The Assembly of the Birds

[kavaris]

Early today i had been watching that guy, The Mahdi Appeared-Guy, and he is getting pretty well known now. Which is even a long story how i found him, though it was sortve tangent to these other things yous had mentioned on here before, like Sufism and such.

And it also brought up this interesting question in my mind around "Who gets to be king?"

And  Of Course, while looking through the list of Greek figures, i found something  interesting (to say the least)  and very much relevant to that whole idea/notion, and i thought to myself  "Oh, this might be interesting to bring up", in regards to the choice/who chooses for someone else to be king (who assigns theirselves king if such an opportunity had to arise).

That is, theres something called The Assembly of the Birds (Mantiq al-Tayr)  by  Farid al-Din Attar (c. 1145–1221 CE), a Persian Sufi poet. Do yous know about this yet??? It is a spiritual, allegorical epic poem, wherein the birds of the world gather in concentration to choose a king (guided by the hoopoe), and it represents the journey ~ through the spirit/soul ~ towards God.

At the end of the journey, after crossing seven valleys (stages of spiritual development), the birds find that the Simurgh, the mythical bird they sought, reflects themselves — mirroring the journey of the soul in the search for God / Ultimate truth. The name "Simurgh" itself can be interpreted as "thirty birds" (si-murgh in Persian), symbolizing the unity of the seeker w/ the divine. So the Simurgh, this mythical bird/symbol, represents divine truth; And each bird symbolizes a human flaw or virtue, where as, the journey itself mirrors the stages of spiritual awakening...

~ Which i found interesting cause i know yous have that notion of a "spiritual development / stages" on Actualized dot org. So i thought, thats an interesting sortve parallel going on here, of which i should bring up to yous to see what yous think (Yous might even know about already). It just seems very relatable if anything else.

*p.s. i looked up the book, and they have an English translation called The Language of the Birds, however, the original i do not know if it even survives now or wat*

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Edited yesterday at 12:45 AM by kavaris

[kavaris]

For me, this is where rituals and things become important on the way up the stages of development, and why i make a bridge to hermeticism ~ as i often am faced w/ almost a dream-like dilemma, in regards to life, and the answer is often right there, and weirdly, dreams are sometimes better at finding a very hidden answer / conclusion, to alot of these ques., and things (which is more on the mental / spiritual side of things for instance) or like you could call it *the egyptian book of balancing all things, i guess thats the safest description.

Poetry and writing is great too, but dreams are more like *mistakes that i throw myself into, not to mention, in dream i am often just flat out LOST. Like, its hard to reconcile being lost, but i am lost like 90% of the time

(spiritually and symbolically, while in a dream)