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Dragon Mythos

3/24/2016

 
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One of the earliest depiction of the dragon was found on a plate in Taoist southern Shanxi, carbon dated to 2500-1900 BCE, during China’s earliest dynasty, the Xia dynasty (Lindqvist, 2008). In Taoist Chinese ecological lore, the dragon is a shamanic symbol associated with the Great Water Goddess and sacred life-giving element water, and associated with fertility, fecundity, midst, dew, rivers and rain! Water cults primitive matriarchs performed ancient ceremonies (Schafer, 1951, p.132) celebrating river water deities (Schafer, 1973, p.60). Additionally, in ancient chinese mythological lore the dragon motif embodies transformation, imperial power, yin, associated with water deities. The dragon is also associated with China’s first emperors, who were believed to be decedents of the celestial dragon-spirit.
“The dragon was not just another mythical animal. It was regarded as the most sacred of all creatures and symbolized China and the power of the emperor. The Yellow Emperor, who, according to legend, ruled the land along the Yellow River, the cradle of China around 2700 BCE, and is considered to be the father of all China, was said to have been the incarnation of the dragon.” (Lindqvist, 2008, p.115).
In the Chapter Women, Nymphs and Dragons, from The Divine Woman, Dragon Ladies and Rains Maidens, a book written by Edward H. Schafer in the early 70s, we learn about the magical legend surrounding China’s first emperors:
“This lucky-unlucky woman had been embraced by the same kind of being that had embraced many Chinese queens to make them mother of kings. Such dragon lovers were themselves kings, by virtue of their power over rain and fertility, like the ancient rulers of the Middle Kingdom” (Schafer, 1973, p.23).
The Classic of Mountains and Seas is considered to be one of the most important classic Chinese literary works and it is referred to as “the locus classicus for many myths” (Birrell, 1999, p.xix). In Book One, The Classic of the Southern Mountains, Chapter 1, “[t]he deities of these mountains all have the appearance of a bird’s body and a dragon’s head” (Birrell, 1999, p.5). The dragon permeates the spiritual cosmology in ancient China and is deeply rooted in the social fabric of China today.
In Tang poetry, “some ‘dragon kings’ daughters visualized in this genre resemble the court belles of Europe imagined in polished literature as Greek nymphs and naiads” (Schafer, 1973, p.90). The dragon is associated with the female shaman, called shamanka, or the Wu Shan goddess (Schafer, 1973). Although she was mostly ignored by Tang poets, Nü Kua was the most important dragon in ancient China, and refereed to as the “old rain dragon goddess” (Schafer, 1973, p.61, p.92).


                                                    “Nü Kua’s gauzy skirt, a hundred feet long,
                                         Suspended over the Hsiang and Kiang, gives its color to the hills.” 
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Joseph Needham Science and Civilisation in China Volume V:2 Cambridge University Press 

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     BÉRANGÈRE MAÏA NATASHA PARIZEAU
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    My artwork, experimental films, and scholarly reflections emerge from a deep curiosity and fascination with the boundlessness of the human spirit, the limitlessness of the cosmic universe, the mythological, the spiritual, the exploration of my EARTH LIGHT body which emanates from infinity (this is the realm of the MYSTERY, the wildest imagination), as well as a real concern for our beautiful planet MOTHER EARTH.  The premise of this heuristic body of work is that the current planetary crises are crises in human consciousness, crises of the humanity group soul/spirit. As an environmental advocate and consciousness activist, my work intends to intentionally participate in redesigning culture, the intentional participation in designing a post-growth ecological culture (this is the creative process of redesigning culture) for an ecologically sustainable and spiritually thriving planetary future. My intention is to shed light on the sacred multidimensional ways in which we potentiate the power of our consciousness. This body of work is a prayer to humanity to align our mind and hearts, to raise the power of our hearts, to develop methods and technologies to go inward towards the complexities and awareness of our individual connection to Source We are the Rainbow Warriors.  If the world is indeed participatory, we manifest/dream this world into existence. Indeed, dear friends... a colourful future is ours to create! 

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