A collective dream of Brexit? A strange dream classically Jungian in form.I am looking over a great plain. I look into the night sky and see a full Moon. The Moon is vast and fills the sky. Then into the night sky comes a comet it crosses the horizon, leaving behind a red trail. I know that the comet is called Typhon. As I awake I analyse the dream and feel uneasy. It was the full Moon yesterday what will happen within a fortnight.
The dream works on many level. It has Jungian, archetypal, associative and collective aspects. Something is very sick in the state of the UK Do I interpret it as a Jungian, a neopagan, a blogger or a political activist. The numerous lens do not matter all that is clear that a crisis is coming that can be read in a nuanced multi level wzy. It does not matter whether I am the old Pagan, the Eco Socialist or the Jungian analyst . Something is rotten in our state , the government daecays, it rules but does not govern. It is rising on its feet yet this is not an expression of courage..It is an expression of fear..fear of the coming Corbyn government. I wonder what the Tories dreamt of last night? The collective stirs and the Tories are sore afraid.
In Greek myth
Typhon was a hundred headed monster who Zeus cast into Tartarus. He was
the child of Gaia and is a perfect symbol for the rise of Fascism and
the Far Right. The monster was buried beneath the volcano Etna. Typhon
had a human head and below the neck was serpent like in body. Typhon is s
perfect representation of far right populism and fascism.
I feel like Jung having his Siegfried dream just before the nightmare of 1914. I hope I am very wrong...but I am not hopeful...Typhon rises out of the great sea of politics and with it the stench of Weimar..am I deluded, prophetic or just too imaginative? I just do not know...And the Moon waxes and becomes full on Sunday..precognition or intuition ?
For our ancestors the femur
was a symbol of movement and thus of the life force, especially in
relation to the prehistoric burial mounds (inside which have been found
cases of missing femurs) and the initiatory ritual of rebirth that took
place inside them. In this article I will try to unveil the symbolic
relation between these archaeological finds and the myth of the battle
between Zeus and Typhon.
Typhon:
I can simplify by saying that for me Typhon is a symbolic incarnation of Death. In the mythical tale Zeus figths with Typhon and tries to kill him, but the monster manages to sever the tendons of Zeus’ hands and feet, therefore immobilizing the god. The key in this context is to understand that the tendons fulfill the same symbolic function of the femur in relation to the ability to move and to the life force of an individual: the tendons perform in the myth the same role that the femur performs in the ritual. Zeus is immobilized, alive but at the same time symbolically dead, awaiting his rebirth (i.e. awaiting to regain the ability to move), exactly like the divine ancestor inside the burial mound.
It will not surprise the fact that at that point Typhon will bring Zeus inside a cave (i.e. the burial mound), where he will hide the tendons of the god inside a bear’s skin (an extremely archaic symbolism, that originates directly from the primordial Bear Cult practiced by the Neanderthals long before the end of the last Ice Age). The cave (i.e. the womb of the earth) is the Korykion Antron (“cave of the leather sack”, from korykos, “leather sack”) and is protected by the dragoness Delphyne (from the syllable delph, “womb”).
The Korykion Antron:
The korykos (“leather sack”):
But finally Hermes (name that etymologically means “stone”, while the Greek word hermaion described both a fortunate man and a pile of stones [perhaps originally in reference to the dolmens, i.e. the burial mounds?]) manages to enter the cave (he is a psychopomp god with the privilege of being able to access and return freely from the realm of death) and to recover the precious tendons: immediately Zeus regains the ability to move (i.e. he returns to life after an apparent and symbolic death) and defeats Typhon (i.e. Death) once and for all; the divine child (i.e. Hermes/Odin) has found the femur of his ancestor inside the mound, and by means of an initiatory ritual has achieved a superior and transcendent spiritual state: he remembers and is aware of his previous existences and consciences, which now are, at the same time, distinct and unified realities in the shape of this reborn divine being.
I feel like Jung having his Siegfried dream just before the nightmare of 1914. I hope I am very wrong...but I am not hopeful...Typhon rises out of the great sea of politics and with it the stench of Weimar..am I deluded, prophetic or just too imaginative? I just do not know...And the Moon waxes and becomes full on Sunday..precognition or intuition ?
About Zeus and Typhon
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Typhon is a monstrous creature described in different ways by the
various ancient sources, but generally speaking he was a gigantic winged
monster with an at least partially serpentine shape.Typhon:
I can simplify by saying that for me Typhon is a symbolic incarnation of Death. In the mythical tale Zeus figths with Typhon and tries to kill him, but the monster manages to sever the tendons of Zeus’ hands and feet, therefore immobilizing the god. The key in this context is to understand that the tendons fulfill the same symbolic function of the femur in relation to the ability to move and to the life force of an individual: the tendons perform in the myth the same role that the femur performs in the ritual. Zeus is immobilized, alive but at the same time symbolically dead, awaiting his rebirth (i.e. awaiting to regain the ability to move), exactly like the divine ancestor inside the burial mound.
It will not surprise the fact that at that point Typhon will bring Zeus inside a cave (i.e. the burial mound), where he will hide the tendons of the god inside a bear’s skin (an extremely archaic symbolism, that originates directly from the primordial Bear Cult practiced by the Neanderthals long before the end of the last Ice Age). The cave (i.e. the womb of the earth) is the Korykion Antron (“cave of the leather sack”, from korykos, “leather sack”) and is protected by the dragoness Delphyne (from the syllable delph, “womb”).
The Korykion Antron:
The korykos (“leather sack”):
But finally Hermes (name that etymologically means “stone”, while the Greek word hermaion described both a fortunate man and a pile of stones [perhaps originally in reference to the dolmens, i.e. the burial mounds?]) manages to enter the cave (he is a psychopomp god with the privilege of being able to access and return freely from the realm of death) and to recover the precious tendons: immediately Zeus regains the ability to move (i.e. he returns to life after an apparent and symbolic death) and defeats Typhon (i.e. Death) once and for all; the divine child (i.e. Hermes/Odin) has found the femur of his ancestor inside the mound, and by means of an initiatory ritual has achieved a superior and transcendent spiritual state: he remembers and is aware of his previous existences and consciences, which now are, at the same time, distinct and unified realities in the shape of this reborn divine being.
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