Psychology of the Unconscious / A Study of the Transformations and Symbolisms of the Libido. A Contribution to the History of the Evolution of Thought

by C. G. Jung

“In the beginning, Obatala, the heaven, and Odudua, the earth, his wife, lay pressed firmly together in a calabas.”

The guarding “in a modest bud” is an idea which has appeared already in Plutarch, where it is said that the sun was born in the morning from a flower bud. Brahma, too, comes from the bud, which also gave birth in Assam to the first human pair.

Humanity.

(An unfinished poem.)

“Scarcely sprouted from the waters, O Earth,

Are thy old mountain tops and diffuse odors,

While the first green islands, full of young woods, breathe delight

Through the May air over the Ocean.

“And joyfully the eye of the Sun-god looked down

Upon the firstlings of the trees and flowers;