Abrogating power |
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Abrogating power |
Feb 25 2009, 11:36 PM
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Pundit ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Full Member Posts: 751 Joined: 29-March 05 Member No.: 67 |
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Feb 25 2009, 11:43 PM
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Pundit ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Full Member Posts: 751 Joined: 29-March 05 Member No.: 67 |
Sub terra nean. sub = below terra = earth If you want to make more a game out of spelling that word further switch to french sub terra -- nean neant = nothingness, void, emptiness, nil, space. so, below the earth, ______ . wellll, ahm, thanks for that, but when I talk of going subterranean, (aahhh), I mean into the 'tangled and dark' below where I usually hang out. So, not poking out at the end of the earth, (or, poking up in to the antipodean, Australia), but certainly not 'nil'. No, I mean getting down into the layers of meaning which I seem to expertly, turn my awareness. But! Why would I turn from such a place, unless I knew it were there, bwahahahaahaa. |
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Feb 26 2009, 02:08 AM
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![]() This member has left Gaudiya Repercussions. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Former Members Posts: 7,266 Joined: 1-March 05 From: USA Member No.: 2 |
You might be interested in the following myth of Inanna.
From the Wiki entry, an excerpt: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inanna The union of Inanna and Ereshkigal Additionally, the myth can be described as a union of Inanna with her own "dark side", her twin sister-self, Ereshkigal, as when she ascends it is with Ereshkigal's powers, while Inanna is in the underworld it is Ereshkigal who apparently takes on fertility powers, and the poem ends with a line in praise, not of Inanna, but of Ereshkigal. It is in many ways a praise-poem dedicated to the more negative aspect's of Inanna's domain, symbolic of an acceptance of the necessity of death to the continuance of life. It can also be interpreted as being about the psychological power of a descent into the unconscious, realizing one's own strength through an episode of seeming powerlessness, and/or an acceptance of one's own negative qualities, as it is by Joseph Campbell. I've found Inanna going through my mind lately. I know Starhawk wrote a lot about Inanna in some of her books. -------------------- "We have fallen into the place where everything is music." --Rumi he said change the channel/i've got problems of my own/i'm so sick of hearing about drugs/and aids/and people without homes/and i said, well,/i'd like to sympathize with that/but if you/don't understand/then how can you act --Ani DiFranco My LiveJournal |
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Feb 26 2009, 09:09 PM
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Pundit ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Full Member Posts: 751 Joined: 29-March 05 Member No.: 67 |
Tapati;
in all seriousness I will check out these legends, however, I've had an episode of seeming powerlessness just trying to find Seeker of Truth a birthday image. hahahahaha. It is owing to her staunch friendship that I am even here to find all these gifts. Bas. Finito! Thankyou. |
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Feb 27 2009, 04:31 PM
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Pundit ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Full Member Posts: 751 Joined: 29-March 05 Member No.: 67 |
Tapati, thanks.
I'm reading into it now. |
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