//The Serpent and the Fire// (pp. 25-28) \\ ====== A Paradise of Poets ====== {{:omnipoetics:flower-8384359_640.jpg?150|}} **Two things drew us to this poem, the beauty -- the aliveness -- of the language** "Flowers" and "Songs" **are** poetry in this poem. They are not metaphors in the traditional sense of the word. //Technicians of the Sacred// (XXV), “…A major point throughout this book is that these peoples (& they’re likely too diverse to be covered by a single name) are precisely “technicians” where it concerns them—specifically in their relation to the “sacred” as something they can actively create or capture…” //What is a metaphor? Does it bring us closer or separate us from a concept? In this case, the original language did not have a word for poetry so these images serve a different role than they would in English. They are not a substitution. What are they? To the original writers? To us? Can we touch the same source of meaning?// **and the collaborative aspects of its creation** {{:omnipoetics:screen_shot_2025-01-29_at_8.36.38_pm.png?200 |}} ---- Visit the other pages from week two in-class work: - [[Kiche]] - [[Origins of Human Language]] - [[durkheim-on_ritual_and_theater|Durkheim]] - [[Tzara]] - [[Radin]] ---- * Image of flowers from Pixabay.com * Image of text from //Cantares Mexicanos// {{tag>Oral_Tradition Mexico Nahuatl Aztec Transcreation Poem Fifteenth_Century Sacred}}