Hesiod in his "Theogony", which is translated into Russian as "The Origin of the Gods", although the meaning of this word is slightly different and means approximately "What needs to be connected to in order to reify … (the list of reified objects is already in the text itself)", gives a number most interesting legends that formed the basis of Greek mythology and all European culture. And every time I am surprised how much is hidden in this work. I don’t know if Hesiod actually lived, where he got the data from, but some moments of his "Theogony" are really off scale with the mystery of the sources.
One of them is the myth of the birth of Aphrodite:
“Leading the night behind him, Uranus appeared and he lay down
Near Gaia, burning with love, and everywhere
Spread around. Suddenly left hand
The son stretched out from an ambush, and with his right, grabbing a huge
Sharp-toothed sickle, cut off the dear parent quickly
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The penis is childbearing and threw it back with a strong swing.
And not fruitlessly from the hands of the crown he flew the mighty:
How many bloody drops poured from a member on the ground, All of them the Earth accepted. And when the years turned around
She gave birth to powerful Erinyes and great Giants
With long spears in the hands of the mighty, in shining armor, Likewise, the nymphs that we call Melias on earth.
The father's member is childbearing, cut off with a sharp iron, I was running along the sea for a long time, and white foam
Whipped around from the incorruptible member. And the girl in the foam
In that it was born. First I swam to the sacred Kiefer, After that, it came to Cyprus, washed by the sea.
A beautiful goddess came ashore. Step foot -
Grasses grow under a slender leg. Her Aphrodite, Gods and people are calling because she was born from foam.
And they call Kiferea because she stuck to Kifera, "Born in Cyprus" - that she was born in Cyprus, washed by the waves.
The goddess immediately went to the tribe of the eternal blessed."
Being written in an ancient poetic language, the text can hide many meanings, sometimes speaking about them only in symbols; the famous Russian translation by V. V. Veresaeva, of course, does not take them into account. So, for example, this plot already refers us to the legendary wild cult of Cybele, in whose honor the priests castrated themselves during the ritual …
But in this case, you don't even have to go into the jungle of symbolism and you can use this classical translation to see the following picture: Uranus is the starry sky, and according to this myth it was always above the earth until Kronos cut off from him with his sickle "A member of childbearing."
The first riddle lies in the description of the weapon itself: "Immediately having created a gray iron breed, she made a huge sickle and showed it to her beloved children" - What is this sickle (ἅρπην)? After all, the sickle is usually the symbol of the moon. But it says that he was created by the Earth itself, that is, in its bowels.
Further, the very "genital member" in the Greek text is called the word "μήδεα", which very much reminds us of the simple Russian "mudo" and is a rather complicated word that hides some potential can be applied to anything. This symbol in the Russian fairy tale about Kolobok, for example, is expressed in the image of the Test, from which the bun was blinded. In dictionaries, it is defined by two translations: 1 - genitals, 2 - ingenuity, prudence, plan. Which is logical, because the male seed carries in itself the so-called "patterns", schemes, plans, which, in combination with the female egg and hormones, are capable of developing into any variant (child). They do not dictate what should come out in the end, they only guide and give options. This is the male "Uranic" part of the Creation,in contrast to the female - "earthly". That is why multivariate Images are called “Patterns” from “Pater” - Father. And their embodiment in reality - by Materialization - is from Mother-matter.
In myth, the female womb is the Earth. And the male fertilizing component is the "Midea" of Uranus, which fell from the sky into the primitive lifeless Ocean. And then, around this object, a life-giving foam forms, which over time develops and goes to land - and the herbs bloom under the foot of Aphrodite.
The goddess is famous for her luxurious hair. During the Renaissance, she was often depicted coming out of the sea and squeezing moisture from her hair:
Tiziano. Venere Anadiomene.
“… House of Cypriot
In an armchair, skillfully turned, sat in front of the door
And she let her hair down in luxurious strands over her shoulders.
I scratched them with a comb with gold and was going to weave
Long curls…."
(Apollonius of Rhodes. Argonautics. 43-47)
"I quickly twisted strands of uncombed hair with my hands."
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"Then there was Cypride, loosening her lush curls …"
(1: 736).
The Greek dictionary tells us:
"Κόμη" - hair.
"Κομάω" - to allow hair to grow.
The word "Comet" (κομήτης) means "Long-haired" and personally reminds me of our "cosmas". And to the heap I want to bring one association:
The comma sign "," - a point with a tail - is called "comma" or "κόμμα". Isn't it a Comet? The tail … In this case, "κόμμα", as a rule, means something short or cut off. Which, comparing with the myth of Uranus, just gives us a picture of his castration or Egyptian circumcision. And also numerous traditions of cutting off a lock of hair when moving into a new life (or growing up). Could a comma comma be cut off by a lock of hair?.. Yes! Everything is like in life: a cut off lock symbolizes the completion of only some part of life, but not the whole life, just like a comma completes only a part of a complex sentence, and not the sentence itself.
After free associations, I return to the plot.
The lovely long-haired "goddess" falls into the arms of the Ocean, making it seethe, giving birth to thunder and fierce lightning (Ἔρως). Divine passion that gave birth to the first aquatic living organisms, increasing in size over time. Life unfolded in the endless expanses of the ocean. Volcanoes thundered to greet her.
Sea foam, synthesizing organic matter for itself, took the form of algae, molluscs, fish, crustaceans and snakes, which processed it, spreading and releasing it, until it reached the shore of a hospitable land. And now the grass ran along its slopes, and flowers bloomed on the hills. The animals, following the greenery, threw back their tails and fins, feeling for the first time the weight of the damp earth.
Life went on as wet footprints of the foamy goddess across deserts and mountains, turning them into forests and steppes … This myth is duplicated in different characters and plots …
And here is the main question: where did the ancient Greek poet get the information about the fallen comet that brought life to our planet?
Author: peremyshlin