Daniel Medvedov

F O
ire in

dissey

Madrid
2015

Homer uses a beautiful poetic figure in the text of the Odyssey to describe the hidden
value of love: as a coal still hidden in the ashes of a finished yesterday's fire, she grabbed
it and helps me to light and stoke a new flame fire and save me ask the neighbor. One of
the most beautiful literary images ever read is the image of the hexagram four named
Meng - youthful innocence of the ancient Book of Changes, the I Ching:
"Down by the mountain emerges a spring: the image of youth. Thus the superior search
engine, by conduct and scrupulous performance, nourishes your character. "
Here are the final words of Canto V, The Odyssey, (lines 474-519). Before going to it, I
have to present you, the reader, a magical place of human anatomy, a site related to the
eyebrows, the door to marvel. In Amadis of Gaula, this place is metaphorically
identified with the wonders of the Firm Island. I wish I meet there, under the Arc de
Amadores [Arch of Lovers] - us all. The brow is where Odysseus lies down to rest. Here
is the episode of the Odyssey:
"Meditating each discoursed topic, that it would be better to take refuge in the jungle
showed too close to the water and was too visible in height. It took half fronds sprouted
stems from the same place they were, one wild olive and olive other. He never passed the
anger of the humid winds or the sun with its rays, or rainwater, in such interlocking, were
shown the two embraced. Including getting Ulysses / Odysseus and foliage, arranged a
spacious bed, which were many leaves (thoughts) there poured out, enough to shelter two
men or three, of the hard weather, however hard that was the scourge of the time .
Odysseus might enjoy looking at them, with heroic patience, lie in the middle and
covered with thick stubble. "(487 / V)
Last words of the song V (488.V):
"As a man remotely inheritance, no neighbors around, hiding a blight on the black
embers, fire reserve the seed (sperma pyros - 490.V) and excuse, (it saves) the order it
again, maybe there is covered with Odysseus / Ulysses and Athena (Intelligence) in their
eyes leaves poured sleep, then he shut and calm, without more, his painful fatigue. . . "
Reader Tell me, where is Odysseus, now? You know, perhaps, what it is the place of your
body that harbors the dream that brings calm to your "painful fatigue"? It is the eyebrows,
called Shamballah, or Shangrillah, the famous country that few visitors, as is described in
Chapter 80 of the old book called Tao Te Ching of Lao Tse.
Escondido, warm and kept there in his light, like an ember in ashes, the Self is like a
burning coal which comes that you want to turn back the fire, a flame, a splendid light,
saving ask another fire and you embers. What does all this? It means: No need to ask
another on the mysteries of the transcendent and existential issues of your destiny, as you
find yourself, concentrating on the forehead in thick foliage. . .