Stefano mi dice di che sarebe meglio dare un senso a tutto ciò.
Chi ha appena visto alla TV: "Il miglio verde" il senso ce l'ha già! E' un vero capolavoro, superato solo, secondo me dal meraviglioso: (+ o -) "Stati di alluciniazioni progressivi", che nessuno, almeno credo, ha mai visto.
Il "senso" sta nelle api che escono dalla bocca (riferendomi al film); le api sono la rappresentazione del potere trascendentale che è in tutti noi, quello che gli inglesi chiamano "potency", vocabolo che purtroppo non ha un esatto equivalente in italiano.
I "leoni" della cosiddetta "Grotta Foggini" sono (ma questa ovviamente è solo una mia ipotesi) riconducibili al noto mito egizio della discesa di Hator, che, sotto forma di leone, fu mandata da Ra per distruggere tutta l'umanità, che gli aveva rotto...
Si veda per es.:
The Destruction of Mankind,
from The Book of the Celestial Cow
HOME KSU - Mr. Hagin - Revised: 8 October 2003 CRC
http://touregypt.net/destructionofmankind.htm http://members.tripod.com/~ib205/celestial_cow.html http://members.aol.com/egyptart/beer.html cioé, per esteso:
THE DESTRUCTION OF MANKIND
The legend of the "Destruction of Mankind" takes us back to a time when the Egyptian Gods went about in the country, and mingled with men, and were thoroughly acquainted with their desires and needs. Ra had been ruling over mankind for a very long time and his subjects were murmuring against him. Ra has become old, and fears that humans are plotting against him. They were complaining that he was old, that his bones were like silver, his body like gold, and his hair like lapis lazuli (which apparently is a bad thing).
He was perceived as weak and decrepit by people who no longer paid him homage, their worship grew lax. Ra heard these murmurings and he ordered his bodyguard to summon all the gods who had been with him in the primeval world-ocean, and to bid them privately to assemble in the Great Temple of Heliopolis. When Ra entered the Great Temple, the gods made obeisance to him, and took up their positions on each side of him, and informed him that they awaited his words. Ra bade them to take notice of the fact that the men and women whom his Eye had created were murmuring against him. He then asked them to consider the matter and to devise a plan of action for him, for he was not willing to kill his enemies without hearing what his gods had to say.
The gods spoke together, "Let thine eye go against those who have uttered blasphemies against thee, for there is no eye whatsoever that can go before it and resist thee and when it journeyeth in the form of Hathor."
Ra accepted their advice and plucked his daughter Hathor in her form of Sekhmet from his head and sent her out into the universe to avenge his anger. Like a lion she rushed upon her prey, and her chief delight was in slaughter, and her pleasure was in blood. Though the rebels had fled to the mountains in fear, the Eye of Ra pursued them, overtook them and destroyed them. At the bidding of Ra she came into Upper and Lower Egypt to slay those who had scorned and disobeyed him. She killed them among the mountains which lie on either side of the Nile, and down beside the river, and in the burning deserts. All whom she saw she slew, rejoicing in slaughter and the taste of blood.
Sekhmet rejoiced in her work of destruction. As she prowled the land she saw needless human suffering, she saw how cosmic law was defiled. She loosed her wrath upon the people of earth and the ground was littered with human bodies. During the night Sekhmet waded about in the blood of men. With her newly ignited taste for human blood, her carnage knew no bounds.
Sekhmet was the fiercest of all goddesses, a fierce lioness fond of hunting, and she stood for the fierce rays of the midday sun. Sekhmet returned to Ra, intending to kill the rest of humanity the next day. On her return she was praised by Ra for what she had done. But Ra was sorry for mankind and he called to the goddess to cease her work and to be peaceful now, as mankind had been punished enough.
But the lioness roared and said, "Thou hast made me to live, for when I gained the mastery over men and women it was sweet to my heart." Ra grieved as he looked upon the waste laid by Sekhmet. Because of her divine powers, he could not force her to cease her slaughter. He would have to resort to trickery.
Ra instructed his priests to brew seven thousand vats of beer, spiked with mandrake root and pomegranate juice and mixed with the blood of the victims. When Ra saw the beer he ordered it to be carried up the river where Sekhmet was still engaged in slaughtering men. Then when the goddess was resting this was poured upon the fields where she was about to hunt next morning, and it reached the height of four spans. When the goddess went out at day break she found all the ground flooded with beer. She admired her face in the flood, and then she drank all the beer and her heart became glad, and she did not know in what part of the land she was, and because she was drunk she fell asleep and mankind was saved.
Ra ordered that in the future at every one of his festivals, vessels of "sleep-inducing beer" should be made in the same number of beautiful handmaidens of Ra. Those who participated in the festivals of Hathor, Sekhmet and Ra drank beer in very large quantities, and under the influence of the "beautiful women" (the priestesses who were supposed to resemble Hathor in their beauty), the festival celebrations degenerated into drunken and licentious orgies.
Having once unleashed her powers for the destruction of mankind, the Egyptians feared a repeat performance by Sekhmet. They developed an elaborate ritual in hopes she could be appeased, which revolved around more than 700 statues of the goddess. The ancient priests were required to perform a ritual with one of these statues each morning and each afternoon of every single day of every single year. Only by the strictest adherence to this never-ending ritual could the ancient Egyptians be assured of their ability to placate Sekhmet.
(based on an old Egyptian legend)
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[ 12 Novembre 2004: Messaggio editato da: pyr ]
[ 12 Novembre 2004: Messaggio editato da: pyr ]
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