Thursday 12 March 2009

THE SOURCE OF BEING:THE KUNTUNKANTAN SYMBOL OF THE AKAN AND GYAMAN ADINKRA IN THE LIGHT OF THE UPANISHADS

He situates himself at the centre of Kuntunkantan, at the source of the possibilities of existence, from where issued the creative word at the birth of the dawning universe .
The Adinkrahen establishes himself at that confluence where all forms in existence are bound by Something that unites them all, something not visible to the sleeping mind.

At the centre of Kuntunkantan, she becomes that which is composed of this earth, the honey of all beings; all beings the honey of this earth. The bright eternal Self that is in earth, the bright, eternal Self that lives in her body, are one and the same. That is immortality, that is Spirit, that is all.
She becomes the water that is the honey of all beings; all beings the honey of water. The bright eternal Self that is in water, the bright eternal Self that lives in the human womb and seed, are one and the same. That is immortality, that is Spirit, that is all .

At the centre of Kuntunkantan, the Adinkrahen become fire that makes transformations from one state to another possible, from matter to energy, from the first nothingness to everything, the primal explosion through which the universe was created, the rings of the great dance of circles the radiations of sound racing outward from the core of the terrible cataclysm, the forms that were crushed out of the chaos emerging as star clusters, as planetary systems, as the variety of the cosmos.

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