Taras Bulba?

[eccentric1]

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Nevertheless, quite interesting; I had always assumed that there was someone named as taras bulba in the history..

My explanation is;
1- "taras bulba" has either slipped through Carla's mind,
2- or Ra had 2 options to refer to the person; they would either use his real name (which would not be appropriate because his real name was not known/famous or recorded by history, and if Ra gave taras bulba's real identity/name and at the same time reveal that he was taras bulba then it might have been an infringement on free will) or use the name invented by Gogol while writing his famous "Taras Bulba". It seems that most probably there was someone in the history who did what taras bulba did: "The main character іs based on several historical personalities, and other characters are not аs exaggerated or grotesque as was common in Gogol's later fiction":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taras_Bulba
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taras_Bulb..._character

Thank you Dreamliner. Both options seem plausible. I guess its key to understanding that its not like a maths equation - at a fundamental level there must be doubt and uncertainty. I just found this particular instance hard to make sense of, even with the inherent confusion

Thanks again,

Mat

I was on this one for a very long time & Dreamliner pretty much hit it on the head with his response. I am in the US & my family & I took a trip to Eastern Europe last year where we met some of our 3rd & 4th cousins in Eastern Europe, mainly Poland & Slovakia, & I asked them that very question. They were a little surprised I even knew about the story, but their consensus was pretty much that it was an amalgamation of a small handful of people that were active at that time.

The biggest thing you have to remember when reading this material is that it transcends duality. That is why we have terms such as time/space or space/time or teach/learn & so on.....

In order to be accurate & precise you have to "cover all the bases" so-to-speak & acknowledge openly that any given thing conceptualized or spoken of has more than one meaning or application.

As far as the Taras Bulba entity, it is left up to you to interpret how you will. I mean, really though...... how much of historical figures can actually be proven to exist? Do we have skeletal remains? How many of them have monuments built to them? How many people can corroborate what kind person he/she was? What is the standard of proof for the existence of any given person or character throughout history? The more you go in the direction of what is called "the past" or "the future" - the more you realize that ultimately it is just your imagination at work & all you really truly have is NOW.

Living moment to moment seems like an almost impossible & unproductive thing to do in this 3d-going-into-4d world, but honestly, it's the most liberating, original, & sincere activity you can perform.

Peace, Love, & Happiness stuff,

~ Thomas