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Primordial tradition
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By : Jean-Louis Brun - Friday, 20 August 2010 19:00 |
 Here the author talks about the oldest myth of humanity, the Sumerian genesis, more than forty-one centuries-old and bases on the works of Dina Katz (« Enki and Ninhursaga, part one : the story of Dilmun », Bibliotheca orientalis n°5-6, 2007). In this legend, the God Enki will bring fertility and fecundity on the island of Dilmun, where Ninhursaga reigns. But Enki, in spite of his divine status , is an anti hero: he disregarded Ninhursaga's restriction, he will go in for incest and will get "pregnant" of himself and will give birth to eight children. However the execution pattern will allow him (7th hexagram of the I Ching) to give birth to the future king of Dilmun.
A short presentation (10 minutes) which lies within the conference Towards a universal tradition ? The scenario ». For more information about deciphering the I Ching and about the Sumerian genesis, we invite you to look at the site of Jean-Louis Brun: www.legendes-et-mythes.fr.
The eight symbols that we find successively as the story goes are: 1 "an emptying cup": the end of a dualist perception of the world. 2 "the light at the top, the fire at the bottom": mastering one's desires. 3 "the wind on the lake": the search of the inner master. 4 "the mountain under the sky" involves a change of skin. 5 "the mountain on the thunder", suggests the union of male and female principles, or a reversal of the situation that precedes a birth. 6 "the wind under the Earth": end of illusions, exit from darkness towards light. 7 "the fire in the sky": the radiance. 8 "water on the earth": perfect union of the waters.
 
 
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