ivanananan/mythology

"The secret has a relationship with silence. Together they are like prospective lovers who have not yet admitted the enormity of their attraction to each other and so can act only on the simultaneous fascination and distrust that torments them, pulling on them with unruly desire. The secret is proud of its independence, yet longs for some excuse to ravish the silence. Silence presses ever closer and more invasively against the secret, pretending that is merely its nature, even while daring the secret to reach out and caress it. Each pretends to ignore what it is constantly, achingly aware of: the presence of the other. Both hope and fear that eventually they will come together, and they know that if that happens they will create something that has never existed before. No longer will they be secret and silent. Their old forms will cease to exist and something else will spring forth in their places.
The mythic secret is actually transmitted twice: first from the originator to the secret-holder, next from the secret holder to the world at large. Between these two events, the keeper of the secret is potent with that particular seed pod of knowledge. He is the channel between potential and actual, breath and body, non-being and being, the idea and the manifestation of the idea. The secret bearer is both fertile with wisdom and sterile with the inability to use it. She can do everything and may do nothing."