You know what it is like to be challenged by an idea. Well, this morning, I had to deal with the uncertainty of many ideas. It is more than obvious that facts come in different shadings. I had a list of observations in front of me. The question was what I could make of them. Fortunately, my mind is one that can enjoy many colours. Things are not black and white, nor are they various shades of grey. Happily they are usually in a wonderful array of colour. Nor am I colour blind, which means that I enjoy the fullest range of colours.
What we see is information
However, I am not like a bat, and so I cannot see radar. I cannot even see infra-red or ultra violet even though I may assume that it is there. My eyes, like those of most humans, are tuned to see the colour spectrum, which is very lucky, indeed. They say that if you have something wrong with you, your brain will process colours less effectively. Probably, the first thing that you will notice is that you like certain colours more than you used to and others less. There is a range of colours that healthy people enjoy most of the time. Moreover, if you enjoy some colours more than others, it makes sense to find out why.
Colours are like facts that our brain processes. We can see things in the various combinations of black versus white, shades of grey, in most but not all colours available. Some of us are lucky enough to see all the shades of truth about something, and see it extraordinarily clearly. To do that one has both a brain that can process information about the truthfulness of some fact or another in numerous ways to bring out the various colours of confidence that one could, would, or should have about any given fact presented to one.
Information about Wuh Lax
This morning, I reviewed the facts of a story that I have in my head about the topography of the ancient world of Wuh Lax. The first thing to note is that Wuh Lax is supposed to have lived almost two thousand years ago, and his name may not have been Wuh Lax. I had to start somewhere so I came up with the name Wuh as it reflected a very ancient expression. We often say 'wooh' when we see something extraordinary, in awe, or when we need to take a breath after exertion. So in my mind, its possible that in 50 AD someone was called Wuh. Not only that, it is plausible because the name is not so extraordinary. We don't hear of many people called Wuh today, but then we don't hear of many people called God today. I could have chosen the name God, but that might have been taken in the wrong way. Godney would have been better, I suppose, but Wuh is even better still!
The name Lax is not only possible, but it is probable. It is a name surname available today in the place where we find Wookey Marsh. I saw it in a local church grave yard in near Wells cathedral not far from Wookey, the modern day place, and it started me thinking.
Salmon and Sacred or Ancient Knowledge or Teaching
Where did the name Lax come from? I have the idea that it is pre-Roman, but it would certainly have been available to the Romans. My idea, which I think is plausible, is that the name refers to a type of fish, namely salmon. I have seen plausible derivatives of the name Lax in places that one would expect to catch salmon, namely streams. Since in my mind the name Lax is very ancient, it seems to me that there is a significant between the location of the name today and ancient beliefs about salmon. Salmon was a pseudonym for knowledge, but why?
I think that it is plausible that the life of the salmon was the knowledge that was being considered by the ancients. Mature salmon swim upstream to die. In death they lay eggs which then turn into fish and swim downstream into the sea. The life cycle of the salmon was the knowledge that the ancients were thinking of when they thought of knowledge, or possibly the teaching of life.
The teaching of the life process is that as we mature we swim against the stream and eventually are so worn out we die. In the process of going against the stream, we give birth to new offspring, which then produce the cycle of life anew.
Teaching built into Lake Barrows and Stonehenge in Wiltshire
In my mind, it is plausible that Stonehenge and the Long Barrows at Lake 'Lax' in Wiltshire, England were seat of the teaching or the knowledge about the salmon, the lax, which swam the Avon and died at the upper reaches of the Avon stream. It is fitting that the Avon was the vehicle of transporting new life into the sea in the form of baby salmon.
Plausibly, the significance of Stonehenge and the Lake 'Lax' Barrows of more than 4,400 years ago, is that they were places of the seat of knowledge of the life cycle.
Cosmic Relationships?
The symbol of the salmon is also to be found in the stars and there may be a connection there to a search for the birthplace and place of retreat of earth as being one of the many stars in the sky. We see the symbol of the salmon in the earliest drawings of the peoples of the Middle East and Africa.
Thus, to my mind because I carry forward the idea of Wuh Lax, I am very lucky.