Your understanding of money as "movement between the indeterminate and determinate" brings to mind its mythic connection to the divine/archetypical Crossroads Keeper. Their role is stewarding the liminal, overseeing the movement between real and unreal, mythic and material, living and dead. We see this Keeper (in the form of Janus) dominates the plutocratic Roman Society as their patron. And then of course Jesus/Yeshua rises up as a rebellion against this paradigm, attempting to cast out the rule of money from the church only to have his own message later coopted and assimilated into theirs. The fluidity of this paradigm is its greatest power. It places itself as the mediator between realities. As we can see in many versions of this Crossroads Keeper, to reach anywhere else you must first go through them. In Ifa, for example, you must connect with Eshu before working with any of the other Orisha. It is similar with Ganesha within many Hindu traditions. Money is simply a tool/symbol we use to represent this mediation between worlds and realities and people and goods and services. Personally I don't use the word money to refer to this broader phenomenon because in my view+experience there are far better ways to exist within that liminal space and mediate the relationship between the known and unknown. To me money as we utilize it is simply one tool, capitalism one system built to play this role. There have been and will be others. I spend a lot of my time at that Crossroads engaged in that direct mediation between worlds and I find money to be a poor substitute for relationship + trust + ritual, which was+is the primary "currency" of premodern and indigenous societies.
Anyways, interesting to hear your thoughts! I absolutely agree that money is the primary religion of western civilization, which has expanded to coopt and subjugate nearly every other paradigm to some degree or another. I can appreciate the symbolism of what you're doing. And I prefer to overturn the hegemony of this paradigm by actively replacing it in every way I can.
My brain is a bit tired after work... but I did do a bit of reading around Hermes a few years back. I think I remember the jist being that he occupies that space.. that boundary between worlds... I think the Greeks used stones dedicated to him to mark the boundaries of marketplaces.
Your understanding of money as "movement between the indeterminate and determinate" brings to mind its mythic connection to the divine/archetypical Crossroads Keeper. Their role is stewarding the liminal, overseeing the movement between real and unreal, mythic and material, living and dead. We see this Keeper (in the form of Janus) dominates the plutocratic Roman Society as their patron. And then of course Jesus/Yeshua rises up as a rebellion against this paradigm, attempting to cast out the rule of money from the church only to have his own message later coopted and assimilated into theirs. The fluidity of this paradigm is its greatest power. It places itself as the mediator between realities. As we can see in many versions of this Crossroads Keeper, to reach anywhere else you must first go through them. In Ifa, for example, you must connect with Eshu before working with any of the other Orisha. It is similar with Ganesha within many Hindu traditions. Money is simply a tool/symbol we use to represent this mediation between worlds and realities and people and goods and services. Personally I don't use the word money to refer to this broader phenomenon because in my view+experience there are far better ways to exist within that liminal space and mediate the relationship between the known and unknown. To me money as we utilize it is simply one tool, capitalism one system built to play this role. There have been and will be others. I spend a lot of my time at that Crossroads engaged in that direct mediation between worlds and I find money to be a poor substitute for relationship + trust + ritual, which was+is the primary "currency" of premodern and indigenous societies.
Anyways, interesting to hear your thoughts! I absolutely agree that money is the primary religion of western civilization, which has expanded to coopt and subjugate nearly every other paradigm to some degree or another. I can appreciate the symbolism of what you're doing. And I prefer to overturn the hegemony of this paradigm by actively replacing it in every way I can.
Thank you so much for this thoughtful comment.
My brain is a bit tired after work... but I did do a bit of reading around Hermes a few years back. I think I remember the jist being that he occupies that space.. that boundary between worlds... I think the Greeks used stones dedicated to him to mark the boundaries of marketplaces.