Muppets, Puppets, and the Great Heathen Cycle
At the last Great Conjunction of planets, the Cyrstal shattered, separating into two, the gentle mystics, and the rude power hungry Skeksis.
For a thousand years, did the Skeksis reign. And now, 1000 years later, the Grand Conjunction will return.
Which, the prophesy says, will bring back wholeness to the land, if a Gylfing can restore the cyrstal, or it will keep the land in forever harm by the grip of the evil Skeksis.
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Its been close to 30 years since I watched Jim Hensons- The Dark Cyrstal.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjA2zoUa
Truely unbelievable! What a great piece of work!
I realize, that back then, when it was made, oh, 1980 or 81, we were coming off the late 70's Hobbit craze, and that of Star Wars, but I dont believe I apprieciated the quality of the heathen message of it until I just watched it.
The heathen message I'm refering to, is that of the cycle, the spiral, or the ring.
Time, the movement of the planets, open doorways to events, that happen on this world.
Like the LOTR's trilogy, in The Dark Cyrstal there are no Gods, just different classes of beings, living in harmony with nature, like the gentle mystics, or against nature, which is always being depicted as a desolate world or landscape.
Dont get me wrong, I'm not advocating that the heathen message is one of no gods, that would be foolish.
On my search of what heathenry means to me, is the common thread of a lot of the old sagas and stories, and that is the situation of time, or the cycle, and how it affects the human condition.
Axe age, sword age, wind age, wolf age,
whether it be Stonehenge, or any other structure, like Grottisong or Frothi's mill, or the great Sampo of the Kalavala, our ancestors understood that of the wheel turning, and how winter must come, and spring brings back life.
These earthly patterns, gave them an understanding, to which we see in many cultures which have a similar story or platforms of Sky/Star watching. Almost like a subconscience memory of waiting for some sign or pattern to show of the return. The return of what? you may say....the Gods lived in Heaven (the Sky) the dead lived in Hel (below the earth) and we are stuck in the middle, waiting on time and the great cycle.
The great cycle of what?
Just as our nordic ancestors understood that this universe is alive and self created, the heathen message I have found, which is different from the abrahamic cultures, is that life will go on, on this planet, cause she is a living being.
The Sky god, plays a harmonious role, not a dominating role, and time doesnt end here.
Hence, its up to us, to live in accordence with nature, while we are here stuck in the middle.
There has been alot of hipe recently of the 2012 cycle....
As much as I love end of the world stories and doom and gloom stuff, dont buy into this.... keep your politicians focused, on good things....
Just as Cortez used the prophecy against the Incas, or was it the Aztecs, the Skeksis in this world, are gonna use this story of 2012 to collapse the situation for the one world gov tyrannical power thing....
Hopefully the gentle mystics, have found a Gylfing to repair the situation, and bring this place back to wholeness.
Frith
The Dark Crystal..... a must see, all ten parts.
For a thousand years, did the Skeksis reign. And now, 1000 years later, the Grand Conjunction will return.
Which, the prophesy says, will bring back wholeness to the land, if a Gylfing can restore the cyrstal, or it will keep the land in forever harm by the grip of the evil Skeksis.
........................................
Its been close to 30 years since I watched Jim Hensons- The Dark Cyrstal.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjA2zoUa
Truely unbelievable! What a great piece of work!
I realize, that back then, when it was made, oh, 1980 or 81, we were coming off the late 70's Hobbit craze, and that of Star Wars, but I dont believe I apprieciated the quality of the heathen message of it until I just watched it.
The heathen message I'm refering to, is that of the cycle, the spiral, or the ring.
Time, the movement of the planets, open doorways to events, that happen on this world.
Like the LOTR's trilogy, in The Dark Cyrstal there are no Gods, just different classes of beings, living in harmony with nature, like the gentle mystics, or against nature, which is always being depicted as a desolate world or landscape.
Dont get me wrong, I'm not advocating that the heathen message is one of no gods, that would be foolish.
On my search of what heathenry means to me, is the common thread of a lot of the old sagas and stories, and that is the situation of time, or the cycle, and how it affects the human condition.
Axe age, sword age, wind age, wolf age,
whether it be Stonehenge, or any other structure, like Grottisong or Frothi's mill, or the great Sampo of the Kalavala, our ancestors understood that of the wheel turning, and how winter must come, and spring brings back life.
These earthly patterns, gave them an understanding, to which we see in many cultures which have a similar story or platforms of Sky/Star watching. Almost like a subconscience memory of waiting for some sign or pattern to show of the return. The return of what? you may say....the Gods lived in Heaven (the Sky) the dead lived in Hel (below the earth) and we are stuck in the middle, waiting on time and the great cycle.
The great cycle of what?
Just as our nordic ancestors understood that this universe is alive and self created, the heathen message I have found, which is different from the abrahamic cultures, is that life will go on, on this planet, cause she is a living being.
The Sky god, plays a harmonious role, not a dominating role, and time doesnt end here.
Hence, its up to us, to live in accordence with nature, while we are here stuck in the middle.
There has been alot of hipe recently of the 2012 cycle....
As much as I love end of the world stories and doom and gloom stuff, dont buy into this.... keep your politicians focused, on good things....
Just as Cortez used the prophecy against the Incas, or was it the Aztecs, the Skeksis in this world, are gonna use this story of 2012 to collapse the situation for the one world gov tyrannical power thing....
Hopefully the gentle mystics, have found a Gylfing to repair the situation, and bring this place back to wholeness.
Frith
The Dark Crystal..... a must see, all ten parts.
The story is of Hubris, that folks "know" better than Nature and try to "improve" themselves and their world, with disasterous consequences...
Cheers,
Pat
Hubris
I saw the movie when it first came out, and, being my cynical self, understood it to be a piggyback ride on the current of the time, which was Star Wars and the Hobbit.
I enjoyed it, but chalked it up as, "part of the trend" back then.
After almost 30 years, all I have to say is, OMG!
To think that the people who gave you the muppets, Kermit the frog, and Sesame St, would do an actually storyline so "mature", was so invigorating.... I was truely pleasantly surprised.
They hid it well.
I guess time, has a way of letting people see things differently, then in their youth.
And though, the human condition seems to be the same, through out recorded history, it is the momuments from the past, that give a testimony to something that was greater then us, and these are the architecture that remains that appear as a mystery.
Your comment about Hubris, seems to be right on, and a never ending flaw to our spieces.
We are returning to a time, or point, when we will reach what the ancients called or believed as miraculous or magic.
Take out your cell phone, and 500-1000-2000 years ago, it would be both, magic and miraculous, the same with something as common as a "photograph".
We take these things now "for granted".
When we hear about walking on water, or raising the dead, or healing the blind, are they really miracles?.....
We have now skyscrapers that will marvel the next generation of illiterate humans that make it through Ragnarock, 500 years from now.
They will ask the questions, that will then create the next Poetic Edda, and tell the stories that they heard, of how mankind crashed and burned, but left these magnificant structures.
And the story goes on, just like the "true heathen story",
of the cycle, the spiral, or the never ending ring or circle.
We've been here before, we both know it, and are allowed a great prize, as sick as it sounds, and that is seeing the end to what we concidered unending......
to a new begining.......
Frith always.
Ingvi
Heres a good link to a guy who's debunking 2012.....
as end of the worldhttp://alignment2012.com/
Apophis, the dragon, also known as Typhon, or maybe Fenris, is a astoroid that will strick the earth, either in 2029, or 2036.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99942_Apop
The powers that be know this.....which gives clearity to the rush to get and gain right now, before it all goes up in flames....
Be the Gentle Mystic, and do whats right.
Cortez, was a killer....says Neil Young
Re: Hubris
'Course, they also don't consider folks "Innocent" if they allowed through inaction or indifference an evil to come to Power...
Cheers,
Pat