The Third member of the Triad -some musings by: the Rhymester
"Memorialize, the Moon is precisely short as big as the Lair, but it's spitting image as far in another place."
-Anonymous
As some time contemplation on the put up of Goddess/God that is earthy in Wiccan (and ceiling Neo-Pagan groups) and seeing the earthy quarter of "gear come in threes" in these belief systems, I poleax to wondering "Why precisely the God and Goddess? If all gear come in threes, but is the Third Appearance that ought to be there?"
So what is this Third Aspect? I deliberate it is the Sanctified Fool; the Prometheus who is the Trickster, the God (neuter) that rolls the affect. This in addition fills in unmistaken holes in neo-Pagan Theology that be full of unbalanced me for some time, too.
Original, we inevitability to be full of a quick realize at the Sanctified Fool in sincere and/or cultural beliefs, each one prehistoric and modern:
American Indian:
Aztec: Ueuecoyotl
Caddo: Coyote
Chinook: Coyote
Coos: Coyote
Haida: Raven
Hopi: Mudhead Kachina, Butt of all the jokes Kachina
Kiowa: Coyote
Navaho: Coyote
Nez Perce: Coyote
Omaha: Coyote, Rabbit, Iktinike, Orphan
Pueblo: Koshare
Sioux: Spider
Tillamook: Coyote
Tinglit: Raven
Winnebago: Rabbit
Zuni: Coyote
African: Spider, Tortoise, Rabbit, Jackal
Graeco/Roman: Pan, Dionysis
Celtic: Phooka and the crave (see Irish: Nervousness Dearg, and a load of
others. The Fool obligation love Ireland very ominously...He made so
recurrent of Itself there!)
Norse: Loki...-and- Balder
Banks Island: Clat
Micronesia: Nareau
England: Puck, Black Jack Davy
Christianity: "Distrustful" Thomas, and The Christ Himself, in recurrent
ways....and Judas, too.
20th Cent. North American: Bugs Bunny, The Mystery, Mr. Mxyzpltk,
Murphy, ("And Pooh is a -good- insistence,
too!" alleged Loathing) Neo-
Paganism: Discordians
18th thru 20th Cent. Appalachian: Jack (from British Isles)
18th and 19th Cent. N.A. Black: Br'er Rabbit, Yearn John, &c.
German: Tyl Eulenspiegel
Italy: Harlequin (evaluation out Agatha Christie's stories about
"Harley Quinn." Form interesting!)
Islamic: Juha, Abu Nawwas, Mullah Nasruddin, Nasreddin Khoja,
Nasreddin Hodja
Japanese: Fox, Hotei, and the whole put up of Zen......
And the recurrent, recurrent instances of the Conqueror assess and his Combine in ceiling common mythology....Gilgamesh and Enkidu, Robin Hat and Undersized John, the Mythic Hollywood Western Conqueror and his foolish ally, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza.....and recurrent period you see the consistent quarter of the Clear Disloyalty of the Conqueror, which leads to His death...and to His Resurrection!
One brusquely sees that the Fool is a complete incessant in folk belief, non-discriminatory as the God and God are! (NB: I be full of not gotten extend positive for two reasons: one, for boundaries of space, and two, to espouse others to do a downcast reading on their own!)
As ceiling gear, the Fool is In the flesh in three basic Aspects that (of course)
overlap with each other and with the God and God. The initial is that of the Savior God, the Prometheus, the Philosophy Conqueror, who brings Agreement (and - occasionally- Experience) to Mankind. This Appearance loves Mankind with all His Mammal, and precisely wishes Trade fair. His Trade fair Intentions sometimes fall direct of His (or Mankind's) opportunity, quiet.
The further is that of the Butt of all the jokes, the Nerd, the Surprise, that teaches by his own mistakes (and who wholly comes out steadily like of His own Cleanliness.) This Appearance is remarkably carefree, and is how He seems to remarkably echo Himself.
But let us not skip over the third, and darker, limit of the Fool, best exemplified by Jack Nicholson's depiction of The Mystery in the cartridge replica of "Batman." Pay off as the God has Her Obscure limit (the Crone, the Morrigan, &c) and the God has His (Odin as Death-God) so does the Fool be full of a arduous Appearance (at smallest possible, from the possible hit the highest point of view): Chaos In the flesh.
This is not an Appearance to invoke, as it does not rush. Suggest. It is the enduring psychopath, the enduring Injured Brat, the quintessence of Inconsiderate self-love.
In some circles, it may well be rationally favorably named Ahriman, or Shaitan, or Satan, like it fits all concepts of that Middle-Eastern deity.... prohibit one: It does not rush if Man worships It or not. It is not in -conflict- with the God and/or God, It is -not- on the cordial of power-trip that the Judeo-Christian Satan is represented as having, it non-discriminatory -is-. It ought to be deliberate as neither
"good" nor "evil," conversely it can embody each one or either....or neither! This is mystifying, but with a downcast theoretical the put up order (hopefully) come categorical.
(And, non-discriminatory in hurt, the cartridge replica of "Batman" is perhaps a very good tale for the eternal mess up amongst the Fool-as-Prometheus (Batman) and the Fool-as-Chaos (the Mystery).
Are you confused? If you are, GOOD! If you are not, preserve ideas by not- ideas. (Wha-a-a-a-a-t?)
Clear of the best examples of the three Personifications are found in the Navaho and Zuni tales of Coyote, or the Br'er Rabbit tales, or the dreary Bugs Bunny cartoons, or even Walt Disney's Goofy. And, equally communication of classic being, if you can see any of the cartoons of the Cannibal Boy and the Mynah Bird, do so! It shows not one, but TWO Aspects in action!
For a realize at His extend threatening (?) limit, try J.R.R. Tolkien's thrilling evocation of Tom Bombadil...who is described as "the oldest." Prof. Tolkien came very vigor to the central point of the truth with that one!
The Fool is your slightly daffy Uncle, that comes to perceive at Christmas and is such fun to be with, but who seems to be full of a shock about him too, that you found out subsequently, with you were all matured up, was his aid fashionable alcoholism. The Fool is the American sit-com "Daddy" who never seems to get no matter what call for, but wins out in the end acceptably. The Fool is the classic vista of Bugs Bunny, in place in a washtub in the principal of the Placatory Sea, brightly in concert "As Period Goes By," ecstatically reckless about his disgusting license...one which would send a possible fashionable complete sadness....knowing that no matter which order turn up, some scam that he can split that order get him out of the washtub and fashionable clover another time. The Fool is the Tarot's Fool, of course....but He is in addition the Hanged Man.
Do -not- invoke the Fool unless you are completed for impartially Anything to happen!
He non-discriminatory strength turn you fashionable a Never-ending Inexperienced Frog non-discriminatory to carry on what happens......He is capricious. He is variable. He is what He is, and nought you can do order turn Him from His Finish, anything that may be at any express sec. He is "Murphy," and anything can go immoral, Leave go immoral...or call for. Unless you be full of an rarely flexible mind, you -might- not be superior to string it!
He has no Festival, unless it is the Lupercal, or perhaps April Fool's Day, or even New Year's Eve, for every day is His, as He chooses. Clear be full of inquired about the evident overlap of functions in the Goddess/God/Fool harmony, and this ought to be addressed in the environs of. The modern Western mind tends to "group" gear, and unyieldingly excludes other gear from these pigeonholes. This, I deliberate, is in some ways an slip-up in ideas, especially about the Triad.
One cannot and ought to not "sort" the God/Fool/Goddess fashionable three unyieldingly particularized Beings, but comparatively delicate of them as three particularized sources of ripples in the identical Pond: the ripples spend time and cross over, and act on each other, but move within the identical Search, anything That may be.
-the Rhymester
at Samhain, 1990 CE
I wish I may well list all of my sources, but if I did, it would add a range of pages to this document, and I am difficult to preserve it direct. I -will- deal reading one book, quiet, that order say a mighty appreciation fashionable the Sanctified Fool:
CONTRARIWISE
Zohra Greenhalgh, Ace (report) April 1989
0-441-117112-2
(it has a sequel, but I can't observe the locate terse....)
