A wave of transformation happens as Odysseus and Athena transform the symbols throughout the Homeric epics where the limitations in thought and Being had been closed, and this is done through Homer's/Hermes's creation of music, just as Hermes does for his destiny and true inheritance in the stealing of Helios's cattle in the Hymn to Hermes and in the making of the first terrapin-shell lyre. The bow which Penelope retrieves from her treasure vault is actually the lyre—Odysseus's guitar—and it is all about the healing and transcendent, even Trickster music—very much the line we have now in the Grateful Dead.
Paperback: 526 pages
Publisher: Books of the Southwest; First edition, Published on September 19, 2018
Language: English
ISBN-10: 069219438X
ISBN-13: 978-0692194386
Product Dimensions: 7 x 1.2 x 10 inches
A wave of transformation happens as Odysseus and Athena transform the symbols throughout the Homeric epics where the limitations in thought and Being had been closed, and this is done through Homer's/Hermes's creation of music, just as Hermes does for his destiny and true inheritance in the stealing of Helios's cattle in the Hymn to Hermes and in the making of the first terrapin-shell lyre. The bow which Penelope retrieves from her treasure vault is actually the lyre—Odysseus's guitar—and it is all about the healing and transcendent, even Trickster music—very much the line we have now in the Grateful Dead. Phenomenally, this line opens to something vast: an understanding of the art moving forward in Rome in the late 2nd century A.D. in the myth of Psyche and Eros at the time of the writings of Mary and Jesus, and before, reaching through Knossos Crete into ancient Egypt and an understanding of the feminine and Artistic in The Egyptian Book of the Dead, the mythology of Isis, Osiris, and Horus matching Penelope, Odysseus, and Telemachus, and into the reign of the female Pharaoh Hatshepsut and Senenmut, her consort and architect, and back further still into the contortion of the feminine and transformative in the Middle East, through the prehistoric that had arrived at Çatalhöyük, into full view in the Paleolithic now to be seen at the Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave. Like the Iliad and Odyssey, the key to understanding the 36,000 year old art of Chauvet is at the "Venus and the Sorcerer," just as it is at Penelope and Odysseus. In the epics there is the flight of the eagle Super Shaman—also in the cave—who must complete the soul's return to and from the eternal, and because of the historic disruption, must also transform these broken worlds. I came to know this of Odysseus upon seeing John Mayer, the master and passionate artist at work, and the task became to express what I had always known. I also saw the social restrictions against destiny and character that I would even find at the beginning of the Odyssey. There is reason to show this in process, which is, like Penelope's tapestry, weaving back the Body as she does of Odysseus. For the female, too—the most pivotal social symbol--where she formerly has no value, the process of discovery, creation, and writing is the way to show that expansion into the inner Being, and for it to take viewable, knowable Form.
In the deepest chambers of Chauvet cave is a companionship between a child and a dog/wolf near 25,000 to 27,000 years ago evidenced in the foot prints. My companion in writing Coyote Weaves a Song has been my 9 lb. Yorkshire Terrier, Vanilla Custard Pudding, a wolf at heart, and a spelunker beside me. We have walked the mountains in New Mexico that remind me so much of how it must have been to walk by the Ardèche then and to know that the caves held this most alive and wondrous art. I am simply amazed to watch the ducks on the water near my home and know that it was the exact same then, as a drawing of a duck or goose appears in a most pivotal place in Chauvet, and this opens a phenomenal understanding and miraculous flow of Art. That landing of the water bird at that specific point before the Megaloceros Gallery shows that this is the geese of which Penelope speaks when telling the disguised Odysseus her dream and asking of him what will happen. One of the greatest discoveries (besides Being itself--the wonder that unfolds with it), this shows a pattern of rite, as it is in the Homeric epics, in the cave art that mirror what happens with Penelope, giving an insight into a very ancient Song. This is also the moment it returns to me, in that joy I cannot explain, the geese, whom I love, re-landing on my pond, that water symbol of Being, the soul's flight to it, the ducks, literally, here in New Mexico, the same as they were then, and with them the knowledge of the flight of the world transformative Super Shaman eagle returning.
