Turtle was gone a long time / John Moriarty.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moriarty, John, 1938-2007.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Symbolism.

Signs and symbols.

Physical Description:

3 volumes : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Dublin : Lilliput Press, 1996-

Summary:

The outcome of a life's meditation, an ambitious, Dantesque, shamanic journey -- a Columbus voyage across Hindu, Buddhist, and Christian waters

"Rifling the philosophies and mysticisms of East and West for his idiosyncratic vocabulary, Moriarty confabulates a Christianity that has sprung from its Old Testament bindings and opened its pages to the visions of the shaman and the silences of Buddha....He has gone farther down the backstairs to hell and up the front to heaven than most of us will ever dare to follow". -- Tim Robinson, The Irish Independent

This remarkable book describes a mystical quest or journey, from form to void and back, an attempt to come ashore upon the earth in its perennial first morning. The "turtle" of the title derives from the diver myth of Siberia and North America, especially the Maidu Indians of California. Moriarty offers a series of texts describing one individual's spiritual initiations and transformation, self-encounters, and purifications.

Crossing the Kedron is only the first in a series of three volumes by Moriarty (The Horse-head Nebula Neighing and Anacanda Canoe to follow), no less than an odyssey to the earth in which each reader is invited to plumb his own depths, and to emerge sacrilized and renewed. Born in Kerry, Moriarty taught English for a number of years at the University of Manitoba, before returning to Ireland, where he has worked for twenty years as a gardener.

Contents:

v. 1. Crossing the Kedron.

v.2. Horsehead Nebula neighing.

v.3. Anaconda Canoe.

ISBN:

1874675635

OCLC:

35136126