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Lion Gohma, Semi-Resplendent

Added 2022-05-27 03:34:21 +0000 UTC

One of my favorite paintings is "Jupiter and Semele" by Gustave Moreau, depicting the legend in which the god's lover Semele asks to see his true form/divine splendor, and when he does the overpowering presence of this form kills her. Moreau depicts it quite magnificently filled with all manner of buildings, fruits and foliage, creatures, and rays of light and effects of weather appearing. It's like the imagination being unfurled all at once into physical space.

I imagine the gohma as having a similar quality, which I call Resplendence, in which all these different ideas and symbols held within the psyche of the gohma appear and transform physical space, or create a bridge between physical and mental space in which both are intermixed. In this image semi-resplendence is a form the gohma can take which creates dazzling and psychedelic effects, but is not quite as potentially dangerous or deadly as revealing the true form might be.