Joining the End to the Beginning (2/5)

0 Comments | February 28, 2009 at 7:53 am by mahud

In Chinese mythology it is the character of the maimed and limping Yu who plays the role of cosmic walker in nine steps within a nine fold cosmos, incorporating Daoist philosophy of an ever changing universe through the cyclic processes of yin giving perpetually birth to yang giving birth to yin (and so on), in […]

The Baptism of the Lord (and its mythic symbolism)

0 Comments | January 12, 2008 at 1:29 am by mahud

Baptism of Jesus in the Hortus Deliciarum

The Feast of the Baptism of the Lord is observed by the Roman Catholic and Anglican Churches after Epiphany, while the Eastern Orthodox Commemorates Jesus’ baptism on Epiphany 1..
It is not the day when Christ was born that should be called Epiphany”, says St. John Chrysostom, “but the […]

Salty Leviathan

2 Comments | June 2, 2007 at 7:39 pm by mahud

I came across an interesting tradition at Dance of the Mind earlier, regarding the Leviathan, found in the Talmudic tractate Baba Batra:
Rab Judah said in the name of Rab: All that the Holy One, blessed be He, created in his world he created male and female. Likewise, Leviathan the slant serpent and Leviathan the tortuous […]

Serpent Soul

0 Comments | May 29, 2007 at 7:32 pm by mahud

Origen, in Against Celcus (6:24-25), relates the description of a diagram, drawn by Celcus, of ten separate circles joined by a single circle that represented the universal soul. The name of the universal soul was ‘Leviathan’ (The multi-headed sea serpent of Hebrew mythology) , its name given to both the centre and the circumference of […]

Iliad/Exodus parallel?

2 Comments | November 14, 2006 at 1:53 am by mahud

I see a parallel between the opening chapters of the book of Exodus, and the intro to the Iliad, but I’ve never really discussed it with anyone before. Is there a connection do you think, or is it just coincidence, that both match up on a number of different points? I can’t help but think […]