Prior to Chivalry was Smania e un rinselvarsi

[kavaris]

Here's an interesting one to get yous thinking, cause it touches on this aspect of control~or that which we may hope to, As it is about this idea of madness, or those chaotic aspects related to~reflected in our world. And how, in Science, Philosophy and Theology, etc., there exists alongside those~a world of frenzy and disorder.

I started out looking at this word rinselvarsi  ("returning to the woods", or "becoming wild again") Which of course sounds alot like the early myths of Merlin right? That is, those stories where they say he was to go mad and fall into a frenzied state, living in the woods and worshipping animals and all of this stuff (And later, when they try to save him they manage to lure him into civilization for like 5 minutes, before he goes crazy and returns to the woods again).

Thats sortve the first time they take Merlin from the folktale/songs of Merlin, and make it more like Myrddin Wyllt

For those of you who dont know, Myrddin Wyllt comes before stories of Merlin, and hes more of the quintessential Mystic who "becomes wild" (and this is prolly during the same time you have the early, early, early versions of Author the Barbarian, way before the Arthurian Legends)

Myrddin is actually the Welsh form of what would later become Merlin and "Wyllt" means something like wild, mad or untamed. The story goes, Myrddin, a bard or learned man, lives in society until a traumatic event befalls him (like a battle) and it shatters him; And one commonly linked event is the Battle of Arfderydd, after which he  "loses his place in the world".  So he simply withdraws into the forest. I'm not sure if they go that far into it, like w/ Merlin who literally goes mad, possibly speaking tongues~though i believe towards the end it depicts Myrddin going mad, but he is then taken by the Lady of the Lake and presumably taken to... Mermaid-land or somewhere.. Haha, lol i dont know.

The battle of Arfderydd is actually very interesting, and some of the videos on Myrddin Wyllt do talk about it. In the tales of Myrddin, he def abandons society entirely to live among the animals, taking on a feral existence, and this is what gives him this prophetic voice (hence, what would turn into the legends of Merlin).

I believe the Welsh texts are called Yr Afallennau and Yr Oianau though I get those early Merlin, Arthur & Welsh texts all mixed up.

So Myrddin is like a seer, diviner and foretells all these crazy things. Later on, tales of Merlin turn the tales of Myrddin into an advisor, a strategist embedded in kingship. So the point to this is like, these are examples of early medieval tales that begin from a wild place, and w/ time are slowly absorbed by 12th CE era and the early Chivalry assoc. w/ royalty. And so, in all of this contemplation around structured sciences, there is always this element that contrasts civilized society.

Existing alongside the serene forest is our chaotic tendencies and attributes, a truth that lingers~that which cannot be reckoned w/ in any meaningful sense, it can only be acknowledged & contrasted against. That is all.

[kavaris]

This actually breaches a weird topic by accident, on the topic of fear too, which is like, on the surface, there are these things you could assoc w/ fear, like a total state of disarray & chaos, and similar things like this, youd might associate it w/ fear~like the best way to walk it down through the Earthly realms to simmer it down into one experience.

But beyond the most obvious things, theres this opposite place, a place where everyone is to be devoured, and although its essentially like the Egyptian devourment after death, its also this thing we are to fear~As fear itself too, cause its like...

The soul, being made whole, it is to lead us all to that one individuality regardless~but this is like, the place that fear takes you to, And that contrasts w/ this aspect of the soul or experience where you are able to *resolve (in some respect) that constant looming fear, cause the fear and the overcoming are two constants, as you cant really have one without the other, its just baked into reality. And even in death i mean to say, the continued "experience" is itself the continuation of fear and overcoming.

*Note, the balancing of the scale is your own balancing, your own contention w/ yourself, the "heart" or material item being placed on the scale, as an analogy towards your complacency, your acceptance w/ who and what you are in the moment before continuing to wherever you are destined to go thereafter.

... Part of this probably leads back into Christianity and the fascination w/ it, but I dont really think too much about that connection~however obvious it might seem.

Edited Thursday at 10:58 PM by kavaris