The title comes from a personal
revelation of mine regarding the nature, and metaphysical cosmology of
existence.
First off I need to define some terms,
and some perspectives.
When discussing things like the origins
of reality in a metaphysical sense one must first give the caveat
that everything stated is a metaphor. When you get to the very
beginning of things most of what we conceive of didn't exist, and
were so primal you can't define them except through metaphor. What I
call 'Gods' and 'Spirits' and the like are base 'concepts' that have
some kind of agency. I cannot say that they had wills and minds as
we conceive them, as we a re talking about the fundamental building
blocks of the experience of existing, and the nature of reality.
Also, one of the main perspectives I
come from is that the only thing I can say for sure about anything is
that I seem to exist. When I say 'I', I am referring to awareness,
or consciousness. Everything in existence other than that is highly
suspect. In other words, I come from the perspective that
experience, or the experiencer, are primary, and what is experienced
is either secondary, or illusionary, in the sense of impossible to
prove (proof being an axiom of a material realist world view, as
something has to be 'real' for proof to exist).
So. My personal revelation is roughly
as follows. What I call 'Tiamat' is, in essence (remember, metaphors
here), the primal 'stuff' that is experienced by consciousness. It
is what matter is based on. It is the object to consciousness’s
subject. Consciousness is the 'active' principle (yang) whereas
Tiamat is the reactive (yin). This can be conceived of as a
disembodied 'Spirit' or consciousness, entering into a realm of
existence, or a 'body'. This 'Body/Realm' tracks very well on to the
Primal Deity Tiamat, hence why I use the name. Tiamatrix is a play
on the name to describe it's nature as the Matrix of the world. In
both it's structural sense and to equate it somewhat with the Matrix
of the film of the same name.
Those of you who are familiar with the
Myths surrounding Tiamat, will also recognize that there was a divine
agency that killed and dismembered Tiamat to create the world.
This is where I have blended some
Gnostic concepts and some Mesopotamian myths.
I encourage those of you not familiar
with the myths surrounding the slaying of Tiamat to read up on it as
it is fascinating, and tragic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiamat
At the beginning of things, there was
The Primal Consciousness (the One), and the Primal Experience
(Tiamat). They found each other, and played many games of both
experiencing and being experienced. They were mirrors of each other,
lovers, and siblings, parent and child to each other. And through
these unions, children weere born (consciousness under the illusion
of separateness became many gods and goddesses). As these children
were mixes of other concepts, they became distinct in character,
which was disruptive to the older, more primal gods (think a
cacophony versus a single note, or a simple melody). This caused a
rift between the old and the new. Murders were planned and wars were
fought. The One was slain, But there was a favoured child, one of
the newer gods who loved Tiamat, and lamented the death of the one,
so Tiamat gave him control over the realms (in the original myth by
giving him the tablet of destinies). He challenged the head of the
new gods (Marduk, or the Demiurge) to battle, but he lost. The
Demiurge then took the tablet of destinies and slew Tiamat, and made
the world from her body. Then took the essence of her champion and
mixed it with the stuff of the world to create humanity. This is the
condition we find ourselves in. We are the essence of that failed
hero trapped in a prison made from the corpse of our Lover and
Mother.
That is the Tiamatrix.
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