I have grown up with stories and fabulous and romantic tales. I inadvertently learnt about cosmic puzzles through them. As I grow older I have sought more meaning from the stories and in particular the Rubiyat. This is a journey through the words of the poet Omar to some of these puzzles. I have explained the concepts with the words of the stanzas to simplify the metaphysical links. The Rubiyat is a set of instructions for me as a person to “wake up”. The information I have added is based on the references within the poems in the English translations of the RUBIAYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM by EDWARD FITZGERALD1959. I received the Rubiyat as a present on my 21st Birthday with all five translations from a friend Edna Williams. Fitzgerald only translated a handful of the poems. There are between 800 and 2000 poems attributed to the poet under the title of the Rubiyat. There is controversy about which are written by Omar and those that may be written by students or scholars. The number of stanzas varies considerably for those attributed directly to the poet Omar. I have spent half a lifetime reading and looking for meaning beyond the meter and rhyme of these stanzas. I came to realize that even though the translations are poetic there are key figures and artifacts that have aroused my curiosity. On delving into their meanings I have found another world which spans centuries of doctrine and religion. There are secret rites and ceremonies mentioned here that could never be coincidence. It was harder in the beginning to do my research but it is so much easier now with the internet. Western society tends to ignore the incredible written histories of Iran and Persia. The oldest living religion of the world that I know of is the Zoroaster religion of Orah Mazda which is still practiced today in India. The wealth of myth and legend that we so take for granted has many of their origins in these historical sources. This book of mine is purely personal but I do think it relevant to people wanting to start a spiritual journey. If you have curiosity regarding some of the people and places mentioned in the poems as I did, like Jamshyd’s seven ringed cup, then it is my hope that this brings the same excitement I felt when I joined the dots. I have also changed the format that the stanzas are normally presented to the public by grouping the different concepts together which make more sense to me. This gives the work more continuity of ideas and a beginning and an end.
Posted on: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 07:57:15 +0000
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