grgr (34): the horse

[Dave Monroe]

Now, you can see how this reading might appeal to me, but I do believe there might
be something via Nietzsche in there, beyond that (reelevant nonetheless) joke
related here earlier.  Sure one or another of you can elucidate.  But these elegiac
passages here.   Cf. "The Last Green and Magenta" just above, any comments?  Recalls
the blue and yellow of Rilke alluded to, hell, outright mentioned, earlier (and
connected to that Aryan ideal, vs. the red and brown of the Herero; cf. Paul Celan's
use of Gotehe's "your golden hair, Magarethe," vs. "your ashen hair, Shulamith" in
that "Death Fugue"), @ V101/B117 (and note not only "Takeshi's blue-and-yellow
patent wingtips" [V691/B806], but also that, as I recall, blue and yellow were the
heraldic colors of Thurn and Taxis), first off, but note the change in tone:

    "The heath grows green and magenta in all directions, earth and heather, coming
of age--
    "No.  It Was Spring." (V749/B874)

Poetry, denial, fact (or is it? was it spring? and can't help but hear "Springer,"
"kinght," in the chess sense there).  But that tangible sense of the Countdown, to
Armageddon.  Recall that infamous campaign ad of 1964, Johnson vs. Goldwater ...

Lorentzen / Nicklaus wrote:

>  "in a sense, then, the purpose and import of the divine person's horse
> sacrifice was, and is, precisely the opposite of that of yogis and shamans.
> whereas the later seek to escape from gross bodily existence, in order to ascend
> into heavenly realms of awareness and aquire subtle or magic powers, the divine
> person performing the horse sacrifice strives to incarnate the transcendental
> divine consciousness, the all-pervading spiritual presence, and the all
> liberating power in a single human body-mind, in order to achieve complete
> psycho-physical agency for his work. thus, the divine horse sacrifice is a
> process of spiritual descent and embodiment, rather than of ascent and
> (eventual) escape from the body. this supreme sacrificial incarnation as a
> single human being then enables the divine being to effectively sanctify or
> divinize innumerable beings, particulary those who are responsive to him in his
> human incarnation, and even the world itself."
>
>     (the dawn horse testament. the testament of secrets of the divine
>      world-teacher and true heart-master, da avbhasa (the bright). page 31)
>
>  kfl