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Step away from the technology! The endorphin and dopamine rush is programmed into the architecture of the Mother board !!! Cities and civilizations abstracted !!! Miniaturized to a quantum level ! The flow of electrons is the new economy … The microcosm of the matrix simulation in potential variation valence valance … A lintel above the portal … of the Bollingen Tower machina …
And so the Hellenization of Buddhism was instituted and concretized … When East met West …
Stephen,
Yes. Though I think Joseph Campbell does a good job of conveying the sentiment and spirit of this quote here.
Ep. 6: Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth — ‘Masks of Eternity’
By the looks of those columns she is attached to the beginnings of Doric civilization and its accompanying technology… There are four levels to come. She might. Need some Red Bull. Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, Tuscan, and Composite. Let it Bloom !!! Hark! What be that fluting on column wall ? Cambium ? Xylem ?
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Is this Alexandria ? Or is Cleopatra Barking up the wrong tree ? That Bitch ! Pitch the Bark! Use the dead wood ! To erect the columnar! We’ll get these puppies to the top or dei trying !
The wife of Lacoon journals as he’s out posing in full Monty with the twins and a Python !!!
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“Prehistoric carved bird. Prehistoric carving in mammoth ivory of a water bird. It is thought to be a diver, cormorant, or duck. This Stone Age (palaeolithic) artefact (47 millimetres long) was found in the period 2001-2 in the Hohle Fels cave, Germany. It has been dated to between 31,000 and 33,000 years ago, and is thought to have been produced by the Aurignacian culture. These early humans lived in Europe in the Late Stone Age (Upper Palaeolithic), between 45,000 and 30,000 years ago.”
Musing on a water foul. Bird of two spheres.
Stephen,
I must hand it to you. You do inspire !
It is these folk poetic conflations and associations that I enjoy. Some drowned in them. I swim. They broaden my understanding of myth. The puns are fun 🤩 The academic says , you can’t do that. The artist says , hold my beer, I just did … homonyms bring harmony rhythm rhyme …
Some of the Hamsa emblems look like a hand with two thumbs three fingers to me. The thumbs mirrored bird head images . A bringing together of the opposites. Right and left. A common mythic theme. The two hands become one. It takes two wings for a bird to soar on high above the mountains. A nice metaphor .
“In Jewish faiths, the hamsa represents the hand of God and is known as ‘The Hand of Miriam’. Miriam was the virtuous sister to Moses (who led the Israelites out of Egypt) and Aron (who became the first High Priest). Miriam’s honourable life led her to becoming a symbol of great protection and luck.
Hamsa is also the hebrew word for five, and while some believe this represents the five fingers on the talisman, others say this symbolises the five books of the Torah: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy.”
“In Muslim culture, the hamsa is known as ‘The Hand of Fatima’. Fatima Al Zahra was the daughter of the Prophet Muhammad and his first wife, Khadija. ‘Al Zahra’ is said to mean the shining one. As Fatima is seen as pure and without sin, The Hand of Fatima is considered a symbol of protection, power and strength.
The Hand of Fatima symbolises the Five Pillars of Islam: Faith, Prayer, Pilgrimage, Fasting and Charity. Muslim communities also refer to the hamsa as ‘Khamsa’, the Arabic word for five.”
“In Buddhism and Hinduism, the hamsa takes on a very different meaning. For Hindus and Buddhists, the hamsa represents the chakras, the five senses and their associated mudras (hand gestures) that re-direct energy flow throughout the body.
Thumb- Fire element / solar plexus chakra.
Forefinger- Air element / the heart chakra.
Middle Finger- Ethereal elements / throat chakra
Ring Finger- Earth element / root chakra
Pinkie Finger- Water element / sacral chakra “The chakra body. Now there’s a vehicle with wings to convey one over the mountain of samsara !!!
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Hello,
lovely salamander symbolism.
“INELUCTABLE MODALITY OF THE VISIBLE: AT LEAST THAT IF NO MORE”
“diaphane in. Why in? Diaphane, adiaphane. If you can put your five fingers through it, it is a gate, if not a door. Shut your eyes and see.”
I am life incarnate in death …
I am death incarnate in life …
I enjoy the contemplation of the Hamsa. An abstract hand. The evolution of the hand. Four fingers with opposable thumb. The five pillars the five wounds of civilization. The human grasp , tool builder. Grasping all we see. Seeing all we grasp. With our eye. Building. With our intellect that can soar to the heights of human perception. Standing on the shoulders of giants. We can see back through history through the wound of one hand to prehistory. We can see through the wound of the other hand to the future to post history , where the many narratives shall be woven into one. Through the two wounds flows the blood of history. We grasp with science the very fabric of the woven quantum universe. Strings woven in M theory. We can grasp add to the symbolic knowledge language of our ancestors. We can regenerate their passion their inquisitiveness their awe. Petition their protection and guidance through the written word. A tool of great worth. With pen in hand sight shall be bequeathed to the reader. The fire regeneration transmigration metempsychosis of the soul shall be achieved as a torch pass from generation to generation. A laying on of hands. A passing of the breath of Life …
We are being watch by ancestors of the past. We are being watched by children of the future … through holes in our outstretched hands … may they applaud our incarnation …We are hung between these poles… Our generation … Ours is the sound of one hand clapping … Can you grasp ?
May our citizen Dedalus lay the golden egg of wisdom at the feet of our children as he migrates from past to future over the mountain 🏔 of civilization of institution of temporal form … on Sandymount Strand …
Is there any information on the cover art ? Symbolism ?
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Stephen,
I can only see photo , no article , when I click here,
Brings to mind Rothko contemplation …
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Stephen,
Thank you for you reply. I like the tree from coconut/head motif. Reminds me of Golgotha … Perennial Humanity sprouting from the skull of the ancestors , the skull of Adam. Also brings to mind Athena/Venus sprouting from the head of Zeus.
It always amazes me how my acknowledged bias leads my mind to these associations. Lots of fun to follow !
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Hello,
Wow
Great Myth Blast.
Great rabbit hole.
It’s been awhile since I’ve read up on Melanesian myth and ritual.
I would recommend everyone do a refresher google search Jstor has some great articles. The explicit sexual symbolism is fascinating. I was looking for symbolism of the puberty rites ritual. There are also some informative you tube videos.
Is the procession of boys a reenactment of the generational procession of the ancestors through the female ? Are the heavy logs symbolic of vegetation fertility ? The tree of life ? The ancestors? Totems representing the pair ? Human life is a portion , the log is cut , has a beginning and end , birth and death . The sacrificial pair represent the current living generation . They are an enactment of the mundane truth of life and death. All have the log hanging over, a memento mori. “When the bough breaks the cradle will fall…”. The Cross is constructed ,through carpentry , of two logs. Symbolic of the vertical transcendent and the horizontal temporal with all the quadrant associations of time and space.
It is an honor to die becoming one with the ancestors.
May we all be food for future generation of the species. May they receive sustenance from our successes and failure.
May our boys become men and our girls become women .
It is all the ancestors could hope fore.
May we procreate wisely in flesh mind and spirit.
May we make them proud
May they give us wisdom .
There is a thinly veiled veneer between us and them. Gossamer …
Do you think Love is a western projection on their ritual ?
“INELUCTABLE MODALITY OF THE VISIBLE: AT LEAST THAT IF NO MORE”
“diaphane in. Why in? Diaphane, adiaphane. If you can put your five fingers through it, it is a gate, if not a door. Shut your eyes and see.”
I enjoy the ethos of the cargo cult. How it has been used in pop literature. Who is John Frum ?
“INELUCTABLE MODALITY OF THE VISIBLE: AT LEAST THAT IF NO MORE”
“diaphane in. Why in? Diaphane, adiaphane. If you can put your five fingers through it, it is a gate, if not a door. Shut your eyes and see.”
It is a great photo. Isn’t it? With so many narratives behind it of the sacred and profane. Visual perception inception conception … Primordial Nobility !!!
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Hello,
Great MythBlast article and thumbnail photo Andy. The eye of providence takes on a humbling Hubble Cosmic perspective. Does put the earthrise photo in perspective. Yet The Laniakea supercluster dwarfs it and then there is that which dwarfs the Laniakea supercluster. Humans and their eyes that see …
Love the Picasso
“The 1968 series known as the ‘347 Suite’: named after the number of etchings in it and produced by Picasso, aged 86, in a remarkable burst of intense working. ‘I have less and less time,’ he told Françoise Gilot, ‘and yet I have more and more to say.’
The images reveal, with some frankness, the erotic fantasies of an old man lacking the vigour of years past. The 347 Suite caused a scandal when exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago: it was deemed pornographic and the exhibition was closed down.
Showing zero diminution of his powers, Picasso worked on his final series, the ‘156 Suite’, after turning 90 — completing it in June 1972, less than a year before his death.”
I was fascinated and haunted by Guernica when young having viewed it in a coffee table art book of my parents. Do you think Picasso’s cubism and James Joyce’s Coach with six insides informed and influenced each other ?
Picasso, son oeuvre, et son Public, 1968
Etching reminds me of Blake and Albrecht Dürer .
For me the “paint like a child perspective” quote is meant to rhyme with “Isaac Newton Quote I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.” Picasso is an interesting pebble !!! along with Joyce , Newton and other artistic intellectual giants …
“”A drawing of a tree shows not a tree, but a tree being looked at.”” I enjoy the contemplation of a tree. How looking through a window, walking outside , driving, and seeing a tree instantaneously triggers many associations, bringing me back to Eden’s Tree of Life, Tree of Knowledge, and all their prototypical antecedents in ancient literature, plus all the fractal pattern recognition a tree elicits. So many associations emerge in my mind creating new narratives from my memory.
I enjoy trying to empathize with my children’s and grandchildren’s perspective full of youthful wonder and exuberance always keeping in mind this poem …
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Jamesn,
Thank you for your thought provoking posts. I have read Freud , Jung , Hillman , Joyce , Campbell , et al , for personal edification. My first love is science and Sci-fi. My “Yes !!!” Post was pregnant with associations. My post after it expanded on my internal streams of consciousness associated with “Yes”.
As far as the meaning of money is concerned from a mythic metaphoric perspective I think a study of the use of the word treasure would be fruitful. ““The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek”” . “Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal.”
“ In Jung’s view, the alchemical attempt to transmute base metals into gold (the philosopher’s stone) was actually a psychological process”.
“So they brought it, and He asked them, “Whose image is this? And whose inscription?” “Caesar’s,” they answered. Then Jesus told them, “Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.” And they marveled at Him.”
where will cryptocurrency and Bitcoin fit into our dialog ? Human resource development? Humans quantified labeled and valued as assets ?
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Jamesn
“But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes’ and your ‘No’ be ‘No. … Whatever is more than these is of theevil one. -Matthew 5:37
Often, binary data is used to represent one of two conceptually opposed values, e.g: the outcome of an experiment (“success” or “failure”) the response to a yes-no question (“yes” or “no”) presence or absence of some feature (“is present” or “is not present”) The 0 & 1 don’t mean anything by themselves. They have to be assigned a meaning by someone. Zero might mean “no”, or it might mean “yes”, or “off” or “on”. Or more likely it’s part of a set of bits that encode to something else, say using ASCII or Unicode (or BCD or EBCDIC or …).
Molly Bloom: “yes I said yes I will Yes”
the sun shines for you he said the day we were lying among the rhododendrons on Howth head in the grey tweed suit and his straw hat the day I got him to propose to me yes first I gave him the bit of seedcake out of my mouth and it was leapyear like now yes 16 years ago my God after that long kiss I near lost my breath yes he said I was a flower of the mountain yes so we are flowers all a womans body yes that was one true thing he said in his life and the sun shines for you today yes that was why I liked him because I saw he understood or felt what a woman is and I knew I could always get round him and I gave him all the pleasure I could leading him on till he asked me to say yes and I wouldnt answer first only looked out over the sea and the sky I was thinking of so many things he didnt know of Mulvey and Mr Stanhope and Hester and father and old captain Groves and the sailors playing all birds fly and I say stoop and washing up dishes they called it on the pier and the sentry in front of the governors house with the thing round his white helmet poor devil half roasted and the Spanish girls laughing in their shawls and their tall combs and the auctions in the morning the Greeks and the jews and the Arabs and the devil knows who else from all the ends of Europe and Duke street and the fowl market all clucking outside Larby Sharons and the poor donkeys slipping half asleep and the vague fellows in the cloaks asleep in the shade on the steps and the big wheels of the carts of the bulls and the old castle thousands of years old yes and those handsome Moors all in white and turbans like kings asking you to sit down in their little bit of a shop and Ronda with the old windows of the posadas glancing eyes a lattice hid for her lover to kiss the iron and the wineshops half open at night and the castanets and the night we missed the boat at Algeciras the watchman going about serene with his lamp and O that awful deepdown torrent O and the sea the sea crimson sometimes like fire and the glorious sunsets and the figtrees in the Alameda gardens yes and all the queer little streets and pink and blue and yellow houses and the rosegardens and the jessamine and geraniums and cactuses and Gibraltar as a girl where I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.”
“Oh, Jake,” Brett said, “we could have had such a damned good time together.”
Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly pressing Brett against me.
“Yes,” I said. “Isn’t it pretty to think so?”Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) and Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961). Usually, Fitzgeraldis quoted as saying: “The rich are different from you and me.” And, Hemingway is quoted as responding: “Yes, they have more money.”
“What doth it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?”
When will the prophet motive be the coin of the realm ? And wisdom reign down supreme ?
All hail the prophets of fiction whom follow their bliss and write that their fiction might become the reality … of a brave new world 🌎
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Hello James,
Love this period in history. The Lost Generation !!! “Surely this generation shall not pass”. Before the coming of the Son of Man ??? For we all can relate and participate in the spirit of this generation to one extent or another during this period of constant change and sorrow …
Lost Generation Lost Generation
Hello,
It seems to me that nature , long in tooth red in claw , eat or be eaten , motifs “feed” directly into the neurolinguistic programming and contemplation of the Eucharist ritual … We do tend to cannibalize our past intellectual property. Use it to built a better future and evolve the body of humanity. “Welcome to the jungle” !!! All hail the alimentary canal of the Serpent the Worm the Ouroboros !!! The Ensō !!! Human abstractions rituals and symbolism are great food for thought …
Our institutions are Moloch they require that we feed them our children as sacrificial offerings. All we can do is “Howl for Carl Solomon” !!! As we comply … Tis the nature of the beast !!! To Munch !!!
Of course this tact takes a Judeo-Christian bias. We could throw it all in the cauldron of the fates and sea what cooks up …
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