Mythology Channel

TIME OUTSIDE TIME & THE INTERCALARY LEAP (DAY)

Most calendars have what are called intercalary days — days that fill the gaps in the calendar. Mythologically, these days take place in time outside time—like creation. For the Egyptians, who recognized twelve thirty day months, there were five days between every Egyptian year, and in these days, they celebrated their creation and resurrection myths. The darkness of an eclipse — like the dark moment in any light cycle’s renewal (midnight, new moon, winter solstice, eclipse) is the moment in the cycle that is free and outside of time. This corresponds with the moment of inner extinguishing when having a visionary experience — this is when we are unplugged from the flow of time and can touch creation. It is unfortunate that our leap day is only aligned with calendars that have been all but fully disconnected from the natural world, but we can still remember. The leap day, like an eclipse, like intercaliary days, release us from time—if only for a brief moment.

- From Mythouse.org/Mythosophia

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Mythology is a study of life’s poetry and the way it speaks to us through myth, dream and experience. When we move through landscapes of dream, life and popular fiction, the figures, imagery and pathways we experience are perceived poetically by the imagination.

For poetry, as in science, things are what they are. A wall is a wall. A door is a door. A ceiling is a ceiling and a tree is a tree; only, where science exists to articulate material causality, poetry speaks with immediate meaning. It is immediate and easy to see the poetic meaning and scientific reality of a wall. The study of myth and dream is about awakening and expanding this natural poetic fluency.

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