oedipe.net The Thruth about Paradise and the Flood: The End Of Christianity "They talk to us about a flood, physically impossible, and of wich everyone laughs" -Voltaire. There is a living creature on earth that has four legs in the morning, two at noon and three in the evening. Sole among all livings beings, he can change form, and the more legs he has the less quickly he moves". They say of this enigma that it is infantile, but they are wrong, because only Oedipus has the key to it. Pose it to someone that ignores it and you will never find the answer. There are other enigmas from Greek antiquity with obscure meanings. For instance the legend of Deucalion, king of Phthia, mythical city of Thessalonica... Jupiter decides to destroy the humanity of the Bronze Age through a flood. Prometheus, in the know about this design, informs his son Deucalion and recommends that he construct an arch for himself and his wife Pyrrha. Jupiter causes floods which inundate the whole earth. For nine days and nights Deucalion floats over the waters and finally escapes to the top of Mt. Parnasse. He asks Jupiter to reproduce man just as he had destroyed it. Jupiter orders Deucalion and Pyrrha to throw over their heads the stones behind them. The stones thrown by Deucalion become men; those thrown by Pyrrha, women. The oracle of Themis had prescribed to the couple to throw behind the bones of their mother by concealing their front, to repopulate the earth, the enigma which they achieve to "divine" : The stones are the bones of the earth, which is the mother of human beings. Deucalion reigns afterwards in Thessalonica over restored mankind. We don't understand this legend, its unravelling, for its meaning eludes us. It is thus that I may be permitted to play Oedipus and to propose another solution to this enigma which is more satisfactory for our senses. "To throw behind them the bones of their mother, by concealing their front, to resettle the earth" may signify nothing but the newborn baby, who, yet blind, "throws behind the bones of his mother" by pushing its feet to exit the maternal womb in order to "repopulate the earth" in order to be born. Deucalion and Pyrrha symbolize the adventure of the fetus, the birth of man. Deucalion, stemming from "deuo", meaning to wet, soak, and "als" meaning sea, since the fetus bathes in marine water -is he not the king of Phthia (the Greeks pronouce it "Photia" !), a word akin to fetus ? Replace the legend of the flood with the perspective of a Deucalion, a Noah that is a fetus and not yet adult, and everything is illuminated : The diluvial waters are the memory in the fetus of the flow of the uterine water which precedes all birth. A very brief period for the mother. A very long time for the fetus, for the smaller the one is, the more slowly time flows : They are days which are like lives. The flow of water precedes all birth, and one finds a trace of the myth of the flood in all peoples, in Greece, Assyria, Chaldea, Persia, India, by the Celts, the Scandinavians, Lithuanians, American Indians, in Oceania : For all human beings are born in the same way. This memory of a formidable deluge is preserved by all people with the essentials traits of the destruction of the entire human race through the deiverance of one family or one sole couple, that is the fetus, saved from the disaster in a boat and repopulating the earth. What may be the significance of this systematic destruction of the human race and of everything that surrounds the saved? It is known that the fetus is nourished by the liquid surrounding it. It is forgotten that it rejects organic waste : See the "corrupted earth" and "the perverted human race" of the legends. The accumulation of urinary and other refuse in the liquid on which it to the point of poisoning it. Even if this liquid continually renews itself, this system is not viable in the long run. "I will make disappear all life on earth" : The flow of uterine waters from the mother's womb constitutes a cataclysmic change for the fetus : Its entire universe disappears. The fetus has no other choice but to advance. He has to be born or die. "On the same year that I will have attained my full growth, the deluge will follow", confirms the fish-fetus of the Vedas Indiens, or the arch of the Flood "dances like a drunk woman" (and not a drunk man, which would have been more common). In the Chaldean tradition, "Xisuthrus was the 10th king (during the nine months of development, the fetus is nourished through 10 menstrual cycles) : Under him came the deluge. Cronos, who appeared to him in a dream, informed him that on the 15th of the month Dasius, man would perish in a flood. The Jewish rabbis allege that the water of the flood was boiling hot; the Arabs explain this fact by saying that the water first emerged from the "tannour", or the oven in which Eve baked her bread; for the Persians, the diluvial waters emerged from the oven of an old woman; the Syrians went so far as to point to the profound cavern of a temple consecrated to one of their goddesses from which would have escaped the diluvial waters; according to Sumerian and Accadian mythology, Zisudra, the local Noah, appears to be rewarded after the deluge of the "eternal breath" of God and transferred to the fabulous domain of Dilmun. All this is so close to the facts. The biblical tradition states "the deluge will not destroy all life; there will not be another deluge to destroy the earth", for humanity is born only once. "During all the existence of the earth, the seedtime, the harvests, the cold, the heat, the summer, the winter, the day and the night shall not stop" : Thus decrees a life that does not know the fetus but only born humanity. One sole family, one sole couple or one sole being sees itself as being destroyed, for in the vast majority of cases, every newborn is unique. Like this Noe, in Hebrew Noach, from the root "nach", linked to "na", the root word for new, recent, where the etymology itself indicates that it is the newborn. Approaching the feast of the nativity, Noel, of the Latin word "natalis", "natal", of "nasci" (born), to be born. The fetus of the Indian diluvial legend is called Manu which becomes the Germanic Mannus, which is transformed into Minos and Menw, and the Egyptian Menes, etc. ... : man. The narration of the deluge describes the memory of the fetus regarding its birth. There is another myth proper to uterine life stricto sensu : The legend of paradise. God planned at the beginning a paradise of voluptuousness, where he placed man he had formed. The paradise (from the Persian "pairidaeza", to protect all around) of the Bible is the delicious garden (the maternal womb that protects the surroundings) where God (life), according to Genesis (the book of creation, of birth), places Adam and Eve (the symbolic fetus) after their creation. Adam and Eve are said to be the firts human beings, because there is no human life before the life of the fetus. "God made grow from the entire earth kinds of trees pleasing to the eye and good to eat" : The amniotic liquid, "and the tree of life in the middle of the garden" : The embryo, "and the tree of the knowledge of good and bad" : The conscience of the fetus. "A flood emerged from Eden to water the garden and from there it divided to form four arms", the four parts of the fetus. This flood is called in Hebrew "nahar", flood, approaching the Noch, "nach" of the Hebrew flood. The four arms of the flood, the four parts of the fetus, are called "raschim", approaching "rachis", which means "the spine that contains the spinal cord". May this be the flood that waters the paradise of the fetus ? Only some rare people have knowledge of the legend of paradise of a first man. Which means that the mother has to repress her hunger to enable the fetus to enter a life of voluptuousness. That is why in Asia, known for its famines, does not know this legend. The countries of the Fertile Crescent, of Cheldea, Persia, have reserved the trace of a happy life of the fetus in this legend of the Garden of Eden for in these regions people repress their hunger. Regarding the exit from paradise and these secretly eaten fruits of the tree of the knowledge of good and bad, it is certain that it arises more from the memory of defecation than that of sexuality. What is it that follows the eating of fruit and by which strange coincidence is it absent from the book of the creation of human beings ? The more so since it is the accumulation of sins, of organic waste in the amniotic liquid, that causes the end of paradise, of the deluge. Does the defecation not arise from the manner of the exit ? "You may eat all the trees in the garden. But of the tree of the knowledge of good and bad you shall not eat, for, if you do so, you will become subject to death." The knowledge of good and bad is linked here to nourishment and its absorption. The "you shall die" is the knowledge by the fetus of the knowledge of defecation and of evil; that this phenomenom is linked to that of absorption of food, of the good, and that the rejection of the defecation by the fetus' system of rejection in the amniotic liquid on which it feeds itself is not, yet, viable. Linked. Like this serpent of paradise, this umbilical cord links the fetus to Adam and Eve, the nourishing mother. Eve, "havva, haya," the Hebrew word for life, which is similar to "yahveh," God, of life, who gives root to the Roman "ave" (awe). Do women not provide nourishment for mankind ? Does the fetus not go as far as licking the umbilical cord ? "You may eat with no fear of death, I am there," says the serpent/umbilical cord to the fetus/Adam. Then God describes the terrestrial life of man -which is not the most confortable. The memory of the umbilical cord, of the serpent, is also found in some accounts of the deluge, notably in India where the mythological serpent Vasūki secures the greeting of the fetus Manu by guiding him. Human beings have preserved their memory of their life as fetus. The legends of paradise and the flood relate the memory of man as fetus. According to Christian theology, which is to say according to the explanation of the world by the Christians, man was created as immortal in the beginning. He lost this dignity by a fault of the first man, Adam, against God. He thus entered the world not only of death but also of sin. This original sin, would mark all of humanity, which from then onward would become a sinful race. To save us, God is to have sent us his son Jesus. On this account, the paradise found by the grace of sacrifice of the Son of God would be the paradise lost by the fault of man. Exit the Christian delirium. Exit an original immortality of man, a fault of the first man, exit a sinful race, a Son of God come to save it, for the memory of the fetus regarding the rediscovery of the human being strips the Christian doctrine of all basis. A civilzation as old as two millennia has run his time. "To throw behind the bones of the mother to repopulate the earth" : The significance is childlike is it not ? Just as in the enigma of the Sphinx ... As a last note, I would like to suggest the following : Regarding the creation of man and woman, the Bible says : "However, a flood rose from the earth and watered all the surface of the soil. Then Yahveh modelled man with the clay of the earth, he blew into his nostril a breath of human life and man became a living being." Is it possible to not see here the description, symbolically, with delicacy and poetry, of human sexuality? Franēois Dor, Provence, << Accueil april 1999. Suivant >> |