Iānus
From iānus (“arcade, covered passageway”),
from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₂- (“to go, go in, travel”).
Cf. Old Church Slavonic ꙗдо (Jado, “to travel”)
and Sanskrit यान (yāna, “path”)
As an overinflated 6 continuously outbalances 9 [VIIII] — widening the 29 ☵ (坎 kǎn gorge = 水 water) chasm between the waters, מַיִם máyim — invisibly and unwearily Higgs (God's) bosons (Boss and Bose) bring back the symmetry of the universe to its natural balanced state. The Higgs is constantly there, hidden in plain sight, "posing as empty space, repairing the damage. Constantly labouring in the shadows, the Higgs keeps the universe’s original symmetry intact."
“Above the Illusion” Tyler Shrake
The אָדָם • (adám) was created, from the earth, a bloody vassal, subject or slave (Old South Arabian 𐩱𐩵𐩣 (ʾdm, “vassals, subjects”), Ge'ez ዶም (dom, “slave”). Or thus narrate the middle-eastern, later western myths — among other locales' myths — relative to the first occurrences of humans.
Within that creation, two poles, two tendencies, two call centres, symbolised as ♋︎ — or ♋︎ & ♑︎:
- the space tourist, eager to taste life according to the Earth-life system (predatory complex) but unattached and more or less unidentified to the אֲדָמָה • ('adamá) the earth, the soil — a nomad, a coureur des bois, an itinerant, a traveller, sometimes a mendicant or a संन्यास, saṃnyāsa, the fourth (wandering ascetic) आश्रम āśrama, “hermitage,” in Hindu spiritual life — the four आश्रम Āśrama being ब्रह्मचर्य Brahmacharya (student), गृहस्थ Gṛhastha (householder), वानप्रस्थ Vānaprastha (forest walker/forest dweller), and संन्यास Saṃnyāsa (renunciate). Those humans, naive or free, want to explore, to reach the ends of the world and return savvy and seasoned. Indiana Jones, Jack Sparrow or Tintin are some of their fictional representations.
- the husbander, the “master of the house”, from hús (“house”) + bóndi (“dweller, householder”), equivalent to house + bond (“serf, slave", originally, "dweller”) attached to the earth, the soil, the land. A human, stuck in गृहस्थ Gṛhastha, the second of the आश्रम āśrama, who tills and toils and who sees what has been so worked out as a property — often given by the gods or The God, a promised land, הארץ המובטחת, ha'aretz hamuvtakhat or أرض الميعاد, ard al-mi'ad, also known as "The Land of Milk and Honey". All empires were born or built from husbandry.
Thus the world of humans functions — tiré à hue et à dia, tiraillé — out of balance, between waged wars and intermittent and temporary Golden Ages. Since the promise made by Yahweh to Abraham (Genesis 22:17) to make his descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore — and that they shall take possession of the cities of their enemies — the multiplication process has become exponential, notably during the two last centuries and the husbandry based-system, under its capitalistic, collective, commune or newly Chinese communism flavours, runs at the fullest thrust of its racing engine, its counterpart being reduced to practically nothing, filigrees of our societies.
Tuesday, March 15, 2022 |
"Look within. There you will find the answer to every problem. You cannot ask a question that you cannot answer within your own self, if or when you attune yourself to the infinite." ECRL 4083-1 |
Porphyry, On the Cave of the Nymphs (1917) English translation.
On the Cave of the Nymphs in the Thirteenth Book of the Odyssey
From the Greek of Porphyry
Translated by Thomas Taylor, London John M. Watkins, 21 Cecil Court, Charing Cross Road, 1917
10. It remains, therefore, to investigate what is indicated by this narration; whether the poet describes a cavern that was in reality consecrated by others, or whether it is an enigma of his own invention. Since, however, a cavern is an image and symbol of the world, as Numenius and his familiar Cronius assert, there are two extremities in the heavens, viz., the winter tropic, than which nothing is more southern, and the summer tropic, than which nothing is more northern. But the summer tropic is in Cancer and the winter tropic is in Capricorn. And since Cancer is nearest to us, it is very properly attributed to the Moon, which is the nearest of all the heavenly bodies to the earth. But as the southern pole by its great distance is invisible to us, hence Capricorn is attributed to Saturn, the highest and most remote of all the planets. Again, the signs from Cancer to Capricorn are situated in the following order: and the first of these is Leo, which is the house of the Sun; afterwards, Virgo, which is the house of Mercury; Libra, the house of Venus; Scorpio, of Mars; Sagittarius, of Jupiter; and Capricorn, of Saturn. But from Capricorn in an inverse order Aquarius is attributed to Saturn; Pisces to Jupiter; Aries to Mars; Taurus to Venus; Gemini to Mercury; and in the last place Cancer to the Moon.
11. Theologists, therefore, assert, that these two gates are Cancer and Capricorn, but Plato calls them entrances. And of these, theologists say, that Cancer is the gate through which souls descend; but Capricorn that through which they ascend. Cancer is indeed northern and adapted to descent, but Capricorn is southern and adapted to ascent. The northern parts, likewise, pertain to souls descending into generation. And the gates of the cavern which are turned to the north are rightly said to be pervious to the descent of men, but the southern gates are not the avenues of the Gods, but of souls ascending to the Gods. On this account, the poet does not say that they are the avenues of the Gods, but of immortals; this appellation being also common to our souls, which are per se, or essentially, immortal. It is said that Parmenides mentions these two gates in his treatise "On the Nature of Things", as likewise that they are not unknown to the Romans and Egyptians. For the Romans celebrate their Saturnalia when the Sun is in Capricorn, and during this festivity, slaves wear the shoes of those that are free, and all things are distributed among them in common; the legislator obscurely signifying by this ceremony that through this gate of the heavens, those who are now born slaves will be liberated through the Saturnian festival, and the house attributed to Saturn, i.e., Capricorn, when they live again and return to the fountain of life. Since, however, the path from Capricorn is adapted to ascent, hence the Romans denominate that month in which the Sun, turning from Capricorn to the east, directs his course to the north, Januanus, or January, from janua, a gate. But with the Egyptians, the beginning of the year is not Aquarius, as with the Romans, but Cancer. For the star Sothis, which the Greeks call the Dog, is near to Cancer. And the rising of Sothis is the new moon with them, this being the principle of generation to the world. On this account, the gates of |29 the Homeric cavern are not dedicated to the east and west, nor to the equinoctial signs, Aries and Libra, but to the north and south, and to those celestial signs which towards the south are most southerly, and, towards the north are most northerly; because this cave was sacred to souls and aquatic nymphs. But these places are adapted to souls descending into generation, and afterwards separating themselves from it. Hence, a place near the equinoctial circle was assigned to Mithra as an appropriate seat. And on this account, he bears the sword of Aries, which is a martial sign. He is likewise carried in the Bull, which is the sign of Venus. For Mithra. as well as the Bull, is the Demiurgus and lord of generation. But he is placed near the equinoctial circle, having the northern parts on his right hand, and the southern on his left. They likewise arranged towards the south the southern hemisphere because it is hot; but the northern hemisphere towards the north, through the coldness of the north wind.
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