Csodás Hagyatékunk

Gyongyi Hajnal

 

The Zodiac –

The Ancient Scientific Approach to Organic World View I.,

 

 

 

 

Light, Darkness and the Signs

 

The zodiac itself is a circular system that symbolises the harmonious relation between light and darkness. The term light here refers to the celestial energy arriving from the outer world to give us its treasures. (Obviously it also represents the thing which makes all the existing visible, but dealing with this aspect would lead too far now.) According to ancient scriptures, legends and myths light has female qualities.

According to Scythian, Hun, Egyptian, etc. interpretations of darkness is the highly escalated creative worldly power, which wells up from the human soul. It is identified it with pure male qualities. (The comparison with any evil reference is the ‘product’ of the Middle Ages. There is no ancient root of this theory, so it is out of the interest now.)

Nevertheless, people of modern times are inclined to explain the duality of light and darkness as two extremities is opponent position or strained relations, where light is the positive pole and darkness is the evil one. However, it is not that at all. This duality signifies the harmony of two earthly qualities which are united in Creation which are so closely related that even their existence without each other is impossible and meaningless. However together they represent the energetic background and rhythmical change of life. In this way when we take experiments concerning the annual course of the light and darkness change, we should never forget that it is a peacefully balanced system of energy flow for the renewal and revival of earthly life. It is a sacred dance for natural harmony.

 

Four major moments of the year are the winter and summer solstices, the spring and the autumnal equinoxes.

In midwinter the amount of light is reduced to its minimum level, while darkness reaches its maximum in that moment. Winter solstice is the pivotal point of the year when darkness so to say whispers a wake up call to light, and with this he sacrifices his powerful position. We can also interpret the case that darkness is attracted to light so much that he opens up his inmost to her to be gently impacted. There is neither a lethal fight, nor a forceful battle between the two. The motivation is keeping up the sacred world order.

The story goes in reverse in midsummer. Light reaches its highest capacity, while the presence darkness is reduced to the minimum. This is the crucial point when light enters a passage to darkness to her deepest inmost, while she frees herself of bonds of fear and anxiety. So he has a chance to get refuelled by this devotion.

The equinoxes are slightly different. These are in the middle of spring and autumn. Light and darkness have similar strength in those moments. Day and night are of equal length.

From midwinter till the spring equinox darkness starts to submit his powers to light in small portions. These powers will not be wasted, while light handles them tenderly further on. At the exact time of the change darkness loses the significant amount of his energy.

The autumnal equinox is the reverse. Light and darkness meet that time as equals, when light is about to relinquish her energy to darkness that he saves and with which he heartens himself onwards.

 

 

The Zodiac consists of twelve qualities, which are called the Signs.

Western tradition - Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces.

Eastern tradition - Dog, Boar, Mouse or Rat, Buffalo or Ox, Lion or Tiger, Cat or Rabbit, Dragon, Serpent/Snake, Horse, Ram or Lamb, Monkey, Rooster or Bird.

Western tradition is based on the analysis of the development of humanized world from the aspect of an individual and his possible way of development. Throughout this observation we can get a direct analogy to the complexity of the whole society and its life.

Eastern approach focuses on basically the view points of the society the union of individuals with the same descent (‘Society’ as a modern term does not necessarily imply the concept of blood relations.), and tightens the focus onto a single human creature. Any development of the individual is a consequence and a derivation of community life.

Ancient Egyptian world view, just like the Scythian version is on the mixed basis of the two above. Not only are the names of the signs interchangeable among certain circumstances, but the language they speak also embraces the corporate idea of the two.

All these variations are all more than 4-500 years old. They all share the concept of the twelve sign system.

 

The signs divide up the course of the year into twelve equal parts. Each of them present one of the twelve essential qualities that appear, embody, rule and govern our humanized world. Not more and not less in number. Their well-arranged system consummates our ways of recognition, understanding, analysis of the development of the human soul, etc. We used to give a plane inscription of the system to depict its qualities, which is definitely the most satisfactory way to emphasize the equality of the twelve particles, their relations and the fundamental tendencies that influence them. Though our earthly sphere, which we live in, is not two- but three-dimensional, so this diagram is hardly the one of full value. I and some of my colleagues recreated the diagram can be derived from ancient heritage, to represent the three-dimensional side of the system. We collected all the available historical facts, legendary moments and mythical elements of organic art and tradition to be able to rethink the ancient logic of this practical knowledge. Finally we concluded in a diagram depicting all the three physical dimensional aspects spiced with time, as the essential influence that expands our space to be timeless. As it can be seen on the picture its characteristics resemble to human DNA in a Globe. Is that a coincidence?

 

 

Scythian-Hun-Magyar Astronomical Scheme of Symbols

 

 

Theory of Space-and-Time

 

 Introduction