Hera’s Light and Crown
Radiance Shared, Shadows Endured
Poetry is a language of Aletheia, revealing truth from the liminal space where the divine meets the mortal. Alongside music and art, poetry transcends metaphysics and calculative thought, becoming a final frontier for what lies beyond.
Through myth, we communicate "beyond the gods," navigating the liminal to glimpse the heavens. This poetic and mythological lens moves us beyond Husserl’s phenomenology of consciousness toward Heidegger’s heralding of Being.
Mythic poetry seeks to transcend the confines of subjective and objective thought. It stands before Being, open to grace and the gifts it bestows. By drawing allegories of “the gods,” from their universal archetypes, I aim to reframe them, seeking the liminal, where the light of “God” may be revealed.
Hera’s Light and Crown
O Hera, regal symbol, queen divine
Your golden scepter glimmers, without age
Majestic throne, great seat of order’s might
Yet time endures within your unseen page.
As mother, nurture those who sense your reign
Align each heart with order ‘cross your sight
The child anew, with eyes in wonder smiles
Reveal, O Hera, kingdoms in the night
The pilgrims grieve your strife, immortal sage
A mystic sees conflicted thoughts, your gaze
An anxious glance from you congeals the mist
In this, O Hera, cries the night through haze
Do not, O Hera, pain yourself with wrath
At radiance by which you share your crown
The borrowed gleam reflects your grace so well
Enhance, soft light, do not profane her gown
When conflict holds your heart, O Hera, queen
And jealous provocation will believe
The mortals have no trail to see, no way
Resist, your timeless aura will conceive
O Hera, loyal majesty enthrones
Be not displeased with those above, below
The pilgrim looks where Hera gazes o’er
Keep looking, queen - restore, refine, bestow
©Walter Emerson AdamsEnjoy this video presentation of Hera’s Light and Crown. Lyrics by Walter Emerson Adams. Music and vocals by Suno. ©Walter Emerson Adams.
My mythic poetry seeks to restore the pre-Socratic, Hellenistic view of philosophy as a “love of wisdom,” contrasting it with the post-Aristotelian “pursuit of wisdom.” It reframes the gods and goddesses of early Hellenistic thought as harbingers of Being, foreshadowing later Christian thinking. Hera, "shining by a borrowed light" (Heidegger), embodies the unconcealment of divine order and majesty—the silent Being of alethic grace.