Kay's Blog
Friday, May 27, 2005
Re: Nautilus and Typhoon...
C.G. Jung, Psychology of the Unconscious, Symbolism of Mother and of Rebirth:
From the Book of the Dead: 398-It is evident that the pious here fight their way
to a share in the mystery of the raping of the mother. 106-This is the part
which belongs to them, while the heroic deed belongs to the god. By Ares is
meant the Egyptian Typhon, as we have good reasons to suppose. Thus Typhon
represents the evil longing for the mother, with which other myth forms reproach
the mother, according to the well known example...In Gaul the Druid alone was
allowed to climb the holy oak amid solemn ceremonies after the completed
sacrifice, in order to cut off the ritual mistletoe (a parasite). This act is a
religiously limited and organized incest. That which grows on the tree is the
child (trying to cut me off from the rest of my family), which man might have by
the mother; and precisely this is what man cannot have, because the incest
prohibition forbids it. As the Celtic custom shows, the act is performed by the
priest only, (this is insane) with the observation of certain ceremonies; the
hero god and the redeemer of the world, however do the unpermitted, the
superhuman thing and through it purchase immortality.
Now we see the power of myth, or is it the power of manipulation?
Kay F Gibbs
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