Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Phaedra




a dream from 6/11:

So I'm at an icey river (probably the N fork of the boy see) and I'm chucking rocks--not sure why either. I'm chucking them far, and when it skadooshes the ice, toys come out of the hole--children's toys. I throw several rocks and toys come out each time. I then walk through the river and pull a little girl out of the hole (my niece--my wife's youngest sister's only daughter). I cary her back in my arms, and I'm pretty sure she is dead.


I should mention that the little girl's name is Phaedra (and after my own form of sync dream analysis, I think this is likely the reason why she appeared in the dream).

In Greek mythology, Phaedra (Phaidra) is the daughter of Minos and Pasiphaë, wife of Theseus and the mother of Demophon of Athens and Acamas. Phaedra's name derives from the Greek word φαιδρός (phaidros), which meant "bright".
Though married to Theseus, Phaedra fell in love with Hippolytus, Theseus' son born by either Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons, or Antiope, her sister. Euripides placed this story twice on the Athenian stage, of which one version survives. According to some sources, Hippolytus had spurned Aphrodite to remain a steadfast and virginal devotee of Artemis, and Aphrodite made Phaedra fall in love with him as a punishment.[1] He rejected her.
In one version, Phaedra's nurse told Hippolytus of her love, and he swore he would not reveal her as a source of information. In revenge, Phaedra wrote Theseus a letter that claimed Hippolytus raped her. Theseus believed her and cursed Hippolytus with one of the three curses he had received from Poseidon.[2] As a result, Hippolytus' horses were frightened by a sea monster and dragged their rider to his death.
Alternatively, after Phaedra told Theseus that Hippolytus had raped her, Theseus killed his son and Phaedra committed suicide out of guilt for she had not intended for Hippolytus to die. Artemis later told Theseus the truth. In a third version, Phaedra simply told Theseus this and did not kill herself; Dionysus sent a wild bull which terrified Hippolytus' horses.
I shared the dream w/ The Mask, and the analysis began. Immediately I realized that I owned a copy of a recent translation of the extant play dealing w/ the Phaedra material, Hyppolytos. Anne Carson, (the translator), says of the author's intent, "Euripides seems inclined to lead us into the middle of this question [free will & determinism] and leave us there. It makes me think of a hardboiled egg."

Eleleth responded to the dream with a question:

"Enus: We seem to be swimming in similar waters. Or, perhaps we just
read the blog too close to bedtime. Is Phaedra the Siren, or Penelope?
We know what happened to Major Tom."

Major Tom?



Your circuit’s dead, there’s something wrong
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear....

am I floating round my tin can
Far above the Moon
Planet Earth is blue
And there’s nothing I can do?

recall . . .
& . . . .


6/15/11




(The Blade Runner)
"Although the goal, the place of redemption, the heavenly Jerusalem, is already within reach, an extremely difficult tightrope walk must be survived." (196) Tarot and the Journey of the Hero. Banzhaf, Hajo


"As long as the hero is fascinated by the light side of his anima, the star woman, he will also remain enslaved to her dark aspect. This dark aspect has pushed itself in front of the sun here as the moon. Only when the hero recognizes that the actual goal, the sun (as a symbol of the self), lies behind this darkness, can he escape from the labyrinth, or the enchanted woods." (197) Tarot and the Journey of the Hero. Banzhaf, Hajo

I reply:
I will have to get back to you on the matter of Phaedra and The Siren. . .
currently I'm dealing w/ a sword bridge on which both sides cut.
enjoy this while you wait:



(song to whom?)



(what's your name?)


(wait a minute, where do you work?)

so yes, it appears that I was presented w/ an answer regarding El's question. If that wasn't enough, I woke to find this "daydream" of a blog today:





hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm . . .



the mask of God?

anyway, I've been into the Euripides play a bit, and let me tell you about this madman stuff. Hypplytos [Caulfield], an Artemis worshiper (yes, that's the virgin moon goddess) gets mixed up a bit with Mrs. Robinson--wait I mean Phaedra. Poor Phaedra. The play is a tragedy which is a shame because what my life needs right now is more of a Mike Nichols-esque comedy.

your future? everything will be made of plastic.
so just what is it that you want?
































siren

versus

penelope

"The message from Liverpool is the Newest Testament, chanted by Four Evangelists—saints John, Paul, George, and Ringo." (Timothy Leary)

A naked woman hovers or dances above the Earth holding a staff in each hand, surrounded by a green wreath, being watched by various creatures. In older decks, these are usually a human face or head, a lion, an ox, and an eagle, the symbols of the four Evangelists, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.... According to Robert M. Place in his book The Tarot, the four beasts on the World card represent the fourfold structure of the physical world, which frames the sacred center of the world, a place where the divine can manifest. Sophia, meaning Prudence or Wisdom (the dancing woman in the center), is spirit or the sacred center, the fifth element.... The World card is thus a symbol of the goal of mystical seekers. The lady in the center is its symbol.


baby grace is the victim (and the finger points at me)

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Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Weeners? [Are you In or Out?]



regarding El's Death of The Macho Man:


The amount of talk about "weener" currently is amazing, but the subtext feels disparaging, like it's the death of the weener . . .

Boner Vs Weiner

it's funny too, cuz I'm rereading The Information right now and it too is picking on "the weener"


but for now, let's look at Anthony Weiner.


--in German:
ei = i;
and
ie = e
so everyone (including himself) is mispronouncing his name. not weener, but whiner.
And in German,
W = V
(and V= F)
so he is actually a Viner,

another sacrifice? (Dionysus/Jesus dying on the vine for our sins) . . . . Sorry again.


(of course my weener, Norbert Wiener--inventor of Cybernetics --"The term cybernetics stems from the Greek κυβερνήτης (kybernētēs, steersman, governor, pilot, or rudder — the same root as government)", has the correct spelling to get an anglicized WEENER, but in German, it's "veen", like the town where Weeners come from.

Hot Dog!









...

goddess gets hers at 4:33


Sacrificed phallus (an addendum to the Gaga post):


A Gallus (pl. Galli) was a eunuch priest of the Phrygian goddess Cybele.... The Galli castrated themselves during an ecstatic celebration called the Dies sanguinis, or "Day of Blood", which took place on March 24. At the same time they put on women's costume, mostly yellow in colour, and a sort of turban, together with pendants and ear-rings. They also wore their hair long, and bleached, and wore heavy make-up.

This is a Lesser Mystery. In the Greater Mystery, the microcosmic Goddess draws the phallic energy of the soul back into herself.

But if the Mother of the Gods emasculate Attis—she, too, regarding him as the object of her love—it is the Blessed Nature Above of the supercosmic and æonian [spaces] which calls back the masculine power of Soul to herself.

("The love of the Mother of the Gods for the Soul represents ... the absorption of the masculine power of the Soul by its own higher Feminine Nature," says G.R.S. Mead.)

For this [Mystery] is the Gate of Heaven, and this is the House of God, where the Good God dwells alone; into which [House] no impure [man] shall come—no psychic, no fleshly [man]—but it is kept under watch for the spiritual alone; where when they come, they must cast away their garments, and all become bridegrooms, obtaining their true manhood [demasculati, or exuta virilitate] through the Virginal Spirit. For this is the Virgin big with child, conceiving and bearing a Son—not psychic, not fleshly, but a blessed Æon of Æons. (Naassene Sermon)

Then again, is the phallus being rehabilitated?

Horus [of ours] is their Son, horizoned and perfect, who has not destroyed Typhon utterly, but has brought over to his side his efficacy and strength; hence they say it is that the statue of Horus at Coptos grasps in one hand Typhon’s virilia.


It is said that the mother of the gods perceiving Attis by the river Gallus, became in love with him, and having placed on him a starry hat, lived afterwards with him in intimate familiarity; but Attis falling in love with a Nymph, deserted the mother of the gods, and entered into association with the Nymph. Through this the mother of the gods caused Attis to become insane, who cutting off his genital parts, left them with the nymph, and then returning again to his pristine connection with the Goddess. (Sallust, On the Gods and the World)

These are Mysteries too deep for us to comprehend. Is Arnold's (and Kahn's) housemaid the Mother or the Nymph?

"Pat also has a brief rock music career in the film and plays with the band Ween."

Meanwhile, Giffords has been resurrected as an androgyne. Appropriate, now that "Weiner" has been sacrificed to the Great Mother.


...

The New Eve:
“'Many more are the children of the desolate [woman] than of her who hath her husband.' That is, the regenerated, deathless, and ever-continuing [children] are many, although few are they [thus] generated; but the fleshly (H. he says) all perish, though many are they [thus] generated.”

...

Blow by Blow





...

A short alchemical allegory, courtesy of "A Sticky Situation" by Carl Barks (33°):

"Men are BEASTS!"

Donald, representing Attis, the phallic power of the soul (i.e., the "Weener"), injures Daisy, or the Mother of the Gods (that is, the higher spiritual anima). Seeking to escape the masculine power that has wronged her, she retreats to the top of the Mystic Mountain of Initiation (as we have seen), or, rather, into the depths of the unconscious.

"He is the virile power, to which the Empress responds, and in this sense is he who seeks to remove the Veil of Isis; yet she remains virgo intacta." (Arthur Waite)

But having now become stranded on the lonely precipice, the Mother of the Gods calls out for a rescuer. Yet below her are all mortals; the "pick" (= "dick") axes alone are not enough to unveil her before the Children of men.


(It is for this reason, too, that Travis Bickle's attempts to wed the Sibyl are futile--though he takes Her to a pornographic film, She will respond only to Love.)

solve et coagula

A breakthrough is at last had. Daisy the Graal Maiden is saved by the "AIR FORCE," or the power of sublimated pneuma, which wields a ball of "GLUE"--as in the coagulative gluten of the white eagle, presumably. Thus is Daisy now able to fix the volatile phallic energy of Donald. Love springs eternal.


Barks must be some kind of warlock, I swear.


....
9/11 Air-Force:
I was trying to find a good image of the interior artwork for the 1992 Tom Waits album "Bone Machine." Not on the CD, but on the vinyl record's interior, there is a collage that I was looking at one night and realized it looked just like the 9/11 images of WTC destruction.
Well, I couldn't find the images online, but look what I found instead:
.....
This July 1st, Larry Crowned.


July 10th, Larry [David] Crowned as the hermaphrodite Isis.


.....


Weiner is a Zionist Jew, his wife is a Muslim. The Lovers; or, Israel-Palestine in microcosm.

and now, the latest gallus

Dionysos: Women, the man is caught in our net. He will go to the Bakkhai, where he will pay the penalty with his death. . . . Let us punish him. First drive him out of his wits, send upon him a dizzying madness, since if he is of sound mind he will not consent to wear women's clothing, but driven out of his senses he will put it on. I want him to be a source of laughter to the Thebans, led through the city in women's guise after making such terrible threats in the past. But now I will go to fit on Pentheus the dress he will wear to the house of Hades, slaughtered by his mother's hands. He will recognize the son of Zeus, Dionysos, who is in fact a god, the most terrible and yet most mild to men . . .

You who are eager to see what you ought not and hasty in pursuit of what ought not to be pursued - I mean you, Pentheus, come forth before the house, be seen by me, wearing the clothing of a woman, of an inspired maenad, a spy upon your mother and her company.

Pentheus being torn by maenads.


judgement day: the goddess will have his head


...
'tis the season for weener roastin'


Hmm. Judgement day indeed.


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