Ruta

The term "Ruta" originates from Sanskrit. Its precise etymological roots are debated, but it is often linked to concepts of path, route, or journey, suggesting a land that was traversed or a significant geographical marker. It appears in ancient Indian texts referencing epochs and lost lands.

The name of one of the last islands of Atlantis, which perished ages before Poscidonis, the "Atlantis" of Plato.

Blavatsky's inclusion of "Ruta" in her lexicon, linking it to a pre-Platonic Atlantis, invites a contemplation of ancient cosmographies that dwarf our contemporary understanding of Earth's history. In Hindu thought, the concept of kalpas, vast cosmic cycles of creation and dissolution, provides a framework where entire continents and civilizations can rise and fall like ephemeral waves. Ruta, as such a lost island, resonates with the archetype of the submerged land, a motif found across global mythologies, from Arthurian legends of Lyonesse to the Polynesian tales of sunken islands. Mircea Eliade, in his exploration of myth and history, would likely see Ruta as embodying the primordial, the sacred geography that existed before the profane present. It speaks to a collective unconscious memory of cataclysm, a primal fear and fascination with the earth's power to both sustain and obliterate.

The very name, potentially hinting at a "path" or "journey," suggests that Ruta was not merely a static landmass but perhaps a stage in a grand cosmic progression, a place from which humanity or consciousness originated or to which it must eventually return, albeit in a transformed state. This echoes Carl Jung's ideas on the collective unconscious and its archetypal imagery, where lost paradises and sunken continents represent a yearning for an original state of wholeness. The existence of such a place, even in myth, serves as a potent reminder of the limits of our empirical knowledge and the vast, unexplored depths of both the planet and the human psyche. It invites us to consider that our present reality might be but one iteration in an endless series of cosmic dramas.

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