It's March 6th, 2009, and I don't think I've been here for a while....
Friday, February 20, 2009
Dionysus
Pythagoras Wiki - Pythagoras's revelation by a Lake
her midnight-colored, glistening thin coil,
observed this morning near the sun glazed lake,
unnerves Pythagoras; his daily toil
of studying birds, winged geometries,
the way they intersect with wind and light,
originating angles with the trees,
is halted by this primitive black sight.
But intellect soon subjugates his fear;
he pauses, patient, hoping for a move
expressing undulation. Now a pair
of hungry hawks is circling right above;
he warns the hunted snake, and off she goes;
good use for language learned from cawing crows.Mortality's gray scythe will never wait
for him to learn how shape and song are rules
of atoms humming now in a faint breeze. The way late sunshine glances off these stones,
caressing granite with its western light,
and whispering affection to earth's bones
with radiant bronze lust that would invite
hot rapture in the living, soothes him now,
as if he'll be beloved even when
his flesh declines to dust, as if somehow
the sun can feel a passion for old men
through all the darkness of eternity.
OrphismNote: In the quoted tablet, there is a reference of being "a son of the earth and starry heaven"This is something the newly dead soul must to repeat to the guards of the underworld, in order to achieve salvation.(the earth=human -- the starry heaven (heaven=star)= non human? Does this mean a declaration of hybrid ancestry?
FROM:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphism_(religion)
Surviving written fragments show a number of beliefs about the after life similar to those in the "Orphic" mythology about Dionysus' death and resurrection. Bone tablets found in Olbia (5th cent. BC) carry short and enigmatic inscriptions like: "Life. Death. Life. Truth. Dio(nysus). Orphics." The function of these bone tablets is unknown.
Gold leaves found in graves from Thurii, Hipponium, Thessaly and Crete (4th cent. BC) give instructions to the dead. When he comes to Hades, he must take care not to drink of Lethe ("Forgetfulness"), but of the pool of Mnemosyne ("Memory"), and he must say to the guards:
"I am the son of Earth and Starry Heaven. I am thirsty, please give me something to drink from the fountain of Mnemosyne."
story of orpheus
On the very day of his wedding to his beloved Eurydice, she was accosted by one of the guests, and while fleeing, she was bitten by a poisonous snake, the scene of the first image here, by Renaissance artist Jacopo dell Sellaio. Orpheus was determined to bring his wife back, and embarked on a journey to the Underworld to make his appeal to Hades. This is seen here by three different artists: first by Jan Bruegel (the younger, the same artist who did the Aeneas in the Underworld above), then a Baroque version by Francois Perrier, with Orpheus' instrument looking like a modern violin, rather than his traditional lyre, and the third by Jules Machard from 1865
Tablet of the Orphics - St. Blaise and Orpheus Part 1
Saint Blaise was the son of wealthy people in Sebaste, a town of Armenia near Turkey, in the days when it was fashionable to be a heathen. He was not like the other boys, his playmates, for he was a Christian, full of sympathy for everything that lived. More than all things he longed to learn how to help the creatures that he loved,—men and women, the children, the dumb beasts, and everything that suffered and was sick.
The timid creatures were brave in his presence, and the fierce ones grew tame and gentle at the sound of his voice. The little birds brought him food, and the four-footed beasts ran errands and were his messengers.
(Christians were being prosecuted and men were sent out, and found St. Blaise.:::)
The men were so astonished at the sight that they stole away without capturing an animal or saying a word to Saint Blaise, for they thought he must be Orpheus or some heathen god who charmed wild beasts
The legends say that they used to visit him in his forest home, which was a cave on Mount Argus near the city of Sebaste.The good Bishop was put in prison. And after that they tortured him, trying to make him promise not to be a Christian any longer. But Saint Blaise refused to become a heathen and to sacrifice to the gods. And so they determined that he must die. They would have put him in the arena with the wild beasts, but they knew that these faithful creatures would not harm their friend. The beasts could not save him from the cruel men, but at least they would not do anything to hurt him. Those which were still left in the forest howled and moaned about his deserted cave, and went sniffing and searching for him everywhere, like stray dogs who have lost their master. It was a sad day for the wood-creatures when Saint Blaise was taken from them forever.
The soldiers were told to drown Saint Blaise in the neighboring lake. But he made the sign of the Cross as they cast him from [94] the boat, and the water bore him up, so that he walked upon it as if it were a floor, just as Christ did once upon the sea of Galilee. When the soldiers tried to do the same, however, thinking to follow and recapture him, they sank and were drowned. At last of his own free will Saint Blaise walked back to the shore, clothed in light and very beautiful to look upon; for he was ready and eager to die. He let the heathen seize him, and soon after this was beheaded.
Sunday, January 25, 2009
more useless theoritcal vomit
This is something I just thought of....
Are we headed for a major power outage within the next year?
I just saw something on the news about fluorescent lights and that other lights might not be available after 2012. Then about 3 minutes later there was a story which had the headline, "outrage over shooting", but at first glance I saw "outage over shooting" which could also just be read simply, "outage shooting".
The reason I bring this up is that earlier I was sitting in the living room with Edward and he was showing me youtube videos, with this NLP whiz named Darin Something-rather (I'm sure the last name is in my history somewhere but I'm lazy right now) and I'd heard of NLP before but never fully understood what it meant or was all about. As soon as I started watching the videos though, it was like realizing something I've always understood about language and was always something that I was naturally aware of. When I'd hear people say things in conversations, I'd always hear some underlying conversation going on, weather it was on a personal level with a good friend, or some stranger on tv. I can't help it, I'm constantly aware of all of multiple levels of communication and translation existing on a single plane. Sometimes it even freaks me out a bit, and I'm sure it's part of the reason I don't trust TV.
The videos, sort of tuned me into this realm of thought. I became extremely aware of the influence of body language and the general waves of progression that arose within word usage in conversations, and it's intertwining with everything that followed. Now, this is something I've always been aware of, but always believed it was something only I was tapped into. I'd never seen it in action as it was in these videos. He used influential imagery with his subjects which created in them desires for things they didn't previously have interest in. For example this man who believed he wanted a bmx bike as a present, but was influenced by images around him and the words the nlp magician (for lack of a better term) used. I started to think again about television and about the way this most definitely must be used on us on a daily basis, otherwise, why would it even be a study at all?
So I was just watching the news and I some of those things, like the lightbulb story and then the repeated nonsensical story about "outrage over shooting". So I gathered that we are perhaps headed for some kind of riot, whereas our lights are shut off in the process making things even worse? Weather or not this is a true prediction, that may or may not have been deliberatley suggested, perhaps it was just out there in the radio waves like the bible code is and has been, and I simply saw it for a second, OR, maybe it means nothing, and I'm just loony tunes. ha.
It's blatantly obvious that there have been many stories following the 20th which have been quite finger-pointing in regards to race and crime, and it's just ugly. I mean, come on - do they really think we're that dumb? Am I the only one who's noticed how news has so dramatically changed at such a fast pace?
Suddenly, there are stories with language like, "Palestinians are pleading with Obama to stop the bombing." And I'm sitting here thinking... okay so we're bombing Palestine now? And how long has this gone on? All of a sudden it's Obama who's bombing? When bush was in office we never directly said, "Bush wont stop bombing", we'd say, "The US is still bombing, etc." But never his actual name. This seems like a way to persuade people into disliking Obama. OR... it's a social test. Maybe they want to see what they can get away with in the Media by saying things more outright, and being more upfront about what's going on overseas, and experimenting with our feelings towards war, should we happen to like our president. Would we be okay with it then? Or does popular opinion really control us?
And now I've got Fox News on mute right now, but this is what I see. A man and woman sitting on a nice homely couch. It's a mod style couch like one straight out of the early 60's. This implies a home-like atmosphere, and not just any home, it's a home like the one you grew up in, during the 60's. The woman is wearing a slightly form fitting sweater, light pink or maybe beige, and she has shoulder length hair which is slightly blondish. Her tone is that of a concerned mother. It's also one of warning with tinges of neighborhood gossip as if to say, "Do you know what so and so is doing next door? It's just not right." And the man on her left is wearing similar colors, slightly pink, with a red polka dotted tie. He's mostly nodding in approval. For the woman to take such a bold stance would be outlandish in politics, but not so in the comfort of the family home. At home our mothers are nagging and overbearing while the father sits by and says, "Yes it's true."
It got annoying though, and that's why it's on mute, I'm about to find a nature program in a bit here, if they are any on at all...
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
magic squares, hypercubes, and other such confusing things
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Some Side-History:: People of the Flood, and Whale Cult Cultures
The cultures who posses a historical account of the Great Flood, all have striking similarities in language, religious background (waaaay pre-christian), genetics, and historical myths. First, let me say that myths are verbally passed history. During the time of a catastrophe proportional to that of the Great Flood, there wouldn't have been time to gather written histories to take on an "Arc", or other vehicle of survival; they would have had to pass the tales verbally to the new generations.
If this could example could be applied to other cultures who received a warning, it could be said that it may have come from some elite official, who knew of the coming disaster and told the people to build some kind of vehicle in order to survive. Again, there are others who may have survived by some seemingly psychic insight. (Like the Peru man and Llama)
I read last night that there are 500+ flood accounts, from all over the world.
That brought me to thinking about my family, and relation to Ignatius de Loyola and Garcilosa de la Vega, (who is buried at the postulated Stargate, Temple of the Sun in Cusco) Expanding on this, I wondered if there were ancient Filipino Deluge myths, and if this is the reason that both the Loyolas and the de la Vega's married there as well. And, if they married royalty in Peru, wouldn't they have married royalty in the Philippines?