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ajaykavdeMouthShut Verified Member
Mumbai India
Earth Gods
Oct 26, 2016 12:35 AM 2236 Views

Khalil Gibran has dependably been ethereal. While the writer has been an occupant of the USA for the majority of his lifetime, regardless he facilitates in the supernatural quality connected with the center east, the strange impact of which lies in every last expression of each verse in this book. From the one said in the Koran to the impacts from Ancient Roman and Greek Gods everything appears to be exceptionally clear in his composition style. The way he has connected them in a human picture makes this book an unquestionable requirement have for all Gibran fans. In spite of the fact that this is an interpretation, the book figures out how to get effectively into the perusers brains and keep it enamored.


gojosh889MouthShut Verified Member
Mumbai India
A Godly creation!
Oct 27, 2015 01:19 AM 3140 Views

Khalil Gibran has always been ethereal. While the author has been a resident of the USA for most of his lifetime, he still eases in the mysticism associated with the middle east, the surreal effect of which lies in each and every word of every poetry in this book. From the one mentioned in the Koran to the influences from Ancient Roman and Greek Gods everything seems very evident in his writing style. The way he has linked them in a human image makes this book a must have for all Gibran fans.


Though this is a translation, the book manages to get easily into the readers minds and keep it captivated.


The book covers a description between in the Gods in poetic form, which shows how they deal with their own internal strife, how they deal with humanly feelings like love, hate, jealously, lust, despair, happiness, sadness etc. Luckily this book released at a time when we were not so touchy about or gods or else this would have gone the Rushdie way for humanising Gods and tarnishing cultures.


The book has its own place in the pantheon of epics, especially with its lucid writing style and poetic sense. One for the personal library!


Nature Sao Tome and Principe
*~*~*~* Secret conversation between Gods * ~*~*~*
Jul 23, 2009 12:14 AM 9884 Views

The earth Gods is a small and beautiful book of poetry filled with thoughts and philosophy which discuss the various Gods we create in the world ignoring the presence of them inside us.


“Man is a child of our younger heart


Man is god in slow arising;


And betwixt his joy and his pain


Lies our sleeping, and the dreaming thereof”


Kahlil Gibran is a name which needs no introduction. It is my opinion that Kahlil write poetry well, than his prose. And when I saw that ‘The Earth Gods’ is poetry I did knew what I can expect from the book and it was a pleasant read.


The book helps us to hear the discussion between 3 gods. Oh no…don’t start ask questions like what? How many gods?? They are different images of ‘God’ we hold within us (despite our re-assertion that there is only one god). With different religions and time, we have created a lot of God images within us. When we meet an accident and when we do a sin, it is not the same ‘god’ image enter our mind. Sooner, depending on our thought pattern, we typecast the image for ‘God’ without giving sufficient thought about what god want from us. A god which punishes, A god which require sacrifices, A god whom we have to fear, A god who creates and protect all of us, A god watches all our deeds like a policeman, A god who don’t dare to kill all our enemies and bring success to us….what is the God image we hold dear to us?


The Earth-born Gods meets upon the mountain. The first God is fed up of the odors of dead things killed in the name of sacrifice and turn his face from the wind. The second God however believes that ‘God live upon sacrifice, their thirst quenched by blood’ and the first God don’t need to turn the face. The Third God on the other hand is looking on the earth and watching the youth. Beautiful poetry and high philosophy are traded between them.


“…I have led man from shrine to shrine, And turned his mute fear of things unseen to tremulous faith in us, the unvisited and the unknown”. ‘A creature bred on hunger and made food for hungry gods. A vine that creeps in dust beneath the feet of death-less death’‘My heart longs for what my heart conceives not, And unto the unknown where memory dwells not, I would command my spirit’ ‘Does the womb of the virgin infinite Bear the seed of they Redeemer, One mightier than thy vision Whose hand shall deliver thee from thy captivity’The first god truly represent the ‘God’ of the basics and ‘God’ of instincts. The God’s promise is on the redeemer. The author asks a serious question through the first god. Who created him? Is there a super god who created the first god? ‘What super-god caught you in your flight And made you breed in the cage? What giant sun warmed your bosom To give me birth?’


The second God is more of the God of sacrifice and hard work. “I could not but choose the hardest way; To follow the seasons and support the majesty of the years; To sow the seed and to watch it thrust through the soil; To call the flower from its hiding place And to give it strength to nestle its own life….To raise man from secret darkness, Yet keep his roots clinging to the earth; To give him thirst for life, and make death his cup bearer; To endow him with love that waxeth with pain…” ‘We have planted man, our vine, and tilled the soil….Man is food for the gods, And the glory of man begins When his aimless breath is sucked by gods’ hallowed lips…..the mute grain turns to love songs when swallowed by the nightingale, Even so as bread for gods shall man taste godhead.’ ‘…And on to crucifixation. Man is born to bondage….’


The third God however is watching the youth. The girl and the boy. The Singer and the dancer. The song is reached to the dancer and she is now fully dancing to the song and the third God is inviting other ‘Gods’ to join the celebration.


The discussion come to a happy conclusion, where the first god says, ‘And in that dancing and in that singing A god is slain within me. My god-heart within my human ribs Shouts to my god-heart in mid-air.’ & ‘Beauty is a path that leads to self self-stain’. The second god observes that ‘Save where self is wedded to self, And beauty is the witness and the priest……The most distant is the most near. And where beauty is there are all things’. He also establishes that there is no difference between Man and god by saying man is god in slow rising and ‘Immortal and mortal twin rivers calling to the sea. There is no emptiness between call and call.’ The third god confirms that, ‘Love triumphs…Love is our lord and master…To sing and dance its secret to eternity. Love is youth with chains broken….Love is distant laughter in spirit’ ‘The bride comes from the heart of dawn, And the bridegroom from the sunset. There is a wedding in the valley. A day too vast for recording’


The third God concludes:


‘Now I will rise and strip me of time and space,


And I will dance in the field untrodden,


And the dancer’s feet will move with my feet;


And I will sing in that higher air,


And a human voice will throb within my voice”


Like other books and thoughts of Kahlil, here too, the influence of Rabindranath Tagore is visible. ‘Christianity’ and the book of ‘Job(Eyob)’ must have had an influence on him. The book possibly must have influenced Osho in framing his philosophy of God and Deepak Chopra on writing his book, ‘How to know GOD’. For one who read Tagore, Tulsi Das, Kabir Das etc. will be very familiar with the concept where Kahlil expressed it giving beautiful metaphors and powerful words. ‘The Earth Gods’ is a beautiful expression of Poetry!!!


Read this small book which I am sure will be in the liking of two kinds of people. One, who love good poetry. Two, those who likes philosophy. I liked the book very much and this review is my recommendation and invitation.


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Gibran Khalil Gibran And His Masterpieces
Mar 20, 2006 04:47 AM 4764 Views

Weary is my spirit of all there is.


I would not move a hand to create a world


Nor to erase one.


I would not live could I but die,


For the weight of aeons is upon me,


And the ceaseless moan of the seas exhausts my sleep.


Could I but lose the primal aim


And vanish like a wasted sun;


Could I but strip my divinity of its purpose


And breathe my immortality into space,


And be no more;


Could I but be consumed and pass from time's memory


Into the emptiness of nowhere!


These words from Khalil Gibran's masterpiece ''THE EARTH GODS'' are an indicator of the depth to which he can take you with his books. magical words and metaphors set the pace of his books and the stories of distant lands take you to a new realm. I call it the land of lost charm.


More About The Author : Gibran Khalil Gibran, born January 6, 1883, Bechari (Bsharri) in Lebanon. Records state that some political / real estate problems led to his immigration to America with all members of his family but his father. After settling in South Boston, Gibran's curiosity led him to the artistic side of Boston life and there started his tryst with writing, painting and arts. His writing life started with works in Arabic and later English. He was also the founder of the Society For Arabic Writers (Al-Mahgar). Gibran died in New York on April 10, 1931


His works include :


ARA'IS AL MURUDJ, 1906


STONEFOLDS, 1907


ON THE THRESHOLD, 1907


AL-ARWAH AL-MUTAMARRIDA, 1908


DAILY BREAD, 1910


FIRES, 1912


AL-AJNIHA AL-MUTAKASSIRAH [The broken wings], 1912


DAM'AH WA-IBTISAMAH [A Tear and a Smile], 1914


THE MADMAN, 1918


AL-MAWAKIB [The Procession], 1919


THE FORERUNNER, 1920


SPIRITS REBELLIOUS, 1920


THE PROPHET, 1923


SAND AND FOAM, 1926


JESUS, THE SON OF MAN, 1928


THE EARTH GODS, 1931


GARDEN OF THE PROPHET, 1933


THE DEATH OF THE PROPHET, 1933


TEARS AND LAUGHTER, 1947


NYMPHS OF THE VALLEY, 1948


THE EARTH GODS : It is more of poetic verse than prose, a writing about the conflict between age old beliefs and modern philosophy. Set in the verse of three Three Gods who together lend voice to an individual entity. The soul of their song is a unique mixture of peace and chaos. It in fact is so unique, that I some times wonder how Gibran's mind could pen these verses, because frankly speaking though the meaning is understood, it is very difficult to describe it. One definitely needs to read it to understand it. This is not a bed time story or coffee table book. It is for those of us who enjoy reading philosophy. Gibran's book is one that can be gifted to a person who believes in the aesthetics of an artistic life. Try reading it and I am sure you will enjoy the beauty of its voice.


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