#seth and semele

[the-worm-wiggles]

Happy monster girl monday friday

[storyofmorewhoa]

360° Tracking shot + Betrayal Since neither the same writer nor director worked on both episodes, I'm wondering what torture artist decided that these two moments should mirror each other.

"Lovers Walk" (1998) written by Dan Vebber directed by David Semel

"The Wish" (1998) written by Mari Noxon directed by David Greenwalt

[tomasorban]

Origin of the legend of the Christed Son who was born of a virgin on December 25th

What is the origin of the legend of the Christed Son who was born of a virgin on December 25th? I am sure you are familiar with his legend which states that he was born in a manger surrounded by shepherds and then grew up to be One with his Father in Heaven.  And most certainly you recall the sequence of events when this Christed Son gathered together his important disciples before enduring his death by torture and his subsequent resurrection. And, finally, there is the scene at the end of his time on Earth when he prophesied his return and then ascended into Heaven.

Now for my question to you: Who amongst you is now mumbling under his or her breath “This can only be the legend of the Christians’ Jesus Christ”?  Well…to the rest of you, I would like to inform you that many years before the birth of Jesus a legend identical to his was the accepted life story of the Persian Son of God, Mithras. And before Mithras, a very similar legend was ascribed to various other Sons of God worldwide, including the Greek Dionysus, the Egyptian Osiris, the Sumerian Dammuzi, and the Hindu Murugan. In fact, if we keep going back in time many thousands of years earlier we will discover that this universal legend actually began with the Green Man, the Son of a virgin Goddess who was born, died, and finally resurrected each and every year.    

So how did this oft-used legend eventually become chosen to be the legend of Jesus? Let us begin when it was the life story of the ancient Green Man and work forward to the time of the Christian Son of God.

The Ancient Green Man

During the Neolithic Age, which was the era when, as some say, “God was a Woman,” the Goddess and Her Son, the Green Man, were venerated by people worldwide for annually bringing forth the Earth’s material abundance. A universal legend about them arose that began with the annual impregnation of the “virgin” Earth Goddess by the Sun, the “Father in Heaven,” and the subsequent birth of Her Son, the Green Man. This important event occurred annually at the time of the Winter Solstice, when the spirit of the Green Man that had been slumbering underground in the underworld was shaken back to life. But although his dormant spirit had been stirred, it was not yet fully awake. This did not occur until a few days later, on December 25th, when the Sun or Solar Spirit completely reversed its downward path and took measurable steps along a northerly route.

This was an important “As Above, So Below” event. It was believed the renewed and revitalized Solar Spirit above in the Heavens had re-awakened and revitalized the spirit of his Son below and inside the Earth.  And now the future Green Man could begin his annual gestation period with the womb of his mother, the virginal Earth, in anticipation of receiving a new, resurrected body in the spring.

The legend of the Goddess and Green Man then skips to the Vernal Equinox, when the Green Man is ready to finally emerge from the womb of his mother. This is the time when the “male” light equals the “female” darkness, and their male-female polarity fully unites to produce a fresh infusion of life force to cover and fertilize the land. The fetal body of the Green Man is now ready to push out of the womb of his mother Earth in the form of the new tender sprouts of spring. Soon, his annual resurrection will be complete. This will occur on or around the same day as our Easter, a modern holiday associated with the much more recent resurrection of another Son of a virgin.

The legend of the Green Man then covers the hot summer months, when the Son rapidly matures as the rapidly maturing vegetative growth of nature. He matures so fast, in fact, that the Green Man not only becomes One with his Father in Heaven, but he even mates with and inseminates his own mother. Their co-habitation produces a second infusion of the fructifying life force on Earth and manifests as a second proliferation of vegetation and accompanying harvest. Ultimately, this event would serve to hasten the Green Man’s demise, and soon he would die again with the decaying vegetation and the falling of leaves of autumn. The cause of his death? The sacerdotal interpreters of his legend would later assert that it occurred because of the sins of humanity. It was believed through original sin humanity had given up not only its own right, but the right of all life on Earth, to achieve eternal life.    

At the close of the Neolithic Age, when civilizations arose in place of a purely agrarian culture, the ancient legend of the Goddess and Green Man expanded and took on religious overtones. It became a standard myth that was annually recited and dramatically staged in the temples and the mystery schools of the new fledgling cities, nations and empires. A feature of its evolving storyline was that the Green Man now took on the additional role of King of the World, which he governed under the authority of his Earth mother. And in some renditions of the legend the Son was said to have met his death in the fall at the hands of his unscrupulous brother or a dark, evil lord.

Ishtar and Tammuz

In the cities of Meopotamia the Neolithic legend transformed into the story of the Goddess as Inanna or Ishtar who annually gave birth to a Green Man Son and future king under the name of Dammuzi or Tammuz. It was said that Dammuzi/Tammuz grew up to mate with his own mother while also governing the Earth for her. In order that this ancient legend be reflected in their culture, the inhabitants of the Fertile Crescent enthroned rulers of their city-states who were acknowledged to be the embodiments of Dammuzi/Tammuz and the royal servants of Goddess Inanna/Ishtar.

This was also true in Egypt, where the ruling pharaohs were regarded to be incarnations of Horus, the Son of Goddess Isis, and governed under her authority. But in the land of Khemit, although the spirit of the incumbent pharaoh was Horus, his physical body was formed by Seth, the god who governed the crystallization of energy into physical flesh. Together, Horus and Seth as the “Twins” created and comprised the physical body of the pharaoh, thus making the Egyptian monarchs modern representatives of the first and greatest king, Green Man Osiris. Osiris as the Green man:

Like the ancient Green Man, Osiris was similarly said to die and become resurrected annually in concert with the life and death of nature’s vegetation. Osiris’s annual resurrection ceremony took place during the annual flood of the Nile River, when the first tender sprouts of nature initially stuck their fragile heads above the surface of the Earth.  

Semele and Dionysus

One version of Osiris’s popular Egyptian myth had him annually murdered by his jealous and evil brother Set each fall. This event was reflected in the legend of Osiris’s counterpart in Greece, Green Man Dionysus, who was annually slain by his relatives, the evil Titans, but later resurrected. Similar to Green Man Osiris, the mother of Dionysus was an Earth Goddess named Semele, meaning “Earth,” and his father was Zeus, the Father in Heaven. Dionysus as the Green Man: 

In order to awaken Dionysus from his slumber at the time of the Winter Solstice, female representatives of the Goddess would loudly bang pots and pans as they danced their way in ritual procession to the snowy summit of Mount Parnassus.  And then after receiving his new set of clothes at the following spring equinox, the Divine Son would cavort in nature along with his own reflection and alter-ego, Pan, a name meaning “the All,” as in “All of Nature.” 

[belacqui-pro-quo]

The worship of Dionysus cannot consist with the recognition of Dionysus. The Chorus worship Dionysus according to convention (430-33, 712, 890-96); they hear but never see Dionysus (577, 590). Pentheus comes to obey Dionysus, but he then sees hims as a bull (920-22); he does not submit to him as Dionysus. Belief and knowledge are of different orders; their inconvertibility is a lesson that Dionysus too has to learn. Although he sees the smoldering ruins near the palace, which bear witness to his mother's vain attempt to see Zeus as he is in himself, he does not realize their application to himself (6-9). Tempted by Hera to confirm by autopsy that Zeus was truly her lover, and thus to confute her sister's claim that she had imputed Zeus to her own disgrace, Semele prevailed on Zeus to show himself and was burned to a crisp for her presumption. The gods, however native, are forever strangers; they can cease to be strangers if they are willing to give up their being for their being believed.

Seth Benardete, "On Greek Tragedy"

[adoniswarlock]

Dioses Solares (Parte 1).

Dioses Solares (Parte 1).

“Siempre ligados a fechas importantes, cuyos pensamientos trascienden, muchos de ellos con paridades o arquetipos compartidos”.

En muchas de las culturas del mundo se rinde culto a estos dioses; fiestas solares que rigen la vida y/o muerte de la naturaleza y los ciclos naturales.

Solsticio: El sol está en el punto más distante de la línea del ecuador.

21 de junio: solsticio de verano…

[serieouslymovieing]

House, M.D. (TV Series) (2004)

Título original    House, M.D. (TV Series)aka

Año    2004

Duración    45 min.

País    Estados Unidos Estados Unidos

Dirección    David Shore, Greg Yaitanes, Deran Sarafian, Juan José Campanella, Miguel Sapochnik, David Straiton, Lesli Linka Glatter, Andrew Bernstein, Katie Jacobs, Daniel Sackheim, Sanford Bookstaver, Daniel Attias, David Platt, Matt Shakman, Peter O'Fallon, Fred Gerber, James Hayman, David Semel, Bryan Spicer, Frederick King Keller, Newton Thomas Sigel, Martha Mitchell, Hugh Laurie, Tucker Gates, Tim Southam, Peter Medak, Paris Barclay, Guy Ferland, Nelson McCormick, Tim Hunter, Keith Gordon, Bill Johnson, Gloria Muzio, Randy Zisk, Jace Alexander, Félix Enríquez Alcalá, Laura Innes, John F. Showalter, Elodie Keene, Matthew Penn, Paul McCrane, Nick Gomez, S.J. Clarkson, Kate Woods, Colin Bucksey, Tony To, Julian Higgins, Stefan Schwartz, Peter Weller

Guion    David Shore, Peter Blake, Lawrence Kaplow, David Foster, Thomas L. Moran, Russel Friend, Garrett Lerner, Liz Friedman, Sara Hess, Doris Egan, Eli Attie, David Hoselton, John C. Kelley, Pam Davis, Leonard Dick, John Mankiewicz, Matt Witten, Matthew V. Lewis, Seth Hoffman, Kath Lingenfelte

Música    Jason Derlatka, Jon Ehrlich

Fotografía    Gale Tattersall, Roy H. Wagner, Anthony Gaudioz, Walt Lloyd

Reparto    Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard, Jennifer Morrison, Jesse Spencer, Olivia Wilde, Bobbin Bergstrom, Peter Jacobson, Anne Dudek, David Morse, Kal Penn, Sela Ward, Edi Gathegi, Chi McBride, Amber Tamblyn, Stephanie Venditto, Andy Comeau, Cynthia Watros, Kayla Colbert, Meta Golding, Jennifer Crystal Foley, Michael Weston, Alexis Thorpe, Wentworth Miller

Productora    NBC Universal Television / Heel / Toe Films / Shore Z Productions / Bad Hat Harry Productions / Moratim Produktions. Distribuida por Fox Network

Género    Serie de TV. Drama. Intriga | Medicina

Sinopsis    Serie de TV de 177 episodios (2004-2012). Gregory House, el mejor médico del hospital, es un hombre antipático que está especializado en el diagnóstico de enfermedades. Su carácter extravagante, su rebeldía y su honradez con los pacientes y su equipo lo convierten en una persona única. Trata de evitar la relación con los pacientes, porque lo que le interesa por encima de todo es la investigación de las enfermedades. Es además adicto a los calmantes y a las series de hospitales. (FILMAFFINITY)

Premios    2011: Emmy: mejor mezcla de sonido. Nominada a mejor actor (Hugh Laurie)    2010: Emmy: 3 nominaciones, incluyendo mejor actor en drama (Hugh Laurie)    2009: Emmy: mejor sonido. 3 nominaciones, incluyendo mejor serie drama    2008: Emmy: mejor dirección. 4 nominaciones, incluyendo mejor serie drama    2007: Emmy: mejor maquillaje protésico. 4 nominaciones, incluyendo mejor drama    2006: Emmy: 4 nominaciones, incluyendo mejor serie drama y casting    2005: Emmy: mejor guión. 5 nominaciones, incluyendo mejor actor (Laurie)    2010: Globo de Oro: Mejor actor en drama (Laurie)    2009: Globo de Oro: Nominada a mejor actor (Laurie) y serie drama    2008: Globo de Oro: Nominada a mejor actor (Laurie) y serie drama    2007: Globo de Oro: Nominada a mejor actor (Laurie) y serie drama    2006: Globo de Oro: Mejor actor en serie drama (Hugh Laurie)    2005: Globo de Oro: Mejor actor en serie drama (Hugh Laurie)    2006: Nominada Premios BAFTA TV: Mejor serie internacional    2005: American Film Institute (AFI): Top 10 - Mejores Programas de TV del año    2007: Satellite Awards: Nominada a mejor actor en drama (Laurie)    2006: 2 Satellite Awards: Mejor actor (Laurie) y serie drama    2005: 3 Satellite Awards: Mejor actor (Laurie), actriz (Edelstein) y serie drama    2007: Sindicato de Productores (PGA): Nominada a Mejor serie de TV - Drama    2006: Sindicato de Productores (PGA): Nominada a Mejor serie de TV - Drama    2005: Sindicato de Directores (DGA): Nominada a Mejor director serie drama    2010: Sindicato de Guionistas (WGA): Nom. Mejor guión en episodio Serie-Drama    2009: Sindicato de Guionistas (WGA): Mejor guión en episodio de Serie-Drama    2008: Sindicato de Guionistas (WGA): Nom. Mejor guión en episodio Serie-Drama    2005: Sindicato de Guionistas (WGA): Mejor guión en episodio de Serie-Drama    2010: Sindicato de Actores (SAG): Nominada a mejor actor (Serie Drama) (Laurie)    2009: Sindicato de Actores (SAG): Nominada a mejor actor (Serie Drama) (Laurie)    2008: Sindicato de Actores (SAG): Mejor actor (Serie Drama) (Laurie). 2 nom.    2007: Sindicato de Actores (SAG): Nominada a mejor actor (Serie Drama) (Laurie)    2006: Sindicato de Actores (SAG): Mejor actor (Serie Drama) (Laurie)    2005: Sindicato de Actores (SAG): Nominada a mejor actor (Serie Drama) (Laurie)