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Chinvat. The Bridge over the Abyss

  • 06.12.2015
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    In former times, Heaven and Earth, the two worlds symbolized by two riverbanks or seashores were integrated. Yet, once, as legends say, abysses and water appeared in between and separated them. Nonetheless, a single path remained, which connected the two sides, the mundane world and the heavenly world. The path is narrow and dangerous, but it’s the only one available, and it runs over a bridge.  

    The bridge image is similar to the image of an axial pillar or the world tree connecting heaven and earth and simultaneously maintaining their separation; thus it may also be regarded as a vertical or the axis mundi. A vertical bridge connects the earth not just with the higher world, but with the lower one, too. At the bridge leading to the lower world, a guard is often standing (e.g., a zoomorphic creature), who lets deceased (or living who have dared to visit the kingdom of death) pass, in exchange for a certain recompense, solution of a given riddle, or successful withstanding of a given test. At that, the downward bridge is one of rare images. There are more frequent images of the bridge along which souls of deceased get to paradise (the direction of such bridge is not always identified). In this respect, the bridge symbolism is identical to that of a ladder. Just like the world tree, ladder or axis mundi, the bridge connects different planes of existence. The side which the bridge runs from is our world, while the other side is the primordial world, the world of God, the world of genuine reality, the area of immortality.

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Gudea’s Goblet

  • 02.03.2016
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While reading myths, Vedic sources, studying signs and symbols, and based on the Primordial Knowledge given in the books by Anastasia Novykh, I have noticed that some images frequently used in all these sources (despite the fact they are depicted and called differently) symbolize one and the same concept – the one that may be figuratively referred to as the Bridge. I wrote on this subject in my earlier article Chinvat. The Bridge over the Abyss, but for those who haven’t read it I should briefly explain: what is meant here is the symbolic Bridge-Passageway signifying the spiritual Knowledge that helps human personality pass from the material world into the spiritual world – the world of God. It may otherwise be said that “the Bridge is what helps human personality merge with the Soul”.

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Teotihuacan: the city where people turn into Gods

  • 23.05.2016
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Teotihuacan is a desolate ancient city in Mexico, located 50 kilometres to the northeast of Mexico City, one of the oldest, largest and most mysterious sites in the Western Hemisphere, the precise age of which is unknown. Aztecs called it the “Birthplace of Gods” – no wonder it preserves numerous unsolved mysteries and riddles. According to legends of Indian elders, after the Flood gods returned to Teotihuacan in order the recreate the world. Teotihuacan is a supposed place of birth of the Fifth Sun; it is considered that the last sun of the human era emerged there. It is also known that after a ruin the grandiose pyramid complex was buried under earth and melted due to a high temperature exposure.

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Consciousness and Personality.
From the inevitably dead
to the eternally alive
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