A word search

The heirs to the kingdoms of rolling lands vast glimmering waters watched the sun set over the beach and moon rise over the waters. The scene created the character and quality of a dream. A streak of silver appeared as. a mermaid lifted herself up in the water. Her tail shimmered as part of the light of the setting sun. Her breasts were covered with two scallop shells. She locked eyes with the prince, standing on the rocky shores, with moonlight on his face. Their eyes locked. Time stood still. They were both pilgrims, looking for a new experience. This was destiny. They were attracted to each other but knew to maintain their respective distance. They adhered to the rules of formality known to merfolk and humans.

The prince spoke the first words. “To know your future, you must know your past.”

The mermaid replied, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

They bowed to each other and at the same time said, “Today is the gift, this moment is the present.”

He said, “I am the prince of this land. I plan for uncertainty as I direct the path to a future that I see as a stubborn illusion.”

She replied, “I am the princess of these waters. I am trained to observe nature by questioning what I see. What is observed is not all that exists.

He asked, “Are you truly a mermaid?”

She replied, “What does a mermaid mean to you?”

He said, “I see words as symbols with hidden meanings.”

She said,” So do I.”

And thus, they began their Word Game.

He said, “Mermaid begins with ‘Me’, which in English occurs when I, as a person, receives an action. The ‘Me’ were a decree from the Sumerian gods, that set foundational social laws and practices essential for civilization. The ‘Me’ is controlled by the Nous, which is what Anaxagoras, of the 5th BCE, said is the collective mind of all the past and present. The nous is the world soul, the animus mundi, the point that connects the sensual and spiritual and the ultimate state of intellect by melding conscious and unconscious to perceive and understand systems of control. The nous came from the anonymous song of the ancient Egyptian tribes to the god ‘Hu’, the power of the spoken word. I am a child of the god Hu, a Hu-man with the spirit of Nous that changes over time but maintains the meaning and intention of a worldview, that cannot be erased.”

She said, “That puts a spin on the questions, ‘who am I and who are we? I see that the word ‘mermaid,’ begins with the letter ‘M’, that is derived from the Semitic and Greek ‘Mem and ‘mu’. ‘M’ has come to represent mass, meters measured by the speed of light, slope and the number 1000, that the Church once said is the number of generations required for the perfection of life. ‘M’ is the symbol for water, the sacred element needed for life. Mer has come to mean sea.

He added, “Mer is the ancient Egyptian term for pyramid. A pyramid shape is formed by the light cone. A molecule of water forms a distorted tetrahedral pyramid.”

She said, “Greeks translate the suffix ‘mer’, as ‘part or portion.’ People create myths that they call reality, to understand the world, but reality is more than separate units of knowledge. Reality dissolves divisions between chemistry, physics, biology, arts, the language of myth and philosophy.”

He said, “Mermaid comes from Latin translations of ‘mereor’, meaning to be deserving of merit. Indo Europeans translate ‘mer’ as ‘to sparkle’. Your train of thought sparkles and is deserving of merit.”

Not distracted by flattery she continued. “Tiamat, the Mesopotamian primordial goddess of the sea, was a mermaid-like character who died when her son Marduk split her body in half, ‘like a dried fish’. Her story was the beginning of male patriarchal stories used in religion. In 3 BC, Berosus wrote Mesopotamian mythology describing Oannes, who appeared as a fish man who could live in the domains of air, water, and land. He taught mankind wisdom and reason Around 1BC, the mermaid goddess Atargatis of Syrian legends, became a fertility moon-goddess protectress in Syria. Later, the Greeks had male Poseidon, Neptune, Triton, the female Sirens, Nereids, and other sea creatures who held power over the water.”

He said, “Life formed from the divine mother, the sea. Mera originated from the Latin word ‘matrem’ meaning mother, and ‘merus’, meaning pure, unmixed, and undiluted.

She said, “The name Miriam, came from the roots ‘Mere’, which means bitterness, that is fueled by faith. Miriam was Moses’ older sister. Her name is associated with ‘mairim’, meaning to uplift with kindness and attending to the suffering of others, even by rebellion. Miriam was a prophet. She was also a midwife. She protected Moses when her mother placed him in a basket and was there when the Pharoah’s daughter adopted him. Because she challenged male authorities and refused to kill the infant boys, she was called Puah, meaning insolent.

" Miriam appeared to know how to follow the path of water. During the 40 years of Exodus, Miriam used a deep sieved rock in the soil, from which a well arose and supplied water. After crossing the Red Sea, Miriam led Hebrew women in song, drumming and dance. She was a well-loved leader, and the name Mary reflects her powers. However, myths describe her as being punished with leprosy because she questioned if God only spoke to Moses.”

He said, “History cannot easily disguise what is real about Her story. Throughout biblical history, the female has been subdued. Even the adjective ‘mere’ has a negative disapproving tone. However, Shakespeare used the word ‘meerley’ to mean ‘completely, pure and simple; nothing more or less.’

She said,” Pope Gregory 1, in the sixth century, interpreted that Mary Magdalene was Mary of Bethany, sister of Lazarus and Martha, was a sinner prostitute according to the Gospel of Luke and John, and Mark reports she had seven demons cast out. Mary replaced Eve as a wife, bride and companion and was condemned throughout history as a prostitute and the cause of trouble.

He said, “Following the customary practise of reflection, to guide actions, I have discovered Mary is considered the dove, and Holy Spirit. Myth says that Pope Gregory let the words of a dove speak between his lips. Mary is called Ecclesia, the church and the ‘neck of the church’ that turns the head. She is Mater ecclesia, the temple of God. The womb of Mary is said to be the heavens. Mary made the Word become flesh.”

She said, Mary Magdalene, likely a wealthy independent woman, came from the fishing town of Migda Nunayya, meaning the tower of fish. It is the home of one of the oldest synagogues. She received secret revelations and knowledge from Jesus through the unitive power found in the hieros gamos, the sacred marriage. They had a beatific communion, imparting bliss. Mary Magdalene was called the ‘apostle of apostles, the sent one’ by Tomas Aquinas. She was a Merea, a companion, advisor, councillor, and confidential friend.

He said, "The Merea were described in the Old Testament. It was written in the ancient dead Ethiopian language of Ge’ez. By Ge’ez dictionaries standards, there are four different meanings of Merea: to be wedded like a bride or groom, to support a person till they die, to behave adulterously or a gathering area."

She said, "The Merea are associated with doing mischief and causing trouble. The Merea are also often called Ilea, the plural form of the gut and the entrails ,found in the third portion of the small intestine between the jejunum and the caecum, that can cause pain.”

He said, “The Merea are needed to complete the digestive process and retrieve what is good. The Merea became Mary and Martha, the Myrrh bearing women. Myrrh, one of the gifts of the Magi to newborn Jesus, is an anointing oil, used to consecrate priests and kings and the dead. The schools of Aruyvedic medicine determine guggul, made from the mukal myrrh tree, has ancient medicinal healing properties.

She said, " You are informed. Healing practices of the Sushruta doctrines existed from 6th BCE. The Merea have dual characteristics. They inter- operate, with symmetrical chiral and inverse properties. Their effects are multiplied at scalable intervals through matter and spirit, mind and matter, body, and soul. The Merea move with the waves of death and birth, sadness, and joy, raw emotions and conditioning. They form relationships and become agents of change, by altering structures channeling along the path of least resistance.“

He said, “Myriam, means ‘a drop of the sea and Mary is called Stella Maris, translated as the star of the sea. Mary was the mother of the night sky, sometimes associated with Venus . Mary also relates to Mira, meaning ‘the wonder’. Mira is the pulsating giant red star whose light is variable in the constellation Cetus the sea monster.”

She said, “We are all what is known as merrow and mara man, kelpies, nix, and others, We all have our beginnings as mermaids and mermen, and live in the primal salt waters of the womb.

He said, “We are born of the seven daughters of Eve who became mothers such as the bodhisattva (Buddha to be), Tara of the seven eyes who is incarnated as the princess, Guanyin in China, Kuan-yin in Japan, the Indian goddess Chunti, and the sacred feminine known as Mary, Mami-wata, and others who guard the healing and restoring waters of life.

"Water is essential to life. It is a solvent that moderates environmental influences. Water has infinite crystalline points of contact that control proteins that form the condensed soft matter made of a mostly liquid gel state. It makes up our skin. Water controls the enzymes, that switch, depending on the low levels of pollutants or temperature in the environment. Iron in water can create hard matter. Water can affect the epigenetics and intestinal parasites that can cause a synergetic effect on hormones, not simply adding the effects but multiplying them. We know even the smallest change can have large consequences.

She said, “We are a species of Gudgeon, translated into a credulous, or easily fooled person in English. A Gudgeon, known as Gobies, is one of over 500 species of fish that regularly change gender in their life. Some start as male, others a female. Some can change gender once or change back and forth depending on age, size, social status, or even low levels of pollution.”

He said, "Our lives reflect the weight of the heart of the individual Me and the Nous. We seek to hold the lightness of hope, but hold the dark, heavy weight of karmic consequences from the past."

She said, “We follow a path through waves of water,air, sound, light and more. We are part of the particle and wave that can transform. We form the compelling song of the siren, that holds knowledge and mystical wisdom, that is appealing and alluring yet deceptive and dangerous, It is a cry for help and draws many to pursue what is possible, without knowing the future moral implications.”

He said, “We will follow our dreams, swimming deep under the water or standing on our own two legs as waves pull us."

She said, 'We are part of the transformation of life, in which thoughts are fluid, and dreams become reality."

Marie awoke. The dream had followed weeks of in vitro procedures.When she went to the clinic the sonograms revealed that there were two hearts within her womb. They were at the fourth week of development with gill slits and a tail. They breathed in the primal salt water They were the merfolk whose memories became solidly inscribed by the iron of the blood. The would grow and be transformed as they were directed along the path of least resistance to the future. When they were old enough, they would learn the siren song that shares wisdom of the cycle that connects the past to the future.