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The calendar "starts" just after the Winter Solstice which is the beginning of the SolSeed symbolic year. But the year is a cycle and the stories form an unbroken cycle. Characters will "remember" stories that happened later in the year because perhaps they happened in an earlier year. You may need to read round the cycle of the book a few times in order for everything to come together into a sensible whole. But also, each story more or less, stands on its own and can be read independently of the book. | The calendar "starts" just after the Winter Solstice which is the beginning of the SolSeed symbolic year. But the year is a cycle and the stories form an unbroken cycle. Characters will "remember" stories that happened later in the year because perhaps they happened in an earlier year. You may need to read round the cycle of the book a few times in order for everything to come together into a sensible whole. But also, each story more or less, stands on its own and can be read independently of the book. | ||
| - | ==[[Genesis]] | + | ==[[Genesis]]== |
===Week One: Contemplation on the Shape of Space-Time=== | ===Week One: Contemplation on the Shape of Space-Time=== | ||
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*December 29th : [[Space-Time-Matter-Energy]] | *December 29th : [[Space-Time-Matter-Energy]] | ||
| - | ===Week Two: | + | ===Week Two: Explorations of Space-Time === |
| + | *December 30th : [[The Arrow of Time]] | ||
| - | * | + | === Week Three: Contemplations on Galaxies and Stars=== |
| - | *January | + | *January 6th : [[Galaxies Coalesce]] |
| - | *January | + | *January 9th : [[Stars Fill the Sky]] |
| + | *January 10th : [[Gaia and the Stellar Lottery]] | ||
| - | ===Week | + | ===Week Four: Contemplations on Sol === |
| - | *January | + | *January 17th: [[Sol Formed Like a Broken Cup Jumping Together]] |
| - | *January | + | *January 18th: [[Gaia and Helium | Sol's Villain]] |
| - | ===Week | + | ===Week Five: Contemplations on the Earth=== |
| - | *January | + | *January 20th: [[Terra, Our First Home]] |
| - | *January | + | *January 21st: [[Terra Talks About Place]] |
| - | ===Week | + | ===Week Six: Contemplations on Water=== |
| - | *January | + | *January 27th: [[Subatomic Structure Makes Life Inevitable]] |
| - | ===Week | + | ===Week Seven: Contemplations on Air=== |
==[[Conflatorium]]== | ==[[Conflatorium]]== | ||
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===Week Five: Secretion of Carbonates === | ===Week Five: Secretion of Carbonates === | ||
| + | *March 7th: [[Pisces and the Tooth Race]] | ||
===Week Six: MultiOrganism Structures === | ===Week Six: MultiOrganism Structures === | ||
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*March 22nd : [[Gaia on the Beach]] | *March 22nd : [[Gaia on the Beach]] | ||
*March 23rd : [[Gaia and the First Plant]] | *March 23rd : [[Gaia and the First Plant]] | ||
| + | *March 24th : [[Dimiourgós and the Optional Respiration]] | ||
| + | *March 25th : [[Dimiourgós and the Hot Pregnancy]] | ||
| + | *March 26th : [[Dimiourgós Asks the Right Question]] | ||
| - | ===Week Two: | + | ===Week Two: Lifting Water=== |
*March 29th : [[Gaia and the Mycorrhizal Pipeline]] | *March 29th : [[Gaia and the Mycorrhizal Pipeline]] | ||
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| + | === Week Three: Finding Our Roots=== | ||
| + | *April 5th : [[Gaia Massages Terra for Minerals]] | ||
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| + | === Week Four: Wood: the Organic Building Material === | ||
| + | *April 12th: [[The Positive Sum Game]] | ||
==[[Diversitas]]== | ==[[Diversitas]]== | ||
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* May 15th: [[Gaia and the Adjacent Possible]] | * May 15th: [[Gaia and the Adjacent Possible]] | ||
* May 16th: [[The Many Gaia's Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics]] | * May 16th: [[The Many Gaia's Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics]] | ||
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| + | === Week Three: Legs to Explore Dry Land === | ||
| + | * May 21st: [[Gaia And the Stampeding Space-bound Elephants]] | ||
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| + | === Week Four: Air Breathing Eggs === | ||
| + | * May 28th: [[Amniota's Narrow Tunnel To Dry Land]] | ||
=== Week Six: Gaia through the ages === | === Week Six: Gaia through the ages === | ||
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*June 26th: [[Sophia and the Ruby Fish]] | *June 26th: [[Sophia and the Ruby Fish]] | ||
*June 27th: [[A Martini of Mixed Mental Metaphors]] | *June 27th: [[A Martini of Mixed Mental Metaphors]] | ||
| + | *June 28th: [[A Demon Named Narcissus]] | ||
===Week Two: The Advantages of Homeothermy=== | ===Week Two: The Advantages of Homeothermy=== | ||
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*July 14th: [[A Prayer for Yahweh]] | *July 14th: [[A Prayer for Yahweh]] | ||
*July 15th: [[A Prayer for Ruach]] | *July 15th: [[A Prayer for Ruach]] | ||
| + | *July 18th: [[Sophia and the Lord's Prayer]] | ||
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| + | ===Week Five: Sophia and Mathematics === | ||
| + | *July 21st: [[Sophia and the Spherical Tunnel]] | ||
==[[Civis]]== | ==[[Civis]]== | ||
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* September 4th: [[Sophia and the Dimensions of Human Thought]] | * September 4th: [[Sophia and the Dimensions of Human Thought]] | ||
| - | === Week Six: | + | === Week Six: Practice === |
| - | + | * September 12th: [[Three Personifications Walk into a Bar]] | |
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==[[Repartum]]== | ==[[Repartum]]== | ||
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* October 1st: [[Kiv Meets Neptune]] | * October 1st: [[Kiv Meets Neptune]] | ||
* October 2nd: [[Gaia and the Steppingstones]] | * October 2nd: [[Gaia and the Steppingstones]] | ||
| + | * October 3rd: [[Gaia and the Hospital for Inanimate Celestial Bodies]] | ||
=== Week Six: SolSeed Through the Future === | === Week Six: SolSeed Through the Future === | ||
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A Book of Days for Gaia's People
Introduction
Metaphorium is a meta-metaphor. It is a metaphor for metaphor itself. The stories of the Metaphoriuminomicon are metaphorical fables. The characters are personifications (metaphors in the form of persons), the settings are often metaphors, the plots are metaphors. The reader is asked to suspend disbelief but never to believe. The ideas presented are speculative but science-based. I have strived to be scientifically accurate in the underlying concepts which the metaphors describe but metaphor necessarily clouds the boundary between fact and fiction. The purpose of the stories to help you develop personal relationships with abstract concepts, or at least, the personifications of abstract concepts. You may care more about Earth's biosphere if you have a personal relationship with a fictional Gaia. You may care more about the fate of the universe if you have a personal relationship with Thea Me Plokamia.
The book is organized as A Book of Days. It is a book which lists a different version of the same activity for each day. This creates both variety and sameness of practice in your life which brings you a deeper connection and stronger practice to your religious experience. This Book of Days draws upon the SolSeed symbolic year and the SolSeed practice of daily contemplation to give a practitioner a deeper understanding of the SolSeed religion. Feel free to use this book for whatever period you find useful, pick a day here and there to follow or follow it for multiple years. Each day will include one or more quotes from texts that SolSeed members have found meaningful and then a metaphorical story.
The calendar "starts" just after the Winter Solstice which is the beginning of the SolSeed symbolic year. But the year is a cycle and the stories form an unbroken cycle. Characters will "remember" stories that happened later in the year because perhaps they happened in an earlier year. You may need to read round the cycle of the book a few times in order for everything to come together into a sensible whole. But also, each story more or less, stands on its own and can be read independently of the book.
Genesis
Week One: Contemplation on the Shape of Space-Time
- December 23rd : The Beginning of Time
- December 24th : The Fourth Dimension
- December 25th : The Flow of Time
- December 26th : Patterns Not Atoms
- December 27th : Circular LineLand
- December 28th : Curved Space
- December 29th : Space-Time-Matter-Energy
Week Two: Explorations of Space-Time
- December 30th : The Arrow of Time
Week Three: Contemplations on Galaxies and Stars
- January 6th : Galaxies Coalesce
- January 9th : Stars Fill the Sky
- January 10th : Gaia and the Stellar Lottery
Week Four: Contemplations on Sol
- January 17th: Sol Formed Like a Broken Cup Jumping Together
- January 18th: Sol's Villain
Week Five: Contemplations on the Earth
- January 20th: Terra, Our First Home
- January 21st: Terra Talks About Place
Week Six: Contemplations on Water
- January 27th: Subatomic Structure Makes Life Inevitable
Week Seven: Contemplations on Air
Conflatorium
Week One: Snowball Earth
- February 7th : Gaia and the Frozen Girl
- February 8th : Gaia and Terra Argue About Ice
Week Two: The Origin of Multicellularity
- February 14th : Gaia and the Protozoan Alliance
- February 15th : Young Gaia Theory
Week Three: Multicellular Organization
- February 21st : Sophia Explores Symmetry
Week Four: Macroscopic Sense Organs
- February 28th : Sensing Nothing
Week Five: Secretion of Carbonates
- March 7th: Pisces and the Tooth Race
Week Six: MultiOrganism Structures
- March 14th: Gaia and the First Forest
Viriditas de Terra
Week One: Plants and Sunlight
- March 22nd : Gaia on the Beach
- March 23rd : Gaia and the First Plant
- March 24th : Dimiourgós and the Optional Respiration
- March 25th : Dimiourgós and the Hot Pregnancy
- March 26th : Dimiourgós Asks the Right Question
Week Two: Lifting Water
- March 29th : Gaia and the Mycorrhizal Pipeline
Week Three: Finding Our Roots
- April 5th : Gaia Massages Terra for Minerals
Week Four: Wood: the Organic Building Material
- April 12th: The Positive Sum Game
Diversitas
Week One: Life is Precious
- May 7th: Gaia and the Temporal Telescopes
Week Two: The Mechanisms of Diversity
- May 14th: Gaia the Chemist
- May 15th: Gaia and the Adjacent Possible
- May 16th: The Many Gaia's Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
Week Three: Legs to Explore Dry Land
Week Four: Air Breathing Eggs
- May 28th: Amniota's Narrow Tunnel To Dry Land
Week Six: Gaia through the ages
- June 16th: The Upward Spiral As A Tree
Sophos
Week One: Understanding The Mind
- June 23rd: Gaia and Grief
- June 24th: Sophia and the Two Value Instability
- June 25th: Jesus and the Submersible Tesla
- June 26th: Sophia and the Ruby Fish
- June 27th: A Martini of Mixed Mental Metaphors
- June 28th: A Demon Named Narcissus
Week Two: The Advantages of Homeothermy
- June 30th: Mammalia and the Gazette
Week Three: Sophia and the Gods of the Bible
- July 7th: Sophia and Yahweh
- July 8th: Sophia and the Holy Spirit
- July 9th: Sophia and Jesus
- July 10th: Sophia and El
- July 11th: Sophia, Angels and Demons
- July 12th: Sophia and Abraham's Legacy
Week Four: Prayers for the Gods of the Bible
- July 14th: A Prayer for Yahweh
- July 15th: A Prayer for Ruach
- July 18th: Sophia and the Lord's Prayer
Week Five: Sophia and Mathematics
- July 21st: Sophia and the Spherical Tunnel
Civis
Week One: Gaia's guidance in our Lives
- August 7th: Gaia as the Whale
- August 8th: Gaia as the Furthest Lichen
- August 9th: Gaia holds you in the Palm of Her Hand
- August 10th: Gaia demands a contribution
Week Two: Gaia and the Contributor Story
- August 14th: Gaia sits with Jesus
- August 15th: Gaia Eats Her Parts
- August 16th: Sophia and the Cattle Auction
- August 17th: Jesus the Wheel Thief
Week Three: Gaia and Community
- August 21st: Gaia Attends Her Own Painting
- August 22nd: Civis and Anne
Week Four: Gaia and Peace
- August 28th: Gaia Calls us to Parlay
- August 29th: Gaia and Saul
Week Five: Goddesses and Human Endeavor
- September 4th: Sophia and the Dimensions of Human Thought
Week Six: Practice
- September 12th: Three Personifications Walk into a Bar
Repartum
Week One: Gaia and evolution
- September 23rd: Suspension of Skyfall
- September 24th: Gaia and the Frozen World
- September 25th: Gaia and the Cuttlefish
Week Two: Goddesses and Planets
- September 30th: Ares Demands a Contribution
- October 1st: Kiv Meets Neptune
- October 2nd: Gaia and the Steppingstones
- October 3rd: Gaia and the Hospital for Inanimate Celestial Bodies
Week Six: SolSeed Through the Future
- October 24th: A Fly's Eye View
- October 25th: Gaia Attends Service
Viventibus Galaxia
Week One: Gaia in the far future
- November 6th: Gaia as a Robot
- November 7th: Gaia and the AI Zoo
Week Two: The Nature and Purpose of Life
- November 14th: Gaia Yearns For the Pretty Lights
- November 15th: Gaia shapes God
Week Three: LifeSeed
- November 21st: Gaia's Funeral
- November 22nd: Gaia and the Biospheric Imperialist Tavern
- November 23rd: Gaia and the Thin Place
- November 24th: Jesus, Stochasm and the Adjacent Possible
Week Four: Thea Me Plokamia and the Fate of the Universe
- November 28th: Thea Me Plokamia and the Dark Energy Storm
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