Monday, December 29, 2008

A Hero Who Explained Himself Well

It seems rather tragic that European Christians (extrapolated Druids) don't realize or acknowledge they are Sun worshipers themselves rather than Son worshipers. They arrive in the Americas and attempt to convert the native Sun worshipers into Son worshipers in total ignorance of their own backwardness.  

Even I was a little shocked to find out the Mormons attempted to convince the native tribes in America they originated as some of the lost tribes of Israel. But, then again, how could the Mormons have known their lies would be exposed by DNA tests that prove the "native" "Indians" emigrated from Asia, and that they were neither native or from India. I'd bet good money that this huge inaccuracy won't change not one Mormon's mind. Why would they care if their religion is based on lies when everyone else's religion is based on lies too. Like all the rest of Earth's religions, the Mormon's lies are really true, and the other's are not.

They are the sa-me lies, if the Mythologist Joseph Campbell's theories are correct. I like his theories. Especially the one in his tour de force "The Hero With A Thousand Faces".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hero_with_a_Thousand_Faces

Campbell claims there is only one story, and that story is about Everyman as a hero who attempts to steal the gifts of the gods for himself, and subsequently manifest that ill-gotten gain in the sensory dimension in order to get people to think he was more important than your average bear.

The only differences between all the myths of all the peoples and all the places of the Earth is the location the story is told for. If the culture that produces a myth lives in the high mountains, their hero will ideally live in the mountains too, and his virtues will be the virtues of mountain men. If the story is told by a culture in America that lives in the Mojave desert area, the main character of that myth might be naymed Geronimo, and the story will be about Apaches who live in the Southwest. If the myth was generated the torpid rain forests of the world, the hero will possess the skills and know-how of what to do if he encounters a jungle beast. Maybe.

Campbell's point seems to be that the actual story plot of every myth written on Earth is the sa-me. That's why all the world's religions are based on the same lies. The "lies" are merely the environmental differences humans have to observe because they live in different environments like deserts or seashores or rain forests or in the highest mountains of the Himalayas.

The "real story" the myths are written about involve man's symbolic relationship with the Sun and the Moon. It's about light that's generated by the Sun, and the reflected light produced by the Moon. Every abstract construct known to man can be derived from those two basic points of reference.

What matters about that is, as far as we (humans in general) know through no-ing (denial), is that no other form of life can symbolically extrapolate the entire known universe from these binary polar opposites. It's the most amazing facticity I consciously need to consider using my own process of realization.