Symbols - What does heaven look like
Reed
The spinal cord– symbolically the source of the kundalini experience – thus if one ‘blows’ through the reed then one is symbolically invoking a kundalini experience because breath is spirit.
Tito Vignoli – On Dreams, Illusions, Hallucinations, Delirium and Madness
Of all natural objects, different kinds of reeds and the hollow stalks of plants are, owing to their hollow and cylindrical form, best adapted for the imitation of a bird’s beak and the sonorous transmission of breath. In many languages the word for a flute is the same as that for a reed. In Sanscrit, vanca and venu mean a flute and bamboo; in Persian na and nay mean a flute and reed; in Greek and in Latin there is the same double meaning and many more examples might be found.
Observations
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- Böcklin, Arnold - Pan im Schilf (Pan in the Reeds) 1858
- Burton, Sir Richard - THE KASÎDAH 09 3
- Desnos, Robert - Cascade
- Egyptian Book of the Dead - Spell 098
- Egyptian Book of the Dead - Spell 109
- Egyptian Book of the Dead - Spell 149
- Gosala, Makkali - The nature of Halla and the doctrine of Niyati
- Ikkyu - My hovel
- Korean mystic shamanism – Methods – Flute, zither, reeds and fiddles
- Li Po - On hearing a flute on a Spring night at Loyang
- Mircea Eliade - On horses
- Mircea Eliade - On stags and flying
- Nizami – Makhzanol Asrar (The Treasury of Mysteries) – from The First Seclusion 01
- Nizami – Makhzanol Asrar (The Treasury of Mysteries) – from The Second Seclusion 02
- Reichel-Dolmatoff – Amazonian Cosmos - Humming and buzzing
- Rig veda - Soma
- Rumi - Mathwani - Then Omar said to him
- Shih Ching - In the wilds there is a dead doe
- Shuruppak - Atrahasis - Tablet 1
- Through the Looking Glass - Ch 05 - 4 Moving eggs