JUPITER /
ZEUS
[In the
Order of Appearance]
Following a path: "Prologue," R.L. Castro, A. Perez-Gomez and S. Parcell, eds., Chora Three: Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture. Montreal, 1999.
white lily: In alchemical symbolism, the white lily stands for the feminine, and is the symbol of Hera, Zeus' wife. While to the Greeks the lily was symboilic of eroticism, the French fleur-de-lis was a symbol of the Virgin Mary, the Trinity, and the divine right of kingship.
the data suggests: K. Chang, "NASA's Jupiter Mission Reveals the 'Brand-New and Unexpected.'" The New York Times, 26 May 2017.
the mountain: "On the mountain tops, where once Zeus had been worshipped, such as Mt. Olympus and Mt. Lykaion, a particular saint often received worship instead. This is the prophet Elias, sometimes St. Elias, known in English as Elijah...who, when he died, rose to heaven in a 'fiery chariot'...(T)he mountaintop weather god Zeus of the ancient Greeks is then translated into a Christian scriptural language as the prophet Elijah." K. Dowden, Zeus. London, 2006.a scene: R. Duncan. From, "Often I am Permitted to Return to a Meadow."
looping: "Jupiter's ring system has three main components: a pair of very faint outer rings called the gossamer rings; a wide, flat main ring; and a thick inner ring called the halo." https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/jupiter/rings
measure: "Indeed, it would be quite appropriate to translate 'ratio' in this context as 'fantasy.'"Seminal rationes" then become the seed fantasies that germinate in imagination and fertilize life. To say that they are cosmic fantasies takes them out of the personalistic realm, placing them in the circular astral body." T. Moore, The Planets Within. Great Barrington MA, 1982.
Please Use Gate: Named after Taenarus, a son of Zeus, Taenarum is peninsula in southern Greece where there was the gate to a cave that led down into the Underworld.
There is no gate: This may refer to "Mumon Ekai (1183-1260), the Ch'an Master who collected the forty-eight koans that make up Mumonkan, "The Gateless Gate," used by Zen students to this day." http://web.pdx.edu/~wjoel/Gateless%20Gate/Pgs%201-2R.htmgolden...rectangular: The Greek sculptor Phidias (c. 480–c. 430 BC) used the "divine" golden ratio in sculpting the Statue of Zeus (one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World) in the Temple of Zeus at Olympia.
in response: S. Ungar, "Phantom Lascaux: Origin of the Work of Art." Yale French Studies 78, "On Bataille," 1990.
fields...uncut: "Not only ought scholars to study across the disciplines, nor should disciplinary crossing be limited to joint and cooperative work on projects of mutual interest across disciplines, but a reliance on disciplinary paradigms and an acceptance of disciplines as a basis for organizing knowledge, inquiry, and teaching needs somehow to be transcended.".J.H. Bernstein, "Transdisciplinarity: A Review of Its Origins, Development, and Current Issues." Journal of Research Practice. Vol. 11, No.1, 2015.STEM: Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics.The basic curriculum in American schools, at the price of reading, writing, civics, the arts, et al.
Light: "Zeus, the Greek god with whom he is etymologically identical (root diu, 'bright'), Jupiter was a sky god. One of his most ancient epithets is Lucetius (“Light-Bringer”); ”); and later literature has preserved the same idea in such phrases as sub Iove, “under the open sky.” R.E.A. Palmer, “Jupiter Blaze, Gods of the Hills, and the Roman Topography of CIL VI 377.” American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 80, No. 1 (Winter, 1976).
by means of: E.V. Walter, Placeways. Chapel Hill, NC, 1988
How can we not: "We are living in a culture that invites us all to interact with machines.in ways that permit us to become intimate with their nature. And as this happens, the relationships between people and machines that we have seen in the computer subcultures become harbingers for new tensions and the search for new solutions that will mark our culture as a whole." S. Turkle, The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit. Cambridge MA, 2005.
Giacometti: "The more I looked at the model, the more the screen between reality and myself thickened. You begin by seeing the person who is posing, but gradually every possible sculpture interposes itself between the sitter and you. The less clearly you actually see the model, the more unknown the head becomes." A. Giacometti. In, D. Sylvester, Looking At Giacomitti. New York, 1994.no name: "Yet, if Zeus is considered with linguistic precision—which here means to reach the extreme limits of scientific contemplation but not step over them—then the word makes it impossible to take as its content this actual light in the experience of it. All the same, the experience is not far off from that which is Zeus." C. Kereyi, Zeus and Hera. London, 1975.
A temple: H. Aridjis. From, "A Temple Not In The Temple."
concealed from all: "And yet, perhaps elsewhere it is different. Perhaps in Greece itself, in Delos, as one makes one's way up the mountain, stepping across stone deposited on the slopes both by nature and by an ancient art ravaged by time—perhaps there under the brilliance of the Greek sun one senses a connection that might otherwise remain sheltered at its Greek site, that is, concealed from all who fail to return to the presence of that site." J. Sallis, Stone. Bloomington, IN, 1994.
dust: A synecdoche for Kronos, the Titan God of Time who was Zeus' father, and who tried to kill the baby, but instead was given a stone to eat by Rhea, Zeus' mother"Jupiter: King of the Gods, Titanic of the Planets": The planet Jupiter was named by the Romans after Jupiter, their chief god, because of its size and dominance of the solar system, with such wrath! Machismo.of eyes of whirling storms thousands of years old the size of Earth.
it follows that: C. Tilley, “On Modernity and Archaeological Discourse.” .Meta Archaeology Project. http://archaeology.kiev.ua/meta/tilley.html
we had a mind:: "'Jupiter is intellect,'" (Ficino) writes, 'from which the universe is produced;; therefore, he may be symbolized with spheres or round forms. Or, he may be imaged as a man, since essentially he is mind (mens) and produces all things with the 'seminal ratio."' T. Moore, The Planets Within:The Astrological Psychology of Marsilio Ficino. Great Barrington, MA, 1990.
the hills: Zeus was worshipped "on the summits of hills." Ibid, “Jupiter Blaze, Gods of the Hills, and the Roman Topography of CIL VI 377.”
re-weave: "It is the interweave that is different, contrary or hostile, in order to produce a unified, harmonious textile, worthy of covering the great goddess of Olympia (Hera, Zeus' wife) herself." J. Scheid and J. Svenbro, The Craft of Zeus. Cambridge MA, 1996. Re is from the Ancient Greek ((khaíro): to stir, move, excite.
uroboros: A dragon devouring its tail. C.G. Jung called it "the basic mandala of alchemy."
mudra: A symbolic, ritualistic hand gesture used in Buddhism, Hinduism and yoga meditation. In Sanskrit, mudra means “a gesture,” “mark,” or “seal.” They have been used for thousands of years to enhance the flow of internal energies.daimones: "Where the daimones are alive polytheism, pantheism, animism, and even religion do not appear." J. Hillman, "Psychology: Monotheistic or Polytheistic?" Spring 1971.
Valkyrie: Valkyrie stems from Old Norse valkyrja , which is composed of valr (the slain on the battlefield) and kjósa "to choose". Thus, a Valkyrie chooses who on a battlefield lives and who dies. Somewhat like the Fates, tthree daughters of Zeus: Clotho, (“the spinner”), Lachesis (“the apportioner”) and Atropos (“the inevitable”). (Their Roman names were Nona, Decuma and Morta.)Natural science: J.L. Henderson, Cultural Attitudes in Psychological Perspectives. Toronto, 1984. (Thank you to Evija Volfa Vestergaard for this reference)
The last taboo: “Uncivilisation: The Dark Mountain Manifesto.” The Dark Mountain Project: http://dark-mountain.net/about/manifesto/
tightlipped stones: “According to the Greek historian Pausanias, who consulted this oracle himself, an initiate approached the incubation cave by descending through a small chamber to a place where there was an opening in the ground. To get into the cave 'he lies down on the ground…thrusts his feet into the opening and pushes forward himself, trying to get his knees inside the hole. The rest of his body is at once dragged in…just as a great and swift river would catch a man in its swirl and draw him under.’” Pausanias, “Description of Greece.” J.G. Frazer, trans. New York, 1965. Quoted in, Nor Hall, The Moon & the Virgin. NY, 1980.
drawing blood: Addressing these lines from Charles Williams' poem, "Taliessin in the Rose Garden": "Pelles bleeds / below Jupiter's red-pierced planet,", C.S. Lewis wrote that "Williams assumes that the huge reddish spot which astronomers observe on the surface of Jupiter is a wound and the redness is that of blood." Lewis goes on to equate King Pelles, otherwise known as the Fisher King, who has a wound that will not heal, with Christ: "Jupiter, the planet of Kingship, thus wounded becomes, like the wounded King Pelles, another ectype of the Divine King wounded on Calvary." C.S. Lewis, Arthurian Torso. Oxford, UK, 1969.Zeus is: D. Cowan, “Zeus and the Form of Things.” In, The Olympians. J. H. Stroud, Editor. New York, 1996.
the plop: "For Thoreau, the pond is a polysemic text that teaches him 'unutterable things' as well as 'our condition exactly.'" M. Poetzsch, "Sounding Walden Pond." American Transcendental Quarterly. 22.2 (2008). Here, also, Thoreau and Basho join plop to plop, pond to pond. "In Basho's haiku, a frog appears. To Japanese of sensitivity, frogs are dear little creatures, and Westerners may at least appreciate this animal’s energy and immediacy. Plop!" R. Aitken, A Zen Wave. Washington D.C., 2003.
topos: "Each location is a place only in Aristotle's special meaning of topos, or the sense of pure position...I am suggesting that the quality of a place depends on a human context shaped by memories and expectations, by stories of real and imagined events—that is, by the historical experienced located there. E.V. Walter, Placeways. Chapel Hill NC, 1988.
temenos: The place where a god resides. According to C.G. Jung, it is also a mandala. In this case it is the shape of a Walden Pond. See, C.R. Anderson, The Magic Circle of Walden. New York, 1968.gas giant: Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, is composed primarily of hydrogen and helium.
hot flashes: Jupiter Fulgerator (Lightning Hurler.) "As when the high peak of a great mountain / lightning-gather Zeus stirs a dense cloud / and all the peaks and jutting crags shine out / and the glens, and the awesome aither is torn apart from heaven down..." Homer, Iliad 16. K. Dowden, translation."In particular, I will argue that the oft-repeated claim that postmenopausal women had significantly greater freedom of movement is very hard to substantiate, that old women were frequently given certain social functions that do not permit their being easily dismissed as no longer useful, and that there is a much broader range of emotional reactions to old women than Bremmer's 'fear and loathing' (J. Bremmer, "The Old Women of Ancient Greece.") characterization suggests. This is not to deny that negative stereotypes associated with old women are abundant in ancient Greece and that growing old was no doubt often difficult, particularly for women who were poor, sick, or alone. But that all women, regardless of their previous social status, experienced a significant drop in social value after menopause is not credible and is not supported by the evidence." L. Pratt, "The Old Women of Ancient Greece and the Homeric Hymn to Demeter." Transactions of the American Philological Association 130 (2000).
Hermes: Son of Zeus and the Pleiad Maia ("Mountain Maia, she of the lovely black eyes."). Hermes derives from a heap of stones as a boundary marker. He is trickster, messenger, and a guide to the underworld (in several senses, as he is also the god of thieves).
Zeus no longer: C.G.Jung, Alchemical Studies..Collected Works, Vol 13. New York, 1967.
solar plexus: Jung notes how "'the black earth' that was previously far below his patient's feet 'is now in her body as a black ball, in the region of the manipura-chakra, which coincides with the solar plexus.'" Ibid, Alchemical Studies. Quoted in S. Marlan, The Black Sun: The Alchemy and Art of Darkness. College Station, TX, 2005.
full of joy: H-J Meng, From, "Traveling to Yueh, I Linger On Our Farewell with Chang and Shen of Ch'iao District."Beneath the swirling...It's waves have never: B. Bova, Jupiter. New York, 2001.
yellow loess: Loess is "A widespread, nonstratified, porous, friable, usually highly calcareous, blanket deposit (generally less than 30 m thick), consisting predominantly of silt with subordinate grain sizes ranging from clay to fine sand....Loess is generally buff to light yellow or yellowish brown; often contains shells, bones, and teeth of mammals." http://www.webref.org/geology/l/loess.htm
blue nostalgia: "Blue, as we know it in the sky, was for (Goethe) a veil of light across a background of darkness, of shadows." R. Huyghe, "Color and Interior Time." In, Color Symbolism: Eranos Excerpts. Zuruch, 1977.the son of Kronos: Homer, The Iliad. XIV.
hair in sweet disorder: Midaregami (Jap.) H.H. Honda, The Poetry of Yosano Akiko. Tokyo, 1957.
grips my throat: "If it is true that the invention of 'poetic weaving' in the Greek language is due to choral poets—probably to Simonides, a pioneer in this domain...—the importance of their innovation can hardly be overestimated. Emancipating poetry from the religious universe it which it had belonged (and to which it would long remain attracted. The choral poets developed the basis for a reflection on language that greatly befitted the budding development of rhetoric and linguistics. Through metaphors that define discourse not only as something 'woven' but also a 'construction,' they insisted so much on the materiality of discourse that—in about 450 B.C.—they ended up being called poietai ('artisans,' 'producers,' 'builders'); thus Homen himself could finally begin his career as a 'poet.'" J. Scheid & J. Svenbro, The Craft of Zeus. Cambridge MA, 1996.yellows, reds, white...nigerdo: "Four stages [of the alchemical opus] are distinguished, characterized by the original colors mentioned in Heraclutis: melanosis (blackening), leukosis (whitening) xanthosis (yellowing), and iosis (reddening)." C.G. Jung, Psychology and Alchemy. Collected Works 12. London 1953. In the fifteenth or sixteenth centuries, yellow was omitted.
the densest darkness: "look for the densest darkness, / surrender yourself to its gift, / for the self is no longer past or present / or future: / it is going towards nonbeing." C. Janés. From, "Negredo." D. Frazer-McMahon, translator.
oaken doors: "The word of Zeus is hidden in the rustling of the oak trees at Dodona, that of Delphic Apollo in the non-human raving of his priestess the Pythia: divine noises remain unintelligible until brought into the human sphere when priests translate them into Greek." R. Buxton, Imaginary Greece. Cambridge UK, 1994.
fierce sun: "Anotherr version of this god was the sun god at Heliopolis (Baalbek in the Lebanon) and visitors today may still marvel at the remains of the huge and glorious temple to Jupiter of Heliopolis, or Adad, built by emperors from Antoninus Pius (AD 138-61) to Caracalla (AD 211-17) and destroyed by Theodosius in 379." K. Dowden, Zeus. London, 2006.
cinders: "The odd figure, 'genocide by fire,' subtly displaces 'holocaust's' connotations of divine sacrifice by fire. Derrida retains the fire (which produces a cinder), while rejecting any implication of divine sanction. And Derrida rightly observes, and probably rightly accepts, that the Shoah has become a figure for all genocides." J. Berger, After the End: Representations of Post-apocalypse.Minneapolis, 1999.
Stone: The Philosophers' Stone itself must burn down to ashes, which are a "most precious thing and a great mystery." M-L. Von Franz, Aurora Consurgens. New York, 1966.spooky clicking machine: "In March 2016, a neuroscientist at the Medical University of South Carolina stuck (Alex) Honnold in an MRI and found his amygdala, the brain’s center for threat response, did not glow when he looked at disturbing images the way a control subject’s did. Afterwards, according to the science magazine Nautilus, Honnold had a question: ‘Looking at all those images—does that count as being under stress?'" T. McCarthy, “The Edge of Reason.” The Guardian, Sept 10, 2017
a kind of primitive theater: R. Barthes, Camera Lucida—Reflections on Photography. R. Howard, trans. New York, 1981.Only to have: W. Alexander. Towards the Primeval Lightning Field. Brooklyn, NY, 2014.
Zeus does not: K. Dowden, Zeus. London UK, 2006.
Great Red Spot: See, "Jupiter's Great Red Spot: A Swirling Mystery." https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/jupiter-s-great-red-spot-a-swirling-mysteryOne way to read; D. Orr and D. Smith, "John Ashbery, A Singular Poet Whose Influence Was Broad Dies at 90." The New York Times, Sept. 3, 2017.
higher elevation: "Zeus's birth and upbringing, his functions as a god of rain and lightning, and his supremacy on Olympos all focus his power on the oros (mountains). The Olympians' foes the Titans fought from Mount Othrys. You find the Muses on Helikon, Pan on mountains everywhere, especially Arkadia; likewise the Nymphs." R. Buxton, Imaginary Greece. Cambridge UK, 1994.
visionaries and dreamers: B. M. Jones, Jr, "The Shaman's Crook: A Visual Metaphor of Numinous Power in Rock Art.." Utah Rock Art Vol. XXX. Blanding Ut. October 8-11, 2010.