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EROS and THANATOS
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(Love
and Death)
Essay on Essence-the Theory of E-ism
Two ontological
principles, which are considered to be the key themes in
art and literature, which, according to Z.Freud’s
definition, are two instincts and stimuli of human
activity, and which to us, are also connected to
''paradise'' and ''hell'' zones of brain (in other
words, drives of ''pleasure'' and ''suffering'',
''Eutyun'' volume, page 350). |
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Actually, their
interconnection stems from simple religious notions, passing
from ancient mytho-semantic traditions up to the medieval art
and the poetry, from the esoteric interpretations up to
psychological observations, from philosophical discussions up to
the modern cosmology.
In a word, this is an eternal and one more mysterious
theme we covered in a number of our works, particularly in
respect to the theory of E-ism. But as it was mentioned the
theory of E-ism is a philosophically open system, infinitely
expanding and going deep with every new scientific discovery,
and after being reinforced by more and firm substantiations
opens novel horizons of cognition, meantime interpreting those
very scientific discoveries. This essay is another attempt,
covering various spheres of cognition and gnoseology.
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Pic.1. Tomb
Sarcophagus of a Marital Couple
(Ain Ghazal, Northern Jordan, 8
th millen. BC). |
Pic.2. Etruscan
Marital Couple Sarcophagus
(Cerveteri, Italy: 6
th century BC). |
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The archeological excavations in the tombs in Western
Asia, dating back to 8-7 th
millen. BC, have discovered
monolithic clay sculptures of a man and a woman
(Pic.1), which were later found in the cases of
various tombs in Mediterranean Sea, for instance, Etruscan tombs
(Pic.2).
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EROS – as per Greek Тheogony, daughter of Chaos, Goddess
of love (var. teenager), creative principle of nature.
THANATOS- son of Nyx –Night (stemming from Chaos);
personification and God of Death, a destruction
principle, and an aggression originator by Z. Freud. |
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Pic.3. T-shaped twin columns for worshipping purposes
(Gobekli Tepe, Urfa district, 10
th
millen.,
BC). |
Pic.4. Roman twin
columns, presumably on the place
of the previous T-shaped ones (Urfa, 1
st
century, BC). |
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Pic.5. Marital graves with ''hatted'' twin
monuments in today’s Urfa. |
Pic.6. Tomb
(Odzun, 6 th century AD). |
Pic. 7.The Old
Man and the Old Woman
of Artsakh (analogical to Sis-Masis). |
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Much earlier, in the ancient settlement of Gobekli Tepe,
dated 10-9
th
millen., BC, the association of male and female
principles was symbolized via Latin T-shaped huge stone columns,
which also endured in various cultures by the interaction of
twin obelisks, and, in the neighboring territories of Gobekli
Tepe, particularly in Urfa, by obviously male and female twin
tombs, face-to face erected and being dedicated to the deceased
couple. The fact of burying them side-to -side suggested their
inseparability even after their death, such as ''getting old on
one pillow'' or “not to destruct what God unified’’ folk and
religious traditions
(Pic. 3-7):
One more noteworthy fact, while observing the
aforementioned site, we came across a phenomenon that numerous
experienced eyes had missed: there were two-peaked mountains in
the neighborhood of a number of ancient sites!!!; like in Çayönü
Tepe
(north from Diyarbakir Province, 8
th
millen., BC)
or
in so many ancient sanctuaries
(Latmos, Delphi-Parnassus, Machu-Picchu, Sis-Masis etc.).
It was more than easier to assume, that these relate
to the worship of male-female duality and
two-peaked Masu-Mashu Mountains cited in Sumer-Akkadian epics
long before the Bible. In the peak Nisir of the aforementioned
mountains Utnapishtim sheltered after the flood, settled in the
neighboring territory and sprang a new life off
(like Deucalion on the peak Nis of Parnassus, Noah on Mount
Ararat). All these point out the most ancient,
general and widespread tradition, and amongst the original
stories Mount Ararat has become primary and emblematic, already
with an additional meaning
(Gates of the Sun “
born from and setting into sea’’,
the pantheon of ancestors’ souls, divine place, eternity, etc.:
Pic. 8-11).
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Pic.8 . Two-peaked
Mountain in the
neighborhood of Cayonu Tepe. |
Pic.9. Sanctuary on
the foot of
Mountain Machu-Picchu (Peru). |
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Pic.10. The raise of
Sumerian Utu Sun
God from the of foot of the two-peaked Masu
mountain viewed from the South the
enclosed twin columns symbolize a gate;
and the symbols are the sky and the earth
(3
rd millen. BC.). |
Pic.11. Mythological
Ararat, Sis-Masis.There was
another Nekh-Masik mountain in the
neighborhood of the sea Van, and in general
Greek-Roman authors called the entire Highland
Masius, and in Armenian Mashtu (Մաշտու) >
sacred, Masunk (մասունք) >
relic. |
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Let's go back to the key content of the related
male-female sculptures. As a main theme it has got a purely
long-lasting place in the literary sources. A vivid and
transparent sample of this is the cuneiform legend, which was
found in the library of the former town Assur in 1917. This
finding presented the tortures and the death of dying and
reviving on the New Year feasts Babylonian God Bel-Marduk inside
the MOUNTAIN
(
i.e. in the
underworld, mythological motif of “the Spirit locked in the
mountain/rock’’ , see also the video material on
“The mystery of “E’’
and the monography “Genesis AYA”,
page 829-830
). However,
his beloved Goddess “the connection with whom, even death
was powerless to destroy”,
descends to the underworld and
resuscitates him, like early Sumer-Akkadian Inanna did for her
consort Dumuzid-Tammuzid, Egyptian Isis for the martyr Osiris.
Still in the 4
th century St. Jerome, one of the Catholic eminent
church fathers, reports on a similar ceremony in Bethlehem
devoted to another dying and resurrecting deity Adonis and
records parallels with Christ.
In a word, we have “main theme and numerous variations”
being considered in the course of thousands of years, that we
come across in the Greek Mythology in case of Orpheus and
Eurydice, Beatrice in Dante’s “Divine Comedy’’, “Romeo and
Juliet’’ in the tragedy by Shakespeare, as well as in the poetry
of Middle Ages by Petrarch for Laura, and in general, prevailing
in knightly and present times glorifying songs for “the
unique love that overcomes the death”. And the Great
Goethe, whose hero, the doctor, being bored from the sciences,
after a dozen of adventures and temptations refinds his beloved
Margaret in heaven, finishes his famous masterpiece “Faust’’
with a philosophical and deep epilogue:
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A vain
illusion is the
Short life on earth,
Heaven only being the
cradle of dreams.
Here we reach
Our dream; puts us up the
Eternal Feminine. |
This, indeed for men. Whereas, the roles are changed,
but the essence remains the same, like in the poem “Parvana’’ by
H. Toumanyan, where the glorious princess demands from the brave
young men, who desire her love, to bring only the “eternal
flame’’;
the heroes passing in vain from
world to world finally transform into butterflies circling
around a lamp and burning in the fires of it
...
All these may be considered solely poetry, if there were
not so many attempts to give an esoteric, philosophical and
psychological interpretations to the issue. And more
importantly, human desire enunciated in the course of the
thousands of years, not to mention the power of intuition of our
ancestors and the truth proved scientifically.
So, we have enough basis to search also for biological,
physic-chemical and finally cosmological validations for the
interconnection between “love and death”, when
according to our ancestors “what was in heaven
should be reflected on earth, and vice-versa”; according
to E-ism, the same E-ssences “manifest themselves” with
appearance/ phenomenal variations in all spheres of the BEING
(scientific analogy of “lorentzian alterations ’’). Therefore,
let’s first make an effort to underline the cosmological essence
of those components separately, then, consider their
interconnection.
Similar attempts were also made in the early past. Apart
from intuition, the association and abstraction of natural
phenomena serve as a precondition for the formation of often
very accurate cosmological ideas and systems. This is also the
case with antique cosmology when Eros, goddess of Love stems
from disorganized Chaos, as a creative principle in the
formation process of Cosmos-Universe. Later, the antique
philosophers compared love and friendship with the material
attraction; animosity and the hatred with repulsion, that is,
per scientific contemporary terminology-with gravitation and
anti-gravitation. In a similar analogy, Entropy-atrophy is
interrelated with bad and evil moral characterization,
anti-entropy -creation, with kind and good. In the same way the
biological concept of “love” has left traces in terminology. For
instance, Armenian word for LOVE- Ser- “սէր” (
according to H.Atcharyan from indo-européennes (IE)*k’ei-ro-,
firstly to lay >
“պառկիլ”,
then home >
“տուն”, family >
“ընտանիք” etc )
links with “ser -
սեր”
( IE *ke’r-, to give a
birth, to nourish, to grow up, Lat. creo
-
to create
);
as well as ser >
“սեռ”
-
nation, tribe, spice, sexuality;
seed >
“սերմ”, offspring >
“սերունդ”, and other related words and concepts.
Based on the same principle, modern biology,
anthropology, bio-sociology, bio-psychology and other related
sciences tend to see the prototypes of the behavior of Homo
sapiens in bio-organic forms of existence and in their evolution
process. Thus, the biological prototype of love is considered
the sexuality and the generative principle, with naturally
attractive “adornments’’ given to those species (
luxurious “outfit” of male peacocks, the majestic mane of lions,
etc.),
demonstration of power, skills, health, “wedding songs and
dances”, also the acute strokes of jealousy, the main reasons of
which are the instincts for the combining of the best genes,
secure prosperity preconditions for the next generation, with
the “identity” establishment and longevity through its own
descendents. All this, can also be observed in the behavior of
the modern human being, indeed, in such a different and
spiritual demonstrations, such as love in all aforementioned
notions and concepts.
All these outline the vivid diameter of evolution and
its vector-direction, by adding qualities, upgrade from material
into spiritual dimension, although by zigzag and back-and-forth
fluctuations, as per the theory of “E” ism, within a
convectional circulation
(instead of geometrical spire of Dialect).
Thus, in the prospered countries, females, for their own
security and that of their offspring, prefer the social status
of their male partners, although, via statistical inquiries the
great majority votes for the intellect and spiritual virtues of
the desired men, which also has a vectorial meaning, i.e. the
tendency of the combination of the best genes, inner world
maturing, and “upgrade from quantitative to qualitative”.
This is not all, yet. Neurophysiologic, psychophysical
and related other branches of science have also joined the
analysis of love and biological and socio-biological motives and
processes of the mutual gravitation between the sexes. These
record such physicochemical processes (
generation of dopamine, pheromone, serotonin and adrenalin ,
bio-energetic and psycho-energetic generations and throw-outs,
biological activations, etc.),
that can volcanically rise even from “the first love
sight”.
In a word, certain biological and physicochemical basis
is disclosed at the bosom of “poetic” or religious-philosophical
definitions of love, alas, still only over secular, material and
scientific dimension. However, even this is enough to use the
same solid scientific and logical approach for outlining the
cosmological embrace of love in respect to Eros-Thanatos.
First, as an axiom, it should be recorded that love has
not only sexual, but also diverse and hierarchic demonstrations:
from love towards relatives to love towards homeland
(patriotism),
from the worship of an idea to that of God; namely,
transformation from material to supreme spiritual virtues,
characterized as “spiritual nourishment”. The next undisputable
axiom is the expression of diverse and hierarchical love or
attraction between those of different
(or not)
genders until sublimation who do not have any more the
instinctive desire of generation but strive for elevation and
exaltation
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masterpieces of art, noble ideas or religious inspirations can
excite the more or less spiritually mature people.
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In an Italian film of M. Bolonini “Handsome Antonio”
(1960), the hero having the reputation of Don Juan is in
a search of his unique love. However, after falling in
love with beautiful Barbara and marrying her, he is
unable to perform sexual intercourse, which becomes a
reason for social mockery and individual tragedy. The
phenomenon is of psychological nature and has various
demonstrations, the reason- supreme sublimation of love
and the spouse as a live example of ‘’platonic love’’
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Pic.12. Kundalin’s male-female
forces meandering upgrade. |
Pic.13. Chinese Yin-Yan
consorts in astronomical colors. |
Pic.14. Hermes’es cane in
the same context. |
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The same principle lies in the notions of Indo – Arian
kundalin force, which coming from the so-called lower Muladhara
sexual chakra goes up in male-female spire spears reaching the
peak of the skull-box, Armenian so-called “home of spirit’’,
“mystery home’’ or “spring-source’’, the spiritual seventh
chakra Shahasrara and trying to become one with other. According
to the esoteric studies the same principle is illustrated
through seven underlayers of the spiritual upgrade- “from
basic-material layer to super-spiritual-divine or
"prototypical'' field”
(
i.e. E-ssential or Super-Essence. Pic.12-14
).
Famous psychoanalyst K.G. Jung developing the antique,
religious and metaphysical notions characterized the female
principle as anima-soul, male principle as animus-spirit, thus
formulated the four grades of development from female anima into
male animus
(without lower material-physical stratifications
).
Therefore, the first grade of anima is biological and
instinctive, that gradually outgrows and reverses to male anima-
spirit and transforms into supreme Wisdom.
In a word, love, unlike Thanatos-death-entropy-aggression,
is not only creative, but also antientropic principle, and like
all else strives for perfection, from material to immaterial- to
“platonic love”, which is in perfect harmony with the evolution
vector
3.
Even, from the physical point of view, apart from pure
birth-generation, bio-creative mission, the instinctive tendency
for overcoming death-entropy via love-antientropy is very
natural.
That implies also a cosmological meaning. Firstly, the
outgrowth and reversion of female-biological anima principle
into animus-spirit and wisdom, which as per some modern theories
expects transitional outgrowth and “evaporation’’ of
matter-energy-information;
E-ification according to the theory of E-ism -
( see “Revelation’’, page 497-558
).
Secondly, as per the beating model of the Universe and the
theory of E-ism, the come-back to the primary Supreme-Essence
presumes the reunification of the previously parted male-female
principles and the reassembling of the Whole, which in poetry
and the social life is expressed as “the unique love that
overcomes death”, as the fusion of lovers into each
other and also spiritual fusion, “as unquenchable fire”,
glorifying and eliminating, “seventh heaven”
or
as Nirvana bliss
4. In other words, the cosmic pre-program in all
its current fermentations is demonstrated in all evolutionary
levels, with more and more vivid displays like the life program
in DNA molecule first in the mother 's womb, or as solely human
or seemingly social features and phenomena; bio-organic forms of
life, that are vaguely expressed.
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Vector – verbatim ray, guide,
from Latin vehere- to take, to lift. The parallels are
conducteur-carrier, vehementia- effective power, gothic
wih-high, sacred temple, old Persian VahYah-the best,
Armenian Veh, Veher (վեհ, վեհեր)- noble, mythical
volcanic names Vah and Vahagn….. And the Latin vector is
associated with convection and with the “convectional
circle’’ adopted in E-ism instead of the dialectical
spine….. There is nothing extraordinary if we keep in
mind that the etymology includes ancestral world
perception and mythological notions.
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If in that so-much-desired bliss the over-conscious
vision of the expected future is glittering, then the
previous subconscious remnants of bio-organic forms of
existence in sexual extremes are available.
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The same Greek eidos-preidea- prototype-essence
philosophical concept (Armenian parallel Swell
(այտուցվել)-ballon (ուռչել)-appear (երևալ)), the
offspring of which are both idea and also
ideal-blissful, as in Armenian the verb “E-ificate”
means “to be by nature” and “To become like father”.
This etymology also implies the world perception of
ancient past, the “Zodiac” of the Universe or the
beating model of Universe, the very strictly secular
derivative of which is the biblical “dust were you,
Become a dust’’ formula ... |
Another question that remains is how the ideal
5 of “unique love that overcomes death”
has been demonstrated so
vividly in our 10-12000-year-old simple and naive ancestors, and
becoming just a merely emotional remnant for nowadays, when the
human being seems to be more mature and conscious today.
As per the above-mentioned principle; by gradual
displays of prototype-essences, but already, in the
“convectional circle”.
Let’s explain.
Very often, people use so called figurative expressions
like “human childhood or adolescence”. Whereas, here we deal
with the genetic parallels of
phylogeny (
the entire evolution way of the form of existence
) and ontogeny
(
the evolution way of the form of existence during the period of
one life
).
Therefore, first of
all it’s known, that the main individual features of a human
being are displayed from the childhood. And secondly, the love
in adolescence is demonstrated with exceptional intensity
(
“first love” syndrome
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),
then it is gradually
cooled in the “convectional circle” of ontogeny, especially “in
the conscious life period” and social pragmatism, to be enforced
with a new quality starting from 40 year-old “spiritual age”
till extinguishing old age, nevertheless always remaining an
unreachable ideal, just like the strive for eternity or “the
unique love that overcomes death”.
In the
aforementioned time period the human being was indeed in
“adolescence”, being in strictly pragmatic and “conscious age”,
hence the pure physicochemical, biological and social views of
love without cosmological implications. However, that’s a
current retreat spire from the “convectional circle” with the
expectation of the “eternal come-back”. Thus,
ideal love, the basic and the overall E-ification, still remain
unreachable due to the spiritual immatureness of the humanity,
nevertheless, serving as evolution vectors or “heavenly
beacons”.
From all the aforementioned viewpoints, love and Eros-Thanatos
interconnection is in harmony not only with the fundamentals of
E-ism
(as in expected,
disclosed and established various spheres, numerous novel
circumstances
...)
but also with
all the dialectical rules
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struggle and unity of
contrasts, negation of negations, outgrow from quantitative to
qualitative,
and with the
RULE of REVERSION
introduced
in dialectics as per E-ism; the latter gives reversion of
death-entropy into love -anti-entropy -eternal life, thus
ensuring cosmic eternity.
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Syndrome, that pushed young
Werther to commit suicide (like often to many teenagers
today) in Goethe’s first works, also happened to 56-year
old Roman philosopher Lucretius. Whereas, 80-year old
Goethe fell in love and was even going to marry
18-year-young lady ...
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Inspiring mission of love in the creative and heroic
actions is a well known fact. The same is also true in
the case of “overcoming of death’’, which demands
considerable spiritual-energetic resources and active
state of mind.
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According to the legend, the wife,
madly in love with her deceased husband, has demanded to
burn and grind her spouse’s bones, to mix the powder to
the perfumes and even to the drinking water. Whereas,
Shah Jahan wanted to build the copy of Taj Mahal from
black marble for himself, but not being able to do so,
ordered to bury him in the same temple to be fused with
the blissful after the death in the underworld with the
same sacred desire ... |
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Pic.15. Halicarnassus
mausoleum,
Asia Minor (353 y. AD, restoration). |
Pic.16. Taj Mahal Temple
in India (1630-1652). |
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From this point of view, “Christian love” is already
viewed as a religious perception of all these and allegorical
“cosmological oratorio”, Maria Magdalena as a one current
transformation of Eros, Christ as the symbol of “overcoming
death”
and of
resurrection. On that path, among many art masterpieces
7, the ancient ancestors’ clay headstones “of
the unique love that overcomes death”
also outgrew and
presented to the mankind the two of the Seven Wonders of the
World
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the Mausoleum of
Halicarnassus and Taj Mahal temple,
the first as
wife’s dedication to her husband Mausolus
(
mausolée-from which comes the simple name of
mausoleum
),
the second-by
Indian Shah Jahan to his beloved wife
8. Are not these enough evidence of the creative
principle of materialized love, and this essay as an evidence
for the truth of the whole embracing E-ism, even in so many
seemingly non-scientific spheres.
It should be noted that a word acquires its true sense
in the sentence, the latter in the paragraph, and the paragraph
in all to be said. As per another physical analogy, a piece of
the hologram includes the whole picture only with deducting
simplicity.
In the same way, Love even in association with death, in
its cosmic embrace is infinitely beautiful, glorifying and
gorgeous, which returns the lovers to the nature and
subconsciously draws to
… stellar infinity or the abstractedly “seventh heaven”
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TO
THE UPPER CASCADE of LIGHT
TO ETERNITY, TO ETERNITY
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Alexandre Arordi VARPETYAN |
Marcel, September 30,
2007 |
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A few years after
this publication, the following story has come across
and taken from the aforementioned very usual forum. The
case also seems simple and casual, but actually is
appropriate for E. Hemingway’s pen and the consideration
of outstanding philosophers and psychologists.
It is fully consistent with our Essay.
The life itself is the best witness and
an excellent novel writer.
We present it without any changes. |
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... Now, I will tell you something that in my view was a
wrong deed, but about a month ago made me believe that a
true, unselfish and eternal LOVE really existed.
Parents of our neighbor lived in the village.
They were already old, the wife was sick. 80-year old
husband did not allow none of his 5 daughters-in-law to
feel the inconvenience of taking care of his sick wife.
The morning call from the village informed that
grandfather had passed away. It was a real shock, as
grandmother was the sick. When they went to the village
it turned out that the grandmother ate nothing for 3
days. Grandfather’s question on the reason was the
positive answer by the wife on dying. The grandfather
fare welled to her promising to wait for her. The whole
day people were looking for grandfather….. and found him
hanged in the cellar. Next morning, grandmother did not
wake up, as well ... |
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