tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9650614.post1479826219745589945..comments2024-01-10T18:34:38.739-08:00Comments on Modern Mythology: Beyond Illusion: Unveiling Neptunus "In Us"Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04721839742206290258noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9650614.post-61484272116360562862011-03-19T00:13:51.161-07:002011-03-19T00:13:51.161-07:00Hey Enki :)
Thanks for your disclaimer. Chicken t...Hey Enki :)<br /><br />Thanks for your disclaimer. Chicken trading noted.<br /><br />Is there any correlation between Enki and Aquarius? That's the first thing I thought of.<br /><br />Also, I think the Sumerian civilization and advent of writing and story happened around the 2,000 year age of Gemini, which would make sense considering the sign represents just that.<br /><br />Even more interesting is that the age before Gemini was Cancer, or the "magic and water" that preceded the birth of civilization. What you said makes so sense.<br /><br />The fact that our "perceived" (key word here) birth appeared with the age of Gemini would correlate with the advent of "story" and knowledge... eating from the fruit of knowledge! And depending on who you ask, this was the time our brothers and sisters of the stars paid us visit :) This is quite the rabbit hole.<br /><br />So, now we are again transferring ages from water to air (Pisces to Aquarius) and facing a rise of information and psychic connectivity. Maybe that's also why everyone's so excited about potential "return visitors"!<br /><br />Thanks again! You inspired some deeper thinking with me. I agree with James too--would love to hear more of your thoughts.stephen hersheyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05977422932447989020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9650614.post-46369158377469450962011-03-06T13:45:10.970-08:002011-03-06T13:45:10.970-08:00So write with us as a contributor. ;pSo write with us as a contributor. ;pAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04721839742206290258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9650614.post-14074857626913117622011-03-06T13:28:55.878-08:002011-03-06T13:28:55.878-08:00The Enuma Elish (which is actually Babylonian, and...The Enuma Elish (which is actually Babylonian, and therefore post-Sumerian, but that's a minor point) is not the only ancient Mesopotamian creation myth to involve these currents. The Babylonian pantheon has a relation to the Sumerian pantheon similar to that between the Roman and Greek pantheon, and while Tiamat was slain by Marduk in the Enuma Elish, in earlier myths it is Enki (father of Marduk and holder of the domain of both water and magic) who severed the connection between An (the sky) and Ki (the earth) -- who by their constant sex created the first generation of gods.<br /><br />The above myth is bringing up several interesting connections for me. I recently read <b>The Flight of the Wild Gander</b>, and was struck by the connection between the shamanic state and the oceanic consciousness. But, this myth also resembles another one mentioned by Campbell in that book: one describing about the phasing out of shamans because of their inability to work within the system of the priesthood to perform a more complicated task [in the chapter titled <i>The Symbol Without Meaning</i>, in the section titled <i>The Shaman and the Priest</i>, pages 127-129 of my edition, which is the first 2002 New World Library edition]. Note that Enki's domain was not only magic and water but also science and civilization, and that he takes the role of the being that taught humanity the ways of civilization. It's also notable that the allegory of the removal of shamans might be placed in the mythic time at the origin of the world and attributed to the being who is credited with civilization. Ishtar later became the shaman's way, being associated with birds, the unknown and incomprehensible, and magic, and being the only one who could outsmart Enki (and therefore was allowed to have the Great Me -- essentially the complete schematics of the universe -- making her as powerful as Enki), which solidifies Enki's role as both Promethean and anti-Promethean.<br /><br />I realize this is very tangental to your post. I hope it will be interesting anyhow. Both the Sumerian and Babylonian bodies of myth are very rich, despite coming out of a society whose social mores (especially the sexual ones) are far more apparently alien than those in Norse and Greek mythology (disclaimer: there is some degree of bowlderization in all the Norse and Greek mythology I've read; things like lupercalia and bacchanalia indicate that the Greeks were not as they were described in school, and that the trading of chickens for young boys was not the limit of acceptable kink. The Norse probably are similar).John Ohnohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11352441770252592928noreply@blogger.com