4th page of 6 pages
4. The Sun as a Deity
4.1. The ancient European Sun Goddess
The sun was as
the mother goddess in Old Europe and in the Middle East everywhere. She is
translated too as an eye of the bird-goddess, which is shown by Marija
Gimbutas in "the Language of the Goddess".
The eye of the Sun gives rain in the form of tears, which belongs to the fertile aspect together with rivers and springs. Rivers and springs were treated as breasts and womb of the Great Mother.
The statuette in the picture at the right side shows how the streams are flowing from the slit-eyes of a mother goddess over her heavy breasts down (Moravia, about 24,000 BC)
Addition of
the fertility giving character the solare eye sees everything, and not only
during the day but also at night, not only outside but also inside in the
most secret corners of the souls. In this role, she is represented as owl,
who's eyes penetrades the darkness. The all-watching eyes of the sun was
provocing the man to act morally. As a moral authority the goddess
worked in the dark grave, beyond death to the threshold of rebirth.
Let us return to the sentence "my mind is clearer now". Judas expressed, as I have written already, that his thoughts are getting clearer. But the thoughts which are getting clearer point also on the intuitive level to the mythical image of sun. The sun, which represents on the one hand the actual thought as daily light, but which on the other hand returns back in the dark, from there, the thought comes out like a light. The backward movement reminds of the owl's eyes, which are watching the darkness, the abyss, where life and death are united.
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Have a look once more to the symbol of Yin-Yang as a representation of
consciousness at the paragraph "Judas the thinker".
We see the perception between the conscious thinking and the unconscious
ntuition and feeling. When Judas receives the facts, which are passed by the
perception, also contents from the collective unconsciousness are
passed to the thinking. These contents are taken up as pictures of his
intuition and pass the perception uncheckedly and are classified only by his
thinking, judged by patriarchal standards.
From the lightest to the darkest point and then back to the lightest point is also the path of the sun. The solar path tells also the migration of each person in his depths and heights and is a symbol of every mystery quest.
to be continued.....
