Friday, 22 January 2021

Princess Moonlight (3)

And they left the desert clean

And they left the desert golden

WHEN THE EARTH MOVES AGAIN

Kantner of Jefferson Starship fronted an.itinerant band of restless hippy spacefarers, heading towards the sun, spreading the seed of love and peace.

That view of outer space has got to be anti-Musk as well as Trump and whoever else is in the White House! Rebellion is a physical act whereas government and technology are the numerical-ego at work.

It seems like "the people" are restless, but both sides indulge in lazy thinking. The hippies have a lot to say on rebellion, whereas moderns don't.

The secret is first to get physical; maybe move into a rural compound with goats and kids. Getting physical means existing in the primeval world of sun and moon, stars above, the Earth and agriculture below.

The chthonic deities of ancient Greece were also the agricultural deities; the two were closely linked, and with the associated mystery cycles (cults).

Proserpine (Persephone), queen of Hades, is the daughter of Demeter of the harvest. Persephone (spring) leaves Hades for six months of the year to go home with her mother.

In ancient Egypt, fertility deities were strongly associated with the underworld. Osiris, took a crocodile form of Sobek - god of the Nile and fertility - in the myth of his death and resurrection. The myth follows Isis's pregnancy and birth of Horus, avenger of Osiris and slayer of Set.

In stories of the afterlife, the stellar and the underworld essentially exist in the same area as the Pharaoh undergoes their journey through pitfalls to paradise.

As with Dionysus, the theme is the afterlife and revival and the symmetries of time and space. As agricultural system is strong because these symmetries exist.

An agricultural system is supported by the dirt of the Earth and through this comes revival.

The modern political system has become a product purely of the numerical-ego. It's all very well for Biden to say "the people", but there are also the land, the air, the seas and the waterways, the beasts and the fields.

An itinerant populace is exposed to all that, as well as the germs born of free-living. Free-living is healthy but not risk-free. The mainstream establishment, by attempting to be risk-free, risks creating a prison-camp mentality in a restless populace too fearful to be sure of alternatives.

It's not necessarily a Martian conspiracy, but the way to rebel is not via the usual channels. It's more of a rural-Bohemian cowboy-revival of the western plains.