File spoon-archives/deleuze-guattari.archive/deleuze-guattari_1998/deleuze-guattari.9810, message 217


From: "Charles Gavette" <chaosmosis-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: aqualung
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 21:57:19 PDT


It was thought by the more literal-minded of the T'ang that the toad, 
rabbit, and other creatures were alien to the moon's watery environment 
and could not survive there; this engendering uneasy feelings among 
them. But this was of no consequence to the metaphysicians, poets and 
such, whose moon creatures were inorganic. With an established 
connection of the moon with metal derived from the Five Activities, we 
see how this acts as a transformer enabling potentiality: "In a cyan 
abyss who can detect the authority of the Fashioner of Mutations/ Which 
condensed the frost and congealed the snow to create their unique 
allure!" (Hsu Yin, "Yueh," Ch'uan T'ang, han 11, ts'e 1, ch. 3, 14b) The 
hare in the moon was supposedly a Buddhist concept, which was copied by 
the Taoists. Regardless who lays claim to such myths, I found it 
interesting that this motif is continued in the Mayan culture.

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