Friday, June 26, 2009

Cultural : Creation Accounts. Imposing ideology.

By Dint:


Bellwether Haiku. Parthenos, Parthenogenesis, Genesis North
Persuasion of the Swedes: role of myth, meet The Gylfaginning. Norse beginnings Big Innings: and the Deception of Gylfi, who went to the gods to find out how Sigge Fridulfson could be so successful. Was he really a god, Odin?  Whose view survives.  Other beginnings in myth: concept of parthenogenesis.

Dominion: The Worst Concept in the World. The Wolf Mentality
Translations, transliteration, cultural spin. Scripture interpretations can be helpful, but not in the hands of the Wolf Pack. The idea of "dominion" is a far reach by Jerome, a distortion of meaning of the Hebrew by use of "dominamini" where the original concept seems to be a swaying,a taming, a leading towards, gently; and even that sway was only offered by the deity in the context of the first given creation tale, where both M+F were created simultaneously and equally.  It has no place in the second, where something sequential is to have happened. has been distorted. Is this an example of another concept in spirituality: that humans are like or take on attributes of a guide animal, here the Wolf -- also showing itself in group behaviors in politics, as well as in institutional religion. Offering a sway. Or down your throat, buster. The Wolf, in politics and other institutions, knows what it will do. And it does.


The Big Birds: The Phoenix, the Turul
Russian, Chinese, Japanese, North American, Egyptian, forms of the Phoenix in all. Magyar and the Turul.  The idea of a big bird recurs.

Genesis Before Genesis: Transliteration of Genesis 1-4. Surprise
Read a transliteration of the familiar story. Now read your favorite Bible.  How have the interpretations, grammar impositions, dogma and ideologies changed what is there. How does imposing a narrative, an ideology, change original, word-by-word mechanical meaning. Is the slant of the narrative justified? Does it distort? This excerpt from Genesis from Scripture4All, a favorite transliteration site. Moral. Any ideology is a creation in itself.

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