[100 Challenge] Ocean_57

[100 Challenge] Ocean_57

Pull Down the Water

Poets as earliest positions: the charm speakers. And all of this rhyme and "weaving" in order to join the spell together as well as the spell to the mind (re-member it) seamed bodies back together by their utterances (Now perhaps discounted as faith healing of shamanism). Consider our degenerated "simply speak one true thing into the ailing person's ear”. Ancient poet as heavily trained in skill via an intact lineage of myth singers. One must confront, and perhaps come to terms with, not only the trail of weeping which fades away behind the degenerate tool of written language, but also that of the craft and role of craftsperson in the poet, who is a weak isolated inventor, rather than a revered medicine person.

What is “dragon”? Symbolic opponent on many levels, but why kill? Despair over the inability to arrest time. Language of men versus language of gods/poets: they are different. Quite different.

What could bring us back to the ancient ways except for being like/of the ancient ways? In this regard primitive skill shares might be more effective than, say, the horse sacrifice.

Mother’s Fixation of food consumption, compulsive eating. She needed to pass the world through the body. Needed it to become her, to touch it, for it to be within her, and then excreted as though she had made it: a fecal birth.

 

How do we access primitive mind? Through children. Their ideas, fantasies, games, words, art. All are clues and windows into a primal world seemingly lost to us. Eavesdrop on them.

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