Song of the Sargassum // Canción del Sargazo

Akumal, Mexico

Akumal Arts Festival X 2022

Long ago, in the time before time mattered... two lovers, Delmar and Sedna, embraced one another passionately in the center of a crater deep in the Earth. They loved each other so intensely, a marvelous iridescent glow emitted their sphere. When the Gods took notice of its beauty, they immediately grew envious and threatened by the potency of the magic the lovers had created.

The most powerful of the Gods contrived a plan to offer Delmar an opportunity to become a demigod, something which had never been presented to a mortal before. The Gods began appearing to Delmar in dreams, seducing him with visions of traveling the cosmos and having power and influence over life as he had never imagined. None of these visions included Sedna. Delmar's desire for what the Gods offered grew so much, so fast, it punctured the sphere he and Sedna created and shot straight up to the heavens to grab hold of his status as a demigod.

Upon the transformation completing, Delmar thought of Sedna and wanted to go show his lover the greatness he'd accomplished. The Gods watched with cruel smiles as Delmar came to the realization of what they had planned all along; as a demigod, he would no longer exist on the same astral plane as Sedna and their connection would be severed forever.

Realizing what he had given up in his blind enticement, tears began to flow from Delmar's eyes. They flowed so much that they flooded the Earth's giant craters and became what we refer to today as the Ocean. To this day it is said that although he can travel anywhere in the universe, the ancient Seaweed God still sits alone in the depths of the depths of the deepest ocean. There, he plays an enchanted golden accordion whose music encourages the seaweed to grow and perform a dance which moves his ocean of tears into waves...His song inspired, by the faintest hope that Sedna, although long gone, will somehow see the waves and find his way back to his love.