B.3. The Platonic sage in love

Oannes (Adapa): The Mesopotamian Sage in Pasargad

Enki/Ea, the God of wisdom and deep had a prominent role in incantations and healing rituals. He was the creature of apkallus (the seven sages). These seven sages were distributing the wisdom and power of Enki/Ea among people. Oannes (Adapa) was one of the apkallus who was a hybrid of gish-man with the Enki/Ea ‘s power in healing and wisdom. Hence, the Mesopotamian priests who imitated Oannes a...

Irony in the Platonic Dialogues

The Platonic Solids

The tetrahedron, the cube, the octahedron, the dodecahedron, and the icosahedron. From a first glance, one immediately notices that the Platonic Solids exhibit remarkable symmetry. They are the only convex polyhedra for which the same same regular polygon is used for each face, and the same number of faces meet at each vertex. Their symmetries are aesthetically pleasing, like those of stones cu...

Platonic Surfaces

If SO is a Riemann surface with a complete metric of finite area and constant curvature −1, let SC denote the conformal compactification of SO. We show that, under the assumption that the cusps of SO are large, there is a close relationship between the hyperbolic metrics on SO and SC . We use this relationship to show that lim infk→∞ λ1(Pk) ≥ 5/36, where the Platonic surface Pk is the conformal...

The Status of Quranic and Platonic Tazzakor in “Mathnawi”

The word tazakkor (reminding) is one of key words in the holy Quran and has a long history in philosophical, ethical and Islamic mystic fundamentals. There are significant differences between the concept of tazakkor in philosophy, particularly what is derived from the theory of tazakkor or Platonic archetypes, and what is understood from the truth of tazzakor in the context of Quranic culture. ...