Day 75 Wed Sept 25 Zoe’s Morning Pages
THE ORIGIN OF
WOO WOO
Oops
and hello and did I stick my paw in my snout or what yesterday. Hey people
listen what I was tryin to say was that them blue blue eyes use to have a bad
association for them greeks and they grew a whole pile a superstitions around
them. But like I said them days is over! Mischa says greeks invented woo-woo.
And I said “woo-woo?” scratchin just about every part I could reach searchin
for meanin...”can you elaborate on that term please?”
She
goes on to explain it like we was in some big academy and I was signed up to be
her disciple!
She
sits down all cross-legged like they do in the ashram, and gets me a little
pillow to plunk down on, then she begins her dissertation. I’m thinkin hey... a
simple definition of terms would be sufficient...but no, the great elaborator
has been summoned and their ain’t no slowin down that train. Cheez pizza what
can a worms did I let loose!
“Zoe,
in the beginning there were energies of every nature swirling around in the
atmosphere. Both good and evil, you see. Always was like this! Now some
organisms gravitated to the good and others to the evil.
When
humans, and fyi dogs too, came along they were no exception. So as time passed
and the great greek civilization began to emerge, the question of these forces
became of prime importance to the philosophers. Because before the greeks,
philosophers were few and far between. There had been no organization of
thinkers. But with the Helens came a pulling together of minds, and the great
gift of philosophy was handed to the world. Socrates Democrites Antisthenes
Isocrates Xenophones Plato Diogenes, and of course Aristotle the walking and
talking, wandering philosopher on ethics, aesthetics, logic, science, politics
and metaphysics!
And
beside these men there were plenty of brilliant women too, but somehow they got
left out of the history books.
That’s a whole other story.
So
anyways, in the long and rich chronicle of the culture much of the foundation of
woo woo was laid down. And it is upon this foundation that modern day woo woos
have built their own philosophies of life, complete with magical powers and
mystical ruminations.
“Mischa”
I pleaded “can you get to the examples of woo woo thinking, I sorta got an
agenda for the day and this is throwin off my schedule!” So she goes on to give
me the top ten list and it was eye openin!
1. If you should be in any way in danger
of gettin the evil eye ya got to quick spit three times, on your own self and
say ‘skordtho!’ real emphatic like, (that means ‘garlic’) and further if you
know the person who you is with at the time you are wardin off the evil eye, ya
got to ask them to spit on you three times too!
Egad
people?
2.
Steer clear a crows, they’s bad news harbingers
3.
Keep some bat bones in your pocket for good luck
4.
Whatever you do don’t keep any bat bones anywhere near you or your first born
5.
Never leave any bread uneaten, especially if your yiayia made it
6.
Always plant a cactus in an old feta container and put it at the front door,
pokes them evil eyes out, should they come hauntin your doorstep
7.
If you got company you’d like to get rid a, sprinkle salt behind their back
8.
Keep salt with ya at all times, just in case
9.
Never leave your wallet empty, cause money attracts money. You can bless
peoples new cars by throwin coins in the back seat, works every time! Or if you
don’t have a car, put the coins in the donkey’s saddlebag.
10.
If ya want your mother in law to like you, eat the corner off the bread
Then
she thought of one more I should know so added
#11.
And for in-general safe keepin make yerself a filhata, a triangular shaped
sachet, fill it with miscellaneous items of your choice but make sure one is
blessed by someone, and then pin the thing to your shirt. If you’re a dog and
don’t have a shirt, a collar will do.
And
that there is the roots of woo woo in the western democratized societies! Or so Mischa says...
I
got to go. My garlic stock is runnin low. Later
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