Saturday 17 February 2024

River in the sky

The Derveni papyrus is an ancient Greek papyrus roll, dated to 340 BC, containing an allegorical commentary on an Orphic poem, a theogony concerning the birth of the gods, produced in the circle of the philosopher Anaxagoras...

And in it, we find this...

"...It is unclear to the many, but quite clear to those who have correct understanding, that Oceanus is the air and that air is Zeus...But the ignorant ones think that Oceanus is a river, because he adds 'wide-flowing'..."


Eeeee what???? Oceanus, the biggest river, the source of all water, is in the air and is Zeus (rain)???? How can we possibly interpret this???

Well....Ever heard of Atmospheric river?

A giant river, the biggest river on earth, flowing in the sky, with many channels, the source of all the rain and the source of all water in all the earthly rivers...

Some of these channels reaching Europe too...

So is this what the authors of the Derveni papyrus are talking about? If so, and I do think so, then that means that those Orphic dudes knew some serious shit...

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