From: "toyin adepoju"
I wonder if I have sent you this
--- On Wed, 3/11/09, toyin adepoju
From: toyin adepoju
Subject: THE YONI AS PORTAL AND SYMBOL OF TRANSFORMATION
To: "wole soyinka society ws"
Date: Wednesday, March 11, 2009, 10:45 PM
The Yoni (Sanskrit for vagina ) is one of the most ancient and charged images in the iconographic history of humanity.The long human story, across time and space, of making and interpreting images, is illuminated by the light that shines from that wonderful place.The space that enables such stunning pleasure,the cave through which the possibility of life enters,the portal to the zone of its gestatation,the matrix of its emergence..
What would we do without this most wondrous possibility of being?Artists from pre-historic times to the present,from cave paintings to Gustav Courbet's "The Origin of the World", to Picasso's nubile nudes and Judy Chicago's "The Dinner Party"where the Pudenda embodies female figures from earliest myth to modern history,from Tibetan Buddhist Dakini's whose erotic presence is vital to spiritual enlightenment, to the Western esoteric art of Mark Dunn's Yoni Triangle of Art which enables travels between dimensions,empowering the immaterial to be given form in the material,from Asian Tantra to the erotic spirituality of Margo Anand,from ancient African-Yoruba thought,where the Great Mother,Iyan Nla,the Earth,whose vagina suffocates like dry yam in the throat,the roaring of mighty waters, to Luce Irigaray,whose doctoral thesis at the Sorbonne was structured as a vagina
all these celebrate the Yoni,the Pudenda,the Cunt,the Space of Life,the Cave of Pleasure,the Place of the Little Death,Obo (Yoruba),That which no one sees and remains unsmiling(Nigerian-Bini proverb),the darkness in which I wish to die and be reborn,the multiplier of pleasure that has led to the downfall of so many...
I salute you,O Mother,O lover,O Child,Ever Youthful and Yet Source of All that Is,I do homage to that which is heaven on earth,earth in heaven...
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