 27\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Queen Ant<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Once upon the time, three kingdoms developed: the jinn, the insects, and the vertebrates. They each inhabited their own worlds, with blurry boundaries between them. Hence, their respective worlds often collide, creating tensions. The jinns are the most ancient beings, followed by the insects and then vertebrates. The story of the jinns will have to wait until tomorrow since this is a story of the ants.<\/p>\n

The world of the insects is largely unknown to humans, as they have their own hierarchies, food chains, and customs. However, the insects and vertebrates are often forced to interact with each other. This is not always bad because the ants are special creatures and can teach us many truths.<\/p>\n

The ants and the bees sit at the peak of the insects and humans are the most evolved of the vertebrates. The insects developed along matriarchal lines, since in most insect species, the female is larger than the male. We all know that the female praying mantis devours her mate after coitus. This reaches full development in the ants. The productive part of the ant colony consists of females. The colony is protected by a race of Amazons that act as soldiers. The colony is ruled by the matriarch, called the queen. She retains, as a sort of anti-harem, some male ants, called drones, who are permitted to mate with her at a time she determines.<\/p>\n

The Human Race<\/h2>\n

Humans developed along a different line. Unlike ants, the males are larger. There is also an equal balance between the number of males and females. That is because the original human was an androgyne who split in two: male and female. Even when split apart through time and space, they remain entangled beings, not two, but one. Their spiritual task is to find each other and reach the unity of being. In some people, that attraction is quite strong.<\/p>\n

Lust<\/h2>\n

That attraction changes, at the physical level, into lust. Lust wants physical unity but not spiritual unity, carnal knowledge but not knowledge of the heavens. The patriarchy arose to control and channel such strong desires. Nevertheless, since vertebrates evolved from invertebrates, there is still a primordial memory of the matriarchy.<\/p>\n

If human colonies were modeled like ants, then some females would garner the interest and attention of the males, so that many females would be neglected; clearly that defeats the real task of recognizing one\u2019s entangled other.<\/p>\n

Some women are so beautiful to gaze upon, to remind men of the joys of Heaven. They adorn themselves with perfume, pretty shoes, nice dresses, and jewelry. The best among them are intelligent, articulate, and even spiritual. In an ant world, they would be queens, and men would gather around them like large groups of drones. You can see how disruptive that would be to human society.<\/p>\n

The Jealousy of the Ants<\/h2>\n

When the ants learned of the coming of humans, they had to make a choice about how to live, survive, and thrive in a world of large mammals. There were intense debates among the ants. Some wanted to modify themselves, through selective breeding, to become large also. This led to years of unsuccessful and dangerous experiments.<\/p>\n

Finally, one of the princess ants rebelled and flew off to start a new colony of small sized ants. Since she was the most beautiful of all the ants, she was able to attract the best and strongest drones to go with as her mates.<\/p>\n

The Wisdom of the Ants<\/h2>\n

As the new smaller ants began to thrive, the older queen ants got jealous. They formed an alliances to attack the princess, now a powerful and beloved queen. But her soldiers were strong and well-disciplined and were able to defeat the larger ants, like the way David defeated Goliath.<\/p>\n

These are the ants that spoke to Solomon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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