Talk:Aeon
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Aritcle about Æon but yet page name is incorrectly spelled Aeon. Redirect was placed on Æon to direct to Aeon.
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[edit] Book
There is a book by Karl Jung whose title is Aeon. -- 15:03, 12 March 2007) User:Bodhide
[edit] Aion
Shouldn't Aion (deity) be a separate article? He is not really the same as the Gnostic Aeon. He is a lion-headed deity with a snake wrapped around him. Carl Jung wrote a whole book about this deity, Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self, which should probably get its own entry. -999 02:20, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Additions
Why "emanation of the God" should be termed Aeon?--Connection 10:50, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Aeon in the Buddhist Cosmology
An Aeon in Buddhist cosmology is probably equivalent to one expansion and contraction of the universe.... from the big bang and back to the next big bang. Whereupon the whole process is repeated.
When asked 'how long is an aeon?' the Buddha replied..."imagine a mountain 10 miles wide, 10 miles long and 10 miles high, and once every 100 years a being appears and wipes the mountain over carefully with a very fine cloth. That mountain would sooner be rubbed away level with the ground before an aeon is completed."
When asked 'how many such aeons have gone past?' the Buddha replied..." Take the river Ganges, from its source to where it reaches the sea..... how many grains of sand lie between? Greater than this are the number of aeons which have passed."
There is a word unique to Buddhism, called "asongkaya", or some such spelling. It means 'an incalculable period' but in fact can be written as the number 1 followed by 140 zeros! There are three types of Buddhas. One practices (from the time a vow is made to become a Buddha, until enlightenment) for a period of 4 asongkaya plus 100,000 mahakapa; another for 8 asongkaya plus 100,000 mahakapa; and the third for 16 asongkaya plus 100,000 mahakapa. The present Buddha (whose teaching is still extant) is of the first type, whilst the next Buddha (Marietreya) is of the third type.
Mahakapa is another term for aeon. Roughly eqivalent to the length of time from the begining, expansion, contraction and destruction of the universe. (After which ...it all happens again).
[edit] Eon
The eon link takes you to the disambiguation page, it should take you straight to "eon (geology)". However, I don't know how to change this.
[edit] Vandalism
Not sure I understand why this page seems to attract so much vandalism. AnonMoos 11:39, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
