In many ways, it is not at all a controversial thing to assert that War is rather fundamental to the Indo-European View of the Universe. One of the first mythemes that almost everybody tends to identify when they begin their journey along the skeins of comparative Indo-European mythography - is that of the 'Chaoskampf', the … Continue reading On The Mytholinguistics Of War [Part 1]
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JAI MAHAKAAL On Moon-Day
JAI MAHAKAAL MAHAKAALSMRITI REMEMBER DEATH IT IS MONDAY, THEREFORE - GLORIOUS (MODERN) SHIVA (A)ART(I) As a brief point of explication ... Kaal (काल)is one of my favourite words in any language. For it simultaneously means BLACK, TIME, DEATH, DESTINY/FATE [and also Iron, and also the pupil of the eye - which, as you'll note here, … Continue reading JAI MAHAKAAL On Moon-Day
On Stepping Into The Same River Twice – An Indo-European Theory Of Time (Travel)
It has been said, with some justification, that one 'cannot step in the same river twice'. That the inexorable flow of time ineffably means that the past reality of a thing is irrecoverable, in the present nor future. And yet, despite the provenance of this proverb, it is not ... or not entirely accurately, at … Continue reading On Stepping Into The Same River Twice – An Indo-European Theory Of Time (Travel)
Dhumavati – The Smoke That Clouds, Reveals, Remains
Today, I think, is a Day for Dhumavati. A Mahavidya ['Great Wisdom/Revelation' - you can see the coterminous linguistic particle there with "Vidya", connected to the idea of "seeing", of truths being "revealed"] Aspect of Devi, this form of the Goddess is often regarded as being of somewhat baelful portency. And, with a poignant array … Continue reading Dhumavati – The Smoke That Clouds, Reveals, Remains
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