The Mythological Dictionary compiled by scholars such as M.H. Potevinik of the Soviet Union points out that the feminine image of half man and half bird originated from the two river basins. After being processed by the Greeks, it became more mature and plump. The siren image and the siren story spread widely in the Greek world, including the eastern Mediterranean coast, and spread to the whole of Europe through the spread of the Roman Empire, becoming the cultural content that European countries are still very familiar with. In the first half of the 6th century, the Byzantine historian Procby mentioned this allusion in the fifth volume of his History of War, The Battle of Goth. Pierre, a famous nominalist scholastic philosopher in medieval France? Abelard, expressing the support of Christian faith, said that even for the siren Sai Ren's singing, he was fearless. The story about the siren has changed a little because of different regions, and there are three famous stories. This legend is as smooth as a woman's body, and it has been delayed in the works of writers of past dynasties. For example, krylov's "Writers and Robbers" said: "Writers ... are as sweet as siren and as harmful to people as siren."
Sai Ren has a beautiful singing voice, which often seduces passers-by with songs, causing the ship to hit the rocks and sink. They are the daughters of the river god Ekerous, born from his blood. Because they lost the music competition with the Muse, the Muse plucked their wings, which made them unable to fly. The Muse wove a crown for himself with Sai Ren's beautiful wings as a symbol of victory. After losing her wings, Sai Ren had to swim near the coastline, and sometimes she turned into a mermaid, attracting passing sailors with her musical talent. The island where they live is near the Messina Strait, and another siren, Schula and Kalebudis, are also there. When Odysseus passed through the Messina Strait, he had already learned of Sai Ren's fatal temptation in advance, and ordered sailors to seal their ears with wax and tie themselves to the mast of the ship, so that they could survive safely. Orpheus, the son of Apollo, who was good at playing the harp, also successfully passed through the place where Sai Ren lived. He used his harp to suppress Sai Ren's singing. According to some other Greek legends, Sai Ren was Persephone's companion. Persephone was kidnapped by Hades, the ghost god, and was later saved by his mother. From then on, he spent six months on earth and six months in hell every year. Sai Ren was punished as an escort for the dead because he failed to stop Hades, the ghost god.
"What song is Sai Ren singing?" It has always been a more difficult question than the Sphinx's question, which does not mean that it is "false", but that it has no solution. British mystic writer Thomas? Sir Brown (165-1682) actually tried to answer this super "Tian Wen" in "urn burial" (a Chinese translation of Guangming Daily Publishing House in China). He said-
what song did Sai Ren sing?
What kind of name did Achilles take when he was hiding in the powder team?
although these questions are difficult to answer,
they are not absolutely impossible to guess.
in this regard, Irish essayist Robert? RobertLynd commented in "The Joy of Ignorance": "Undoubtedly, scientists have no reason to cry for the ignorance they missed so far. If they seem to know everything, it's only because you and I know almost nothing. There is always an ignorant wealth waiting for them under every fact they have unearthed. They will never be better than Thomas? Sir Brown knows more about what Sai Ren is singing to ulysses. "
Therefore, people who participated in this riddle game in the past dynasties always tried to come up with their own answers, such as Klaus? Mann described the singing as "a small voice that is like crying and as attractive as Sai Ren goblin" in "Mephistopheles's Ascension to the Official", but everyone knows that this paper-based inference can't get the experience of the first scene. Heine wrote a poem about the sea monster, Lorelei. He quietly moved Sai Ren and put Lorelei tights on Sai Ren, which seemed to further highlight the devil's temptation: "I don't know what the reason is/I am so sad/an ancient myth/an old haunt is tied to my heart/the Rhine River flows quietly/the twilight is dim, The breeze is cool/in the setting sun in the evening/the mountain peak is shining with glow/a stunning girl/magically sitting on the top of the mountain/she combs her hair/gold jewelry gives off golden light/she combs her hair with a gold comb/sends out a song at the same time/the tune is very wonderful/and very touching/the boatman/hook sitting in the boat causes infinite sadness/he doesn't look at the reef in front/he only looks up to the heights/I think that. This speculative description is full of adjectives of software, and the poet lacks the meaning of experience without intervening in the tug-of-war of temptation.
Although Kafka's genius opinion in The Silence of Sai Ren has greatly promoted this speculation, it seems that the abyss of silence has not been completely solved. But Kafka highlights a fatal detail: "All they want is to catch the joy reflected in Odysseus' big eyes for as long as possible." It is clear that Sai Ren is a stunner from the sea of desire. In fact, it is a mirror image of Odysseus's own lust reflected on the water. The lust is to drown out the rational resistance, not by using violence and coercion other than obsequiousness, but by using the means of aesthetic experience to achieve a delay and imagination of the physical body with vocalization. Therefore, I can conclude that the charm of this voice also contains rational and obedient power.
If "Hiriart" is a bloody battle song of heroes who have left their hometown, then "Odessa" is a mental journey for heroes to establish their personal home after losing utopia. Going home, returning to the woman you love, has become the value standard of Odysseus. He has lost a woman for ten years, and he has lost love. He's going back to the ladies' bed! At this time, the desire from his heart was gathered into three mermaids by Sai Ren, who swam in the dream thirstily. Sai Ren is both a narrative of the body and a departure from it.
Singing is perhaps the most restrained seduction technique, because it only touches and unfolds the limbs with sound. Spread out, the singer's muscles are soft, and in the process of opening up, he gradually turns to the lewd area. Singing makes the audience's muscles and tendons straight, the skin taut, and the nails sink into the meat. Singing swings between satisfaction and deficiency thirst, like a swinging swing. The soul is imprisoned in the body and the body is imprisoned in the melody. Spirit should come out of the womb like a baby, and spirit should come out by vomiting.
Sai Ren is inanimate, or they are the eversion of the spirit, which is put aside in the humblest place, but looks like a shameful part.
Odysseus' body is spread to the widest extent, so it becomes very thin, like a leaf in the wind. He is penetrated by sound, and the leaf is like a sieve. Strangely, the rational sunlight is projected from the hole, and the figure against the light becomes a great image that is held by iron, but it is only a shadow.
if you want to seduce others, you must first get carried away by yourself. He who turns all beings upside down is fascinated by all beings first.
this means that if I want to enter you, I have to open myself first. However, singing did not give any promise to the body.
Therefore, in English, siren gradually has the meanings of siren, siren, charming woman and goblin. I once sorted out the linguistic edges and variations of the first two in my humble work "The History of the Sound of Alarms", which was influenced by a passage by Adorno, a scholar of Frankfurt School. He pointed out that "in a society full of fascism in tight encirclement, it has become outdated to publicize what people need for social products, and the propaganda in the radio is to encourage people to use modern soap powder." "Radio broadcasting has become the leader's microphone; Loudspeakers in the street, constantly spread like banshee Sai Ren frightening propaganda leader's voice. National socialists themselves know that just as the printing press created reforms, radio broadcasting created their careers. "
There is always a price to pay for satisfying one's desires. Sai Ren promised a pleasant satisfaction to men by singing, and all those who heard the singing were bewitched by the singing, so they went to die. The premise of surviving is to refuse singing. People have to use the principle of self-mind to prevent the death impulse of the id that leads to extinction, but if the temptation is shut out, people will not be tempted. This is what Odysseus chose-to put an end to the possibility of temptation. Here, the logic of self-maintenance is shown as a logic of self-rejection: Odysseus rejects the possibility of physical temptation and maintains himself at the expense of blocking his own mind; Odysseus, in temptation, had to refuse the promise of happiness from the siren in another way-he made his body not free; Make your own will become incompetent to maintain your own life. However, Sai Ren has more significance, and we should look for it in essence. In the book Dialectics of Enlightenment, co-authored by Hoxheim and Adorno, they clearly wrote: "People's caution when Odysseus' ship passes by the siren is a prophetic fable of dialectics of enlightenment."
they point out that it is not the siren that leads people to extinction, but the impulse that leads people to death in the unconscious, which has been suppressed by people's self-consciousness in the unconscious, and the siren's song will awaken them. Perhaps people can use dialectical means to find the answer: by transcending themselves and their illiberal state, people can reach a higher level, where the temptation to die and the resistance to this temptation are "discarded"; In fact, people have also seen such a connection, as Hegel said: "But in fact, the spirit has freely completed this upward movement (to a higher consciousness). Having a clear understanding of one's own divisiveness and a clear understanding of the obvious division of consciousness is a mockery of the specific existence, the overall confusion (state) and oneself; At the same time, it is also an audible residual sound of this whole chaotic state that is disappearing. "
The history of life is just like the doomed channel that Odysseus entered: he let himself appear in front of nature as himself in order to rule nature, and as a result, he rejected himself as he rejected nature. "By rejecting the nature/nature in human beings, it is not only the ultimate goal of external natural rule that is confused and ignorant, but also the ultimate goal of one's own life. At the moment when people cut themselves off from their natural self-consciousness, all the goals-the goal of human survival-social progress, the expansion of all material and spiritual forces, and even the consciousness itself, have become nothing, and the introduction and use of means as the goal-which is characterized by obvious madness in the late capitalism-has already emerged in the subjective primitive history. "
According to the philosophy of life, Odysseus' choice is meaningless and negative, because self-affirmation is his self-rejection. As a result, the ego falls into a compulsory cycle of natural coherence-the ego has to adapt itself to this cycle to seek the possibility of getting rid of it. I really appreciate the "reverse writing" of "Sai Ren Roadblock": I feel sensitive and enter Sai Ren's trembling, sinking into the abyss of sound like iron, because it is an abyss of nothingness, so there is no loss or gain. However, this process of losing rationality and grasping the flesh is not the great will of rationality? This reminds me of the wisdom confirmed by the German anti-Nazi saint Bonhoeffer with his life: "Spiritual life does not escape death and get rid of destruction; On the contrary, it bears and is preserved in death. It can only realize its truth in complete destruction. "
Today, Sai Ren lives on the coast from Naples to salernitana. Not far from the coast of Poseidano, three bare reefs can be seen piercing out of the sea. At night, fishermen who drive the sea with searchlights dare to get close to it. They take risks to catch the best lobsters around three reefs, as well as other valuable marine fish that can fetch a lot of money at the table. Fishermen said that on the night of the full moon, they would hear misty songs coming from the three desolate reefs, and several careless companions were doomed. These three mysterious reefs, which are called "LiGalli" by local people, are not only the flesh of Sai Ren, but also the gentle hometown that everyone yearns for.
? What song did Sai Ren sing?
Excerpted from Notes on Extreme Animals: Volume of Animal Philosophy, and recommended by China Good Book List in July 215.
Oriental Publishing House, July 215.