Showing posts with label zeus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label zeus. Show all posts

Sunday, April 19, 2015

Zeus- The God of Sky

He was also responsible for passing judgement to gods and mortals. He has the power of nature, carrying the lightning bolt as a weapon. A tribute to his power. The natural world was scary for the mortals. They did not know why lightning strikes randomly during storms.  So they said they were symptoms of gods power.
Origin : theogony, same as book of genesis



In the myth, cronos was the king of the titans, then the most powerful gods in the universe. They were not well civilized. As god, he must mate and produce offsprings. So he mates with his own sister, Rea. Old saying says that no one is good enough for our family than our own family. So incest was common. Hades, poseidon and zeus. But cronos was scared that his own son would replace him and become more powerful. So cronos decides to swallow them up. Now since they are immortals, they cannot die. They are just locked into his belly. Rea is horrified. When rea is pregnant again, she goes to a cave and gives birth to zeus. When cronos demands of the child, she gives him a rock to swallow. Zeus is saved. Myth says zeus was born on the island of crete on a mountain. Zeus grows up in the cave. He needs to reinstate his own position. If he loses, he will have to go to tarturus, the hell. Highest peak in Greece, mount Olympus. Other children grew up inside belly. Zeus mixes something and gives to cronos. Cronos becomes ill and starts vomiting. First the rock comes out which rea had given her. That rock is today the foundation for the ancient temple of Delphi, the home of the oracle. It ws a temple where people would come to ask god for advice. Zeus now has siblings by his side who have escaped from cronos’s belly. But he needs more manpower to defeat cronos. There were forgotten brothers of cronos, the Cyclops in tarturus , and the 100 handers. Zeus convinces them to be on his side. They are happy since zeus has released them and treates them equally. Cyclops present zeus with a gift, the power of lightning.
Battle begins
100 handers throw mountains on other side. Zeus throwing lightning. Actual volcanic eruptions happened there. Tifon is summoned by cronos. Dion temple dedicated to zeus built near mt Olympus. Eagles were symbol of zeus. Zeus has this uncontrollable sex drive. He changed forms to mate with them. Sometimes eagle,  sometimes swan and sometimes bull. One day he got attracted to this woman god called metis. Metis means practical wisdom. Prophecy tells that one day his son wil defeat him, so he swallows metis. He absorbs her wisdom too. He needs a new wife. He marries his sister, Hera. Hera is powerful. Queen of goddesses. She is jealous as zeus is always going uot with other women. So she plans to overthrow zeus. She ties him on his own bed. All Olympians gather together.
All other Olympians were condemned Apollo and poseidon to built walls of troy. Justice has been served.
Once zeus sees humans involved in cannibalism. He gets angry. Punishes by sending storms for 9 days and 9 nights. Only 2 people survive by travelling in an ark. After this incident came Christianity which started replacing the authority of zeus.

Aphrodite- The symbol of love

Aphrodite was an ancient greek mythological symbol of beauty, love, pleasure and and procreation. She is often depicted as a beautiful naked woman accompanied by a winged goddess Eros.Her attributes included a dove, apple, scallop shell and mirror. According to Hesiod, she was born when Uranus (the father of the gods) was castrated by his son Cronus. Cronus threw the severed genitals into the ocean which began to churn and foam about them. From the aphros ("sea foam") arose Aphrodite, and the sea carried her to either Cyprus or Cythera. Hence she is often referred to as Kypris and Cytherea. Homer calls her a daughter of Zeus and Dione.


Zeus was scared that other gods would fight over Aphrodite over her marriage proposals, so he cut all scopes and married her to a hard working smith god Hephaestus. Getting such a wife was a dream for him, so he used all his resources to make beautiful jewellery for her to keep her happy and contended. Aphrodite on the other hand knew about her beauty and was always amongst glitz and glamor. the jewelery made her more popular amongst gods and mortals.


Her corresponding love goddess in roman mythology is venus and her messenger is the Cupid.


Friday, April 6, 2012

The impeached Mind

The most valuable output of nature's chemical backlash is our reasoning mind. Unfortunately, the world is headed to the brink of an undesirable reality, wherein the mind doesn't reason anymore. Those in power work for their own irrational needs while the needy begs for a helping hand his whole life, only to one day die on a busy roadside, unnoticed for days.

The men in power have a very powerful weapon against us. Our own fear, which they feed on. Fear of force,Fear of outcomes, Fear of change, Fear of trust, Fear of reason. From decades, leaders across the globe have proclaimed faith over reason.Faith in the rules they set for us but not for them.They mend and bend their own rules of conduct in the name of public welfare. They rely on their collective mutual consent to rise among the rest of the looters, by whatever means they find handy.

The flaw lies in our moral code of values,We are instilled right from the beginning to obey rules and not to question them and our only aim is to achieve success.They never left us an option of defining what success is for us and what motives are we to consider for ourselves to take the path of glory.Its like the whole herd following the lousy shepherd who carries a stick with him,but no mind to control it.We are taught to think collectively but not objectively,and forced to think on the lines on what they think is good enough for us.We are made to believe that mind is a rare monument of extinction and the left over higher minds that presently exist are termed as the enemy of the state. To savage our consciousnesses is their motive and the power to rule our minds their only lust.

We accept the obsolete notions of nefarious thinking they have imposed on us.Our only mistake is not to question them since we think we have our life sorted out,and what happens outside our cocoon is none of our concern.The needy and that one without power of influence suffers at the hands of the the rich, who justifies and portrays him as the culprit and the one against humanity.The most depraved of all men is the one without a justifiable purpose. The purpose of existence, the reason to trade his labor and mind for his own survival, to prosper and rise in his own eyes, not at the behest of feeding on other's productivity,but his own ability.The most debauched men among the group of all the blind men is the one without a vision.

The mighty atlas was once condemned by zeus and was chastened to hold the heavens on his shoulders.He held it for ages.The more he tried to held it up,the more heavier the heavens became. Only time will mark  the threshhold point when the atlas would decide to refuse to hogwash the pain and that day would be marked as the day when men of pride and strength would stop carrying the burden of unabashed sins on their shoulders.