Gergely.Horvath.
Ishtar's descent
Leave your crown. Leave your weapons.
Leave your armour. Leave your clothes.
Leave your titles. Leave your name.
Now you are ready to Enter,
to leave your body.
(paraphrasing from 'Ishtar's Descent' poem)
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'Ishtar's Descent' is a poem about Love, Death and the role of Wisdom in our lives.
A story inscribed into a clay tablet from the time where it all started; in Mesopotamia, 5000 years ago.
I've been thinking about Ishtar's story for a while now, and the more I submerge my mind into it, the more parallel patterns I see surfacing and reflecting back in my own life's story.
The poem had become a deep river for me, I go under and resurface from it again, and again; being washed, being renewed, being re-birthed in wisdoms of the deep past and it's ever-flowing currents.
From my divings I've noticed two messages emerging and speaking to me;
The poem is speaking that Love is fierce, powerful, but also blind.
Love dies in the poem. Just like flowers, and only in it's death, Love can be felt, known and experienced in it's brutal, fatal Completeness.
The second message I read that Love dies, but also resurrects. Death is killing Love with thousands of diseases, but it is never the end of the story. Flowers need water. The waters of Wisdom can resurrect Love, so Love can resurrect Life again.
There is no growing Life without Love, but Love will never survive alone without the resurrective sprinklings of Wisdom.
This was true for someone who carved it into a tablet 5000 years ago, and it is true for someone who touches it into a tablet today.
Tablets are changing, truths are not. But they do get buried under.
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'Ishtar's Descent to the Netherworld' can be read through the link below the main characters' names appearing in the poem:
Ishtar - Goddess of Love, Queen of the Heavens and Earth
Ereshkigal - Ishtar's sister, Queen of the Netherworld
Ea - God of Wisdom, Water and Creation
www.soas.ac.uk/baplar/recordings/istars-descent-netherwor...
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Image of Ishtar, my Heaven, my Earth and my Underworld at Glenelg Waterfall, Scotland.
Ishtar's descent
Leave your crown. Leave your weapons.
Leave your armour. Leave your clothes.
Leave your titles. Leave your name.
Now you are ready to Enter,
to leave your body.
(paraphrasing from 'Ishtar's Descent' poem)
...
'Ishtar's Descent' is a poem about Love, Death and the role of Wisdom in our lives.
A story inscribed into a clay tablet from the time where it all started; in Mesopotamia, 5000 years ago.
I've been thinking about Ishtar's story for a while now, and the more I submerge my mind into it, the more parallel patterns I see surfacing and reflecting back in my own life's story.
The poem had become a deep river for me, I go under and resurface from it again, and again; being washed, being renewed, being re-birthed in wisdoms of the deep past and it's ever-flowing currents.
From my divings I've noticed two messages emerging and speaking to me;
The poem is speaking that Love is fierce, powerful, but also blind.
Love dies in the poem. Just like flowers, and only in it's death, Love can be felt, known and experienced in it's brutal, fatal Completeness.
The second message I read that Love dies, but also resurrects. Death is killing Love with thousands of diseases, but it is never the end of the story. Flowers need water. The waters of Wisdom can resurrect Love, so Love can resurrect Life again.
There is no growing Life without Love, but Love will never survive alone without the resurrective sprinklings of Wisdom.
This was true for someone who carved it into a tablet 5000 years ago, and it is true for someone who touches it into a tablet today.
Tablets are changing, truths are not. But they do get buried under.
...
'Ishtar's Descent to the Netherworld' can be read through the link below the main characters' names appearing in the poem:
Ishtar - Goddess of Love, Queen of the Heavens and Earth
Ereshkigal - Ishtar's sister, Queen of the Netherworld
Ea - God of Wisdom, Water and Creation
www.soas.ac.uk/baplar/recordings/istars-descent-netherwor...
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Image of Ishtar, my Heaven, my Earth and my Underworld at Glenelg Waterfall, Scotland.