Romanian Fairytales & Mircea Cãrtãrescu

I have discovered that Romanian culture has a distinct involvement with Stargates, expressed first and foremost in the belief that the land itself is a so-called "Mouth of Heaven", as in being found on the borderline between dimensions (sensing this opening into another realm). These are the most recent clues I've come across.

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And Mircea Cãrtãrescu says that "life as something between birth and death, surrounded by nothingness" is a mindframe we need to overcome: life is a larval or pupal stage, which enables us to then "take the gate to Universal life". 

This is very interesting as it also recalls Mihai Eminescu's explanation of "genius" as someone who already has a Passport in life, to this Universal life. Note that this is not about 'rewards' or 'punishments', but about what the human individual does from within - affinities, attractions, and the way the soul is diligent in following his own path.

More recently, people have started noticing that through the work of Poets, what is called "scientific knowledge" is being transmitted - even before certain principles are discovered as part of 'Science'. This is certainly a field I'd like to explore more in the future: how can a poet know how the Universe was formed, for example, without any scientific training, and then have his ideas confirmed by later ages? 

Happy birthday Bilbo and Frodo Baggins

Nephew Frodo & uncle Bilbo Baggins, Stargate dudes extraordinaire!* 

Here is a song in honour of the journey which begins at this time: Sissel, Pokarekare Ana (a World War I love song redone with Maori and Norwegian lyrics). Watch this space for the full explanation of the New Zealand Maori synchronization with Celtic beliefs.

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* Ralph Bakshi animation, 1978: I like this picture very much because, regardless of whether or not we've imagined the characters to look like this, I feel it expresses their "spirit" exactly. It also expresses a curiosity I notice time and time again: films made in the '60s and '70s (but not limited to those time periods) are incapable of transcending their respective current hairstyles, no matter that they are films about an ancient world, the 1700s, the 1920s, or a Space-age future: the same fashions are invariably "back in style"! Of course, this is only if we take it literally. Figuratively speaking, I believe it serves as a nod to certain things in our culture which, thus displaced, are re-examined in a new light.

I also like the picture because it reminds me of the book's funniest indirect physical characterizations (i.e. through the words of another character): "I've made an imitation of your head with a brown woollen mat, Mr. Baggins".