Happy Saturnalia
Special Care
in the sky.
I have done so only once, after consulting astronomical charts and
waiting for a cloudless night. Apart from that, looking casually at
the night sky, no one would notice Saturn.
To ancient cultures all over the world, Saturn - and they were clearly
referring to the planet - was foremost among the gods, but became a
fallen god. Saturn was also called the sun, in the literal meaning of
the word sun.
The ancients also associate Saturn with an era of peace and harmony
throughout the surface of the earth. On every continent the memory
persists of a lost Golden Age / Garden of Eden, and Saturn was the god
in the sky that bestowed this harmony, by causing the earth to yield
its fruits and other resources without being forced, in such abundance
that war and rivalry and jealousy were not yet thought of.
In the age of Saturn, there was still no reason to contemplate the
imposition of our present love-rationing, pain-generating, child-
abusing, warmongering societal arrangements.
The present 'season of goodwill' which we call Christmas is a pale
echo of the Roman festival of Saturnalia. It was a brief time
corresponding with the winter solstice when social inequalities were
discarded, masters and slaves sat down to eat together, and masters
might even serve their slaves and endure some light-hearted ridicule
from them, in memory of the lost Golden Age of equality and peace
associated with Saturn.
So how did this insignificant point of light in the sky, which today
we don't even notice unless we search for it, exert such a profound
influence on human thought and human activity in the ancient world.
And why was that insignificant point of light called the sun by the
ancients?
We are a species in amnesia.
Happy Saturnalia.
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When Saturn Ruled the World
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11g9wj22J8I&feature=related
The Worship of Saturn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfabYg4G8QQ&feature=related
The Light of the Seven Days
http://www.varchive.org/itb/eclight.htm
A Time For Us
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=FaDw8Q9aNlQ&feature=related
Teresita
> I have done so only once, after consulting astronomical charts and
> waiting for a cloudless night. Apart from that, looking casually at
> the night sky, no one would notice Saturn.
You use an astronomy program like Skyglobe:
http://web.newsguy.com/rubyred/images/skyglobe.png
And a three-inch telescope is great. Beautiful rings. Everyone needs to
bag Saturn once in their life. Happy Kwanzaa!
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Teresita
http://hackylinux.blogspot.com/
Augustus O'Muircheartaigh
wrote:
>
> So how did this insignificant point of light in the sky, which today
> we don't even notice unless we search for it, exert such a profound
> influence on human thought and human activity in the ancient world.
>
> And why was that insignificant point of light called the sun by the
> ancients?
>
Ehhhhhh something to do with babies arses???
Special Care
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Yes, that would be quite true, because in the half-remembered/half-
forgotten Golden Age, there was no need to generate soldiers to do our
killing for us, so there was no need to make babies ashamed of the
pleasure they felt in their anuses when the mother was cleaning them,
and no need to shame the babies for their unavoidable wish to pleasure
their mothers' anuses in exactly the same way, on account of the
intense love a baby feels for the mother [until it is shamed out of
him/her].
Some day you'll see it.
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Careless Hands
http://docs.google.com/View?id=dddp6bt4_187gpmt3sjh
Old Jinglebollocks
Velikovsky on collective amnesia / repetition compulsion; six minute
video interview:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&hl=en-GB&v=zdq-tjHKr6k&feature=related
Westprog
> On Dec 26, 2:01 pm, Special Care <special.car...@googlemail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>
>> So how did this insignificant point of light in the sky, which today
> Ehhhhhh something to do with babies arses???
Talk about constructing your own reality. We've just had a story about
people staring at the sun in Ireland, where it's hardly the brightest, and
being permanently blinded after a few seconds.
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J/
SOTW: "One Life Stand" - Hot Chip
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=101286758
http://galaxies-sf.monsite.orange.fr/page1.html