Mythologies of Late by Allan Nanva

Author:Allan Nanva [Nanva, Allan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, General
ISBN: 9789948374336
Google: V5aVxgEACAAJ
Publisher: AUSTIN MACAULEY
Published: 2019-05-31T05:24:48+00:00

I Like Stairs

I like stairs – they connect and disconnect, their beginning becomes their end and their end becomes the beginning. Stairs remind me of ‘The Conference of the Birds’ by the Persian Poet Attar (circa 1142–1220). In the poem, the birds of the world, in need of a king, gather in a conference to decide on a leader. The wise hoopoe bird suggests that they set out in search of the legendary Simorgh, a mythical Persian bird (Phoenix like). The hoopoe leads the birds on a journey of steps in search of Simorgh’s dwelling place. From the travelling party of thousands, thirty birds (Si = 30, morgh = birds: Simorgh) make it to the destination only to find that Simorgh is a reflection of their own faces in an implicit lake (Mathematically, the word implicit is an expression in which the dependent and the independent variables are not on the opposite sides of an equation).

Attar’s steps:

Step 1: The Quest

Step 2: Love

Step 3: Knowledge

Step 4: Detachment

Step 5: Unity

Step 6: Wonderment

Step 7: Of Dissolution where beginnings and endings are one and the same, the future and the past converge, differences disappear and self dissolves into a universality, collectivity, plurality, des oiseaux.

Attar’s stairs are a metaphor for life itself – the ups and downs in between a beginning and an ending that look the same in their finality, polarities.

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