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The Kykeon and Icon of Hygeia

The Kykeon and Icon of Hygeia
Acrylic painting Mitchell Pluto

Metaphors like the star, cup and snake of Hygieia are keys that exist within the universal mind.

The Kykeon and Icon of Hygeia is a gentle painting for a harsh transit. not unpleasantly rough for most people but maybe for a few

Hygiene, Hygieia, Hugieia

As a medical personification of health, Hygeia was daughter of Asklepios, the god of medicine. Traditionally Asklepios is known for his staff with a serpent which integrates similar details with the Caduceus of Hermes. I selected the Greek goddess in this painting in favor of other deities because of her relationship between three symbols.

The first being the molting snake going through various phases in an immutable soulful way-a vehicle or vehiculum

mixed media relief Mitchell Pluto
another study in sacred geometry. the serpent clock. time is a serpent, maybe a wave or particle. maybe an opening, drain, tunnel or fountain. the inner scale has 12 petals. the outer 24 all under the influence of what matters is happening now as we molt

Second, the amuletic badge ‘the Pythagorean pentagram’ belonging naturally to an order that expresses health, inspiration and harmony.

Star of “Hugieia” (ύγιεία: health)

“In the pentagram, the Pythagoreans found all proportions well-known in antiquity: arithmetic, geometric, harmonic, and also the well-known golden proportion, or the golden ratio. … Probably owing to the perfect form and the wealth of mathematical forms, the pentagram was chosen by the Pythagoreans as their secret symbol and a symbol of health. Alexander Voloshinov

Ace of Pentacles Pendent Mitchell Pluto

The third is the cup that contains the passage into the circle with which the diameter or chord passes through everlasting life and the hidden order of natural geometry.

Hidden Folk and Special Effects of the Brain

written April 17th, 2017 © Mitchell Pluto

Master of Reflections From my series The Hidden Folk, 12inx15in mixed media. Investigates suggestibility and sympathetic magic.

The Master has a forehead of mirrors that captures the on looker. Whatever the master says changes the shape of the viewers reflection. The warden of petals regulates and enhances scent and can influence specific moods of an entire group. The Prophet of mu is the last representative of mu. a close encounter with the medium has made people become more conducive to psychic waves.

The Poet Guillaume Apollinaire described a hidden world as Surreal. Although Surrealism became popular in the 1920’s there has always been an omnipresent clue among all cultures of a hidden world. The Icelandic phrase, huldufólk is a substitution for a name what would otherwise disrupt the hidden world and cause an encounter with it. While most of us are usually not suggestively affected by taboos there is a unique percentage of people in Iceland who do believe the hidden world is possible.

This is not far from asking someone if they believe in people from another space.

The Surrealist’s methods of accessing the subconscious were not new. Many of the techniques of surrealism rely on animism, pareidolia and apophenia.

These three special effects of our consciousness influence our beliefs and attitudes subconsciously. Animism is our oldest built in belief system. Under the suggestibility of the animistic brain every person. place or thing has spirit. This would also include power and expression as an ability to change events in an environment. As simple as sanctifying a successful hunt/crop by painting a picture of the future in the present. As animism believes that everything is an agent of expression or spirit, pareidolina impacts how one perceives this channel.

There is a symbiotic relationship between the faerie realm and what we would consider inanimate or motionless objects. Like seeing a face in a tree. Apophenia impresses upon how we organize what we perceive during pareidolina. Where as an abnormal encounter with a face in the tree that could be nothing at all, apophenia insists, sometimes obsessively, that this experience, seeing a face in the tree, means something more than it does. Apophenia places most people at risk because it can be dogmatic and unquenchable under a false conclusion.