Chapter 7:  Dragon of the Eclipse;  A Recursive Pun Masquerading as a Veiled Metaphor

The Moon’s Nodes and a Point of Assemblage 

             

     “The Teli in the universe is like a king on his throne.”        

– Sefer Yetzirah  6:3

                                                         The Telos of history is to repeat itself                                                         

– The author

     The deeper we look, the more involved one becomes. 

 – Immemorius

                                                           

An Axis Mundi:  Where the Head and its Tail are Involving

                           Crux of the Serpent’s Spine           

IN THE TELLING OF ITS LEGENDARY STORY:  “Caput and Cauda” – the moon’s nodes (ascen-ding  and descending – from the Latin root nodus  meaning “knot”) are made from the stuff of a primordial coincidence.  As the “twin-like” harbingers of a great celestial portent – like the faces of a coin – the two gained “currency” in astral myths throughout the world because of an intimate relationship to a most curious celestial phenomenon.

AS THE CELEBRATED “SIGN” OF AN IMAGINARY BEAST (ascend-ing as a head – while descending as its tail):  It was once upon a time that its enigmatic figure seemed as twisted like a creature in a “knot-like” form;  such that in the story (of our story telling mind) – its twisted turning form was seen to ‘creep’ along a path from (a) be-low to (an) above, then above to below; devouring  a peak within its trough (like a summit to its valley) – as it would seemingly “emerge” from (an) under to (what’s) over (from a cleft at its horizon) – much like the sinew of a wave.. Such that it was seeming to be some-thing that’s both “in” and along the way  (wrapped about the navel of the world) that being figured like a knot on some imaginary string (twist -ed as if wrapped about an axis ) – was seen as crossing  thru a point                                                                 that would be some “where” at the middle.  

 

       

  STORIED FIGURE THAT IT WAS:   (Pregnant with a Meaning)  

                          

Warp & Weft      

LIKE A PATH THAT’S SOMEWAY PICTURED by a shuttle on a loom (looming  from below,  and from above): Its ser-pentining form was seen to “twist” in such a way – that the some “thing” which was pictured  as a knot upon its string could paint the outline of its rhythm as a “woven” point in space… Such that like a woven  point in time – it would be somehow through the telling of its “yarn” – that the image which was conjured (in our story telling mind) could paint its convoluted portrait as a mighty living thing;  a vast and awesome creature that has weaved  its way through time, which has been figured as a form, through the “loom of its meander“:  A proverbial Leviathan… Tracing outlines of a rhythm thru a story of its form to be a “thing” that’s some-how turned upon itself;   while its image “held a place”  for what was once an empty space – as if its “point” were like the “cleft” – at one’s “horizon“. 

                   

                          AN ARCHAIC SENSE OF PLACE &                                                      A CURIOUS FORM OF “CURRENCY”

                                                                                                                       

                      

                                                                                                                               A SERPENT IN THE ECLIPSE, OR A BULL ON A HORIZON:

 AT THE HEAD OF A TAIL – OR IN THE “TALE” OF A HEAD                     (THE “TWO” THAT IS SOMEHOW ONE)

                                                                                                                             

“Swallowing” a Stone,  or (at) the “Point” of an Assemblage?    A Point which Cuts Both Ways:  Following the Clew 

                                                                 Knot this,  not that.   –  The author

                                                             “A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself”   

                                                                                                                                                                       – Niels Bohr

                 

         The “Cleft” on One’s Horizon

NOW RIDDLE THIS:       

AND BEING SOMEHOW AT THE MIDDLE:  As with the twin sides of a coin (or like their axis), it would be somewhere at  their cross-ing (i.e. their nodes ) – that “a face” through which it ‘sees’ is but the face of what is seen. Not  the “thing itself” – but rather more – a portrait of its “abstraction” (i.e. “the picture” of a knot upon its string – as in  “the image” of a swallowing dragon).. Such that as the head does  to its tail (creates  an “axis”) – its figure holds the place  for an imaginary space – as would a face that’s (both) the center and  “a crossing”…  Tracing outlines of its story – through the portrait of a form;  as in a “curios kind of circuit” – or topology.

                                                    

                                                                                                                                                                                                    

Continue to Chap 8:  The Looming End, or and End that Looms. What is Meant by the Labyrinth?

 

Portrait of a man with Labyrinth,  Bartolomeo Veneto c. 1510

* Refer below to: “The Law of the Instrument”