"The cyclops, however, "Is" also soma, the "Not-born One-eye" the source of unitary vision. Therefore, while the giant (or dragon) may not appear as wise, nevertheless he frequently guards a "treasure" associated with wisdom or even soma, such as a golden fleece, golden apples, or simply gold. --Peter Lamborn Wilson, Irish Soma.
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce has been an endless source of inspiration and fun for me, and as dj fly agaric 23' i have shown previously, in posts, and a few musical recordings dating from 2005 while i was abroad in the USA, that Finnegans Wake contains within its multi lingual machine engines a phalanx of mycological terminology, maybe including allusions to fly agaric and sacred elixirs (of which Guinness must be one).
"Deathless heroes and resurrected gods float through the book to the tunes of street songs, fourth-form parodies of prayers, bits of scandals out the Sunday papers. Whatever Finnegans Wake may be, it is not a highbrow book. Or rather its highbrow elements float on the top like tea-leaves: the brew is all' - anthony burgess, HERE COMES EVERYBODY.
My initial wishful thinking and blind confidence that Joyce must have come across some of the Myths and Legends surrounding Amanita Muscaria, either through James Fraser's Golden Bough, or any one of a myriad of classic folkloric texts Joyce encountered and maybe then took interest and zoomed-in upon the various elixirs, potions and magic fruits for their intoxicating qualities. He might have even logically equated them with various fungi and Amanita Muscari in particular? Or skipped Amanita for the mysterious SOMA. (I found James Joyce and Finnegans Wake to be suspicuously abscent from the brilliant study of SOMA mottiffs with Irish folklore and Culture by Peter Lamborn Wilson: Ploughing the Clouds, The Search For Irish SOMA).
My first brief study into AMANITA SOMA and Joyce's intoxicating Finnegans Wake simply compared the TOADSTOOLS intoxicating effects--the same effects encountererd amongst most mammals insects and birds (with a particular different intoxicant for each species) as Biologically varifiable examples found in nature, today, of the common three stage breakdown process of:
- falling into a stupor
- sleeping
- rising awake again.
These symbiotic biological themes found in nature parallel some of the ressurective and transformative themes of Finnegans Wake. And so then i simply listed words and phrases from the first 23 pages of the Wake that struck me as being possible mycological or SOMA related words. I found some encouraging and positive discoveries ploughing those 23 pages the first time around, but i by no means could piece together more than a few words, maybe one sentence. But then any hooks submerged silently into the soup. A list was all i had as evidence to really tie together my intoxicating elixir theory and the text of the Wake itself, plus the following previous blog posts from 2005-2008 that feature Finnegans Wake and fly agaric:
FLYNAGAINS AWAKE AGAIN BLOG 2005.
FW BLOG 2005.
Horseplay & Finnegans Wake. BLOG 2006.
FW Part 1. Episode 5. Page 106. 2006.
Resurrect The Wake 2007. (Full Article)
THE BREW IS ALL 2007.
JOYCE AND POUND TRANSFORMATIONS 2007.
ALP 111 and RAWs WAKE 2008.
BACK IN THE MUSEYROOM. Page 8 of FW. 2008.
The Jinnies and the Museyroom. Page 8 cont... 2008.
URINKA! A New Development. PEACE.
While sleuthing through the wake a couple of hours ago for material on the 2008 global credit banking market meltdown, i happened to notice something else entirely just a few pages previous (570-71) to where i was originally searching for gold (575-76). But i got the message about URINE in the wake from the following--re-translated passage--by a Joyce Scholar called Margherita Maleti, and it hit me like a giant yellow Tsunami out of nowhears yacht.
"The passage dedicated to HACLEP's urination (570.26 - 571.26) represents the heart of III.4, delivering the keys to comprehend FW 's message. Why should urine possess such a profound meaning? The answer is as straightforward as Joyce's Weltanschauung , that he could complicate to gorgeous unintelligibility thanks to his artistic sensitivity and literary genius: urine is water and water is connected to fertility and life, hence to the feminine principle, essential to reach enlightenment. Furthermore, urine is one of the symbols of the original sin representing Man's inborn imperfection, which can be comprehended, accepted, and overcome through compassion only ("O pity!" 570.27) - our path to spiritual progress.--Margherita Maleti, Rejoyce in Peace: A Study of Finnegans Wake III.4.
Urine and the various rituals and rites of passage which involve ingestion of Amanita Muscaria infused Urine have been well documented and contribute a great historical foundation stone for many Amanita Muscaria scholars, mushroom rites writers and psychedelic historians.
See these links on the web for example...
Fly-Agaric Motifs in the Cú Chulaind Myth Cycle
When the Gods Drank Urine
A Tibetan myth may help solve the riddle of soma, sacred drug of ancient India
AMANITA MUSCARIA @ WIKI.
Margerita follows with this further intoxicating illuminating wisdom, shored from somebody taking a piss...
"Symbol of peace is the "chapeolofeases" (571.11), the "littleeasechapel" (571.18) that is both a urinal and a vagina, "sold for [a] song" (571.11) by the traitors of human nature ("Sell me, my soul dear!," 570.13), brainlessly avid, who can never get the right price in selling it, since it is of course priceless. Giving it up to any Church ("cloister . . . monkshood," 571.13ff) could only cause Man to feel "sorrowful" and "triste to death" (571.13ff), while "enjoycing" life to the fullest would render us "allso gay" (571.16) and illuminate ("blanching . . . light," 571.15ff) the dark depths of death (571.14, where "ivytod" contains the German " Tod ": death). Pity and compassion are essential to understand and "pppease" (571.21) basic human needs, symbolized here by urination, which fulfillment only can lead to peace - heaven on Earth ("O, peace, this is heaven!," 571.19ff). The focus then shifts on the parents'dialogue.-- Margherita Maleti Rejoyce in Peace: A Study of Finnegans Wake III.4
World Piss has been a pun i have been kicking around with for 8 or 9 years now, and it became the title for my own work in progrissle. And here, tonight, in the wake, or from a translation of the wake, i discover many puns on piss and pppeace, and maybe also some indication of the terrible taboo practice of not only drinking urine, but urine infused with magic sources to turn your face "crimson stone". "chapeolofeases" may also refer to the Mushroom kingdom that is literally a chapel of shit, in some sense.
Here's the main areas of interest from Joyce himself that are of particular interest to me. All HIGHLIGHTS by FLY.
Yes, O pity! At earliest moment! That prickly heat feeling!
Forthink not me spill it's at always so guey. Here we shall do a
far walk (O pity) anygo khaibits till the number one of sairey's
place. Is, is. I want you to admire her sceneries illustrationing
our national first rout, one ought ought one. We shall too
downlook on that ford whcre Sylvanus Sanctus washed but
hurdley those tips of his anointeds. Do not show ever retrorsehim,
crockodeyled, till that you become quite crimstone in the face!
Beware! guardafew! It is Stealer of the Heart! I am anxious in
regard you should everthrown your sillarsalt. I will dui sui,
tef --570
nute ! These brilling waveleaplights! Please say me how sing you
them. Seekhem seckhem! They arise from a clear springwell in
the near of our park which makes the daft to hear all blend. This
place of endearment! How it is clear! And how they cast their
spells upon, the fronds that thereup float, the bookstaff
branchings! The druggeted stems, the leaves incut on trees! Do you
can their tantrist spellings? I can lese, skillmistress aiding. Elm,
bay, this way, cull dare, take a message, tawny runes ilex sallow,
meet me at the pine. Yes, they shall have brought us to the water
trysting, by hedjes of maiden ferm. then here in another place is
their chapelofeases, sold for song, of which you have thought
my praise too much my price. O ma ma! Yes, sad one of Ziod?
Sell me, my soul dear! Ah, my sorrowful, his cloister dreeping
of his monkshood, how it is triste to death, all his dark ivytod!
Where cold in dearth. Yet see, my blanching kissabelle, in the
under close she is allso gay, her kirtles green, her curtsies white,
her peony pears, her nistlingsloes! I, pipette, I must also
quicklingly to tryst myself softly into this littleeasechapel. I would
rather than Ireland! But I pray, make! Do your easiness! O,
peace, this is heaven! O, Mr Prince of Pouringtoher, whatever
shall I pppease to do? Why do you so lifesighs, my precious, as
I hear from you, with limmenings lemantitions, after that swollen
one? I am not sighing, I assure, but only I am soso sorry about
all in my saarasplace. Listen, listen ! I am doing it. Hear more to
those voices! Always I am hearing them. Horsehem coughs
enough. Annshee lispes privily. --James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, Part:3 Episode:14 Page:571
From here you might like to check out WITCHES BREW by Eric Rosenbloom, that explores Joyce’s use of alchemy within Finnegans Wake. PDF Download..
Maybe you'll listen to Bitches Brew by Miles Davis while your reading?
I'm off to bed..
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--fly
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