voices of humanity
re: Finding our Common Humanity
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Dear Beatrice,
What a wonderful thought, to share creation stories. I went to youtube thinking I might find you telling some of your stories. Have you thought of doing that?
Something I discovered when working with the Book of Job some years ago is that it is a retelling of the Creation. When Job is afflicted by the Satan, he calls upon the powers of Leviathan to blot out the day of his birth. Leviathan represents Chaos, which reigned before the waters were separated from the land. Job needs to bring forth Chaos if he is to succeed in erasing the day of his birth from the calendar. Chaos does come forth and you can see it in the dialog he has with his friends. You must have done something, they say! Job in his self-defense ends up looking for an arbiter between himself and God and everything goes topsy-turvy until God appears to quell Leviathan again, that "creature born intrepid". Then Job and we are healed as order is restored. Anyway, that is my reading!
-- Roger
intermix.org/job
What a wonderful thought, to share creation stories. I went to youtube thinking I might find you telling some of your stories. Have you thought of doing that?
Something I discovered when working with the Book of Job some years ago is that it is a retelling of the Creation. When Job is afflicted by the Satan, he calls upon the powers of Leviathan to blot out the day of his birth. Leviathan represents Chaos, which reigned before the waters were separated from the land. Job needs to bring forth Chaos if he is to succeed in erasing the day of his birth from the calendar. Chaos does come forth and you can see it in the dialog he has with his friends. You must have done something, they say! Job in his self-defense ends up looking for an arbiter between himself and God and everything goes topsy-turvy until God appears to quell Leviathan again, that "creature born intrepid". Then Job and we are healed as order is restored. Anyway, that is my reading!
-- Roger
intermix.org/job
