They are familiar, but who knows what they are? They are intended for children, but they are such delight for everyone. They seem naive, but inside, they are deep.

If the fairy tales were little things as they look, would they have crossed the barrier of time? Some mythsGo to L'histoire d'avant l'histoire have been written in the distant past, they are the founding texts of ancient cultures, the sacred books of religions; they are exposed and commented in the other pages of this site. Other myths, sometimes more important, have been passed in the form of fairy tales or storytelling. Far from trivial, they are part of our precious cultural heritage. You would be surprised to know how old are some of them.

Some nursery rhymes are so ancient that they deserve every time a careful restoration, in which lines of grand-mas have tirelessly devoted. Rooted in ancient traditions of initiation, fairy tales describe inner realitiesGo to L'enseignement soufi that can not be transmitted otherwise. These old tales are marvels of double meaning, with as powerful initiation  content as the Tarot.Go to page No surprise: the image-makers of the Middle Ages, when designing the Tarot arcanas, had in their heads the same fairy tales as we got now.  Fairy tales have crossed millenia.

These not so naive stories may talk about fairies, giants or dragons ...

Fairy tales always talk about us

Fairy tales, legends and chips are the children's favorite food. Kids have special antennas to catch the truth hidden in the myths and other stories. When children grow up, another method is needed. Here, the comparative method works wonders.The method is signed Plato. Go to Phaéton  Scholars who are dedicated to the study of folklore never forget that these stories should be interpreted. In their eyes, these tales are not candid and clear products of the imagination of people, but cover a deeper meaning, some secret meaning.

"The mythologies of classic people, especially the Greeks, are also part of folklore," writes Velikovsky.Immanuel Velikovsky, Worlds In Collision As Eliade, as once Plato, Velikovsky had understood that the myths and stories are very rich veins to be exploited by historians, who nevertheless still neglect. The Tales of Mother Goose is an initiatory teaching fit for children. It is the Mother Law or the bitter lawLost in translation. In French there is a homophony "la mère l'oye" "la mère loi" "l'amère loi" that children must follow. Apart form imaged, these stories work on several levels, including some beyond logical thinking, like Sufi stories.Go to L'enseignement soufi

Beyond the stories, the character of goose once had a special symbolism. The footprint of the goose is a webbed foot. As such, it resembles the palm, the universal symbol of excellence. Even before the laurels honoring the winner, he received a palm as prize. At the Cannes Film Festival, the grand prize is "la palme d'or". The goose foot was also the hallmark of Cagots, with whom it was most often yellow, and sewn on the shoulder ... Nazis invented nothing.

They marched, banging the heels of their boots, ein, zwei, a special step called the goose step. The goose palm also  designated certain coded language, to be understood only by the initiated, the language of birds, called in French patois,dialect i.e. patte-oie.goose-leg In the Middle Ages, in French, the word "goose"oye also meant "hear", "understand" which is also pronounced as "yes"Oï in northern France. For the builders of cathedrals, the PédauquePé d'occa, Pied d'Oie or goose foot was a measuring instrument and a sign of recognition.

The goose foot will later be similar to the scallop shell, in French coquille St Jacques, also known as Merelle: i.e. Mère Aile?Mother Wing? On the way to Santiago de Compostela, where French Jacobean are walking in pilgrimage, the goose is found in a rich toponymy: Oca, Gansa, Ansa ... Moreover, the pilgrim's path resembles the path of the jeu de l'oie.Snakes And Ladder In the spiralGo to Spirale vitale of the game, the Jacobean found the difficulties of travel, its rewards, hopes, and the inn ... death, which refers to square one!

The goose was also an important symbol for ancient peoples. The goose means vigilance, material prosperity, but also purity. The goose is the friend of Aphrodite; white as the Milky Way, it also leads to death and, consequently, to the resurrection of the Spirit. Hence we understand that children's stories under the title of Mother Goose are not empty dreams. These texts contain a symbolic meaning that the child registers to use it in time.Go to L'enseignement soufi They have a great initiatory power, and a catharsis effect.i.e. they clean the aura so that light comes deeper inside

All this information is contained in the structure of the tale, but also in the accident narrative. The devil, they say, is in the details. In the fairy tale, the awakening is in the details. Consider the structure: the knight goes in search of the beautiful princess he has never seen, or just glimpsed, and whose beauty has seized him. When he finally found her, she is on top of a tower in the custody of a fearsome dragon. To deliver the beautiful princess, the knight must kill the dragon. Kill ... or put to flight.

In the initiation Tarot,Go to page the Tower is our self, or rather our ego. The Will/Knight must deliver the Soul/Princess in the Prison of Self, as indicated by the arcane XVI The Tower.In French, la Maison-Dieu, The God-House. Go to page
Continuing the metaphor of awakening.Go to Le tarot de l'éveil To achieve this, the Will/Knight must face the Guardian of the Threshold, this formidable dragon watching at the foot of the ego. The liberated Princess figuring the rise of the kundaliniGo to Les sept chakras which causes enlightenment, or awakening. The whole point of the matter is that

the kid does not get that data.

Usually a kig identify with the knight or princess, or even with the dragon if smart kid. But not with the tower. The secret message will be decoded with time only, following exactly the process of teaching-stories of the Sufis.Go to page It is one of life's necessities. Imagine for a moment that this story of awakening of inner beauty is explicit. What child would care? This issue is not for young age, obviously. But if we are not taught from childhood, when the time comes, how do we know?