A couple of months ago I've made a little study on kites following the quote of Axel Dunor. I'm translating this one today with some new elements found since.
When I have read Secret history of the world, I've been curious of this story of kites, and as I was reading some books about alchemy and Fulcanelli, I've made a research about the symbolism of Kites.
In french, we said « cerf-volant » for « kites ». Translated word for word, « cerf-volant » gives « flying stag »-it is important for the following, for all the times you will read kite, think « flag » also.
In the
Dictionnaire des symboles , I've found that :
« Kites »
The use of kites is a common amusement in eastern Asia. In Vietnam, kites with whistles play a role of protection in moving away the evil spirits during epidemics. In order to make this therapy more efficient, the whistle is in charge to disperse ...arsenic sulfur in powder; the meaning of kite here is to put together with the meaning of rhomb.
The game of kite recalls the physico-chemical law which permits to the flag-mercury to raise, and to the philosophical sublimation to achieve. It is to illustrate this teaching that Jacques Coeur made sculpted, in good alchemist, flying stags on the tympanum of a door of the great room of his palace of Bourges.
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Stag : it is said flying or fleeting. It represents Mercury or the female principle of the Work »
Mercury representing the Spirit ( Sulfur = Soul), and the crown chakra ( surrounded by the little kites as Axel make us know) corresponding at the higher intellectual center, we can see yet an interesting correlation.
Stay a moment with the symbolism of flag. In the same
Dictionnaire des symboles:
« Cernunnos- the gallic divinity- which got the top of the head like a flag.[...] Maybe we have to see in these antlers surmounting the head of the god a radiance of celestial light.[...]
« The winged flag can mean[...] the fervor to unite to God, the attention to the words and the breath of Spirit, the sensivity to God's presence.
Often associated to the unicorn, the flag is the symbol of philosophical mercury. »
Before coming back to unicorn, here is an extract of the site :
http://hdelboy.club.fr/plafond_lallemant.html
« in [8], we find a chimera which express intermediary between the volatile and the fixed : horse with flag's corns, here are the mercurial elements which are opposed to the fixation crown,[...] Should we see in [8]a kind of flying stag, a flag which borrows the features of Pegasus? In his case , we should associate it to the rhomb, musical instrument which make a kind of moaning, in the heart of the night, where one could have heard the voice of spirits, linked to the AIR attributes – elements of ZEUS- with thunder, lightning, and rain.
( a disgression here: kite is said Aethos in Greek . It means Eagle. Aethos Prometheus is the eagle sent by Zeus to eat the liver of Prometheus.)
So this kite/flying stag got the value of a male fertilizing force, immediate prelude to the reincrudation of Sulfurs. So is giving to the rhomb a protection role, by taking away the evil spirits. To make this [pharmakon?] more efficient, one recommend to charge the whistle with powder of sulfur of arsenic [...] Now, as the alchemists know, sulfur of arsenic represents the association the Rebis [arsenic: Salt and sulfur : Red sulfur]
I recall that the rhomb is a primitive music intrument in wood or metal linked wih a string, and one is made
spinned above the head. The friction with the air emit a strong vibration. It was use for exemple to warn the non-initiates of a magic ceremony where they was forbidden to approach.
Further, an extract which could make the link with a quote of Mammadrama about the Harpies and Argonauts:
« The Harpies capture Sulfur by a process of dissolution ; so they have very much to do with mercury in its first state ; their birds bodies, their claws – illustrating the (pontical?) appearance of the philosophers vinegar – and the fact they torment the metallics souls in a constant manner, show that. Only the wind – incarnated by Calaïs and Zethes- or the increasing of temperature, can get through them[...] We can approach them to Erinies. Only a wind of Justice, where we guess the Spirit breath, can drive them away. »
I was wondering if we could link that with a quote of Laura about the psychopaths and the resonance they product on the psyche.
Ethymology of « CERF-VOLANT » - many hypothesis.
The word « cerf-volant » could come from « serp-volante » which has a meridional origin meaning « serpent volant »- (« flying snake »).
In Occitan language, « cerf-volant » is said « serp-volanta » and refers well to a snake and not a flag.
In Breton, "sarpant-nij"
In many language, cerf-volant (kite) refers to
a snake or a dragon :
ex : drachen in German
drake in Norwegian and Swedish
zmaj in Croatian
zmiéï in Russian
I suppose that it come from the first kites appeared in Europe from Asia where they represent often paper dragons/ winged snakes. Some said it refers to the legends of flying dragons and flying snake in the Bible.
In some others language it refers to
a bird :
kite in English
yon in Corean ( which means kite)
latawiec szaszor in Polish ( = bird)
aethos in Greek (=eagle)
(Well, I'v not find so much thing for the kite of Leonardo da Vinci, but the bird flies
above our head, his cry is heard from far (like the rhomb, even one is shrill and the other low) and if you join the extremities of the head, the wings and the tail, you've got a rhombus.)
Sometimes kite refers to an insect, the stag beetle (lucane in french), which has the mandibles like stag's antlers..
It is an other hypothesis to the french origin of the word.
But would you believe that the flying dragon refers to Mercury in alchemia , too!
And would you believe that in astrology, the sign of Scorpio got 3 states of evolution : scorpio first,
snake in second, and
eagle for the end. ( the 4 keroubim : Taurus (the Bull), Lion (the Lion), Scorpio (the Eagle),Aquarius(the Man))
Quote that « cerf » and « cerveau »( = brain) have the same origin and indo-european root : Ker- which mean corne, tête ( corn, head)
In persan, ker- is « sar- » recall the breton « sarpant-nij »
This extract can make smile those who are familiar with the « green language » :
« The stag, animal with a very strong symbolism in the middle-age, which has been sometimes represented winged ( like Pegasus) have no link with the « cerf-volant », only with this confusion introduced when the word has been taken to the « langue d'Oc »-Oc's language- to be transcribed in good french, probably in the 17th century.
The words « serp » and « cerf » have the same pronunciation and we understand why « serp-volante » or « ser-volante » (meaning "serpent volant" (flying snake) in Occitan language) have been phonetically transcribed « cerf-volant » in french.
Go back to unicorn now:
« Unicorn is represented in many alchemical books. This fabulous animal, from eastern origin,
linked to the 3rd eye and the access to Nirvana, the come back to the center and the Unity, was intended for the western hermetists to show the way to the philosophical gold – to the inner transmutation. »
« Unicorn symbolises, with its single corn in the middle of forehead, spiritual arrow, solar ray, sword of God, the divine revelation, the
penetration of the divine in the creature »
session 970621 said:
A: Shepherd is most likely to be struck by lightning, due to staff, and thus "enlightened," or "illumened!!"
Then
session010823 said:
Q: (L) The Maori origin of kites. Why did the Maori fly kites?
A: To attempt communication with Gods.
On
http:/history-nz.org/french/cerf.html
« it exists some links highly symbolical between Maori kite and « Matariki » [...] kites was considered like a link between sky and earth.
Matariki is a little group of stars, known as Pleiades. »
There is a lot of clues linking the kites with head, communication, a resonance ( don't forget that :
Axel Dunor said:
So we have on the top of our heads a little energetic kite of which the center is our crown chakra.
Just before in the same transcript, questions about bloodline was developed. (it's also funny to notice that this group of four points is called "si", knowing that "si" is the note played by the crown chakra according to M and G)
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I don't know really what to think of all that but I wonder
if a particular bloodline is going to awake, could this bloodline emit a particular resonance and the psychopaths and HAARP and all the electromagnetic pollution could be also a try to interfere, or to jam this resonance?.
