نا کجا آباد (No Where Land)

Classical Elements

2008-11-05T00:15:00.008+03:30

Classical Elements,Part I

Contents
1- Hindu, Japanese, and Greek systems
1-1- Classical elements in Greece
1-2- Classical elements in Hinduism
1-3- Classical elements in early Buddhism
1-3-1- Classical elements in the Seven Chakras
1-4- Classical elements in Japan
1-5- Classical elements in Bön

2- Classical elements in China

3- Modern Western approaches

3-1- Neo-Paganism
3-2- Classical elements in sound and music

3-3- Classical elements in popular culture

4-Astrology and the classical elements

1- Hindu, Japanese, and Greek systems

The dominant theory of classical elements, held by the Hindu, Japanese, and Greek systems of thought, is that there are five elements, namely Earth, Water, Air, Fire, and a fifth element known variously as Idea, Void "quintessence" or Aether (the term "quintessence" derives from "quint" meaning "fifth"). In Greek thought the philosopher Aristotle added aether as the quintessence, reasoning that whereas fire, earth, air, and water were earthly and corruptible, since no changes had been perceived in the heavenly regions, the stars cannot be made out of any of the four elements but must be made of a different, unchangeable, heavenly substance. The Greek Pythagoreans used the initial letters of these five elements to name the outer angles of their pentagram.
The Greek names of the elements are as follows:

Γαια, gaia earth
ύδωρ, hydor, water
άήρ, aer, air
έιλή, heile, heat (fire)
ίδέα, idea or ίερόν, hieron "a divine thing"

These five elements are sometimes associated with the five platonic solids.
The Japanese and Hindu systems use these same five classical elements but use a different name for the fifth element: void in the Japanese system and aether or akasha in the Hindu system. "Idea" is the preferred modern term, and lends itself well to the idea that algorithms, software, or other similar "cyberspace" processes be categorized as belonging to the fifth element. In other words, just as the mind belongs to Idea, even though the brain is a mixture of solid ("Earth") and liquid ("Water"), software also belongs to Idea even though the hardware it runs on, i.e. silicon chips, etc., is made from solid ("Earth") matter.
The fifth Classical Element (Idea) may be further sub-divided into living and non-living. For example, the mind is an example of a living form of Idea whereas computer software is an example of non-living Idea.

1-1- Classical elements in Greece

The Greek classical elements are fire , earth , air , and water . They represent in Greek philosophy, science, and medicine the realms of the cosmos wherein all things exist and whereof all things consist. The ancient Greek word for element (stoicheion) literally meant "letter (of the alphabet)", the basic unit from which a word is formed.
Plato mentions the elements as of pre-Socratic origin, a list created by the Ionian philosopher Empedocles (ca. 450 BC). Empedocles called these the four "roots"; Plato seems to have been the first to use the term "element (stoicheion)" in reference to air, fire, earth, and water.

Air is primarily wet and secondarily hot.
Fire is primarily hot and secondarily dry.
Earth is primarily dry and secondarily cold.
Water is primarily cold and secondarily wet.

One classic diagram (right) has one square inscribed in the other, with the corners of one being the classical elements, and the corners of the other being the properties. The opposite corner is the opposite of the these properties, "hot - cold" and "dry - wet"
According to Galen, these elements were used by Hippocrates in describing the human body with an association with the four humours: yellow bile (fire), black bile (earth), blood (air), and phlegm (water).
The concept of the classical elements proved extremely persistent in Europe, lasting through the Middle Ages to the early modern era. Just as the Aristotelian dogma was related to the Greek world view, the idea of classical elements in the Middle Ages composed a large part of the medieval world view. The Roman Catholic Church supported the Aristotelian concept of aether because it supported the Christian view of earthly life as impermanent and heaven as eternal.
In Western astrology the concept of the four classical elements has survived from antiquity up until the present. The twelve signs of the zodiac are divided into the four elements: Fire signs are Aries, Leo and Sagittarius, Earth signs are Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn, Air signs are Gemini, Libra and Aquarius, and Water signs are Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces. Most modern astrologers still view the four classical elements as a critical part of interpreting the astrological chart.
In divinatory tarot,the suits of cups, swords, wands (batons) and pentacles (coins) are said to correspond to water, air, fire, and earth respectively. These correspond in the modern deck of playing cards to hearts, spades, clubs, and diamonds.

تصاویری از ماه

2008-08-29T03:49:00.006+04:30

سلام به دوستان عزیز

یک شب که به یکی از کوه های تهران رفته بودم ، یک دفعه به سرم زد تا از ماه عکس بگیرم . همینطوری که در ادامه خواهید دید ، با گرفتن یک عکس و کمی فکر کردن خواستم که عکس های دیگه ای هم بگیرم و متوجه شدم که :

اگر نسبت به یک محور ثابت روی ماه در ساعت های هندسی (درجه ها) متفاوتی قرار بگیریم و عکس بندازیم می تونیم ماه رو با یک طیف رنگ کامل ببینیم-با توجه به اینکه نور ماه سفید هستش !- برای مثال من در اینجا رنگهای آبی ، سبز و بنفش رو گذاشتم تا منظورم رو بهتر برسونم .

تعیین کننده اینکه طیف ِ رنگ از چه رنگی شروع بشه و به چه رنگی برسه ، همون محور فرضی ِ.

از پسر پیر

2008-08-08T04:53:00.004+04:30

خوب همانند آب است ؛ بدون تلاش همه چیز را سیراب میکند و جمع شدن در پستی را هرگز حقارت نمی شمارد.

نزدیک زمین زندگی کنید و همیشه ساده بیاندیشید.

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وقتی از اینکه خودتان هستید خوشنودید و از رقابت و مقایسه دست کشیده اید ، همگان به شما احترام می گذارند.

اگر کاسه خود را بیش از اندازه پر کنید ، لبریز می شود.

اگر چاقوی خود را بیش از اندازه تیز کنید ، کند می شود.

اگر به دنبال پول و راحتی باشید،دلتان هرگز آرام نمی گیرد.

اگر به دنبال تایید دیگران باشید ، برده آنها خواهید بود.

کار خود را انجام دهید و سپس رها کنید.

این تنها راه آرامش یافتن است .

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از وصیت های علی(ع) به کمیل - (چهار خصلت نیکو)

2008-08-04T00:30:00.003+04:30

هنگام خواندن پاره ای از متن وصیت به این چهار مورد که به نام چهار خصلت نیکو عنوان شده است برخورد کردم ؛ و باید بگم که این چهار جمله رو خیلی عمیق یافتم ؛ پس برای شما دوستان ِ عزیز هم گذاشتم تا ... .

* خُلق نیکوی مؤمن ، ریشه در فروتنی دارد .

* زیبایی اش ، در پرهیزگاری و عفت نهفته است .

* بزرگی اش ، میوۀ مهربانی او با مؤمنان است .

* و عزّت و اقتدارش ، در ترک بیهوده گویی هاست .

از پسر پیر

2008-07-30T01:47:00.003+04:30

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سادگی ، شکیبایی و مهربانی ؛ این سه گرانبهاترین گنج ها هستند.

با ساده بودن در اعمال و افکار ، به منبع وجود باز می گردید.

با شکیبایی با دوستان و دشمنان با همه چیز هماهنگی می یابید.

با مهربانی با خود و همه موجودات ِ جهان در صلح و آشتی خواهید بود.

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پیروزی ازآن کسی ست که می داند چگونه تسلیم شود.(که دراین آگاهی هر سه گنج نهفته است)

دو عکس با مزه که و جالب !!!

2008-07-30T01:16:00.004+04:30

سلام دوستان گرامی

این دو عکس رو به ترتیب تو یک جگرکی و مجتمع تجاری علاءدین گرفتم !!!

خط آخر عکس اول که با حاوی پیغام مشابهی با خط های دیگه ست ، یه تصویر سازی جالب ِ و از چپ به راست خونده میشه.جمله به زبون ترکی اینه "قار داش سیگار چَکمَ ." خوب قار رو که کشیده و در ادامه یه سنگ کشیده که تو زبون ترکی بهش میگن "داش"؛ آخرین تصویر هم یه چکمه هست که تو فارسی به معنی "نَکِش" هستش . کل جمله به فارسی یعنی " داداش سیگار نکش"!

خودمونیم چه هنر مفهومی ِ جالبیه...

عکس دوم هم بدون شرح ِ !!

خداوندش بیامرزد...

2008-07-19T23:48:00.005+04:30

سلام ، مرگ یکی از مهم ترین هنرمندان کشور رو به شما تسلیت می گم . ولی یک همچین هنرمندی به این راحتی با مرگ و سپرده شدن جسمش به خاک از میان ما نخواهد رفت . او "خسرو شکیبایی" در روان ِ دنیای هنرمندان خواهد زیست ، تا اَبد... .

دوست عزیزی که به وبلاگ ِ من اومدی لطف کن و برای او دقیقه ای سکوت کن و سپس ادامه مطالبم رو بخون. سپاس گذارم.

تقدیم به روح پاکش

مدت قابل توجهی هست که بلاگم مثل یه چشمه مونده داره کم کم به مرداب تبدیل می شه !

ولی تو دوست عزیز که حتی یه کوچولو من رو می شناسی ، احتمالاً می دونی که ... .
خوب باید بگم که این چشمه تو این مدت خیلی ورودی داشته ، بدون خروجی . تو این مواقع باید حواست باشه که یک دفعه نترکی و بپاچی آره بپاشی رو مردم. حالا آروم آروم مطالبم رو با شما در میون خواهم گذاشت.

اما حس خوبم چیه؟ میدونم که می تونم دست هام رو باز کنم و سبک تر از قبل فکر وعمل کنم. چون واقعاً ایستادم و هزینه هایی که دارم می پردازم و پرداختم رو با جون و دلم پذیرفتم.

تنهایی رو تا عمق برای دومین بار تو زندگیم حس کردم. ولی این دفعه بهش گفتم که "آره من تنها هستم ، که چی. نکُنه فکر کردی که دوباره از دیدنت ضعف می کنم و ...؟!" و انقدر بهش زُل زدم تا روش کم شد. و باد ما را خواهد برد...

چیزی که مرا نمیراند ، قوی ترم خواهد ساخت.

حس میکنم توان بیشتری دارم و میدانم چیزی خواهد آمد که این توان را نیز به چالش بکِشد .

سلامی پس از حدود 1 ماه دوری !

2008-07-04T04:28:00.004+04:30

خوب ، سریع اصل مطلب رو می گم . من در این مدت کاملا تو ناخودآگاه جمعی و فردی ِ خودم بودم.

اما وقتی آمدم بیرون -با مقدار قابل توجهی دست آورد - با نامردی روبرو شدم ! ولی ...

یک جمله زیبا که از دکترشیری ِ عزیز بارها شنیدم ، حماقت وقتی دسته جمعی می شه ناپدید می شه!

فعلاً یه نقاشی که با گواش و انگشتان و دست هام کشیدم رو براتون میذارم .

من

ما ، تاثیرها و ...، اولین جملات

2008-05-22T06:05:00.007+04:30

شاید فکر کنی که تمومه ، دیگه نمی شه که تو بخوای یه روزی یکی ُ ...
بهتر ِ انرژی زیادی طلف نکنی ؛ چون تو نمی دونی که دیگه نمی شه ، شاید اصلا وجود نداره !

یعنی این طرز فکر درست ِ ؟!

واقعاٌ چی می شه که یه اتفاقی تو زندگی هر کسی می افته که در پی اون یه حقیقت براش روشن می شه ؟ خودش اتفاق رو به سمت ِ خودش می کشه یا اتفاق اون رو ؟ آیا اینکه کدوم درست ِ ، روی حقیقت روشن شده و شکل گرفته تاثیر نداره ؟!
اصلا اتفاق چی هست ؟ چطوری می افته ؟

تو یک نوع طبقه بندی می شه افتادن اتفاق رو به پنج حالت مجزا تقسیم کرد:
1- اتفاق رو هرکدوم از ما به تنهایی و آگاهانه بوجود میاریم ؛ بنابراین چیزی نیست جز تاثیر کنش ما تو هستی که حقیقتی فردی و آگاه برای ما می سازه.
2- اتفاق رو هرکدوم از ما به تنهایی و ناخودآگاهانه بوجود میاریم ؛ بنابراین چیزی نیست جز تاثیر کنش ما تو هستی که حقیقتی نه لزوما فردی (که می تونه جمعی هم باشه ) و نا آگاه برای ما می سازه.
3- اتفاق رو جمعی از ما و آگاهانه بوجود می آره ؛ بنابراین چیزی نیست جز تاثیر کنش جمعی از ما تو هستی که حقیقتی جمعی و آگاه و یا ناخود آگاه برای ما می سازه.
4-اتفاق رو جمعی از ما و کاملا ناخود آگاهانه بوجود می آره ؛ بنابراین چیزی نیست جز تاثیر کنش جمعی از ما تو هستی که حقیقتی جمعی و ناخود آگاه برای ما می سازه.
5- تو جمع ِ بوجود آورنده اتفاق عده ای آگاهانه و عده ای ناخودآگاهانه عمل می کنن ؛ بنابر این چیزی نیست جز تاثیر کنش جمعی از ما که دو حقیقت فردی و جمعی ِ نه لزوما در راستای یک مفهوم و آگاهانه یا ناآگاهانه برای ما می سازه.

اگه از اون هایی که به تنهایی می سازیم بگذریم که خُب می شه با اندکی فکر انواع اونها رو فهمید ، می رسیم به اونهایی که به یه طریقی تو جمع ساخته و ... می شن.

آیا می دونیم سهم هریک از ما در زندگی دیگری چه چیزهایی هست ؟
شاید هم برای جواب به این سوال نباید از اونهایی که به تنهایی می سازیم ، بگذریم.

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فاکتور های زیادی هستند که حال ِ واقعی و حال حقیقی رو می سازن که می تونن حتی مشترک باشن .

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اما در این میون کدوم حقیقت ِ که قابل بیان به عنوان خط مشی برای یک جمع ِ ! چراکه همین حقیقت ها هستن که ایجاد ِ حق می کنن . چرا بعضی ها با تاثیر های واقعاٌ در جهت رکود در هستی فکر می کنن که حق دارن یا بهتر بگم با این توهم زندگی می کنن که :"راهنما" هستن برای یک جمع ؟! آیا جنس نمی تونه جهت رو اشتباه و بلکه به عکس نشون بده ، اونم جنسی از یک جنس ؟! تناقض ها و تشابه ها در دوانتهای یک مفهوم هستن ؛ ولی این یه پاره خط نیست ، بلکه یک دایره است ! پس باید بدونیم که نقاط تمیز ، به راحتی قابل تشخیص نیستند .

از شمس

2008-05-13T02:24:00.003+04:30

آب حَیَوان باید،مَر روح ِ فزائی را / ماهی همه جان یابََد،دریای خدائی را

ویرانه ی آب و گل،چون مسکن ِ بوم آید / این عرصه کجا شاید،پرواز ِ همائی را؟

صد چشم شود خیره،در تابش این دولت / توگوش مکش این سو،هر کور ِ عصائی را

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عقل از پی عشق آمد،در عالم خاک ارنَه / عقلی به نمی باید،بی عهد و وفایی را

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تحقیق ، گردآوری و تحلیل عناصر کلاسیک در فرهنگ های باستانی و دیدگاههای مدرن درباره آنها .

2008-05-08T11:38:00.007+04:30

سلام به دوستان و همراهان گرامی،قصد دارم مطالب بسیار ارزنده و جالب که اساساً طی یک تحقیق حسابی گردآوری و البته تحلیل کردم(تحلیل های تشابهی،مفهومی،ساختاری و...)،رو تقریبا با عنوان و فهرست زیرارائه کنم.

اما چرا تقریبا!؟

خوب بهتر ِ بگم که یک عنوان دیگه هم در مطالبم هست و اون مربوط به فرهنگ خودمون ِ .

بهتر ِ که خیلی داغش نکنم و فقط بگم که خیلی روش کار کردم و بنظر خودم کلا ً خوب پُخته شده و قطعاً مفید ِ!

مشکل اصلی اینجاست که این بحث رو به دلایل زیادی مثل حجم بالای اطلاعات و تصویرها و ... نمی تونم تو بلاگم مطرح کنم؛در صورتیکه دوستان برای ارائه اون نظری داشته باشند،ازشون ممنون می شم.

Classical Elements

1- Hindu, Japanese, and Greek systems

1-1- Classical elements in Greece
1-2- Classical elements in Hinduism

1-3- Classical elements in early Buddhism
1-3-1- Classical elements in the Seven Chakras
1-4- Classical elements in Japan
1-5- Classical elements in Bön

2- Classical elements in China

3- Modern Western approaches

3-1- Neo-Paganism
3-2- Classical elements in sound and music
3-3- Classical elements in popular culture

از پسر پیر

2008-05-03T08:27:00.003+04:30

نگاه می کنید و آن را نمی یابید.

گوش می کنید و آن را نمی شنوید.

سعی می کنید و نمی توانید بدست آوریدش.

بالا،آن وضوح نیست و پایین آن تاریکی.

یکپارچه و بی نام ، جایی که همه شکل ها را در بر می گیرد.

شکل ِ بی شکل ، ظریف و ماورای درک.

نزدیک آن می شوید ، آغازی ندارد!

به دنبال آن می روید ، پایانی ندارد!

شناخت آن در توانایی نیست.

ولی با سادگی در زندگی خود می توانید آن شوید.

بدانید و بدانید از کجا آمده اید.

این عصاره خرد است.

ذهن خود را از همه افکار خالی کنید.

اجازه دهید تا دلتان آرام یابد.

نا آرامی ها را بنگرید و در بازگشت آن ها تفکر کنید.

هر موجودی در هستی به ماوایی مشترک باز می گردد.

بازگشت به این ماوا آرامش است.

اگر ندانید از کجا آمده اید در اندوه و گیجی به هر طرف می خورید.

و اگر بدانید ، ظرفیت تحمل تان بالا می رود.

از پسر پیر

2008-04-25T08:36:00.003+04:30

آیا می توانید ذهنتان را از پرسه زدن باز دارید وبه آن یگانگی ابتدایی با هستی بازگزدانید ؟

آیا می توانید بدن تان را همانند نوزادان دوباره نرم و انعطاف پذیر کنید ؟

آیا می توانید دید درونیتان را پاک کنید تا چیزی جز نور نبینید؟

آیا می توانید دیگران را دوست بدارید و آنها را بدون تحمیل خواسته های خود راهنمایی کنید ؟

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آیا می توانید از ذهن خود دست بکشید و بدون دخالت آن درک کنید ؟

داشتن بدون احساس مالکیت ، عمل کردن بدون انتظار و راهنمایی بدون سعی در حکم راندن ، فضایل عالی محسوب می شوند.

همراهی در سخنرانی های دکتر شیری در قزوین و یک روز پر بار

2008-04-23T04:32:00.011+04:30

امروز یعنی سوم اردیبهشت ، پس از سالها ، همراه دکتر شیری ِ محترم رفتم به جایی که چهار سال زندگیم رو تو اونجا گذرونده بودم و ... . دکتر تو دانشگاه کارشناسی و کارشناسی ارشد قزوین(باراجین) و تو دانشگاه کاردانی ها (نواب) دو برنامه حسابی اجرا کرد . روابط عاطفی و نظریه و داستانهای مختلف تو رابطه ها که استرنبرگ معرفی کرده و ... رو تو باراجین ؛ و زنانگی و TA و ... رو تو نواب درس دادند.

من هم برای خودم اون وسط ها می چرخیدم و ... !!

فقط اینو بگم که احتمال داشت که هر کسی که اونجا بود، به دو دلیل محتمل "خفگی بعلت کمبود اکسیژن"و"لهیدگی شدید یا شکستن دنده ها " خلاصه یه بیمارستانی یا اونجا که بهش می گن خدایی نکرده ... بره!!

یه چیز جالب که در موارد خاصی دکتر به شکلی درس رو ارائه می دن که همونجا همه می خندن و شادن و فکر می کنن قضیه Fun هست! اینُ برای کسانی می گم که تازه دکترُ می شناسن :

اگه درس ها و حرفای کلاسُ گرفته باشی و بخوای با واقعیت های خودت روبرو بشیُ به ده ها دلیل اینها رو(که برات مهم ِ) پس نزنی ، از یکی دو روز بعدش به اندازه همه اون خنده ها و بلکه بیشتر ، گریه می کنی،من هم کردم و می کنم!!

اره ، به حال خودت ، چون خیلی از اون چیزایی که تا حالا اینطوری با دقت و ظرافت و آگاهی ندیدش و بهش خندیدی ، خودت داریُ در واقع معزل زندگی ت ِ. خلاصه حرف کاربردیَ رو زدم ؛ اگه تیز باشی گرفتی که "باید چه بکنی".

چند تا عکس هم از این دو کلاس می ذارم :

بیل برد کلاس دکتر که من تو گرافیتیش یکم دستکاری کردم!

امفی تاتر باراجین!

عجب عکسی شده ؛ اینم تو باراجین ِ و بازم دستکاری تو جلوه های تصویریش.

اینم تو نواب ِ ، آخر کلاس که البته خیلی ها رو سن جا نمی شدن !

Hestia - Vesta

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سلام عزیزان ، می خواستم بحث اسطوره ها رو به ترتیب پیش ببرم ولی تو اینجا یه استثناء پیش اومد . احساس کردم که باید هستیا رو یک معرفی کوچیک بکنم. البته تو ترتیب بحث اسطوره ها توضیح های بیشتر، کامل و متفاوتی برای ارائه هست، پس منتظر جای خودش باشید.

Hestia was the virgin goddess of the hearth :

Hestia was the eldest child of the Titans, Cronus and Rhea. The Romans called her Vesta.
Hestia was one of the children to be swallowed by her father. Later, Cronus was tricked into drinking emetic, and vomited her and her siblings out. She was the last to leave her father's belly. So, in a way, she was both first-born (from Rhea) and last-born (disgorged from Cronus).

After the war against the Titans, Hestia managed to persuade her brothers, Poseidon and Hades, and her nephew, Apollo, of her wish to remain a virgin. According to the Hymn of Aphrodite, she sworn an oath upon the head of Zeus of not wedding to anyone and remain forever chaste and untouched by sexual love; such oath forced Poseidon and Apollo to find wives among other goddesses, or else they risk confrontation with Zeus.

According to the Fasti, the Roman poet Ovid wrote that Priapus, son of Dionysus and Aphrodite, had almost raped Hestia, when she and the other gods had fallen into a slumber after a feast. Hestia (Vesta) only woke up when she heard an ass braying as the god was on the point of mounting her. The goddess' scream frightened off Priapus.

Although, there is very little information about Hestia in myths and literature, Hestia was nevertheless an important goddess in both Greek and Roman religions.
In the Homeric Hymns To Hestia, she attends the house of Apollo (temple) in Delphi. She was held in the highest honour, both among the gods and among mortals. She was worshipped everywhere, because there are hearths in every home and temple. Each city kept a hearth that had a consecrated fire burning perpetually in a chief public building. Fire from this hearth was taken whenever they sought a new colony.

Mortals, when holding banquets, would pour wine in offerings to the goddess, both first and last: one to open the banquet, and the other to close it (possibly referring that she was first-born and last-born status, as mentioned earlier). At the beginning of every meal at home, a small offering was thrown into the hearth flame. A song was sung in her praise, welcoming the goddess to the home.

After a newborn baby was given a name, the infant was carried to the hearth, where someone prayed for a blessing upon the child.
For the Romans, she was the all-important household goddess, the goddess of the hearth and the hearth fire. Her temple was situated within the Palatine in Rome, where the Vestal Virgins maintained the burning of the sacred fire.

Classical mythology - Chapter 1:Creation - Prt 2:Obscure Creation Myths

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Hesiod was the not the only Greek poet who wrote about the Creation and the origin of gods and mankind. Hesiod's account is just one kind. The world was created from Chaos first, and then by the World Parents – Gaea (Earth) and Uranus (Heaven).There are several different versions about the Creation. An older poet, Homer, author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, alluded to a different cosmogony to Hesiod. And then there are yet, other different cosmogonies that are involved with the Cosmic Egg.One source involved the goddess Eurynome and the World Serpent Ophion. This source comes from Apollonius of Rhodes, a Hellenistic poet who wrote the Argonautica in the 3rd century BC. While another tradition about the Creation by the Cosmic Egg, involved the gods Phanes or Protogonus, and Dionysus/Zagreus. This other tradition had come from the poems of the so-called cult of the Orphic Mysteries. What these two Creation myths have in common is the Cosmic Egg that usually came into existence from void (chaos) or the abyss. The Cosmic Egg, World Egg or whatever other names it may have, it is a common and universal theme in creation myths, not only in these obscure Greek myths, but also from other cultures and civilisations. However, the Cosmic Egg is noticeably absent in Hesiod's Theogony.

2-1-Homeric Creation

In the Iliad, Homer had only briefly alluded to the creation. Hera seduced Zeus at Mount Ida, in the hope of turning the tide against the Trojans, by lulling her husband to sleep. To seduce Zeus, Hera required aids from other gods.

First, she sought aid from Aphrodite, the goddess of love. Hera wanted to borrow Aphrodite's girdle, which would make irresistibly seductive. Hera lied to Aphrodite saying that she wish to the relationship between Oceanus and Thryhys, who had raised her. In fact, she was using it in the hope to seduce Zeus. Hera says that "...to see Oceanus, from whom the gods arose, and Mother Tethys" (quoted from Robert Fitzgerald's translation, Book XIV 199). She used Hypnos to lull Zeus to sleep. Hypnos boasted to Hera that he could even lull Oceanus to slumber, "...the primal source of all that lives" (Book XIV 258-61). However, Hypnos was reluctant to help Hera, because the first time he helped her, he was almost thrown into the deep sea. Fearing Zeus' rage, Hypnos had to take refuge with his mother, Nyx (Night). Powerful as Zeus was, he feared the "all-subduing Night (Nyx)".
When she meet Zeus, Hera lied to him, when she mentioned Oceanus and Tethys that she wanted to patch their relationship up, since they have not slept together in a single bed, since they had last quarrel. Hera was saying the same thing that she said to Aphrodite moment before. (Book XIV 301-304). To Homer, Oceanus and Tethys were more than Titans; they were referred to as the World Parents (Creators), displacing Uranus and Gaea, or that of Cronus and Reha . Oceanus have a stream that completely circumvented the earth, which was a flat round disk. And Tethys was the mother of the gods. Homer was more interested about the war at Troy, than about the Creation, so much have been left unsaid.

2-2-Eurynome and Ophion

According to Apollonius Rhodius, who mentioned a creation myth that was very different from that of Hesiod's Theogony. Apollonius' account is very short and rather sketchy. Apollonius begins the myth, as one of the songs sang by Orpheus after the departure of the Argonauts from Iolcus. Orpheus was the mythical bard who had joined Janson and the Argonauts in the Quest.
Orpheus sang a song about how the world was originally cast in one single mould; the earth, sky and sea was all mixed up in this mould, until the mould was tore sunder from some internal turmoil within the Cosmic Egg. All of the sudden, the earth, sea and heaven were separated; mountains rose from the sea, while the sun and moon and stars travelled followed their path through the sky (something like the Big Bang). Two of the earliest beings came into existence, during the creation of the world. One was named Eurynome, daughter of the Ocean , while her consort was named Ophion. Together they ruled the entire universe from Olympus.But one day, the Titans Croneus and Reha had violently displaced Ophion and Eurynome from Olympus. They had flung Ophion and Eurynome into the Ocean (as opposed to being confined in Tartarus, like in Hesiod's Theogony).While Cronus and Rhea ruled the world and the Titans,Zeus was living in the Dictaean cave (in Crete),as an infant,long before he received the mighty thunderbolt from the Cyclopes.The account ended here.Apollonius did not give much detail at all.I had some difficulties in finding out if Apollonius had got this from another source or did he invent this little account, by himself.It was discovered that myth about Eurynome,as the creator-goddess, was said to be much older than the Theogony,which was written by Hesiod in the 7th century BC. Apollonius had only mentioned Zeus as an infant in a cave in Crete, as well as a mention that one day he would wield the thunderbolt, forged by the Cyclopes, like in Hesiod`s account. However, Apollonius doesn't complete his song told by Orpheus, where like in Hesiod's myth, Zeus displaced the Titans. A more detail account was found on Eurynome and Ophion that was quite different from Apollonius' allusion on the creation. This is said to be the myth of the original race or inhabitants in Greece, who were known as the Pelasgians. (Before I end here, I would like to say that I have taken part of this article out, concerning the so-called Pelasgian Creation Myth, which is different to that of Apollonius' account. This myth was recreated by Robert Graves, a famous contemporary mythographer and author of a number of books, including The White Goddess (I haven't read this), and The Greek Myths, which is where I got the PCM (Pelasgian Creation Myth) from. He was the only person I know who wrote this version of Eurynome and the Cosmic Egg. Although PCM was very interesting, I am rather dubious of Mr Graves' account, which he has said to reconstruct from various sources. What I am doubtful is his reconstruction, which was more of his elaboration and invention than genuine myths from the Pelasgians. Until I can find more authentic sources that resembled Graves' account, I am afraid that the Pelasgian Creation Myth will no longer posted here. I am sorry if I had caused any inconvenience.)

2-3-Orphic Creation

The Orphic Creation Myth is another scenario of the Cosmic Egg origin, but without the Creator Goddess, Eurynome(see Eurynome and Ophion).
Behind the myth, is the religion of salvation for the human's soul. This religion was named after the mythical singer, Orpheus, who was reputedly said to be the founder of the Orphic Mysteruries. In the beginning, there was Time, which the Greeks called Chronus or Khronos. This was a period called the Unaging Time, when nothing existed and nothing grew old; indeterminate and (almost) limitless time, which some people would call Aeon. Existing at the same time as Chronus was Adrasteia, or Ananke, meaning "Necessity".
Chronus and Adrasteia combined to create primordial Spirit and Matter, which were called Aether and Chaos(Hesiod had referred to Aether as the upper atmosphere, where the air was clean and pure; he referred to Aether as male entity, while in the Orphic myth, Aether was seen as female being. Chaos was fathomless void, abyss or the yawning gap. With Hesiod, Chaos was a male primordial being, whereas in Orphic myth, the role had changed.) A third primordial being came out of Time and Necessity, Erebus – "Darkness". Chronus then combined with Aether, or possibly with Chaos and Aether, so the primeval beings caused mists to form and solidify into a Cosmic Egg.The Orphic myth was not the only one to use the Egg motif for their cosmogony.The World Egg can be found in many different Creation myths, such as from Egypt, Persia and India. After all the egg was the symbol of new birth and new life. That the god and the world were created from the Cosmic Egg. It wasn't even original idea in Greek myths. The Athenian comedy playwright, Aristophanes, wrote in the Birds that Nyx (Night) laid the egg, which Eros (Love) was born from. In Apollonius' epic, Argonautica, It was Eurynome who created the Egg, which the world as we know it, came into existence. The Cosmic Egg was the first definable matter that was created out of infinity. The World Egg was gigantic and silver in colour. When the great resplendent, silver Egg hatched, out sprang Protogonus, which literally means First-born, the first god. According to one Neo-Platonist writer, the Egg shell split in two: the two shells forming heaven and earth.Protogonus has known by several other names, such as Phanes, the god of light; Ericapaeus "Power", and Metis, which means "Intelligence". Writers often called him – Phanes. As Phanes, he was the primeval sun god with golden wings. He has four eyes, which allowed him to look in any direction. He was said to possess a number of heads in the shapes of various animals. He had a voice of bull and that of a lion. Though, he was said to be invisible, he radiated pure light. Protogonus had been identified with Eros (Love); Hesiod's Eros was also an earlier god, born at the same time as Gaea and Tartarus.Sometimes, Phanes was called Dionysus; if this is the case, then he was the first of three incarnations of Dionysus. Though people speak of him as a god, Protogonus/Phanes was in fact an androgynous being. Without a partner, he conceived and gave birth to Nyx (Night). (Different accounts say that it was Nyx, who laid the Cosmic Egg, therefore she was Protogonus' mother, not his daughter.) Protogonus (Phanes) was the first supreme ruler of heaven. Either Nyx ruled with Protogonus or on her own. Some times later, he lay with his own daughter, and then he became the father of Earth and Heaven, which they were named Gaea and Uranus . So it was Protogonus who created the earth and heaven. It was also Protogonus who had created the Golden Age of Man.Nyx ruled after Protogonus, before she abdicated in favour of her son, Uranus, who made Gaea as his consort. What follow is similar to Hesiod's Theogony. Heaven and Earth were the parents of the three Hundred-Handed(Hecatoncheires) and the three Cyclopes. They were also the parents of the Titans; they had seven sons and seven daughters (see the tables for the list of the children of Uranus and Gaea, in the Titans page). Among Uranus' children was Chroneus , the evil Titan, who dethroned his father. In Hesiod's account, it was Gaea who conspired with his son, to rid of her husband, but in the Orphic myth, it was both Nyx and Gaea who brought about Uranus' downfall, using the Titans. Cronus castrated Uranus and threw his father's genitals into the sea. Foam formed in the sea, which drifted until it reach Cyprus and the love goddess Aphrodite sprung out of the sea. Rhea was Cronus' consort, as well as his sister. In the Orphic myth, she was also confused with Demeter(Ceres), the corn goddess. Perhaps, Demeter was another aspect of Rhea. Cronus and Rhea had 6 children, including Zeus. Like Hesiod's Theogony, Cronus swallowed each child that Rhea bore him, except his youngest child, Zeus. Rhea hid the infant Zeus in a cave. Rhea wrapped a stone in swaddling clothes and gave it to her husband, which Cronus promptly swallowed, thinking he had swallowed his latest baby. Her name changed into Demeter, after Rhea gave birth to Zeus. The Cretan nymphs Adrasteia and Idaea brought up Zeus, whom they fed milk of the goat Amaltheia. The Curetes had also assisted the nymphs. How Zeus became the new supreme ruler of universe, which is a different variation to Hesiod's account. Zeus used honey to make Cronus drunk, disgorging Zeus' siblings, before Zeus dismembered his father, just as had Cronus done with his own father (Uranus). It was Nyx(Night) who had advised Zeus to swallow her father/consort,Protogonus(Phanes), the first god and the original Creator. Zeus swallowed Protogonus and the entire universe that Protogonus had created, which included the other gods. With Protogonus in his belly, Zeus gained new power and knowledge, which he used to create a new universe. Whole new sun, planets, stars, mountains, land and seas were recreated. The other gods were also reborn. Zeus ruled supreme, but he shared the world with his brothers: Poseidon received the sea and Hades got the subterranean domain of the dead, the netherworld (Underworld). Zeus ruled the sky, but they all shared the earth. Zeus had married many times. He had as many as seven wives, and three of them were his own sisters: Hestia, Demeter(or Rhea) and Hera. (Well, sometimes Demeter, as Rhea was seen as Zeus' mother.) Zeus had many children from various wives and mistresses. Some of these children became important deities; among them were Athena, Hermes, Apollo and Artemis , Ares and Hephaestus. From Demeter, Zeus, became the father of Persephone(Kore). Demeter and Persephone were living in the Dictean cave of the island Crete, where they were guarded by snakes. (According to other writers, after Zeus had overthrown his father Cronus, Rhea or Demeter tried to escape from nuptials with her own son, by assuming the form of snake. Zeus also turned himself into a snake and raped Rhea. So that Rhea (Demeter) became the mother of Persephone.) Zeus wanted a son to one-day rule in his place, and decided that his own daughter, Kore or Persephone, would be the mother of that son. Zeus secretly transformed himself into a snake, and lay with his daughter. Persephone became pregnant and became the mother of Dionysus(Zagreus).
Earlier Orphic writers called him Dionysus, but the Neoplatonist writers, sometimes called him Zagreus. The Neoplatonists also believed that Dionysus/Zagreus was a reincarnation of Protogonus/Phanes, whom Zeus had swallowed earlier. For the sake of convenience I will call Dionysus, son of Persephone, as Zagreus, so we can distinguish one Dionysus from the other.
While Zagreus was still an infant, Zeus placed the sceptre in his son's tiny hand, and announced before all the gods that Zagreus will become their new ruler.
Zeus' other wife, Hera, was jealous that Zagreus would become the next ruler of the gods; so she incited the Titans to murder the infant Zagreus (Dionysus). The Titans, who were dispossessed, became Zeus' worse enemies, so they readily agreed.The Titans painted their face white, and they lured the infant Zagreus from the safety of the cave, with toys, such as mirror, doll, knuckle bones, and spin-top called bull-roarer. Zagreus left the cave before he realised that he was in danger. Zagreus tried to escape, by assuming various transformations. When the Titans caught him, they tore him to pieces before they devoured him. Athena arrived in time to save the Zagreus' heart, which she brought to her father. Athena had managed to keep the heart alive and beating, by breathing life into it.Enraged that the Titans had attacked his son, Zeus hurled his mighty thunderbolts, blasting the Titans to ashes. From the ashes of the Titans, mankind rose.(The dual natures of the Orphic belief come from that all men have two different natures: good and evil, earthly and spiritual (immortal), Dionysiac and Titanic. Since the Titans had consumed Dionysus, the evil nature comes from the Titans, while good comes from the Dionysiac part. To gain entry to Elysium , the initiated of the Orphic Mysteries must live a good, ascetic life in three separate incarnations. See Orphic Mysteries.) It was still Zeus' intention to leave the kingship of the universe to one of his sons, and that son would have been Zageus/Dionysus. Zeus swallowed Zagreus' heart, and visited a mortal woman, named Semele , daughter of Cadmus, king of Thebes, whom he seduced and made pregnant. (According to Hyginus, Zeus created mead out of Zagreus' heart, which he gave to Semele to drink. This was how she became pregnant.) The myth of Semele's death and the birth of Dionysus is the same with usual myth about Dionysus. The jealous Hera duped Semele into asking for a fatal boon from Zeus, which she died, but Zeus saved the unborn child, by sewing the baby into his thigh. When it was time, Dionysus was born again, from the thigh of Zeus. (Hyginus omitted about Dionysus being born from Zeus' thigh.) Dionysus was a reincarnation of the god Zagreus, son of Persephone. There is also an Orphic version, of the abduction and rape of Persephone (Kore) by Hades, and the myth of Demeter's wandering. Several aspects of the myth of Demeter and Persephone have also changed. Since Dionysus' life in the Orphic myth is the same told elsewhere, the Orphic Creation ends here. But there is no doubt that when the time came, Zeus would step down from the throne; Dionysus would ascend, and be crowned. According to the Orphic myths, six rulers had reign in heaven: Protogonus/Phanes, Nyx, Uranus, Cronus, Zeus and Dionysus. Dionysus was the reincarnation of Zagreus/Dionysus, as well as the reincarnation of Protogonus.
If you are interested in learning more about the Orphic Mysteries then I would suggest that you go to the Mysteries page. In Hesiod's account about the creation, he only mentioned Cronus swallowing his children: Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Poseidon and Hades, and later on Zeus swallowing the pregnant Metis.
In the Orphic myths, the cannibalism of the gods is even more evident. Cronus swallowed his children; Zeus swallowed Phanes/Protogonus and the entire universe; Zeus swallowed Metis; the Titans devoured Dionysus/Zagreus and Zeus swallowing the heart of Dionysus/Zagreus. It seemed that birth follow by death, which in turn is then followed by rebirth.

2-4-Cosmogony of Diodorus Siculus

According to the 1st century BC historian, Diodorus Siculus, Oceanus and Tethys were the source of all gods. To Diodorus, Uranus was the first king, and not really a god at all. Uranus was the first to gather people together into the first walled city, giving them laws, and teaching to how grow their crops and store food. Uranus was also an astronomer and astrologer, who could foresee the future, and made many predictions. Uranus was the father of forty-five sons from different wives, but it was from his consort Titaea, that eighteen of his sons became known as the Titans. She had also bore many daughters, including Basileia and Rhea. When Titaea died, she was deified as the goddess, whose name was Ge (Gaea). Basileia was the eldest, and had reared her brothers, which was why she was known as the Great Mother. Basileia would be identified as Hesiod's Theia, because of her relationship with her brother and children, but Diodorus also identified her with the Phrygian goddess, Cybele. She ruled after her father's death and deification, also as a god. She had married her brother, Hyperion , and became the mother of Helius and Selene. Her other brothers (Titans) were jealous and feared that Hyperion would keep the royal power to himself. The Titans conspired to remove Hyperion, so they killed him and threw Helius into Eridanus River, where her son drowned. In her grief, Selene threw herself off the high city wall. Basileia sought along the Eridanus to find her son's body, until she dropped from exhaustion. Here, she had a vision of her son, telling her no to grieve for him or his sister, because they were transformed into the sun god and moon goddess. The Titans would also be punished for their crime. When Basileia recovered from her swoon, she told her people about her vision, before she was seized by madness, wandering the land with her daughter's playthings, such as the kettledrums and cymbals. One day, in a thunderstorm, she vanished, and her people assumed that she had been transformed into a goddess. They erect an altar in her honour. After the death of Hyperion and Basileia, the kingdom was divided between her brothers, Atlas and Cronus. Atlas became the ancestor of the Atlantides, the people in western Libya, giving the name to Mount Atlas. Because Atlas was a great astronomer and astrologer, he published the book on the doctrine of the sphere. It was for this reason, why Atlas was usually seen as a man holding the heaven on his shoulders. Atlas was the father of a son, named Hesperus, and of seven daughters, known as the Pleiades.As to Atlas' brother, Cronus was a greedy and impious ruler, who married his sister Rhea. She bore him Zeus, one of the Olympian. Diodorus also mentioned another Zeus, who was brother of Uranus and king of Crete. Cronus was the king of Libya, Sicily and Italy. Zeus won the kingdom in a war against his father and the Titans. Unlike his father, Zeus was virtuous ruler - wise and just, and when he died, the people claimed he became god and ruler of the universe. At this point, Diodorus then give us a brief summary on a few different myths about Dionysus (III 63. 3-5). They are different because Diodorus believed that there are three people with the name Dionysus. The first Dionysus, he said was the eldest - Dionysus of India. Diodorus say it was here, where he taught the Indian the cultivation of vine and making of wine. The second Dionysus was the son of Zeus and Persephone (III 64. 1-2). It is this Dionysus that was murdered by the Titans, like in the Orphic myth. Dionysus was the first person to yoke a plough to an ox, as well as other skills needed for agriculture.
Though earlier in Book III 62. 3-7, Diodorus says that he called Dionysus the son of Demeter , instead of Persephone. The Titans had torn the young Dionysus to pieces, and boiled his flesh, but Demeter (his mother) gathered to pieces together and he was reborn. Zeus destroyed the Titans for the murder of his son. See the Orphic Creation. The third Dionysus was the son of Zeus and Semele, where he was born at Thebes. He was popularly known as Bacchus among the Greeks and Romans. See Semele about the birth of Dionysus. Diodorus also give a brief description of Orpheus involvement in with Dionysus and founding of the new Orphic religion. As it can be seen in this article, Diodorus' myth is different from Hesiod's creation. Actually most of it was his invention. Diodorus tried to rationalize well-known myths, where made the gods mortal, who became deified only at their death, as gods or goddesses. The most striking part is the death of Dionysus by the Titans, which is similar to the Orphic cosmogony. It is the earliest version we know of Dionysus in regarding to him being the son of Persephone and his death.

Classical Mythology - Chapter 1:Creation - Part 1:Theogony of Hesiod

2008-04-15T05:15:00.021+04:30

Hesiod was a Boeotian poet of either the 8th or 7th century BC, who is believed by many to flourish not long after Homer. Hesiod had written two poems, Works and Days and the Theogony. Both works can actually be combined to form an adequate Creation myth, though I had mostly relied on the Theogony. The Theogony begins with Chaos and end with Zeus' reign, and it included the tale of Titanomachia, which is the war between the Titans and the Olympians. You will also find the about Prometheus and the Deluge. It is in Works and Days, where you would find Hesiod's account of the Five Ages of Man, as well as the myth of Prometheus and Pandora. Prometheus stealing fire is also found in the other poem. Below is the myth of Creation.

1-1-Beginning

Before the beginning of the universe, there was nothing in existence until Chaos came into being. Who or what was Chaos was, the Greeks not really made clear. The Greeks usually associated Chaos as a male entity. Chaos could be personification of the abyss or void, a formless confusion.Out of the void, came Nyx ("Night") and Erebus ("Darkness"). Also from Chaos - Eros ("Love"),Gaea("Earth") and Tartarus came into being. It was Eros that made it possible for propagation between two beings – to produce offspring. By her brother Erebus, Nyx became mother of Aether ("Upper Air") and Hemera ("Day"). This was the first sexual union. By herself, Nyx became mother of several abstract personifications: Thanatos ("Death"), Moros ("Doom"), Hypnos ("Sleep"), the Fates or Moerae and Nemesis. Gaea, by herself, bore Uranus(Sky), Ourea (Mountains) and Pontus (Sea). Gaea mated with her son Pontus and she became mother of two ancient sea-gods, Nereus and Phorcys, as well as Thaumas,Eurybia, and the sea monster Ceto. Gaea married her other son, Uranus, and he became ruler of the universe. Gaea became the mother of the Titans, Hecatoncheires (Hundred-Handed) and Cyclops ("Wheel-eyed"). The birth of their children resulted in a war by the gods that lasted for generation.

1-2-War in Heaven and on Earth

1-2-1-Uranus

Uranus became ruler of the universe after marrying his mother, Gaea. Uranus was the father of the three giant creatures with hundred hands and fifty heads, Briareus,Cottus andGyges. These giants were known as the Hecatoncheires(Hundred-Handed). They were monstrous in size and strength. They were so ugly that Uranus hid them within their mother's body. Uranus probably did the same to his other three offspring known as the Cyclops. The Cyclopes were also giants, with a single eye in their foreheads. The three Cyclopes were named Arges,Brontes and Steropes . Imprisoning the six gigantic creatures within her body caused Gaea a great deal of pain. The Titans were also his offspring, but they were smaller in size and fairer in looks. Unlike their ugly brethren they weren't imprisoned. Gaea was furious at the treatment of her earlier sons, so she appealed to her son, Cronus , youngest of the Titans, to overthrow her husband and his father. At night, when Uranus was about to lay with his mother-wife (Gaea), Cronus castrated his father with an adamantine sickle and threw his father's genitals into the sea, near the island of Cythera. The Giants , Erinyes(Furies) and Meliae were born from the blood that fell on the ground, thereby impregnating her (Gaea). The Olympians would later fight the Giants, aided by the hero Heracles. In the sea, the water began foaming around the severed genitals of Uranus. This foams drifted across vast distant of sea, before it reached the isle of Cyprus. From the foaming sea, Aphrodite, goddess of love, divinely beautiful and naked, sprang into being, already as fully grown young woman. Waiting on the shore of Cyprus, Eros (Love) and Himerus (Desire) waited to greet her. The other gods paid honour to her. Aphrodite would later become the member of the Olympians, even though she was technically not an Olympian.

1-2-2-Cronus and the Titans

Cronus succeeded his father as ruler of the universe, and became leader of the Titans. He shared the earth with his brothers and sisters. Cronus married his sister, Rhea, his consort. It was during his reign that he created mankind, and ruled during the Golden Age.
Cronus however did not release his brothers, the Hundred-Handed and the Cyclops, from Tartarus. The whole purpose that Gaea instructed Cronus and the Titans to revolt against Uranus' rule was to release her other sons from Tartarus. Instead, Cronus had the monster Campe to guard the Hundred Handed and the Cyclopes, to prevent their escape from Tartarus. This caused his mother to become angry with her son that she announced that Cronus would be in turn, be overthrown by his own son, like when Cronus overthrew his father. Cronus tried to avoid this fate, by swallowing each child that his sister-wife (Reha) gave birth to. The usual story is that, he swallowed all his children except his youngest Zeus.

Picture Describtion:

(Cronus Devouring One Of His Sons GoyaOil on canvas,1820-23Prado Museum, Madrid)

Rhea realising she would lose all of her children, gave her husband a stone wrapped in swaddling cloth. The unsuspecting Cronus swallowed the stone. Rhea hid the infant Zeus in Crete, where he was brought up by nymphs and the Curetes. According to some, Zeus was born in Crete, while others say that his birthplace was in Arcadia, but he was hidden from his father at Crete. His home was in the cave of either Mount Ida or Mount Dicte. The infant Zeus was fed from the milk of the goat Amalthea. The Curetes were Cretan spirits or daimones, and were usually described and depicted as youths. The Curetes danced war-dance, clashing their spears against their shields so that Zeus' cries were drowned out by their noise. This part of myth may actually be of pre-Hellenic origin from Minoan Crete. When Zeus had grown, he married one of daughters of the Titans (the Oceanids), Oceanus and Tethys, named Metis. From Gaea, he received a drug that would make Cronus disgorged the five older children that Cronus had swallowed. Metis gave Cronus the emetic, where he vomited up Zeus' brothers and sisters. War broke out between the Titans against the younger gods known as the Olympians, led by Zeus. This war was known as the Titanomachia.Zeus and his brothers required aids, since they were outnumbered. None of the female Titans (Titanesses) took part in the war. Of all the sons of Uranus and Gaea, Oceanus had chosen to remain neutral. When Zeus calls upon the younger Titans to help him, the first to change side was the Styx, the eldest daughter of Oceanus and Tethys. Styx came to Zeus with her children: Bia (violence), Cratus (strength), Nike (victory) and Zelus (emulation). For this reason, Zeus honoured her above the other gods, and gave special places to her children.Prometheus and Epimetheus, the sons of Titan Iapetus and the Oceanid Clymene or Asia, had also defected to the Olympians, because Prometheus knew that the Zeus and his brothers would eventually win. Prometheus unsuccessfully tried to persuade his father Iapetus and his eldest brother, Atlas , to change side. Gaea advise Zeus that her other children, the Cyclopes and the Hundred-Handed would help him if he was to release them from their dungeons in Tartarus. So Zeus descended the netherworld and killed the guard, Campe, and released the prisoners. The Cyclopes became known as master smiths and as master builders. The Cyclops was responsible for making several weapons for the younger gods: Thunderbolt for Zeus, the Trident for Poseidon, and the Cap of Invisibility for Hades.Victory was ensured when Zeus also released the Hundred-Handed. Because there were three Hundred-Handed and each giant had a hundred hands, they could hurl 300 large boulders at the Titans. The war last for ten years before the Olympians won, and most of the male Titans were imprisoned in Tartarus, the deepest region in the Underworld. Zeus set the Hundred-Handed to guard the Titans. The Cyclopes or their descendants worked in the forge of Hephaestus. There was a special punishment for Atlas. In Libya, the western part of North Africa, Atlas had carried the weight of the sky upon his shoulders, for countless centuries.

1-3-Typhon

Although, Zeus and the Olympians defeated the Titans, they were faced with an even mightier foe, the Typhon.Gaea had conceived the new offspring from her brother Tartarus. Apollodorus gave a wonderful description of Typhon, in his work called the Library. Typhon was a gigantic winged monster that was part man and part beast. Typhon was also taller than the tallest mountain. Under Typhon's arms there was a hundred dragon-heads. Below his thighs were the massive coils of vipers. Typhon was a terribly horrifying sight and was deadly since flame would gush from his mouth. Typhon was father by Echidna(daughter of Phorcys and Ceto, or else, Gaea and Tartarus, which make it Typhon's sister) of many monstrous offspring: Cerberus,Chimaera,Orthus,the Hydra,Nemean Lion,Sphinx,the Caucasian Eagle, the Crommyonian Sow and vultures.
There are few different versions on how Zeus defeated the Typhon. Here, I will relate to the most popular version of the myth. When Typhon came and attacked the heaven, all the Olympians fled south from Typhon, to Egypt. The Olympians had transformed themselves into various animals to escape from the monster. Apollo had disguised himself into a crow, his sister Artemis into a cat, while Dionysus had changed into a goat, Hera into a snowy cow, Hermes into ibis, Aphrodite and Eros into fishes. Only Zeus dared to confront Typhon. Zeus hurled his deadly thunderbolts, but as the monster drew closer, Zeus would attack Typhon with the sickle of adamantine (note that this is the same sickle that Cronus had used against his father Uranus, see War in Heaven and Earth; and possibly the same sickle used by Perseus to decapitate Medusa). The Typhon fled to Mount Casion in Syria. Zeus seeing that the monster had being seriously wounded, he became over-confident. Typhon trapped Zeus in his massive coils, and with Zeus' sickle, Typhon managed to cut the sinews and tendons of Zeus' hands and had the god imprisoned in the cave. According to Apollodorus, Typhon had set a she-dragon Delphyne to guard this cave. Without his sinews, Zeus was helpless and could not wield the thunderbolts.Hermes and Aigipan had somehow retrieved the sinews and rescued Zeus. After Zeus was restored of his sinews, Zeus regained the use of the thunderbolts.Zeus wielded his mighty thunderbolts against Typhon, pursuing the monster to Sicily. Zeus defeated Typhon, and buried the monster under Mount Etna or the entire island of Sicily. The volcanic eruptions of Mount Etna were the result of Typhon's spewing out his fire.

1-4-Rise of the Olympians

Zeus , the leader of the Olympians, became the supreme ruler of the universe. He shared the world with his two brothers, Poseidon and Hades. Through casting the lot, Zeus receive the heaven and became the god of the sky, including the rain and storm, while Poseidon became god of the sea and Hades ruled the Underworld, the world of the dead. The younger gods were called Olympians because they made their home on or in the sky above Mount Olympus. Olympus was a mountain almost 3000 metres high, in northern Thessaly.Zeus became the father of most of the younger Olympian gods. Zeus learned from his grandparents, Gaea and Uranus, that if his first wife,Metis, bore a second child, that son would dethrone him as he had overthrown his father Cronus. Zeus wanted to avoid this fate, decided to swallow Metis, while she was still pregnant. When it was time for Metis to give birth, Zeus was suffering from a massive headache. Unable to bear the pain, Hephaestus or Prometheus split open Zeus' head with an axe. His daughter, Athena sprang out of the Zeus' head fully armed. This alarmed the other gods, until she took off her helmet, revealing a less warlike appearance. Zeus married the Titaness Themis, before he married his own sister Hera. Hera became his consort, queen of heaven. She bore Zeus, Ares and two daughters –Eileithyia and Hebe. Some say that Hephaestus was also their son, but Hephaestus was more popularly known as the son of Hera, without a father. Zeus had several love affairs with other goddesses. By the Titaness, Leto, he became the father of the twins, Apollo and Artemis. The Pleiade Maia, daughter of Atlas, was the mother of Hermes, the messenger of the gods. According to some authors, Aphrodite was his daughter by Diione, daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, while other earlier writers say she sprung out of the sea, from severed genitals of Uranus(I preferred this version, since aphros means "sea-foams"). The other Olympian was Hestia , the eldest child of Cronus and Rhea. Some writers say that Dionysus, son of Zeus and a mortal, Semele, became an Olympian, when Hestia decided to step aside for the youngest god. Though Zeus' other sister, Demeter, was the great earth goddess, she was not always recognised as an Olympian. Those who say that she was an Olympian, say that Hades was not, because Hades had never lived in Olympus.

1-5-Five Ages of Man

The creation of mankind can be divided into five ages.Cronus created the Golden Age. It was the happiest erafor mankind, where people lived and died peacefully. There was no illness and no disease. They never suffer from hardship of war or toil of the earth. Foods were wild and plentiful. When they died they became spirits, becoming guardian of mankind. But when the new gods arrived, they began experimenting on the creation of mankind, creating a new age. Each succeeding age would be inferior from the last, from excellent to worse. The Silver Age was inferior to the Golden Age. It was time when the gods destroy them, because they refused to honour them. The third period was the Bronze Age, which was populated with brazen men, who loved war for its own sake, until they destroyed themselves in continuous warfare. According to Apollodorus, Zeus tried to destroy the men of the Bronze Age with the Deluge. This was followed by the Heroic Age. A race of demigods, heroes who would find themselves rewarded for their courage and heroic feats, at their death, in the Isles of the Blessed (Elysium). The last age was the Iron Age. This was the worse age, where good will and decency would cease to exist. Men would suffer from great oppression by the wicked rulers. The rulers would only satisfy their own needs, because of their greed and thirst for power, until Zeus would destroy this race. cording to Apollodorus, it was Prometheus who created mankind, not Cronus nor Zeus. According to one myth, Prometheus would make each man and woman from clay and displayed what he had made to Zeus. One beautiful youth that Prometheus had created, he wanted to hide, because he knew of Zeus' fondness for boy.

1-6-Saviour of Mankind

1-6-1-Gift of the Fire

When Zeus became the supreme ruler of the universe, he was not interested with mortals, and began experimenting with the creation of mankind. The Titan,Prometheus , however, tried to protect mankind from the other gods. But in doing so Prometheus would bring about his own downfall. Prometheus was one of the few males Titans to support the Olympians in the war against the Titans. Prometheus knew the Titans would lose the war, so he persuaded his brother to change side. Prometheus was an extremely intelligent and wise god, who was gifted with foresight. He failed to persuade his father Iapetus and his elder brother Atlas not to resist against Zeus, but without avail. Both Iapetus and Atlas were punished for opposing the Olympians. Prometheus was guardian of mankind, often trying to aid them. Prometheus stole fire from the heaven, hiding the fire within a hollow fennel-stalk, and gave it to man (or he taught them how to make fire). Prometheus had also tricked Zeus, to select the part of the sacrifice the gods and man will receive. He made sure that man receive the best part. He cut a bull, and disguised the meat with its hide and entrails on top, while the bones were covered with fat. Zeus was angry with Prometheus, when he found out that he had selected the fat with only bones. The bones and fat were to be used to sacrifice to the gods, while man would keep the best meat for himself.

1-6-2-Pandora

Zeus took his revenge upon mankind, by creating the first mortal woman, named Pandora. The gods gave her gifts before showing his creation to the rest of the world. Zeus gave Pandora to Prometheus' brother, Epimetheus, in marriage. Prometheus tried to warn his brother not to accept anything from Zeus, but Epimetheus did not listen to his wise brother. One of the wedding gifts given to the new couple was a beautiful, large box. Pandora was told, to never open the box. But Pandora was curious; she wanted to know what was in the box. One day, she opened the box. All sorts of misfortunes - sufferings and evils - had escaped, to plague mankind. In horror, Pandora quickly closed the lid, but it was too late. The only thing that did not escape was Hope. This was the only thing that provided comfort for mankind in their suffering.

1-6-3-Prometheus' Punishment

Prometheus did not escape Zeus' punishment, for giving fire to mankind. He was taken to Caucasian Mountains, and chained to the highest peak. Each day, a giant eagle would come and feed on Prometheus' liver and entrails, causing the Titan to suffer in great agony.Prometheus appeared in Aeschylus' play, Prometheus Bound (mid 5th century BC), where the Titan encountered a suffering heifer. This cow was a maiden named Io, daughter of the Argive river god, Inachus. Unfortunately, she was a high priestess of Hera, who was loved by Hera's husband, Zeus. Zeus tried to hide Io from Hera, by transforming the girl into a beautiful white cow. Hera asked for the heifer (Io) as a gift, which Zeus couldn't refuse. Hera knew who the cow was, anyway. Hera set a herdsman, named Argus Panoptes with hundred eyes, to guard Io, so that Zeus couldn't rescue Io. After Hermes had killed Argus Panoptes, Hera sent a gadfly to torment Io. The gadfly stung her repeatedly that Io began to wander through many distant lands. When Prometheus met her, the Titan informed her that she would have her natural form restored to her one day, when she reaches Egypt. She would have a son by Zeus, and she would have descendants that produce powerful rulers and great heroes. Prometheus also foretold his own freedom, and reconciliation with Zeus. See Io, in the Heroines page. The irony of Prometheus' punishment was that Heracles , son of Zeus, would release the Titan from his bondage. In returned for his freedom, Prometheus informed Heracles how to win the apples of Hesperides from Prometheus' own brother, Atlas. Once Prometheus gained his freedom, the Titan, once again, shared his wisdom to Zeus. Prometheus warned Zeus not to seduce the sea goddess Thetis, because she would bear a son who would be greater than his father. Zeus avoided this fate by marrying Thetis to the hero Peleus.There was another reason, why Prometheus was released. According to Hesiod, it was simply that Zeus wished to increase the glories and fames of his son (Heracles).

1-7-Deluge

Hesiod doesn't recount of the Deluge, so I had to rely on several different authors. Zeus decided to destroy the race of men with flood, for their wickedness and impiety. According to Apollodorus, it was the race of men in the Bronze Age that Zeus wanted to destroy. Zeus sending rain and storm while Poseidon send water from the sea, covering the land with water. Prometheus managed to save his family, by warning them. Deucalion was his son by Pronoea. Deucalion had married Pyrrha, daughter of Epimetheus and Pandora. They built a chest, stored with provision. The flood lasted nine days and nights, when the chest landed at the peak of Mount Parnassus. Even though Zeus did not like Prometheus, the god was not angry that Deucalion and Pyrrha had survived the flood since they were pious couple. According to Ovid, Deucalion and Pyrrha were lonely, being the only survivors. They found a ruin temple and prayed to the goddess Themis. Themis told them to throw the bones of their mother over their shoulders. At first they were outraged by such suggestion, until Deucalion correctly interpreted that the stones on the ground were the bone of mother earth (Gaea). As the two started throwing stones behind them, people sprung out of the earth. These people became known as the Stone People. Stones that Deucalion threw, became men, while Pyrrha created women with her tossed stones. According to Apollodorus, Deucalion offered sacrifice to Zeus, as the God of Escape, when they had disembarked from the chest. Zeus sent Hermes to grant them a wish. Deucalion said that they want people, so it was Zeus, not Themis, who instructed Deucalion and Pyrrha to throw rocks over their shoulders to make people out of stones. Deucalion and Pyrrha became parents of Hellen, Amphictyon, Protogeneia, Pandora and Thyia. Deucalion ruled in Phthia, and was succeeded by his son,Hellen. According to Apollodorus, not the whole of mankind died in the Flood, with the exception of Deucalion and Pyrrha; there were other survivors, but Apollodorus doesn't say who. These few survivors were able to escape the devastation through scaling high mountains.

Classical Mythology - Chapter 0:Intruduction

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Waht are Myths? A vital factor in our development has been the use of symbols to represent ideas and urges. Symbols magically bring ideas to life, offering multiple layers of meaning.For example, when Theseus tracks down the Minotaur in the Cretan labyrinth, he lays down a thread to guide his return. This may symbolize divine inspiration, or the link between the conscious and the unconscious. The labyrinth itself can be seen as a symbol of the individual’s tortuous journey to self-knowledge, and of feminine mysteries.

0-1-Myths interpreted

Mythology has been used by poets, playwrights and artists for centuries. The nineteenth century, however, saw the rise of scientific rationalism, and social realism in the arts. Myths were in danger of being demoted to the status of antiquated tales about non-existent gods. With the rise of psychology, myths found a new status. Freud saw them as expressing repressed impulses commonly found in the personal unconscious. For example the myth of Oedipus expressed a boy’s socially unacceptable desire to kill his father and sleep with his mother. Claude Levi-Strauss, a structuralist anthropologist, saw myths as stemming from a human need to make sense of the world and to resolve cultural dilemmas. These dilemmas are embodied in the structure of myths, which is made up of opposites, such as good-bad, night-day. For Levi-Strauss, myths are a kind of universal language. While the events of myths vary, the basic structures, like grammar, are similar in myths worldwide - because people are similar.On another level of 'making sense', myths explain the world, making it manageable. For example, the myths worldwide in which human beings are fashioned from clay by a divine potter, such as the Egyptian Ptah, fulfil our need to know how and why we came to be here. Other widespread myths explain death and the seasons.

0-2-Myths as magic

Another view focuses on myth as magic. Stories of hero gods descending into the Underworld in the west, and emerging in the east, reflect the setting and rising of the sun. Myths in which an ageing goddess is reborn as a youthful virgin reflect the return of spring after winter.This kind of myth must have reassured early man. More important, it is likely that the repeated telling of stories symbolizing the rising of the sun, the return of spring, or the ripening of crops was a magical way of making these things happen.

0-3-Myths worldwide

Many commentators have noted the similarities between myths in different cultures. One theory is that this can be explained by migration, trade contact, and the exchange of myths between conquerors and conquered. There is certainly some truth in this, for example in the interweaving of Aztec and Mayan myths. However, this can hardly explain similarities such as the appearance of ‘Trickster’ gods: the infant Hermes stealing Apollo’s cattle, the Norse Loki cutting off the golden tresses of Thor’s wife Sif, or a similarly mischievous deity of the North American Winnebago Indians.

0-4-Jung's archetypes

The exploration of myths found a new dimension in the work of Carl Jung. Whereas Freud saw the unconscious as being entirely personal, the product of a lifetime’s repressed sexual urges, Jung identified a layer of consciousness below this – the collective unconscious. This is a vast psychic pool of energized symbols shared by humanity as a whole. It is filled with ‘archetypes’: symbolic figures, such as the Trickster mentioned above, the Mother, and the Father. These figures also represent the animus and anima: the undeveloped and largely unacknowledged opposite-sex parts of, respectively, the female and male psyche. Another important archetype is the Shadow, which embodies all that we deny in ourselves and ‘project’ onto people we dislike. These archetypes form the dramatis personae of myth. Thus myths offer a way for cultures to explore their collective impulses, and to express them creatively, rather than harmfully.

0-5-Myths, dreams and the individual

Jung recognized dreams as doorways between an individual and the collective unconscious. Many dreams, he said, expressed archetypes that might otherwise be projected onto the waking world as irrational fears, delusions or hatreds. Joseph Campbell, who has developed this idea, writes:

Here we can begin to see a way of working with myths on a personal level, for our own development.

Campbell and other writers have also pointed out that myths are still emerging and developing in the present day. On the social level we see this in the recurrence of mythical archetypes in popular culture, for example in the Star Wars films.

از پسر پیر(مقدمه ای بر تعریف فرزانه در هرم عادی/موفق/توانگر/فرزانه)

2008-04-13T23:47:00.005+04:30

فرزانه تلاش نمی کند قدرتمند شود.

بنابراین قدرتمند حقیقی ست.

انسان عادی در تلاش برای رسیدن به قدرت است؛

پس قدرت کافی را هرگز بدست نمی آورد.

فرزانه هیچ نمی کند،با این وجود چیزی ناتمام باقی

نمی گذارد.

...

انسان مهربان عمل می کند و چیزی ناتمام باقی می ماند.

انسان عادل عمل می کند و بسیاری چیزها ناتمام باقی می ماند.

اخلاق گرا عمل می کند و هنگامی که کاری از پیش نمی برد،

آستین بالا زده از زور استفاده می کند.

... وقتی خوبی گم می شود،اخلاقیات پدیدار می شوند.

وقتی اخلاقیات گم می شوند،آداب و رسوم جایگزین می شوند.

آداب و رسوم پوسته ایمان است و شروع آشوب و بی نظمی.

فرزانه با مهر و شفقت به اجزا می نگرد،زیرا از کل آگاه است.

همیشه در حال تواضع است و از خود ستایی می پرهیزد.

اجازه میدهد تا جریان هستی او را شکل دهد.

حرکت هستی به سوی بازگشت است و طریق آن،تسلیم.

خود ِ آزاد (برای دوست)

2008-04-10T03:15:00.009+04:30

بنام هستی ساز

دوست عزیزی که از پیش آمدی ناراحتی یا بهتر بگم ، اون پیش اومد یه جورایی حالت رو بد و بهم ریخته کرده؛حالا که حتی شاید بی هدف به net اومدی و راهت به این خونه افناده ، بیا چند لحظه (یا دقیثه)همه چیزای حال بد کن توی مغز و فکرمونَُ خاموش کنیم و با هم باشیم.

... خوب من خاموش کردم نوبت تو ِ.

...؟حالا می شه شروع کرد و اول من می برمت یه جایی؛بذار رو حساب خودخواهیم که واقعا الان هستم و ازش لذت می برم. تو یه حرکت سریع خودمُ از کل این جریان (Happenings)می کشم بیرون و می رم عقب ویکم بالا تا بتونم بهتر ببینم که داره چی می شه ؟؟ (تا اینجا تصاویر بی حرکت هستن)

حالا Play رو میزنم . تا چند لحظه فقط نگاه می کنم. از اینجا همه چیز یه جور دیگه ست؛حتی بعضی مفاهیم طور دیگه ای تعریف میشه . می تونم بفهمم که پازل زندگی رو باید طور دیگه ای ببینم. "باید بذارم تا پیش بره" رو می فهمم.اون پیش اومدَرو طور دیگه ای می بینم . یا حال بدم برای چیزی ِ که خودم بوجود آوردم (کاملا مستقیم)،که با این دید می فهمم که خوب کردم و حالا هم باید ... اینطوری که هیچی بدست نیاوردم و فقط از دست دادم!پس باید یاد بگیرم که دیگه ... نکنم تا حالم انقدر بد بشه .

یا اینکه باعث اون من نیستم (که اگه می خوای درست پیش بره باید صداقت بیرحمانه ت رو فعال کنی و تا اونجایی که بلدی احتمال دستکاری قوانینُ چک کنی تا احتمال فرافکنی ت خیلی کم شه)،که در این صورت با این زاویه دید می فهمم که این پازل رو وقتی پیش اومد ِ حال بد کنه (البته نظر من هر پیش اومدی ِ) نباید با بردار محلی که توش هستی بررسی کنی؛باید تا جایی که می تونی در بازه کلی تری از جریان هستی بررسی ش کنی و بدون که دلیل بعضی پیش اومدها بعدها معلوم میشه .آروم باش و صبور و از همه مهمتر بدون و بدون و بدون که خدا رو فراموش نکنی(البته تو هر حال و نه فقط تو دردسرهات)؛ و باز می گم :

آروم باش و صبور و از همه مهمتر بدون و بدون و بدون که خدا رو فراموش نکنی.

بازهم فراموش نکن که درس ت رو از اون بگیری یا بهتر بگم درسی رو که باید ، بگیری . وگرنه سیستم هستی اینه که اگه موردی که باید بگیری رو نفهمی (در واقع پیغام پیش اومد رو نگیری)،دوباره از این نوع برات پیش می آد ... تا زمانی که بفهمی.خیلی از چیزهایی که بد بنظر میان (در حال) ، طور دیگه ای هستن که ممکن ِ تصورش رو نکنی .

امید خردمندانه ، آرامش خاطر، باز کردن چشم ها برای دریافت پیغام و صبر .

و این رو هم بدون که برای همه پیش می آد و باید بیاد.

من توصیه هایی رو که خودم لازم دارم به تو می کنم.چون می دونی که همینجوری آدم ها چیزهایی رو به دیگران توصیه می کنن که خودشون بیشتر از همه نیاز دارن !

به هر حال دیدم که این حرف ها بدون در نظر گرفتن فرد،اتفاق و شرایط ، میتونه کمک باشه و نوشتمش .

از پسر پیر

2008-04-08T04:12:00.013+04:30

... وقتی نام و شکل دارید ، بدانید موقتی اند.

وقتی رسم وسنتی دارید ، بدانید عمل کردن به آن را باید کجا پایان دهید. با دانستن اینکه کجا باید متوقف شوید می توانید از هر خطری جلوگیری کنید.همان طور که رودخانه ها به دریا منتهی می شوند.

شناخت دیگران هوش و آگاهی ست.

شناخت خود ، خرد ناب ست.

تسلط بر دیگران (سراب) قدرت است.

تسلط بر خود ، قدرت حقیقی ست.

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اگر در مرکز باقی بمانید و با تمام وجودمرگ را به یاد داشته باشید ، بقای جاودان می یابید.

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اگر می خواهید چیزی کوچکتر شود،ابتدا اجازه دهید بلکه بیش از آن گسترده شود.اگر می خواهید از چیزی رها شوید،ابتدا اجازه دهید شکوفا گردد و اگر می خواهید چیزی بدست آورید،ابتدا آن را ببخشید .

این درک ظریفی از قانونهای هستی ست ؛ نرم بر سخت غلبه می کند و آرام بر سریع پیروز می شود.

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اولین نقاشی من

2008-04-07T09:01:00.005+04:30

این تابلو اولین نقاشی من ِ که هدیه به مادرم شده . البته در تابلوی اصلی تصویر من و مادرم با استفاده از Photoshop در وسط و پایین این تابلو اضافه شده ، که در اینجا حذف شده . (اتمام 29/12/86)
توضیح کاربردی : جدا از آبستره بودن این اثر،برای نشان دادن مفاهیم مورد انتظارم از 5 رویه سه بعدی در این صفحه استفاده کردم.

درباره فیلم Mirror Mask

2008-04-07T03:00:00.008+04:30

این انیمشن-فیلم که از این پس تو این نوشته اسمش :"ا-ف" ِ ، توسط یکی از بزرگترین گرافیست های دنیا ساخته شده.در باره این شخص و تجربیاتش و ... شما رو دعوت می کنم تا سری به Search بزنید.

در ادامه ، تجربه شخصی من در دیدن چهار مرحله ای این "ا-ف" اومده :

(1)این"ا-ف" پخش می شد و من با جزء جزء جلوه های ساختاری بصری جذاب و عجیب ولی دلنشین این هنر ، پرواز میکردم.

(2)مرحله 1 در دستانم و حس میکردم با عبور از (1) این قابلیت داده می شد که بتونم کلمات و جمله ها و موضوع سطحی فیلم که شبیه یک داستان تکراری بود رو بفهمم.با گذشت حدود نیمی از فیلم یکدفعه در تناسب خاصی رو از (1) و (2) دیدم که سریعا تبدیل شد به یک مفهوم ، که این مفهوم همیشه درونم بوده! چیزهایی من رو صدا میزدند تا عمیق تر بشم- به چیزی که سازنده میخواد- و در این حال شمه هایی از مفهوم "سایه ها" به چشم اومدن و ... .اما بنظرم اومد حرفهای بیشتری برای شنیدن هست که به (3) رفتم.

(3)مراحل (1)و(2) در دستانم و یافتن خودم در میان Shadow Process Concept دیدم. ولی نه به طریق بیان یونگ و یونگین ها بلکه به طریقی که خو سازنده فکر میکرد.

اما نظر بنده در مورد شدت یا حجم مفهوم بیان شده به نسبت کل مفهوم یاد شده :

" یک مقدمه بسیار قوی در مقیاس کوچک اما به بهترین نحو بیان"

برای من این فیلم جزء ازش نمی شه گذشت ، ندیدنش دیوانگی ِ و ... هستش.

(4) در طول پخش این واقعا اثر تکان دهنده آنقدر سمبل های موجود در ناخودآگاه جمعی رو می بینی که چشات گرد میشه و حتی به مفهوم آنیما و آنیموس هم رحم نکرده و ... .

خیلی علاقه مندم که برای این فیلم یه جلسه حسابی برگذار بشه ، اونوقت حتماً مغزتون آتیش می گیره!

معرفی یک کتاب(؟)

2008-04-07T01:15:00.005+04:30

این کتاب در ادامه کتاب "انسان و سمبولهایش" آومده (اینطوری که رو جلدش نوشته شده) :
"انسان و اسطوره هایش" اثر کارل گوستاو یونگ / ژوزف هندرسن
(البته غیر از روی جلد در دو جای دیگه نویسنده فقط ژوزف هندرسن ذکر شده)
با جستجو در دو Data Base قوی (iblist.com & ibookdb.net) چیزی مبنی بر وجود این کتاب پیدا نکردم!!
فرم انگلیسی نامگذاری روی کتاب :
The Ancient Myths & Modern Man / C.G.Jung - Joseph Henderson
نسخه ای که من تهیه کردم ترجمه حسن اکبریان طبری ِ.
از نشر دایره.
اگر کسی موضوع رو متوجه شده و یا ترجمه بلیغ تری ُ سراغ داره ، خوشحال می شم که من رو هم در جریان بذاره.

از پسر پیر

2008-04-05T02:52:00.006+04:30

... مشغول هستی ایم ، در حالیکه نیستی است که به کار می آید.

رنگ ها چشم را کور می کنند .صداها گوش را کر ، مزه ها چشایی را کند ، افکار ذهن را ضعیف می کنند و آرزو ها موجب پژمردن دل می شوند...
اگر می خواهید یکپارچه باشید ، قطعه قطعه شوید.
اگر می خواهید صاف باشید ،خمیده شوید.
اگر میخواهید پر باشید خالی شوید و اگر می خواهید رستاخیز یابید ، بمیرید...
کسی که روی انگشتانش می ایستد،نمی تواتند تعادلش را حفظ کند .
کسی که عجله می کند،نمی تواند خیلی پیش برود.
کسی که سعی در درخشیدن می کند،نور وجودش را خاموش می کند...
کسی که به کارش می چسبد،چیزی که دیری بپاید خلق نمی کند...
سنگین ریشه سبک است و ثبات منبع حرکت...
انسان خوب کسی نیست جز آموزگاری برای انسان بد و انسان بد کسی نیست جز به چالشی برای انسان خوب.
اگر این را درک نکنید ، به حتم راه را گم می کنید؛اگرچه بسیار باهوش باشید.
این راز ِ بزرگ است....

از شمس

2008-04-04T22:10:00.012+04:30

دلا تو شهد منه در دهان رنجوران/حدیث چشم مگو با جماعت کوران

اگرچه از رگ گردن ، به بنده نزدیک است/خدای ، دور بود از بر خدا دوران

درون خویش بپرداز ، تا برون آیند/ز پرده ها به تجلی چو ماه ، مستوران

اگر چه گم شوی از خویش و از جهان اینجا/برون خویش و جهان ، گشته ای ز مشهوران
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لباس فکرت و اندیشها ، برون انداز/که آفتاب نتابد، مگر که بر عوران

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در باره فیلم 40Days And 40Nights

2008-04-03T21:59:00.005+04:30

در باره سال ساخت ، بازیگزان ، کارگردان و ... این فیلم می تونید به http://www.imdb.org/ مراجعه کنید و در محل Search نام فیلم را وارد کنید.

اما نظر من در باره این فیلم :
برای فهم موضوع این فیلم تلاشی لازم نیست ؛ چون شبیه به راحتُ الحلقوم ِ .بیش از یک بار دیدنش برای Fun امکانپذیره . کلا مطمئن باشید که فیلم با مزه ای می بینید .
موضوع کاربردی که میشه از این فیلم استخراج کرد (که دقدقه نویسنده نبوده) ، یک قانون مهم و فکر بَر و ... هستی ِ که تو زندگی همه جریان داره . تو این فیلم شما یکی از دلایلی که باعث فعال سازی این قانون با نمود یکسری وقایع زنجیره ای می شه رو می بینید.
فعال شدن این قانون ، به موارد زیادی از قبیل روش تفکر ، نیت ، هدف ، تصمیم گیری و ... حساس ِ. من اسم این قانون رو “Inverse Synchronizing” میذارم . در این فیلم بستن یک قرارداد یک طرفه با هستی این قانون رو فعال می کنه.
نکته قابل ذکر در باره مواردی که باعث فعال سازی این قانون می شن اینه که ، در اکثر موارد دیده می شه نوعی اعلام وجود و دعوت به دست و پنجه نرم کردن ِ انتخابی یا ناآگاهانه ، با هستی “Inverse Synchronizing” رو فعال می کنه .
در آخر یه نکته در قالب طنز : قابل توجه آقایون محترم ، حتی فکرش رو هم نکنید ، تو این منطقه جغرافیایی 40 روز که هیچی بیشترش هم دیده شده که جواب نمی ده و از اون بد تر اینه که ممکن برعکس جواب بده ....

بنظر شما اول تو کدوم زبان بوده؟

2008-04-02T20:40:00.000+04:30

Gaff : به معنی گفتار بیهوده ، پیرمرد پر حرف!
اِستکان : که نمی دونم چطوری روسی نوشته می شه ، تو روسی ، به ته بطری های ودکا گفته می شه !

آغاز

2008-04-02T16:02:00.005+04:30

بنام او که "انسان" را آفرید،

آن هم از چه!؟ ودر چه اندازه ای نسبت به تمامیت هستی ، که اصولا نمی توان مرزی برای آن قائل شد!

"چه رویاهایی که نمی آید؟ و چه سوال هایی که می آید؟ و به عکس"

یکی از خواسته های من در اینجا اینه که بتونیم ما رو بسازیم ؛ با دونستن این مطلب که درون یکایک ما پتانسیل هایی (در صورت زندگی نشدن پتانسیل هستند) هست با قابلیت ها ، قدرت ها و ... یی همانند او که در ابتدای این نوشته آومده .

اگر این پتانسیل ها رو در یک نوع طبقه بندی به صورت دو بخش جمعی و فردی بیان کنیم :

جمعی : قسمتی از داشته های هر کدوم از ما ، به لحاظ فراوانی مفهوم چندین و چند قابلیت وادراک و نه میزان استفاده شده از پتانسیل هر یک از این مفاهیم ، در همه مشترک ِ . با این توضیح معلوم ِ که اهمیت و کاتالیزرو بودن ما رو چطور می تونیم برای خودمون کمی بکنیم و مهم ِ که از چه روشی یک مفهوم کیفی رو به صورت کمی بیان کنیم . اما مهم ترین مساله برای بیان صحیح اون - بدون توجه به روش - اینه که (مثلا اگر بازه کمیت رو 100-0 تعریف کنیم) بدونیم 100 چیه که برای این دونستن باید ببینیم صاحب روش چه توضیحاتی داده.جالب اینه که صاحب این روش این 100 رو از همین قسمت از داشته هامون کشف کرده یا براش روشن شده .

(اهمیت وجود و نیاز به پیامبر-غیر از موارد استثنا؟)

فردی : این قسمت از داشته هامون هم متشکل از مفهوم چندین و چند قابلیت و ادراک ِ . مشترک بودن این قسمت با همه مفومی نداره ، ممکن ِ این اشتراک در موارد کمی به لحاظ تعداد نفرات ، تعداد و نوع مفاهیم و درصد اشتراک وجود داشته باشه .

اهمیت ما در این بخش ِ که خیلی پر رنگ می شه.