MYTHOLOGIES: Text-ures

EDITORIAL

Mythologies

1.1

Stories are told to each generation.  These stories are passed from father to son, pastor to partitioners, troubadours to the stationary, friend to friend, community to community.

Each contains a vision of the world.  Visions that share elements of truth and fiction.  Structural elements and characters have changed names, forms, and moralities.

There are many scholars, more studied that I, who have analyzed why culture developed mythology; and this is a blog, not a dissertation.

My understanding is that we develop mythologies to explain the world.  (Most) ancient Greeks did not believe that there was a literal person tossing lightening during a storm.  Zeus myths go towards explaining the world in which they lived.  These tales provided folks a way to rationalize their world, to create a culture.  Stories are told between people, and these shared stories make up the fundamental attributes of culture, and this should never be underestimated.

META MEDITATIONS ( #_ of _ )

OBELISK

Obelisk study, G/O, 2015

Raising up the obelisk in St. Peter's Square, Rome. 1586.  drawing via Google search

Raising up the obelisk in St. Peter's Square, Rome. 1586.  drawing via Google search

Obelisk in the gardens adjacent to the Villa Medici in Rome

MYSTICISMS I

THE postulate of the self-preservative instincts we ascribe to every living being stands in remarkable contrast to the supposition that the whole life of instinct serves the one end of bringing about death.  The theoretic significance of the instincts of self-preservation, power and self-assertion, shrinks to nothing, seen in this light; they are part-instincts designed to secure the path do death peculiar to the organism and to ward off possibilities of return to the inorganic other than the immanent ones, but the enigmatic struggle of the organism to maintain itself in spite of all the world, a struggle that cannot be brought into connection with anything else, disappears.  
- Frued, Sigmund.  Beyond the Pleasure Principle.  Chapter V, p 36; C.J.M. Hubcap ,translation; (c) 2006, 1920

Space:

The Final Frontier

(2012-present)

Light in the Void, 2015

The Origin of Species (study), 2014

The Shadows of the Sun on the Landscape, 2015

DRAWING: V

house apollo

to michangelo

casa sol

MYTHOLOGIES I

...and before the throne there was as it were a sea of glass, like crystal.

And around the throne, on each side of the throne, are four living creatures, full of eyes in front and behind: the first living creature like a lion, the second living creature like an ox, the third living creature with the face of a man, and the fourth living creature like an eagle in flight.
- Revelation 4:6-7

Apollo Medusa, Pencil, 2013

ART: Tell Daedalus, I Want A Refund

Tell Daedalus, I Want a Refund
Pen on paper
2013

MYTHOLOGIES V

PORTICO

Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita

mi ritrovai per una selva oscura,

ché la diritta via era smarrita.

Ahi quanto a dir qual era è cosa dura

esta selva selvaggia e aspra e forte

che nei pensier rinnova la paura

Tant èamara che poco è più morte;

ma per trattar del ben ch'l' vi troval,

dirō de l'altre cose chi'l' v'ho scorte.

- dante, canto I.i

ROME. 2012