Ocean and Forest

THE "FOREST EMERGING FROM THE OCEAN"

"What we can say here is that the 'mythic architecture' of forest and ocean interpenetrate in this 'Flood' myth of the Ancient Hellenes. The infinite forest of standing beings emerge not merely from below the earth, as the epithet hypostyle suggests, but from the very infinitude of the okeanos itself. The 'forest' is both 'buried', or 'seeded', in the land and in the sea from which the land arose."

Historically, the land emerged from the sea and the forest is the climax vegetation of the land, so the 'mythic' sequence is a real one.

SCRIPTING SPACE: "The Empire of the Forest".