Rescuing the Easter Moon

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Rescuing the Easter Moon

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Rescuing the Easter Moon

40,000 years ago and more
on a tropical island,
Nealander was an Australian aboriginal man;
his wife, a philanderer;

so he drowned their only son
in retaliation.
3 days later
Nealander walked into the water
withdrew his only son from the watery depths
and brought him safely back to life.

Nealander was the Sun
His reborn son,
the New Moon.

Shall I rescue the Easter Moon?

{The three days between the Nazarene's execution and his surprising comeback is an interpretation of the new moon's three absent days--and the sudden hole pierced in the cosmos by the first slender crescent of returning moonlight--that has been repeated countless times by many different cultures. This myth, which Nietzsche called the eternal return, may be among the moon's greatest gifts to humanity.
"The essential myth of the moon is the myth of transformation," Cashford writes. "Early people perceived the waxing and waning as the growing and dying of a celestial being, whose death was followed by its own resurrection as the new moon. The instinctive identification of the people with their moon meant that they interpreted the moon's rebirth as offering a similar promise for human beings in their own waning and death. The moon then became a symbol of hope, the light that shone in the darkness of the human psyche." }
http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonom ... -0410.html
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?se ... 2016:21-28




Happy Easter :idea:
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Thank you, Mat, for this lovely Easter present... I've been thinking of the moon of late... as it pertains to a little film I'm doing... I've never heard of this myth... quite beautiful I think...

Here's my own Easter present of sorts... it speaks to how love transforms our perception of things.. even the moon...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4218R-gBmts

love to all,

v i o l e t
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Shall I rescue the Easter Moon?
Yes please, rescue the moon for us

I liked this story very much, thank you for telling it. I've always wondered why the moon disappeared like that.
There really is something magical about the moon.

BTW do you know what the full moon is called tomorrow? It's the egg moon or the seed moon.


p.s. thanks for the link Violet, I enjoyed.
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Happy Full Moon Night to Mat, Violet and Cate (and to anyone else that happens through before tomorrow)!

Thanks for the poem and moon-lore Mat, and for the Metroactive link – very interesting. I was surprised to read that the Moon has mostly been considered male throughout history. The moon has always been 'She' to me: dependable, yet moody and mysterious. Reassuringly near; powerful, but cool – doesn't that sound like all of the women you know Mat?

...And Miz Vee, thanks for the reminder of Ella's mellifluous voice.

XO to all
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...rescueing the Easter Moon (part 2)
I've been thinking of the moon of late... as it pertains to a little film I'm doing.
V. Tell us more!!
“BTW do you know what the full moon is called tomorrow? It's the egg moon or the seed moon.”
(Cate)
I suppose that has a bit to do with planting crops by the “Lunar signs”. It could be the best time to plant seeds, being Spring ?
“Yes please, rescue the moon for us.”
Cate, there are several interpretations to this lunar “rescue”. Can you guess them?
“I was surprised to read that the Moon has mostly been considered male throughout history.”
(imaginaryfriend)
As I understand it,imag-fnd, in those very ancient star gazing communities, the darkness of Space is the feminine; the womb of God, (Mother Mary/Ghia etc.) so to speak. All that is light is masculine. I quite like that way of viewing things as it is simple and complementary. A cosmically primal 3D yin/yang thingy... :?
The darkness is the field, the light is the seed. Perhaps Cate’s ‘Seed Moon’?
Of course, Easter should occur half a moon-cycle before or after Easter (waning moon-new moon) if it was true to its historical significance/meaning. (rising from the dead on the third day)
I suspect the timing was switched to the full moon to cover its historical links/tracks.
Shall I rescue the Easter Moon?

It is all fun. :)
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Shall I rescue the Easter Moon?
I give up Mat!

What would you rescue the moon from? The black void? Bad poetry? Silly lovers? Will you give her back her mythic powers?

Tell us :?
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I hope this makes some sense imaginaryfriend.

Rescuing the Easter Moon (part 3)

I was kindled a Catholic
fed bullshit as fact
and fact as bullshit

but they gave me something eternal
and I love them for that.

But sinking deep
among the mud of misconceptions
I falter as I fall
to Easter.
I know beauty when I feel it
I know lies when I sense them
I know hope
and trust
and ritualistic promise.

I know I know nothing
like any ½ wise nobody
and I recognise falsity
misleads;
intentional mis-directions
and so I See Easter’s Full Moon as a farce.

Like Christ
The New moon dies for three days also
and resurrects
like myriad mythic martyrs
along forty thousand years.

Some old Bishop of Christendom
has stolen the Lunar Sync,
taken the New Moon from that other Son
and replaced it with the Full.

Resuscitate the resurrection
resurrect reincarnation
Give us back the original;

it’s time for a New Moon Easter
the Full Moon’d Easter is folly.


MatbbgMephistoJ


(Note: Easter is celebrated at the Full Moon.
But the symbolism of resurrection/reincarnation occurs between the waning Moon and the New Moon. The Moon “dies” for three days and is resurrected on the third day, just like the Christians' resurrected Christ.) Therefore Easter is 2 Weeks out of sinc.)
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Ahhhh!

Rescuing the moon from Christendom. A great deal needs to be rescued from Christendom... still, I like your lines:
I was kindled a Catholic
fed bullshit as fact
and fact as bullshit

but they gave me something eternal
and I love them for that.
Thanks Mat!
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Rescuing the moon from Christendom
That's it, imaginaryfriend.

But it is interesting how a line like 'Shall I rescue the Easter Moon" affects me.
To me it is the only quality poetry/line in the poem(s) of mine above on this thread. It evokes many responses and I intend to water this field a little longer and watch the variety of germinations/poems. I will be looking into what I perceive to be gross misinterpretations of popular Biblical themes/phrases/quotes and in this way, rescue the Easter Moon.

themes to re-interpret:

• The Church, like a clumsy mother fairy-tales a fantasy for children and feeble adult minds.
• Job's brilliant categorisation of Satan as man's enemy; not god's.
• shall I judge not the fruit from the knowledge of good and evil
• Shall I rescue the truth from the Way and the Life? (I am the Way, the Truth, the Life)[unless you come by me, TRUTH, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
• shall I too walk on watery dreams and symbols
• -shall I make the blind see
• -and the lame waltz?


all this I can do as I rescue the Easter Moon. :lol: 8) It sounds like fun for this son of a clumsy mother.
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Hi Mat okay very late answer to what you've already answered ;-)

mat james wrote:Cate, there are several interpretations to this lunar “rescue”. Can you guess them?
First interpretation and the one I was responding to would have been more of a fantasy one of the way I saw the line - a dark night with a sliver of moon in the sky surrounded by earthshine, a man quietly wading out into still waters with a thin rope in hand, he casts his line into the moons reflection and pulls. (I'm not sure what he's going to pull out, maybe a silver woman or maybe a shining orb that he'll toss back to the sky).

Second interpretation that I would have said would have been pretty close - rescue the moon back from the Christians. (oppps I just realized that's not really close at all is it. You meant rescue the new moon back for a more truly symbolic representation of Christs story... )

Well third - may have been the idea of N restarted again - perhaps a new phase of life.

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I suspect Christians celebrate following the full moon for ancient marketing reasons. Trying to draw in the pagans with an even better Spring festival.
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I've always wondered why the moon disappeared like that.
Now you know, it's all shadow and mirrors.
the darkness of Space is the feminine; the womb of God, (Mother Mary/Ghia etc.) so to speak. All that is light is masculine. I quite like that way of viewing things as it is simple and complementary. A cosmically primal 3D yin/yang thingy... :?
Explosions give off light too.
I'd have to spend more time with this idea before I consider liking it or not. My gut reaction is not to, but that may simply be a result of the state I'm in. I had a stressy weak with bonus tiredness. :neutral:
Must relax. Breathe in, breathe out, repeat as necessary.
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