Ekeko, the fourth Wise King | El Ekeko, el cuarto Rey Mago

By Francesco Zaratti for Alasitas:

From the little moon, its satellite

After a bombing, a fragment of papyrus has come to light in a tomb near the Gaza–Egypt border, and it was promptly analyzed, deciphered, and interpreted by a joint Israeli–Arab–Christian commission.

Chemical analysis made it possible to date the manuscript to the end of the first century AD, which gives it incalculable value.

The translation was not difficult, since the text was written in elegant Victorian English.

As for the interpretation, astonishment was general when the true story of the “four” Wise Kings was revealed. Indeed, the scroll not only confirmed the name and race of the three traditional Magi—Gaspar the Persian, Melchior the Arab, and Balthazar the Ethiopian—but also revealed the identity of the fourth: an Aymara of smiling figure, who called himself Ekeko, described as short and chubby, a Borsalino hat on his head and a cheap cigarette on his lips, carrying strange goods, always accompanied by a llama that never stopped flirting with the camels.

Likewise, the papyrus unveiled the mystery of the “star”: it was not a comet, nor a supernova, nor a planetary conjunction, but simply a Mossad drone that guided the Magi (and kept an eye on Melchior) along their way.

According to the scroll, Herod was an anomalous character, red-haired with an orange quiff, who kept repeating: “Make Bethlehem Great Again.” For some reason, Ekeko did not want to shake his hand. “In my country we are anti-imperialist,” he remarked slyly, before intervening remotely in the Alasita festival, thanks to DS 5515 from his “Suyo.”

The day when, before the child Jesus, the four opened their chests, alongside the incense, the gold, and the myrrh, Mary and Joseph were surprised by the contents of Ekeko’s k’epi: miniature potatoes, chuño, corn, and coca, and a copy of the COPOLMA (Political Constitution of the MAS) for use in the future Kingdom of Heaven.

Then the Magi returned to their countries without passing through Jerusalem, because the road was blocked.

Panchito, the fearsome Zárate

This column has been published in the little printed Alasita paper “VISION 3600.”

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