Gentlemen,
I was only looking at this provocative issue last night regarding
the hyperborean mythos.
Guenon wrote a very good essay on the matter in "Symbols of the
Sacred Science," of which the essay in question is "The wild boar
and the bear." The leitmotifs that run through this essay are
incredible and pretty much touch on all Indo-European traditions as
Artos. Nevertheless, however there is a great boon for those who are
taken by the Egyptian tradition, for it is the Typhon (a Hellenic
name for Seth) as the Great Bear and its relations with Draco that
through up lots of odd questions. Not only does Jesus look always to
the North on the Crucifix, what is the west arm but it is Seth that
is the ruler of the South, this makes sense as there is no polar
star visible in the Southern hemisphere, it is only chaos. Here the
odd indication is to some archaic residue of the polar north-south
transit. Thuban in Draco was the pole star around 4000BC before the
shift to its relative the Little Bear and the consequent west-east
transit of the solar tradition.
Final titbit for those who read French there is great book on the
Hyperborean-Thule tradition by Jean Mabire "Thulé: Le soliel
retrouvé."
Later.
--- In evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com, Michael Lord <ouro_boros@...>
wrote:
>
> Considering that both Evola and Guenon regarded
> Blavatsky as a dangerous fraud, surely neither one
> derived any of their beliefs from her. The idea of the
> polar origins of Indo-European man was an idea that
> was considered by many people in the 19th century -
> most important was probably the Hindu nationalist Bal
> Tilak, who wrote a number of books which cited textual
> (astronomical) evidence in the Vedas which supports
> the idea that they were composed by people living at
> the pole rather than in the region of India. I know
> that Tilak was cited by Evola, and I believe I've come
> across his name in Guenon's writings as well. In the
> case of Guenon, it is also worth mentioning that, as
> he was a practicing Muslim, the idea of the poles is
> very important in Sufi cosmology, and a polar origin
> to mankind is posited in several classical Islamic
> texts.
>
> Race is definitely not as important to Guenon as it
> was to Evola (particularly indicated by the fact that
> Guenon chose to practice Islam, a Semitic religion,
> something which it would be difficult to imagine Evola
> advocating) - however, I wouldn't go so far as to say
> that Guenon did not take race into account at all. For
> example, in his essay on Guenon in the journal Sophia,
> Martin Lings (Guenon's assistant in his final years)
> mentioned, in the course of explaining Guenon's
> interest in Hinduism as the living tradition which is
> closest to the primordial tradition, the following:
> "Another point which makes the terms of Hinduism so
> right for giving Europeans the message [of Tradition]
> is that they have as Aryans an affinity with
> Hinduism..." So, clearly, race was not completely
> unimportant in Guenon's view of things.
>
>
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