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Wednesday 20 June 2007

Gordian Knot

The Gordian Knot is a legend associated with Alexander the Great. It is often used as a metaphor for an intractable problem, solved by a bold stroke ("cutting the Gordian knot").

According to a Phrygian tradition, an oracle at Telmissus, the ancient capital of Phrygia, decreed to the Phrygians, who found themselves temporarily without a legitimate king, that the next man to enter the city driving an ox-cart should become their king. Midas, a poor peasant, happened to drive into town with his father Gordias and his mother, riding on his father's ox-cart. Before Midas' birth, an eagle had once landed on that ox-cart, and this was explained as a sign from the gods. Midas was declared a king by the priests. In gratitude, he dedicated his father's ox-cart to the Phrygian god Sabazios, whom the Greeks identified with Zeus, and either tied it to a post or tied its shaft with an intricate knot of cornel (Cornus mas) bark. It was further prophesied by an oracle that the one to untie the knot would become the king of Asia (today's Asia Minor). (Wikipedia)


This was an inspired 'intuit' relating to current circumstances. Somehow the gordian knot is going to untie and its cryptic decipher cracked. There is a codename linked to all which appears to be going on. Behind the smoke and on trails other than those 'false -- something is developing. Quite smoothly and at the pace it is meant to develop. It exists 'within the part of the forest' where common mortals never frequent; where they are not permitted to observe. These events will occur anyway. Discovery will not come from pauper's quarters despite all the publicity; none of those watching eyes will discover. Still it remains ... 'a jewel will not be found until someone wishes it so' ... watchers are cunning; watchers have full control of the network. It is a well contrived situation.