Sherbert Hoover posted:

hmm that's odd, he's usually not this horny

Al! posted:

hephaestus trapping his wife and her lover in an elaborate net contraption is the first e/n goon story

Al! posted:

hephaestus trapping his wife and her lover in an elaborate net contraption is the first e/n goon story

snoo posted:

imagine hating women this much

biceps crimes posted:

aw frig aw dang it posted:

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:

it is wednesday, my druids

LITERALLY A BIRD posted:

Historical context fun fact, associations with Wednesday being for communication, travel, and learning would be because of the day's namesake being the God Mercury (Hermes), patron of well, those things

LITERALLY A BIRD posted:

it is wednesday, my druids

Hatebag posted:

Moon, Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars

Homeless Friend posted:

holy sh*t

LITERALLY A BIRD posted:

it is wednesday, my druids

Hatebag posted:

wednesday is mercury because the ptolemaic geo-centric model orders the bodies in the solar system Moon, Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn in terms of distance from earth. that combines with this helpful little diagram

where you trace from the sun to moon, mars, mercury and bing bong, mercury is the 4th day

LITERALLY A BIRD posted:

it is wednesday, my druids

LITERALLY A BIRD posted:

You got it it's this one: Thought, Utterance, Power

quote:

Unlike the later Greek, the Egyptian had not yet developed the intellectual ability to think in abstract terms.

https://z-library.se/book/21801868/435b75/before-philosophy-the-intellectual-adventure-of-ancient-man.html p.21 posted:

The ancients expressed their ‘emotional thought’ (as we might call it) in terms of cause and effect; they explained phenomena in terms of time and space and number. The form of their reasoning is far less alien to ours than is often believed. They could reason logically; but they did not often care to do it. For the detachment which a purely intellectual attitude implies is hardly compatible with their most significant experience of reality. Scholars who have proved at length that primitive man has a ‘prelogical’ mode of thinking are likely to refer to magic or religious practice, thus forgetting that they apply the Kantian categories, not to pure reasoning, but to highly emotional acts.

We shall find that if we attempt to define the structure of mythopoeic thought and compare it with that of modern (that is, scientific) thought, the differences will prove to be due rather to emotional attitude and intention than to a so-called prelogical mentality. The basic distinction of modern thought is that between subjective and objective. On this distinction scientific thought has based a critical and analytical procedure by which it progressively reduces the individual phenomena to typical events subject to universal laws. Thus it creates an increasingly wide gulf between our perception of the phenomena and the conceptions by which we make them comprehensible. We see the sun rise and set, but we think of the earth as moving round the sun. We see colours, but we describe them as wave-lengths. We dream of a dead relative, but we think of that distinct vision as a product of our own subconscious minds. Even if we individually are unable to prove these almost unbelievable scientific views to be true, we accept them, because we know that they can be proved to possess a greater degree of objectivity than our sense-impressions. In the immediacy of primitive experience, however, there is no room for such a critical resolution of perceptions. Primitive man cannot withdraw from the presence of the phenomena because they reveal themselves to him in the manner we have described. Hence the distinction between subjective and objective knowledge is meaningless to him.

Meaningless, also, is our contrast between reality and appearance. Whatever is capable of affecting mind, feeling, or will has thereby established its undoubted reality. There is, for instance, no reason why dreams should be considered less real than impressions received while one is awake. On the contrary, dreams often affect one so much more than the hum-drum events of daily life that they appear to be more, and not less, significant than the usual perceptions. The Babylonians, like the Greeks, sought divine guidance by passing the night in a sacred place hoping for a revelation in dreams. And pharaohs, too, have recorded that dreams induced them to undertake certain works. Hallucinations, too, are real. We find in the official annals of Assarhaddon of Assyria a record of fabulous monsters — two-headed serpents and green, winged creatures — which the exhausted troops had seen in the most trying section of their march, the arid Sinai Desert. We may recall that the Greeks saw the Spirit of the Plain of Marathon arisen in the fateful battle against the Persians. As to monsters, the Egyptians of the Middle Kingdom, as much horrified by the desert as are their modern descendants, depicted dragons, griffins, and chimeras among gazelles, foxes, and other desert game, on a footing of perfect equality.

Charlatan Eschaton posted:

ty that academic writing just slides off my brain, of course those school professor type guys love talking about maat god of order and laws lol.

this is that bicameral mind crap, and then he namedrops frankfort but with some weirdly dismissive lame quotes yeesh

Charlatan Eschaton posted:

Henri, H.A. Frankfort's "Before Philosophy/The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man"(1946) establishes a thing called mythopoeic thought using the words it/thou about modern western brains using words to define their world (objects/events/gods) as separate categorizable things "it" and earlier cultures using animals and images to describe them as a continuum of living animate characters, "thou."

Charlatan Eschaton posted:

what a rad suprise it must have been to scoop out all that sand and find a big ol cat body down there lol pranked from 4000 years ago.

Charlatan Eschaton posted:

written words are so overprioritized now vs symbols and spoken/musical language

LITERALLY A BIRD posted:

Oh boy I'm gonna read the poo poo out of this book, thank you. I have a copy of Frankfort's "Egyptian Religion" and I was so impressed by the respect he had for the materials he was studying, he wasn't perfect certainly but you can tell he was trying to really understand the beliefs as they were understood, instead of the way everyone was seeing them at the time.

LITERALLY A BIRD posted:

I feel like you might like Music, Language and Literature, which is open access and seems to allege music is a much more metaphysically significant language than the written variety, thank you very much

Before Philosophy posted:

We [intend] in this book to deal successively with speculative thought concerning (1) the nature of the universe; (2) the function of the state; and (3) the values of life. But the reader will have grasped that this, our mild attempt to distinguish the spheres of metaphysics, politics, and ethics, is doomed to remain a convenience without any deep significance. For the life of man and the function of the state are for mythopoeic thought imbedded in nature, and the natural processes are affected by the acts of man no less than man’s life depends on his harmonious integration with nature. The experiencing of this unity with the utmost intensity was the greatest good ancient religion could bestow.

snoo posted:

imagine hating women this much

Charlatan Eschaton posted:

very good vibes in that quote, so glad you like the book. paper was cool just wished it had links to the songs they were talkin about, the rare thing that would have been better as a podcast. i appreciate it, reading stuff that's too complicated the best way to learn
metaphysical girl probably just didn't think you were looking for guidance, should have offered to do one for her too dual readings to compare

got a new book, some cool stuff some things missing imo. trying to put together a small review/comparison to other books it references