firemaiden
Translation:
Link to image: Sohn der Federn
A few of the last lines of this text have me stumped. I could think of a few different interpretations. This is how I've thought to decipher the German
"Sehend wurde der Heros seiner Wichtigkeit beraubt." Seeing, the hero was robbed of his importance, or it was the faculty of sight which robbed him -- it was the hero's own vision of himself which betrayed him in the water. Looking into the well, he saw his Shadow -- reflection, and his own spear killed him. The possible implication being that one can be betrayed by outward seeing --by the illusion of reality -- Siegfried should have closed his eyes, and followed only his own inner truth.
"Erkennend sah ich die Vorstellung hinter dem Vorgestellten." = " perceiving, I saw the meaning behind the words - or the truth behind the representation, or what was meant behind the way it was said -- Remember, in the Niebelungenlied, after Siegfried drank of the dragon Fafner's blood, he gained the magic ability to hear the only the truth even when lies were told. Mime the dwarf tried to manipulate him with lies, but Siegfried heard the truth.
"Mein zu einem Punkt kondensiertem Ich ist alles von gleicher Gültigkeit". -- I think what she means here, is when I reduce my ego to one tiny point, it can be as large as everything, or as tiny as nothing....
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My mother gave me a sharp sword to slice through unholy snares.
My father gave me a compass and taught me about the east-, south, west-, and north winds.
My sister gave me courage for the leap into the unknown.
My room is painted immaculate snow-white. Meditating in the lotus position, I bring myself from beta to alpha rhythm. I course through history, gradually slowing my pace. I see the Old Warrior. Bathing in dragon's blood, he made himself invulnerable, and yet died by his shadow's spear while he drank from the spring.
By seeing, the hero was robbed of his importance.
By perceiving, I saw the idea (Vorstellung) behind the representation (vorgestellten).
By breathing, I perceive things the way they are.
My Ego, condensed to one point, is everything with equal significance. (available to be anything?)
Having slipped through the fine meshwork of perceptions, it dances free in the room.
Link to image: Sohn der Federn
A few of the last lines of this text have me stumped. I could think of a few different interpretations. This is how I've thought to decipher the German
"Sehend wurde der Heros seiner Wichtigkeit beraubt." Seeing, the hero was robbed of his importance, or it was the faculty of sight which robbed him -- it was the hero's own vision of himself which betrayed him in the water. Looking into the well, he saw his Shadow -- reflection, and his own spear killed him. The possible implication being that one can be betrayed by outward seeing --by the illusion of reality -- Siegfried should have closed his eyes, and followed only his own inner truth.
"Erkennend sah ich die Vorstellung hinter dem Vorgestellten." = " perceiving, I saw the meaning behind the words - or the truth behind the representation, or what was meant behind the way it was said -- Remember, in the Niebelungenlied, after Siegfried drank of the dragon Fafner's blood, he gained the magic ability to hear the only the truth even when lies were told. Mime the dwarf tried to manipulate him with lies, but Siegfried heard the truth.
"Mein zu einem Punkt kondensiertem Ich ist alles von gleicher Gültigkeit". -- I think what she means here, is when I reduce my ego to one tiny point, it can be as large as everything, or as tiny as nothing....
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