A FRACTURED TALE

RAPUNZEL THREW THINGS

No plus for her prince as he drew near
So high held that she couldn't hear
Temporize m'lady with beautiful hair
Rapunzel throw down your underwear


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notes


1. The name, Rapunzel means rampion.

Rampion   A leafy plant in the same group as spinach and lettuce, rampion is an autogamous plant. If it is not fertilized with the help of insects, it can split a column within the plant to fertilize itself. The split column will "curl like braids or coils on a maiden's head, and this will bring the female stigmatic tissue into contact with the male pollen on the exterior surface of the column" (Thompson 1989).

2. What Rapunzel’s mother wanted was forbidden food. What Rapunzel wanted, so high up in a tower with no contact to the outside world was worldly experience; she wanted to fall like her mother into the world; what Rapunzel wanted was to become, become Rapunzel, become “fleshed”.

3.  Considering the archetypal angel, the angel of person, the pattern in this tale seems similar to the tale of Demeter & Persephone. Persephone distinguishes herself from her mother; her consciousness is not the grain goddess. Her pattern reflects a life which cannot be snuffed out. After her ordeal in Hades, she claims authority moving between two realms, a chthonic dimension within a human, earthy one, vegetal soul and animal spirit. Both.  And, significantly, such self-resonance is something else.  Suppose this is that to which the term “feminine principle” applies and that the nature of this principle is perhaps what Jung means when he uses the term, psychoid. See Mark Dotson’s Soul Spelunker http://soulspelunker.com/2015/01/the-psychoid-archetype-2.html . Suppose what happens within rampion soul in the story describes an event in the soul by the soul for its own sake.

4.  See Annotations For Rapunzel, Sur La Lune http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/rapunzel/notes.html for foot note one and four.

Some scholars believe Maiden in the Tower stories have their roots in the story of Saint Barbara. Saint Barbara was locked in a tower by her father when she disobeys him and refuses marriage offers from eligible suitors. You can read more about Barbara on the following webpage: http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/saintb01.htm

5. For a modern Maiden in the Tower story see Richard Lance Williams, “Woman In The Tower” http://www.amazon.com/Woman-Tower-Stories-Wounded-Child/dp/0981744354

6. The line “Rapunzel throw down your underwear” is an adaptation from a version of the story,  “Falling For Rapunzel” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3fXDFwjkv0 

7.  Original Fractured Fairy Tale of Rapunzel 

AN INTERSTICE: NEW YEARS & "END" TIMES Mirthology 101

http://www.lillyarts.com/html/happynewyear.html

Happy 2013! Did you make your New Year's resolution yet? This year I promised myself I would continue my explorations into women and humor. As a poet-mythologer that means a mythopoetic exploration where psyche-making seems to open space between mirth and myth.

The idea came to me last evening during participation in a microblogging event, "Toast Pacifica" held for alumni of Pacifica Graduate Institute (see Pacifica Alumni) home to the collected works of Joseph Campbell, Marija Gimbutas, James Hillman, Christine Downing, and others. You can visit a full listing of names and collected works by visiting OPUS Archives on line.


 2013: Why Mirth
What is it about mythic imagination and the need for mirth? Could it be somehow that myth's birth and mirth's birth coincide in the same monadic space in imaginal mind? I've already started looking at this early mental matrix.

Mirth's name accorded western psyche in mythic imagination is Euphrosyne. She is one of three Graces or Charites. According to Timothy Ganz she forms, along with her sisters, Aglaia and Thalia, the diaphanous robe surrounding the goddess Aphrodite. (Early Greek Myth, vol. 1 p. 54)

Sure sounds like something archetypally in-formed to me. Perhaps 2013 has all the makings of a "nude" year after all!  If so, the imaginal term coined last night by @Pacifica Alumni, "arsechetypal" has left a just-right imprint to further explore―traces of the old "end-times" along with specular, simulated "spectacular" simulacra, images like the simultaneously unfolding, eleventh hour "fiscal cliff" negotiations. These are left "behind" as the new year begins. These seemings seam traces in poetic psyche's myth-making, fun-loving, festival animal as the old year vanishes into late night, New Year, Toast Pacifica tweets. 

In a salute to 2013 now, here's to naked Beauty and the gracefully mythopoetic, circle dancer, Mirth who traced the dancing imprint last night in PJ's EROS and the knowing and loving underneath the blue boy's timely trinitarian invocation. Here's to the winged "makers", mythoplokon, weavers of soul-making everywhere!

Furthermore, here's to beginnings in endings; here's to simulacra, simulation and fictionalizing arsechetypes.

Out with the old, in with the nude!

Happy Nude Year, Everybody!

©2013 stephanie pope, mythopoetry.com