In Jewish folklore, a golem (Hebrew: גולם; English pronunciation: /ˈɡoʊləm/ goh-ləm) is an animated anthropomorphic being, created entirely from inanimate matter. The word was used to mean an amorphous, unformed material in Psalms and medieval writing.[1] The most famous golem narrative involves Judah Loew ben Bezalel, the late 16th century chief rabbi of Prague.
one year, somewhere around 2007ish, my girlfriend and i came across the Moop Golem, in the middle of the playa.
it was made of playa, and stones, and was maybe a foot tall, in fact we still have him, and are planning to release him back into the wild, this year.
If you have ever seen the Moop Golem, you know the power that it has on guilty moopers...
have you ever had that moment, and you know the one, where you've been good all week, havent lost a single cig butt, or water bottle or even a fucking sequin, and then it happens.
the mary jane wrapper from the piece of candy you're chewing on blows away in a puff of dust, and you have just mooped.
what do you do?
eye it wistfully and swear you'll pick up two candy wrappers on the way back?
sluff it off because no one was looking?
this is the time the moop golem will appear, and tell you what you already know.
YOU MUST CHASE THAT PIECE OF MOOP, FIND IT, PICK IT UP, AND PUT IT SOMEPLACE UNTIL YOU CAN DISPOSE OF IT PROPERLY.
if not, you're conscience and your heart will begin to tell you what you already know to be true, and the Moop Golem will haunt you like a bad Poe Story.
Moop.MOOP.MOOP!
the moop golem is friends with the dust god, and if you havent repented, and truly taken in the LNT ethos as is the "way", then you will get a visit from Stormy, a Dust-Devil, and you will feel the effects of being Mooped on yourself.
you may think i'm kidding, or being metaphorical, i'm not. The playa Chicken is as real as you or I, and The Moop Golem is Alive and Well, and living in a shoe box, and will return from whence he came, to remind you, at that moment, when you are having a crisis of the Hole in your pocket, to not let the playa, or yourself down.
Leave No Trace, The Moop Golem is Watching.
