Pathos
Mythipedia Entry – Pathos
The quality of drama and comedy in the mortal experience – the Pathos of existence. One of the principles of story and related to Logos, Eros, Kairos, Mystos, Mythos and Ethos.
It is the essence of the theatre of life and the unfolding of our mythos that we have the comedy and tragedy of existence, the peaks and valleys of our experience of the Creation and what it means to be in the mortal plane.
Such things form the very edges of our meaning, at what it means to experience both the preciousness and difficulty of life, to move through the karmic impressions which drive the underpainting of our stories. It is in this distinction, seeing the many faces of what it means to be that we navigate our way, living the role of a lifetime along the threadlines of our life.
This plays out in an infinite number of ways, changing its shape in accordance with the particulars of our story and it’s unfoldment. Yet while there are many faces to the pathos of life, they are the very reality of the mortal condition and of our karmic impressions as they play out as our conditions of consciousness, forming the pleasures and pains of our perception and reception of the worlds within and without.
