What is the role of the masculine in our lives? Part 2 of On Woman, Death and the Divine

What is the role of the "masculine" in our lives? 

13th of March 2011

As I continue to think about this subject one of the things I realize is that the masculine has been as abused as the feminine in the actual order of our lives and that the beauty of the exploration is not only to bring the feminine to its rightful place but also the masculine. One does not have to be a master degree philosopher in our times to realize how much men have been harmed by the strict authoritarian education that was imposed on them, of which the worst extreme we can still see clearly in the way the military are trained. Any of the videos or films that we see today on how the military is outrageous to any normal human being and yet we keep allowing our young generation to go through this horror without doing enough to stop it. To prepare our selves for war does not mean to train ourselves to inhumanity. That is how they are trained and the inhumanities they commit on other human beings everywhere can easily be explained with that.

Back to Yang.

"Heaven was created by the forces of yang, the force of light"

I would like the readers to stop and listen to that sentence with their being, not with their mind. Heaven was created by the forces of the masculine, the forces of light. If heaven was created by the masculine, yang force in the universe what has man created in our lives that is in our sphere equivalent to the creation of heaven in the cosmic sphere? Since it is increasingly clear that each cosmos reproduces analogous phenomenon in their own sphere, what 'heaven' have men created in our civilization? 

We should look at the Sun to understand the parallel. 

From Wikipedia: 

The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is almost perfectly spherical and consists of hot plasma interwoven with magnetic fields.^[10][11] It has a diameter of about 1,392,000 km, about 109 times that of Earth, and its mass (about 2×10³⁰ kilograms, 330,000 times that of Earth) accounts for about 99.86% of the total mass of the Solar System.^[12]Chemically, about three quarters of the Sun's mass consists of hydrogen, while the rest is mostly helium. Less than 2% consists of heavier elements, including oxygen, carbon, neon, iron, and others.^[13]

The Sun's stellar classification, based on spectral class, is G2V, and is informally designated as a yellow dwarf, because its visible radiation is most intense in the yellow-green portion of the spectrum and although its color is white, from the surface of the Earth it may appear yellow because of atmospheric scattering of blue light.^[14][15] In the spectral class label, G2indicates its surface temperature of approximately 5778 K (5505 °C), and V indicates that the Sun, like most stars, is a main sequence star, and thus generates its energy by nuclear fusion of hydrogen nuclei into helium. In its core, the Sun fuses 620 million metric tons of hydrogen each second. Once regarded by astronomers as a small and relatively insignificant star, the Sun is now thought to be brighter than about 85% of the stars in the Milky Way galaxy, most of which are red dwarfs.^[16][17] The absolute magnitude of the Sun is +4.83; however, as the star closest to Earth, the Sun is the brightest object in the sky with an apparent magnitude of −26.74.^[18][19] The Sun's hot corona continuously expands in space creating the solar wind, a stream of charged particles that extends to the heliopause at roughly 100 astronomical units. The bubble in the interstellar medium formed by the solar wind, the heliosphere, is the largest continuous structure in the Solar System.^[20][21]

The Sun is currently traveling through the Local Interstellar Cloud in the Local Bubble zone, within the inner rim of the Orion Arm of the Milky Way galaxy. Of the 50 nearest stellar systems within 17 light-years from Earth (the closest being a red dwarf named Proxima Centauri at approximately 4.2 light years away), the Sun ranks 4th in mass.^[22] The Sun orbits the center of the Milky Way at a distance of approximately 24,000–26,000 light years from the galactic center, completing one clockwise orbit, as viewed from the galactic north pole, in about 225–250 million years. Since our galaxy is moving with respect to the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) in the direction of constellation Hydra with a speed of 550 km/s, the sun's resultant velocity with respect to the CMB is about 370 km/s in the direction of Crater or Leo.^[23]

The mean distance of the Sun from the Earth is approximately 149.6 million kilometers (1 AU), though the distance varies as the Earth moves from perihelion in January to aphelion in July.^[24] At this average distance, light travels from the Sun to Earth in about 8 minutes and 19 seconds. The energy of this sunlight supports almost all life on Earth by photosynthesis,^[25]and drives Earth's climate and weather. The enormous effect of the Sun on the Earth has been recognized since prehistoric times, and the Sun has been regarded by some cultures as a deity. An accurate scientific understanding of the Sun developed slowly, and as recently as the 19th century prominent scientists had little knowledge of the Sun's physical composition and source of energy. This understanding is still developing; there are a number of present-day anomalies in the Sun's behavior that remain unexplained.

Elena:

If we are to just look at the 'seen' let's see what can be looked at: the magnitude of the power that we are talking about. We can already perceive that the dimension of the Sun has to be different to our own human dimension. Why would the Sun not  be considered a deity even today? 

"The energy of this sunlight supports almost all life on Earth by photosynthesis,^[25]and drives Earth's climate and weather."

How much more would we need to read to prove the point? To get a glimpse of the force we are talking about? Our scientific age pretends to treat such forces as merely physical entities. Our scientific age dominated by the patriarchal institutions in which the female and women have been put away under the shoes, pretends to treat those forces as purely physical entities that have no power on our spiritual life because of course, we have, according to it, no other life than the physical. Is it not ironic that on this very physical plane those forces are telling us loud and clear that whatever we are 'physically' doing on our earth is minutes away from destroying our selves? 'Minutes' if we think in terms of these magnitudes.

Back to Yang before I get too emotional about this! And yet, isn't this emotionality what has been extirpated from male discourse and women approved of? In the officially accepted philosophical discourse today, don't they all talk as if they did not even feel what they were talking about? My great privilege must be to not have been trained in those institutions and still be able to feel in my 'guts' what I am talking about. To not be identified is not to not feel but I also take responsibility for the degree of identification.


Back to the Sun.


Wikipedia: The Sun is a G-type main sequence star comprising about 99.8632% of the total mass of the Solar System 




99.8632% of the total mass of the Solas System!! 


If one cannot experience awe before that, what does awe need to be experienced?


Please also take a look at the magnetic field of the Sun in a post above!

The English proper noun sun developed from Old English sunne (around 725, attested in Beowulf), and may be related to south. Cognates to English sun appear in other Germanic languages, including Old Frisian sunne, sonne ("sun"), Old Saxon sunna, Middle Dutch sonne, modern Dutch zon, Old High German sunna, modern German Sonne, Old Norse sunna, and Gothic sunnō. All Germanic terms for the Sun stem from Proto-Germanic *sunnōn.^[122] In Germanic paganism, the Sun is personified as a goddess; Sól/Sunna.^[123]

Theories have been proposed that Sun, as Germanic goddess, may represent an extension of an earlier Proto-Indo-European deity due to Indo-European linguistic connections between Old Norse Sól, Sanskrit Surya, Gaulish Sulis, Lithuanian Saulė, and SlavicSolnitse.^[123]

Humanity's most fundamental understanding of the Sun is as the luminous disk in the sky, whose presence above the horizon creates day and whose absence causes night. In many prehistoric and ancient cultures, the Sun was thought to be a solar deity or othersupernatural phenomenon. Worship of the Sun was central to civilizations such as the Inca of South America and the Aztecs of what is now Mexico. Many ancient monuments were constructed with solar phenomena in mind; for example, stone megaliths accurately mark the summer or winter solstice (some of the most prominent megaliths are located in Nabta Playa, Egypt, Mnajdra, Malta and atStonehenge, England); Newgrange, a prehistoric human-built mount in Ireland, was designed to detect the winter solstice; the pyramid ofEl Castillo at Chichén Itzá in Mexico is designed to cast shadows in the shape of serpents climbing the pyramid at the vernal and autumn equinoxes.

In the late Roman Empire the Sun's birthday was a holiday celebrated as Sol Invictus (literally "unconquered sun") soon after the winter solstice which may have been an antecedent to Christmas. Regarding the fixed stars, the Sun appears from Earth to revolve once a year along the ecliptic through the zodiac, and so Greek astronomers considered it to be one of the seven planets (Greek planetes, "wanderer"), after which the seven days of the week are named in some languages.^{[124][125][126]}

Solar Deity. wikipedia

A solar deity (also sun god/dess) is a deity who represents the sun, or an aspect of it, usually by its perceived power and strength. Solar deities and sun worship can be found throughout most of recorded history in various forms. Hence, many beliefs have formed around this worship, such as the "missing sun" found in many cultures.

Contents  [hide] 1 Solar deities throughout cultures 1.1 Hinduism 1.2 Ancient Egypt 1.3 Chinese mythology 1.4 Buddhism 1.5 Africa 1.6 Aztec mythology 1.7 Indonesian mythology 1.8 Theosophy 2 Solar myth 3 Solar barge / sun chariot 4 Female and male 5 Missing sun 6 See also 7 References 8 Bibliography 9 External links

Solar deities throughout cultures

The winged sun was an ancient (3rd millennium BC) symbol of Horus, later identified with Ra

In different religions solar supreme deities carry different names and are associated with different aspects of the cultural universe of the society, but for the most part its raw image remains identical.

The Neolithic concept of a solar barge, the sun as traversing the sky in a boat, is found in the later myths of ancient Egypt, with Ra andHorus. Earlier Egyptian myths imply that the sun is within the lioness, Sekhmet, at night and can be seen reflected in her eyes or that it is within the cow, Hathor during the night, being reborn each morning as her son (bull). Proto-Indo-European religion has a solar chariot, the sun as traversing the sky in a chariot.

During the Roman Empire, a festival of the birth of the Unconquered Sun (or Dies Natalis Solis Invicti) was celebrated on the winter solstice— the "rebirth" of the sun. In Germanic mythology this is Sol, in Vedic Surya, and in Greek Helios (occasionally referred to as Titan) and (sometimes) as Apollo. Mesopotamian Shamash plays an important role during the Bronze Age, and "my Sun" is eventually used as an address to royalty. Similarly, South American cultures have emphatic Sun worship, see Inti. See also Sol Invictus. Svarog is the Slavic god sun and spirit of fire.

During the later periods of Roman history, sun worship gained in importance and ultimately led to what has been called a “solar monotheism.” Nearly all the gods of the period were possessed of solar qualities. The feast of Sol Invictus (Unconquered Sun) on December 25 was celebrated with great joy, and eventually this date was taken over by the Christians as Christmas, the celebrated birthday of Christ.^[1]

Elena: Is it not interesting how we've gone from polytheism to monotheism and then the focalization on the yang? 

This whole blog might be an exploration for dummies and I am instructing only myself with it. Eventually I might be able to synthesize all this information into a more coherent understanding of unity but this vast exploration and connectedness seems necessary for now.

I also realize that wikipedia is not the best source of information and yet it is already plenty for anyone who can value its synthesis.

I'm still not finding what I'm looking for, these are just glimpses of it.