Dragons and Fairies: The Legend of the Hundred Việts

Dragons and Fairies: The Legend of the Hundred Việts

The following is a myth that chronicles the origin of the Vietnamese people.  It has been passed down from generations to generations, long preceding even the thousand years of Chinese occupation.  It is a cornerstone of Vietnamese culture, a foundation that has safeguarded the identity of the Vietnamese for many thousands of years.

This is a mythical tale, filled with magic and wonder, and should not be taken literally.  It is meant to paint a picture in your mind, giving you something to think about.  After this reading, you will understand why the Vietnamese people refer to themselves as the seeds of Dragons and the descendants of Fairies.  It’s also kind of a love story, if you’re into that sorta thing?

But then all myths can have a source either in imagination or an actual experience just as today's story writers do. 

Happy Reading!

The Legend of Lạc Long Quân

Legend speaks of a man named Kinh Dương Vương (aka King Kinh Dương), a mythical figure that descended from a long line of dragons.  Long Nu, a female descendent of another dragon clan, was married to Kinh Dương Vương and gave birth to a boy named Lạc Long Quân.  As an immortal with the dragon lineage, Lạc Long Quân would be known as the Dragon Prince in Vietnamese history. As Lạc Long Quân matures, he meets a beautiful woman by the name of Âu Cơ, and falls deeply in love with her.

The story of their first meeting happens when the Dragon Prince notices a demonic bird chasing after a defenseless white crane.  Lạc Long Quân rushes to the crane’s defense, smashing the demon bird with a rock.  The demonic bird was so furious that it morphed itself into a tiger and bitterly tried to maul the Dragon Prince.  As a result, the Prince found himself tangled in a violent struggle against an adversary he did not know.

Lạc Long Quân prevails in the end, killing the demon and succeeding in his protection of the vulnerable white crane.  As the Dragon Prince would find out, things are not always as they seem.  The white crane was actually the beautiful Âu Cơ in disguise, trying to get away from the predatory abomination that was pursuing her.  Lạc Long Quân was pleasantly surprised to find this out and the two quickly become close.

Âu Cơ was an angelic beauty, a descendent of the fairies, and an immortal like Lạc Long Quân himself.  Together, the two would form a family, becoming the parents of one hundred sons.  With his wife Âu Cơ, Lạc Long Quân would preside over the mountains and rivers of the land.  Their children would carry the blood of the dragons and the charm of the fairies.

Sadly, as time went on, Âu Cơ starts to long for her home in the sky, while Lạc Long Quân begins to miss his life at sea.  As a result, the two lovers would separate.  Princess Âu Cơ would take fifty of the children and depart to the mountains, Lạc Long Quân in-turn would bring the other fifty sons to the coastal regions close to the seas.  These children, the seeds of the dragon clans, the descendants of the fairies, will inhabit the mountains and rivers of the south, becoming the originators of the Vietnamese people.


This entry was posted on January 3, 2011 at 3:06 pm and is filed under Ancient History, Literature with tags Vietnamese Folklore, Vietnamese Legends, Vietnamese Myths

Fairies With the Moth Like Wings

Fairies With the Moth Like Wings

A little girl in a bright yellow dress,

lay in the grass by the forests edge

Mesmerized was she, by the beauty the many shades of green,

with the golden sun dappled edges of the leaves,

set a flutter in the light afternoon breeze.

Many colored butterflies catch her eyes,

as they fluttered among the colorful flowers.

there by the forests edge.   

She lay her head upon her arm in the grass, 

staring into the depths of the forest 

and there! she sees them.

The tiny spirit dwellers of the forest. 

All is silence, all is peaceful 

as she lay upon the grass smiling,

The tiny fairies dance and sing,

As the tall trees sparkle and glitter

in peace their vigil keep, 

as the Fairies weave a dream,

for the child that lay upon the grass,

and dreamed of fairies with moth wings folded.

Gaily they dance around the child,

whilst a fairy sat upon a branch,

and softly played her flute,

a sweet melody for the drowsy child,

who now lay asleep upon the magical forest floor,

twas a melody she hears from a time long ago.

The child awakens in a season that is of long ago, 

It was a time where you might like to know. 

There are fairies everywhere, in the trees,

and in the air. Playing games just like I play, 

singing cheerily through their busy day. 

I Intensely listen, touch, look around.

I breath in deeply the fragrant air.

So I tell you now, if you watch carefully,

out of all of nature's things, 

you might just see a fairy, 

as she unfurl her moth like wings,

to take flight back to a time gone by.  

Cynthia ©

Balance in Life’s Journey

Balance in Life’s Journey

In my life’s journey my soul was seeking a balance through my connection with the world around me, just as my ego (the true self) was seeking a balance through proof of love. When they work together, I am in balance, at zero polarity.  But when the soul or consciousness and ego start to pull in opposite directions selfishness sets in. 

I am quite aware that the material world is like an illusion created from my own thoughts and beliefs. If I could use the ego's creative power combined with the knowledge and wisdom from consciousness I could create a balance along with wisdom, love, peace and joy.

The ego is infinitely creative and it is constantly manifesting the illusion I live in known to most as reality. Wherever I see limitation and lack my consciousness reminds me that I am out of balance with the inner self and ego. I have two choices: To reach out to the illusion and try to "fix" it; or to look to the source of the imbalance (me) and make necessary adjustments. Too often I had become fixated on the illusion, my outer reality, and had to work harder to balance it. But this at times may add fuel to the fire, so to speak, and enhances the imbalance if I am not listening to the inner voice.The lesson for me was this -- if am not balanced from within I will not have a balance in outer world.

Adjusting my inner imbalance is actually less complicated and takes less effort than it does to balance the ego, which prefers to use its creative energy in an endless flow of manifesting an imbalance through selfish aspirations. But giving-in to it will only create more imbalance. The soul waits patiently for the ego to stop its endless creation so they can work together in a more effective way, from the inner to the outer. With each step on my path I am faced with this fork in the road. Am I going to create from the ego or work in partnership with the soul - consciousness?

The ego goes into creative overdrive and I am out of balance.  I think I am doing all the work and the Universe is not helping me. The Universe does not create, it responds. It cannot create balance for me when I am not in balance from within. This is where my ascension into the spiritual part of me, where my humanity begins to take on new meaning, is when I finally come to this realization, when I allow for my consciousness to be heard over the constant chatter of the ego or the mind. Then I can balance the illusion from within, allowing ego and consciousness to work together, so the illusion is in such perfect balance that there is no separation between the life I dream of and the life I have.    

And this is as close to heaven

on earth as I can get in this reality. It’s called peace of mind.


Cynthia ©

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This is where to come to meet and ask and discuss how you would to set up the groups here to reflect your blogs. You can have as many groups as you have blogs, one group for each blog. This facility can serve as a handy  communications center between bloggers. You can go straight to the blogger you want to read and interact with instead of having to sort through 100 or more mails to find that one particular blogger you may be looking for. You may start other discussions here, as many as you need.  There is no limit to discussions.

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Trauma - read the blog if you haven't yet please!

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Archimedes' Secret - BBC Documentary

Published on Jul 25, 2013

This is the story of a book that could have changed the history of the World. To the untrained eye, it is nothing more than a small and unassuming Byzantine prayer book, yet it sold at Christies for over $2m. For faintly visible beneath the prayers on its pages are other, unique, writings - words that have been lost for nearly two thousand years.

The text is the only record of work by one of the world's greatest minds - the ancient Greek, Archimedes - a mathematical genius centuries ahead of his time. Hidden for a millennium in a middle eastern library, it has been written over, broken up, painted on, cut up and re-glued. But in the nick of time scientists have saved the precious, fragile document, and for the first time it is revealing just how revolutionary Archimedes' ideas were. If it had been available to scholars during the Renaissance, we might have reached the Moon over a hundred years ago.

The trail begins in the tenth century, when a scribe made a unique copy of the most important mathematics that Archimedes ever developed. For 200 years the document survived, but the mathematics in it was so complex that no one paid it any attention. So when one day a monk was looking for some new parchment - an expensive commodity at the time - to write a new prayer book, the answer seemed obvious. He used the Archimedes manuscript. He washed the Greek text off the pages, cut them in half, rebound them, and turned the Archimedes manuscript into an everyday prayer book. As he piously wrote out his prayers, he had no idea of the genius he was obliterating.

Several hundred years later, the Renaissance was under way. Scientists were beginning to grapple with new concepts, working out how mathematics could be used to explain the World around them. Little did they know that many of the problems they were just encountering Archimedes had already solved more than a thousand years before. So, tragically, they had to do that research all over again, setting back the development of science and technology immeasurably.

Then in 1906, in Constantinople, the document mysteriously turned up in a monastic library. An opportunistic scholar called Johan Ludwig Heiberg identified the text as Archimedes' writings. Although the Greek text was very faint, Heiberg was able to decipher some of it. What he found astonished him, and made the front page of the New York Times. He revealed that Archimedes' manuscript contained something called 'The Method', which showed not only Archimedes' final proofs, but for the first time revealed the process of how he went about making his discoveries

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Releasing The Noise

Releasing The Noise

It is easy to perceive or feel that life should be a different way. It is one facet of the grand paradox of Life. All is Well in this moment, yet all is changing in this moment. If all is well, why is there change? In these moments of paradox, you find new space. When there is no definitive answer or direction, there is the void of potential.

Here you release your definitions and you find your dispersed, subtle nature that has not one answer, but multiple perspectives of Truth. It is the way of Truth, it changes with you. Within paradox, your truth expands; first undefined, then refined, then released again for the next wave of expansion. This expansion is a result of you releasing your preconceived notions and definitions, opening your heart and mind and finding your new, expanded Self in the quiet moment of paradox. The noise is the internal and external chatter that tries to define or hold stagnant the inevitable expansion.

To release the noise, you find the Self within the collective symphony of Life. The two are not separate, and yet you are in a separate body having unique feelings, thoughts and experiences. You are the instrument of Life and you are capable of utilizing the power of your heart and mind to release that which disturbs your empowered quiet. There is no disturbance that is more powerful than you, even if it has domain for a moment.

You are capable of finding your path to empowerment, be it focus on the breath, a walk in nature or interaction with a loved one. There are innumerable ways to connect with the self, and even at times to disconnect with the chatter around you. There is yet another paradox. How do you connect and disconnect at the same time? No matter what the noise, there is quiet underneath. As you seek it, like the treasure hunt that it is, your new Truth is revealed in the silence of discovery.

As we sit to Blast Releasing the Noise, we are going within to reach the outer expanse, universal in our pursuit of happiness. We remember the One and the many are Truth, occupying the same space. We are letting go and reaching in, for the Truth is out there within. We are opposite and same, depending on the perspective, for All Truth is as relative as we are. Blast on!

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