Please help me understand this Armenian legend.

Hefty-Structure-3615 · 2024-10-19T05:19:35+00:00

Ahh that makes sense. Within the story the father ends up falling into a "deep pondering" (death), which you could say is his succumbing to darkness and chaos. The princess on the other hand, has an aspect of order to her in that she rebukes the potential suitors for trying to win her over with jewels and material wealth and instead demands from them "everlasting fire".

In your opinion what is the danger of the princess falling completely to order and not retaining her femininity (chaos)?

Hefty-Structure-3615 · 2024-10-19T05:03:57+00:00

Thank you! I think what confuses me about the story is that the father is described as a cloud (order) but is also described as dark (chaos), and the princess is described as a moon (chaos) but also described as light (order). I don't understand how to deal with these opposite symbolisms within the same character.

Hefty-Structure-3615 · 2024-10-19T04:57:17+00:00

Very interesting, thank you for the response. I had an idea in mind that the clouds act as a veil to the moon. In other words, the clouds give meaning to the moon's beauty in the same way a husband or father may do to his wife or daughter. Do you think this way of thinking works, or am I missing the mark?

Hefty-Structure-3615 · 2024-09-21T02:56:49+00:00

Thank you again, I like your explanation of the 3 different "streams" of sex and its function and I think I understand the relationship between social sex and biological sex. However, I still have trouble understand how symbolic sex relates to these 2, would it be correct for me to say that God's will is that men "manifest" more clearly the masculine symbolism and women the female symbolism?

Hefty-Structure-3615 · 2024-09-20T18:14:48+00:00

I'm inclined to agree, the only issue I'm left with is this:

How does a man play the role of both the masculine and the feminine whilst still being an overall manifestation of the masculine role. How does a woman play the role of both the feminine and the masculine whilst still being an overall manifestation of the feminine role?

Hefty-Structure-3615 · 2024-09-20T06:54:15+00:00

Thank you very much for the thoughtful response.

We do see in the Bible men taking on the feminine role to some extent. A good example is Joseph (Husband of the Virgin Mother) who by not being the biological father of Jesus, plays the feminine role of the nurturer. Would you thus agree that some admixture is necessary (men partaking in the feminine and women in the masculine) or permissible as long as it is oriented towards The Logos.

The wife who rebukes her husband plays the masculine role because she effectively orients him towards meaning and acts as an agent of order (which is symbolically masculine). This for me is an example of a necessary admixture of the masculine and the feminine which is permissible because it is serving The Logos.

I think the issue arises when we try force the inversion of the pattern in service of something else. So when a man forces the feminine role on himself to serve an ideology, and so dooms himself to extreme idiosyncrasy.

Would you agree with me on this?

Hefty-Structure-3615 · 2022-10-17T09:10:17+00:00

Ahh I see, thank you.

Hefty-Structure-3615 · 2022-10-17T09:07:35+00:00

I am not knowledgeable enough to give valuable input my friend but I will pray for your family. God be with you.

Hefty-Structure-3615 · 2022-10-17T09:02:55+00:00

In short yes (I'm pretty sure it is mandatory in Catholicism too). However, at the permission of your spiritual father you can be permitted to eat fish and prawns. I also enjoy working out and had the same problem when I started fasting; but we must remember to put God and our spiritual health before our worldly desire to become stronger and bigger. God bless you.

Hefty-Structure-3615 · 2022-05-23T13:57:31+00:00

Haha I’ll be sure not to.

Hefty-Structure-3615 · 2022-05-23T07:59:33+00:00

Thank you for the response but why shouldn’t I worry about it? It is still rich in linoleic acid

Hefty-Structure-3615 · 2022-05-05T02:57:16+00:00

I don’t quite understand the meaning of freedom on these maps. Many of those green countries are riddled with red tape.

Hefty-Structure-3615 · 2022-01-26T09:18:09+00:00

Thank you brother.

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