Motif Index

The Fire, 22

The Prayer Flag, 23

The Falcon, 23

The Path, 25

The Eye, 25

Sirius, 26

The Thread, 26

The Long-Legged Waterbird, 27

The Doors of the Sky, 29

The Sword of Orion, 29

Taurus, 29

The Fingers of the Horizon, 30

The Gate of Hell, 30

The Moon, 31

The North Star, 39

The Axis at the Center of the Wheel, 40

The Life Force, 41

The Nile, 42

The Crocodile, Green, 42

The Eye in the Heart of the Reeds, 43

Semen as the Water of Life, 43

The Snake and the Walking Stick, 44

The Rebus, 45

The Question of Pi, 46

Reincarnation, the Wheel, 47

The Light Body, 51

Tantra, 52

The Lightning Vehicle, 54

The Bull of Double Brilliance, 54

Myrrh, 55

The Light Is the Essence of the Eye, 56

The Horn of the Falcon of Old, 56

Botanical Hieroglyphs: The Root, the Azure Field of Flax, the Branch, the Twig, 56

Paradox, 57

The Trinity, 57

The Virgin Birth, 58

The One Who Exists but Doesn’t Know It, 59

The Zodiacal Light, 60

The Arms of the Sky: The Big Dipper, 61

The Garland as Birth, 69

The Tears Are Stars, 70

The Eye Creates the Logos, 71

The Logos Is the Twin, 71

Flying Up into the Sky, 72

The Letters Are Animate, 72

The Shamanistic Devices of Poetry, 73

A Hieroglyphic Joke: At the Still Point of the Turning World There the Dance Is, 73

The Opener of the Paths: Canopus Is Anubis, 73

The Two Great Holy Ones in the Cool Dark: Sirius and Canopus as Falconry, 73

The Devil Is a Wild Dog, 75

The Underlying Sound, 75

The Sky Is a Wild Dog, 76

Pan Is the Wind in the Reeds, 76

Chaos as the Weather, 76

The Sky Is a Dappled Cow, 78

The Ladder to Heaven Is the Milky Way, 79

The Ladder in the Body Is the Spine, 81

The Hermit Ibis Is the Light Body, 82

The Star in the East, 82

Beauty as Music: The Lyre, 82

For in You Is the Wheat, 83

The Secret of the Bull, 84

Why Emerald Is More Valuable than Gold, 84

The Stars Sail the Cool Watery Dark, 85

The Sky Is a Mill Wheel, 86

The Two Daughters of the Four Holy Ones, 87

The Sickle and the Eye, 87

As the Wild Dog Looks at the Heart, 89

The Living Words, 89

Threaten Not the Twisted Threads, 89

The Birth from the Head, 90

Orion, the Master of Storms, 90

Echoic Words, 91

The Eye Is Green, 92

The Bread of Egypt, 92

The Malachite Land, 136

The Lake of the Wolf, 137

The Falcon Is the Green Snake, 137

What White Child Is Nursed with Two Horns on His Head, 140

As You Rise a Voice Comes to You, 141

The Lotus Rising, 193

The Geometric Underlay, 194

The Pool of Lilies Glittering on the Flooded Land, 195

Susannah and the Elders, 195

Noah and the Flood, 195

The Pleiades, 195

The Eye Is Your Child, 196

The Book Is the Sword, 196

The Holy Book, 196

The Snowy Egret, 197

The Starry Dawn, 197

The Cobra and the Vulture = Egypt, the River and the Desert, 198

Of Malachite Born, 198

The Eye Is Your Bread, 200

Broken Exhausted Weary, 200

The Gates of Dawn, 201

The Truth Is in the Fire, 201

The Path of Sprouting Green, 202

The Head of the Blossoming Time, 202

The Horizon Cuts the Throat, 202

The Spindle, 203

The Shores of Light, 203

The Field of Rushes, 203

He Is the Wind, Let Him Be Free, 204

The Invocation of the Bull, 204

The Eye on the Throne, 205

The Eye Is Thunder, 205

Pythagoras, 206

Lifted from the Father, 206

Earth Do Not Speak to Him, 207

Eurydice, 207

The Pelican Rises as Foretold, 208

The Spell of Ta-ntra: The Holy Ground, 208

Secret Are the Ways to Take, 209

The Labyrinth, 210

The Minotaur, 210

Its Essence Is an Eye Thrust Out, 212

A Sailor in the Sky Sees the Truth, 212

The Keening of the Green Serpent, 213

He Has Gone to the Sky with the Wind, 213

The Two Truths, 214

Are They Deaf to the Truth of the Voice in the Eye, 215

The Cutting Apart of Male and Female, 215

The Truth as Sound, 215

The Truth as Space, 216

The Truth Is in the Fire, 217

He Is Reassembled Within the Mystery, 217

The Cobra Sails Across the Sky, 217

The Body Is a Broken Jar, 218

The Dappled Sail of Time, 218

The Open Eye of the Storm, 219

Orpheus, 219

The Milk of Heaven, 224

The Union with the Mother, 225

The Holy Vision Is Opened to Him, 225

The Cannibal Hymn Is the Birth of the Eye, 225

The Wild Bull of His Mothers, 226

The Detested Wolf, 227

He Is the Food of Mankind, 228

He Burns as Wood in the Fire of the Stars, 229

He Is the Arrow, 229

He Has Broken the Knots of the Spine, 229

He Feeds on the Essence of the Stars, 230

The Door that Opens Both Ways Is the Mother, 230

You Create Your Eye as It Destroys You, 231

The Arm of Thunder Strikes, 231

The Vajra Is the Labros, 231

Out There It Is Dark, 232

Burn, House of the Star, 232

The Flesh Becomes Gold, 233

There Is a Centipede in the House, 233

The Two Alabaster Jars, 234

Glittering White as the Vultures You Are Free, 235

The Cry of the Snake, 235

Grow Dark O Serpent, 236

Slide Out as a Shining Pelican over the Nile, 236

As He Rises from the Tree the Serpent Guides Him, 236

The Tree Is the Body, 236

Your Father Is Dead. Find His Mind., 237

What Survives Death, 237

The Snake Encircles You in Your Tree, 238

The Hawk from the Burning Land, 238

The Secret of Primordial Darkness, 239

The Flight of the Eye, 241

The Descent of the Twin, 241

The Body as Its Aggregates, 249

The Serpent Within, 255

The Eye as the Moon, 257

The Falcon as the Eye, 261

The Moon Is Eaten by Wild Nature, 261

The Moon Is Rebirth, 261

The Flesh Becomes Gold, 265

The Two Trees: How Sweet Are the Twigs, 268, 269