Huwasi Stones “In Hittite mythology, a huwasi stone is sacred to a deity and is usually situated in a temple. Larger huwasi stones were placed in an open area surrounded by trees and other plants. The stones were treated as gods; they were given food and water and were anointed and washed. At any cult…
Mormon church releases photos of ‘seer stone’ used by founder Joseph Smith (From the Salt Lake Tribune, August 2015) Byline: Peggy Fletcher Stack The LDS Church provided a new glimpse of its origins Tuesday by publishing the handwritten “printer’s manuscript” of the Book of Mormon and photos of the “seer stone,” a dark, egg-size…
Image by Vladamir Kush “Sisyphus’s ‘shameless stone’ was originally a sun disk, and the hill up which he rolled it was the value of heaven.” Robert Graves, The Greek Myths, Volume 1, 1990 ________________________________________________________________________________ Kheper, the sacred dung beetle of the Egyptians _______________________________________________________________________________ Nun lifts the barque of the sun god
Then Sisyphus in torment I beheld Being roustabout to a tremendous boulder. Leaning with both arms braced and legs driving, He heaved it toward a height, and almost over, But then a Power spun him round and sent The cruel boulder bounding again to the plain. Whereupon the man bent down again to toil Dripping…
I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain. One always finds one’s burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that…
Knud Rasmsussen translates “the Greenland Eskimo Kilime”: All songs come to man when he is alone in the great solitude. They come to him in the wake of tears, of tears that spring from the deep recesses of the heart or they come to him suddenly accompanied by joy and laughter which wells up…
The Transformation of Archetypes Another well-known expression of the archetypes is myth and fairy tale. “But here too we are dealing with forms that have received a specific stamp and have been handed down through long periods of time. The term “archetype” thus applies only indirectly to the “representations collectives,” since it designates only those…
Image: Thanks-Giving Square, Dallas Joseph Campbell Reflects about Easter Symbolism What has always been basic to Easter, or resurrection, is crucifixion. If you want resurrection, you must have crucifixion. Too many interpretations of the Crucifixion have failed to emphasize that relationship and emphasize instead the calamity of the event. If you emphasize the…
Mary Magdalene, Red Eggs and Easter Legend recounts that after the resurrection of Jesus, Mary Magdalene travelled to visit the Emperor Tiberius in Rome and greeted him with: “Christ has risen”, whereupon he pointed to an egg on his table and quipped, “Christ has no more risen than that egg is red.” The egg,…