Tag: Ocean
He who looked into the abyss: HP Lovecraft and "The ocean at night"
In "The Night Ocean", the last story written by the Providence Dreamer before his premature death, the profound relationship of communion and at the same time of "cosmic terror" towards the oceanic element and its abysmal depths is revealed in a complete way,ย from Lovecraft experienced firsthand.
The "Heavenly Fire": Kronos, Phaeton, Prometheus
di Andrew Casella
cover: Jean Delville, Prometheus, 1907)
[Continued fromย The astronomical significance of the Golden Age: Astrea and the "fall" of Phaeton]
In a Mongolian wedding prayer it is stated that: "Fire was born when Heaven and Earth separated": Therefore, before the celestial equator (Father Heaven) and the ecliptic (mother Earth) moved away (ie the inclination angle of about 23 ยฐ of the ecliptic with respect to the equator was recorded), the" Fire " did not exist. At the beginning, the Milky Way united heaven, earth and the world of the dead: the southern part of the Galaxy, in correspondence with Scorpio and Sagittarius, is, for many traditions, the place dedicated to the collection of souls waiting to reincarnate.