pleiades: 6/8/08

Friday, June 13, 2008

Art/Proze

Shejzat, - midis Mitologjise e Shkences (pjesa e dyte)
Nga Altin Topi

Sic mund te merret vesh, nen tisin mistiko-artistik, mitologjemat gjithmone fshehin shtresa te ndryshme nenteksesh e nenkuptimesh te “korrektesise, ujdhesave e intrigave politike”, te rrymave te ndryshme e nevojave per te ekuilibruar qendrat e ndryshme te gravitetit te pushtetit politik e fuqise ekonomike, ne periudha te ndryshme te historise njerezore.

Miti i Pleiadave te ndjekura nga Orioni, i perjetesuar nga astrologjia e i demostruar nga astronomia, eshte nje mit i fillimeve te njeriut per te kuptuar mahnitjen e tij me universin, natyren e vendin e vet ne te. Fjalet e Zotit drejtuar Xhobit(Book of Job 38:31): “Can you bind the beautiful Pleiades? Can you loose the cords of Orion?” , - te permendura ne Bibel percjellin vecse nje mesazh te vetem, mesazhin e paevitueshmerise, pamundesise per t’iu shmanguar ciklit te jetes: njeriu do te

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Art/Proze

Shejzat, - midis Mitologjise e Shkences (pjesa e pare)
Nga Altin Topi

Pleiadat apo sic njihen ne shqipen e gegeve, shejzat, jane nje grumbullim yjesh ne kostelacionit e Buallit. Shejzat kane qene e mbeten pjese e mitologjise te kulturave e qyteterimeve te ndryshme. Ne mitologjine greke Pleiadat ishin shtate vajzat e Atlasit dhe Pleinones; per vikinget ato ishin pulat e Freias. Ne Europen e epokes te bronzit, keltet e popullsi te tjera perreth, i kujtonin Pleiadat ne raste pershendoshjesh e funeralesh, kur ato ngriheshin e shendritnin nga lindja, ne qiellin e nates, midis ekuinoksit vjeshtor dhe solsticit dimror, periudhe pergjate te ciles mbahej festivali pagan ne kujtim te te vdekurve.

Acteket e kishin ndertuar kalendarin bazuar ne levizjen e Pleiadave ne qiell, ndersa per japonezet shejzat quheshin Subaru "sebashku", emer i huazuar ne kohet moderne nga prodhuesi japonez i automobileve.

A Living Metaphor

Culture is not static, culture is a living metaphor, culture changes, culture transforms. We should think about ourselves not simply as memes replicators of a given culture, we are the cultural agents of change. We are not some repository vessels of dusty cultural archeology; we are creators, artists, culture makers and transformers.

Nowadays, the Albanian culture is in complete disarray, in a total chaos. It is waiting for us to give it a new life, and draw again from its infinite complexity and the beauty therein. What would emerge, it should not be a recapitulation of the past, and it should not be a mere identity that has been recovered. What emerges, it should be a awareness of something new, an advanced state of intellectual, cultural, and material development, which can be called a new Albanian Civilization.

The eXodus, the archetype of liberation and freedom, remains the spiritual landscape, the essence of our times. Although freedom today has become a sort of escapism, myriads of mental arcade games of escapism from the real world, the meaning of true freedom is being connected to the reality of freedom. We have to escape from the narrow constriction of the dusty cultural memes. Now, more then ever, we have a golden opportunity, - a wide-opened window, - to connect us with this reality of freedom. Time should not pass us by; we should be the time travelers.