The problem with the thinkers is that they always overthink. In truth, man and life itself cannot exist without the two extremes. Life and matter alike came to be within the warm gap between the fire and ice. No life is possible without male/ female , life and death, day and night, man and women, and so far. In some respect, Apollo and Dionysus are mere two faces of the striker for fortune
It is very interesting how religions tend to drift into a monotheism devoid of spirit. I am sometimes reminded of contemporary neopagans who only pay attention to one God (like Wotan), or obsess over “solar vitality” and whatnot. It is also interesting to note that, while Evola characterized the Sun as masculine, the Germanic peoples always saw the Moon instead as a masculine deity, and more appropriately characterized the Sun as feminine.
I have had similar thoughts about Christology, and it's easy to imagine the pedantic, hyper-verbal "debate me bro" types who would be drawn to such a religion. A timeless piece of advice for any young woman is "if a man writes you a sonnet, he loves you. If he writes you ten sonnets, maybe he just loves sonnets."
Well, if the Church excommunicates one Christological school, maybe it's seeking the Truth. If it excommunicates ten Christological schools...
Good post. I don't think the coagulation of gods is necessarily bad, although it is typically bad when it is manufactured for convenience (e.g. Interpretatio graeca), because in traditional polytheistic cultures the pattern went both ways. While two deities might be conflated as aspects of one-another, the epithets of a single deity could also become treated like two separate gods. The Egyptians were sort of Kathenotheistic, so it made sense to unite the worship of two gods who were recognized as fulfilling the same function in different myths. Atum, Amun, Ra, Ptah, and and eventually Aten all take the position of the chief and primordial creator deity depending on the myth. What Akhenaten did that was novel was suggest that the worship of the gods must be coagulated as well so that only one name receives worship.
I am skeptical also of the real existence of an apollonian-Dionysian divide. Dionysus cultists were still into basically ascension, but sought it through more "active" means similar to modern-day Vajrayana or Tantrists. Dionysus is the "sun of the underworld" while Apollo is the "sun in the sky" but both are the sun. Dionysus is somewhat similar to Apulu, who was erroneously identified with Apollo! Quite literally the "black sun" or the "cthonic sun" of the Volcano... The 'Head speaks of this
The problem with the thinkers is that they always overthink. In truth, man and life itself cannot exist without the two extremes. Life and matter alike came to be within the warm gap between the fire and ice. No life is possible without male/ female , life and death, day and night, man and women, and so far. In some respect, Apollo and Dionysus are mere two faces of the striker for fortune
It is very interesting how religions tend to drift into a monotheism devoid of spirit. I am sometimes reminded of contemporary neopagans who only pay attention to one God (like Wotan), or obsess over “solar vitality” and whatnot. It is also interesting to note that, while Evola characterized the Sun as masculine, the Germanic peoples always saw the Moon instead as a masculine deity, and more appropriately characterized the Sun as feminine.
I have had similar thoughts about Christology, and it's easy to imagine the pedantic, hyper-verbal "debate me bro" types who would be drawn to such a religion. A timeless piece of advice for any young woman is "if a man writes you a sonnet, he loves you. If he writes you ten sonnets, maybe he just loves sonnets."
Well, if the Church excommunicates one Christological school, maybe it's seeking the Truth. If it excommunicates ten Christological schools...
Good post. I don't think the coagulation of gods is necessarily bad, although it is typically bad when it is manufactured for convenience (e.g. Interpretatio graeca), because in traditional polytheistic cultures the pattern went both ways. While two deities might be conflated as aspects of one-another, the epithets of a single deity could also become treated like two separate gods. The Egyptians were sort of Kathenotheistic, so it made sense to unite the worship of two gods who were recognized as fulfilling the same function in different myths. Atum, Amun, Ra, Ptah, and and eventually Aten all take the position of the chief and primordial creator deity depending on the myth. What Akhenaten did that was novel was suggest that the worship of the gods must be coagulated as well so that only one name receives worship.
I am skeptical also of the real existence of an apollonian-Dionysian divide. Dionysus cultists were still into basically ascension, but sought it through more "active" means similar to modern-day Vajrayana or Tantrists. Dionysus is the "sun of the underworld" while Apollo is the "sun in the sky" but both are the sun. Dionysus is somewhat similar to Apulu, who was erroneously identified with Apollo! Quite literally the "black sun" or the "cthonic sun" of the Volcano... The 'Head speaks of this