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Ava ava@nostrplebs.com 2 months ago
Thank you for sharing that. The naga/serpent symbolism across traditions is definitely worth exploring... you're right that I'm studying and can speak Sanskrit and Chinese, and those archetypal connections interest me. I haven't gone down the Churchward/Mu rabbit hole, so I can't speak to those claims. My practice has been working with texts in their original languages: Aramaic (Peshitta), Greek (Thomas), Sanskrit, Pali, classical Chinese etc—and then exploring their mystical dimensions. Translation always loses something. You have to go to the source language to find the depth of meaning. What draws me to the Aramaic debate around shabaqtani is that we can examine the actual manuscript and see how one root word authentically carries multiple meanings. That kind of textual ambiguity creates space for mystical interpretation without requiring unverifiable historical claims. The serpent appears everywhere: kundalini, Eden, the caduceus. Those symbols speak to something real in human consciousness, regardless of whether there was a continent called Mu. In the end, words, symbols, and myths are just pointers. People worship the pointers, build shrines to them, but don't actually go where they are pointing. As far as religious institutional control is concerned, this is it. Someone can describe the experience of a beautiful sunrise from the mountaintop, but words cannot give you that experience. Until you're standing there yourself, you have to rely on belief in the experience of others. The guru is only there as a guide, to help you find your own path up the mountain. Once you have your own experience, there's no need to believe in the experience of others. You have the experience, the direct realization. This is the real teaching.
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RedTailHawk redtailhawk@nostrplebs.com 2 months ago
Exactly. Translation always loses something which is why it's good to go to the source. In this case, the source language goes back 50,000 years. Basically Churchward found himself in the endzone looking up at a Hail Mary pass and caught it but almost nobody knows about his work. He went boots on the ground Indiana Jones mode for like 50 years in the late 1800s and early 1900s inspecting actual archaeological sites, engraved stones, temples, etc. Very important work and worth any seeker's time and attention if you're ever looking for something interesting to dig into. Words are very important. They morphologically branch off from one another. A great example is the word "macabre". Macabre clearly derives from Merkabah. Merkabah and Kabbalah are sibling teachings. Each teaches us how to balance the Divine Masculine (ka) with the Divine Feminine (ba). On the Tree of Life, Vishuddha is represented by the hidden Sephirah called Da'ath. Da'ath, morphologically, is a match for "death". So, the esoterically uninformed translation of ancient emblems of "mortality" found near sarcophagi led to a distortion of understanding in the great game of "telephone" of human transmission of information through time. Kabbalah gained a connotation of being associated with mortality due to this esoterically uninformed translation. That connotation transferred onto the sibling, Merkabah, which eventually yielded "macabre". I think Christ's death was a critical point in history for many reasons. Linguistically, his dying words created a linguistic fork because nobody present understood him. People guessed. Someone thought Christ called for Elias because Eli sounds like Heli. Matthew and Mark guessed. Matthew spoke Aramaic. He wouldn't have had to guess if it was Aramaic. So, they guessed and then people took that guess as "gospel truth" (pardon the pun) and the rest is history. That may be wrong but it makes the most sense to me given the totality of facts presented. Thanks for confirming your linguistic abilities. I know you said it was on your list to check out at some point, so whenever you get to it, you'll find that I connect dots between Chinese, Japanese, Greek, and Egyptian. Major points of interest include: -Mu is a character in both Greek and Chinese. -Ancient Greek (pre-Euclidian) pronunciations of the Greek alphabet resemble a flood narrative to anyone familiar with the Polynesian family of languages. -Mu, in China, can mean tree or wash. Churchward points out that Mu, the motherland, was a civilizational hub with colonies. They likened Mu to a tree that bears fruit from whose seeds new trees, or colonies, sprout. The fact that Mu sank in a cataclysm and was "washed" beneath the ocean gives rise to the other meaning of Mu. -The Rebus principle applies to both Mandarin and Egyptian. -The Mandarin Zhong, Japanese Naka, and Greek Phi are all topologically equivalent. -Naka means center, middle, within...conjuring spiritual concepts like "center yourself", "the middle path" and "the answers are within". Naka is also morphologically equivalent to...Naga. -Chi, Rho, and Phi represent the Div Masc, Div Fem, and Div Child/enlightened being. These show up in many places including Hero, Hera, Heracles, Chiron (who "taught" Aesclepius, among other heros), chariot, hierophant, hieroglyphic, and Cairo. Another fun one is djinn. Pretty sure that one is also related to Vishuddha. Djinn gives us genuine, engine, engineer, ingenious, genius, genie, gene, generate, genetic, and many other words. I agree. Words are pointers. They say that when the guru points at the moon, the imbecile examines the finger. I think that wisdom needs some nuance injected into it because it is not imbecilic to examine the finger if one's intention in examining it is to determine as precisely as is reasonably possible what it is pointing to. There's a saying. Numbers don't lie but mathematicians use numbers to tell lies. I've "memed" that thought somewhat. Liars use words to tell lies but words themselves contain profoundly deep truths. Pleasure conversing with you, fellow seeker. Respect. 🙏
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