Typhon's nature

David Stockhoff · 16 Oct 2011, 21:19 · from 2011-October.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 17:19:36 -0400
Subject: (urth) Typhon's nature
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On 10/16/2011 4:49 PM, Lee Berman wrote:
>> Gerry Quinn: I notice you don?t mention Typhon?s father.  Could that be something
>> to do with the fact that his father was TARTARUS?
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> I think that is a good question, though the assumption that I ought to be addressing
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> all the complexities of all the issues of these stories in one post is rather an
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> unrealistic expectation. Neither did I address the indirect relationship of
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> mythological Typhon to Phaea. She was the human caretaker of one of Typhon and
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> Echidna's monstrous offspring, the Hus Krommyon or Crommoyon Sow. And no, I'm not
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> going to discuss Babby at this time.
Please do!
> Anyway regarding Tartaros, I think this is another example of the father-son sequence
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> confusion which is tangentially introduced througout the Sun series but is most explicitly
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> stated in RttW.
Huh. Yes, the frequency with which these things occur---Silk and his 
father, Horn and his sons---suggests that it may need a closer look as 
its own phenomenon, rather than just a result of (or clue to) other 
problems.
> As has been suggested in the past I think this has its basis in the father-son confusion
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> of ambiguous gender Dionysus being a primeval Greek deity who gave rise to the Titans and
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> Olympians and their paternalistic kings Chronos and Zeus. One of Zeus' offspring was then
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> ambiguous gender Dionysus who was a primary deity (in various guises) during the pre-Christian
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> period centered across what was Alexander's empire.
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> I think it is the belief of many pagan cults that the paternalistic Christian religion
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> which now dominates so much of the Western world will one day be again supplanted by
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> worship of the hermaphroditic, One True God, Dionysus, Great God Pan, The Green Man or
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> various other names he goes by.  Son-Father-Son-Father-Son gods...etc. It is confusing
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> and I think WOlfe is astute in recognizing that gnostic confusion in this story.
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Very nice! Tangentially, one could argue that the question of what to do 
with the Trinity when presenting an alternative, pre-Christ mythology is 
its own problem. That is, ones, twos, and threes become significant, for 
better or worse. Avoid 3 or go with something else? If not 3-in-1, why 
not 2-in-one? (Consider the monoecious plant, with 2 sexes in one 
"house.") And never mind that we still don't know who Christ's mother was!

Two-in-one divinity takes one right back to divine incest, of course. A 
hermaphroditic Deity represents an ideal union of what here on Earth is 
forever divided. A self-pollinating "God" would fit right in, in Briah, 
with its perpetual, cyclical regeneration.

Remind you of anyone, Lee?


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