(02-02-2009, 04:33 PM)3D Sunset Wrote: [ -> ]We consider Mars the planet of war, and Venus the planet of Love, and in our early mythologies they are represented as gods thereof. In reading the LOO, one sees the appropriateness of these descriptions based upon 3D evolution on those planets.
This begged the question to me: "When 3D entities view Earth from the surface of some other 3D planet in this solar system, what will our lovely blue orb represent to them?"
In their early mythologies, Earth will be the god of .....(what?)
Anxiously awaiting everyone's thoughts and explanations.
3D Sunset
A-h-h-h, a poets question to be sure dear 3D.
I might suggest Janus: Janus was usually depicted with two heads looking in opposite directions. In short, he was the God of Duality. Given 3D is the density of duality, it would seem fitting that Janus be this choice representative. In general, Janus was the patron of concrete and abstract beginnings, such the religion and the Gods themselves, of the world and the human life. He was frequently used to symbolize change and transitions such as the progression of past to future, of one condition to another, of one vision to another, and of one universe to another. He was also known as the figure representing time because he could see into the past with one face and into the future with the other. Hence, Janus was worshipped at the beginnings of the harvest and planting times, as well as marriages, births and other beginnings. He was representative of the middle ground between barbarity and civilization, rural country and urban cities, and youth and adulthood.
Moving away from the poets answer, it might be that such a mythos is one reserved only from the Earth perspective verses of that from another planet.
In the Persian holy books it is said that “on the planets depends the existence or non-existence of the world—wherefore are they especially to be venerated.” . “The seven planets rule the universe,” says a Nabatean inscription.The Greeks and Romans believed that “everything is, in fact, subject to the changes brought about by the revolutions of the stars.”
The ancients were sufficiently enlightened to know that the planets are large rocks like the Earth that circle on orbits. And this makes the modern scholars wonder: knowing that the planets are rocks, why did the ancients believe that they are gods. The ancient mythologies of the Chaldeans, the Greeks, the Romans, the Hindus, the Mayans, all preoccupy themselves not with the Sun or the Moon, but prima facie with the planets. Marduk, the great god of the Babylonians, was the planet Jupiter; so was Amon of the Egyptians, Zeus of the Greeks and Jupiter of the Romans. It was much superior to Shamash-Helios, the Sun. Why was it revered by all peoples? Why was the planet Mars chosen to be the personification of the god of war? Why did Kronos of the Greeks, Saturn of the Romans, play a part in hundreds of myths and legends? Thoth of the Egyptians, Nebo and Nergal of the Babylonians, Mithra and Mazda of the Persians, Vishnu and Shiva of the Hindus, Huitzilopochtli and Quetzalcoatl of the Mexicans, were personifications of planets; innumerable hymns were dedicated to them and adventures and exploits ascribed to them.
“The celestial orbs by their combined movements are the authors of all that was, and is, and is to come.” According to ancient Hebrew traditions, “there are seven archangels, each of whom is associated with a planet.” “The seven archangels were believed to play an important part in the universal order through their associations with the planets..."
The reason for the deification of the planets lay in the fact that the planets only a short time ago were not faultlessly circling celestial bodies, nor were they harmless. This is also expressed in a Mandaean text:
“How cruel are the planets that stay there and conspire evil in their rage . . . the planets conspire in rage against us.”
However, all being equal, it would seem Janus, poetically, as the God of Duality, and named for the first month of the year (January) would seem most apropos and befitting.
Earth as third, and third as yellow, and yellow typically equating with mind seems most fitting indeed. Where the first chakra resonates to group tribal power, and where the second chakra resonates to the flow of power between the self and others, the third chakra relates to our personal power in relation to the external world. A well-developed third chakra empowers us to live our best lives, reduce inertia, and take action toward our goals. The color yellow has represented wisdom and intellect throughout the ages. Does this not sound familiar, even as relates to the LOO?
Humble and fun-filled musings,
Q
