Information: Musica Delenit Bestiam Feram
The title of this work "Music Soothes The Wild Beast" translated from the Latin proverb holds the key to the central concept and is intended to unlock the layers of the symbolic meaning. Essentially the message contained here states that music, harmony and ultimately love, is what makes us truly human. This piece is a contemplation of the internal struggle between the animal self and the soul. I took the perspective that struggle as an approach is futile while the path of the heart's harmony is a passage that grants a promise of taming, pacifying the animal within.
The animal of choice was the bull. It is possible that I feel special connection with it because of being born under the sign of Taurus on May 7 1974 in St. Petersburg, Russia. In a more transpersonal sense, a bull is an ancient archetypal symbol associated with the Earth. Historically domestication of cattle played a crucial role in the formation of human society and for that reason it is a consistent presence, vital in the mythologies of multiple cultures.
As we focus our attention on the symbolic elements that surround the creature, in the foreground of the picture we see a gate that appears to be held in place by two angelic beings. One on the left has more of a feminine quality and the one on the right is more masculine. Angels are commonly believed to be androgynous but here they represent principals not genders.
The sand clocks on each column are symbols of linear time and its duality. Left is the past, right is the future. The present is in the center of this gate upon which rests the dome comprised of the two Golden Section Pi spirals, seen against the background of the cosmos with the constellation of Taurus depicted in the position of the stars. All the way on the right, above the angel's wing, we can find the cluster of Pleiades (translation from Greek, 'flock of doves' meant here to symbolize peace). In the mythology they appear as Seven Sisters, daughters of Atlas and Pleione. Astronomically they are located in the constellation of Taurus and in my design are intended to correlate to the number of the mandolin strings sounding a chord touched by the human hands.
This symbolizes a choice to listen, harmonize and create that which soothes - the offering. Another way of saying it is that the music of the heart must be played to be heard and felt, just as the wine glass must be filled and raised to one's lips to taste the drunkenness of Love - to remember.
There is also an entire layer of geometric compositional relationships. They are indicated by lines formed by angels' wings and other shapes. All of the symbols discussed are there primarily to serve my objective to tap into the direct experience of mystic love, the feeling one might find reflected in the creatures gaze. Aside from all the potential traps of dogma and conceptualization I am sharing a belief that love opens the gate of time into the resonant moment of eternity where the beast is tamed and the human is born
- Via @Sroczka79
Hi there. I was just studying this proverb of the tattoo. I think you got the main principle of Love correctly but you don't know the story: the animal was never evil! In Sanskrit Jivana means The Living One (aka Sacred Bull, the Earth) and Jivina means animal or soul. It is entirely positive.... so something happened in the meantime, to make the animal (soul) struggle inside (this event was the Asteroid impact which put all seasons out of whack, and killed the Wild Bull.... Freddie Mercury called him "Fairy King"). There was never a dichotomy between animal and soul - animal means ensouled being. You must pay attention to these details. That image is from Revelations in the Bible, where people praise the Throne of the Living God (Bull) - who was wrongly attached to the concept of an "evil beast" because he was killed, and therefore they confused him with the "evil spirits who oppress people". Likewise, the Angels of God are real embodied people, not "principles" - this thing about "principles" has been fooling mankind for countless ages, because some did not feel an attraction for say, the opposite sex? So they told people that gender and sexuality were no big deal.... that sacredness was always somewhere above all that. The problem with that is that people did not understand the inner struggle of these Angels, and believed them without taking into consideration their special situation, their living animal soul. And they themselves did not realize they had very low self-esteem, hence "it is no big deal".
ResponderEliminarLikewise, Brian May is supporting the idea of "Man as a wild animal", which does not mean that wild is bad.... wild is freedom! So we don't need to tame anything there... the whole Greek ideal was a RACIST one, therefore they saw Taurus as being the evil Minotaur. Min is the Pharaoh Menes (Man) also known as Nimrod (lord of rebellion) of the Babel story. He was so slandered by racists that everyone is confused about good and evil now....
This is our project here, the Pleiades side of the story (as it were) - and I must say were struggling with the same concepts for years, "what is this, is it God, or evil or what" - I never realized what the Key was, until those seals were opened (as they say). Enjoy :)
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By the way, Latin originated in my country Romania (somewhere in Moldova) and the Italian colony led by Eneas were Geto-Dacians (same people who later invented Gothic writing to spread the knowledge about the Universe, who were unfortunately demonized by the church and forced to convert. That is why we have all those slander movies who call Goths "evil spirits who possess you" - they are merely trying to tell us the true story, through Logic - i.e. Localization in the body, of the spirit of Truth).
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