The Nemean lion, the terrorist raiders or bandits of Nemea and Hera's plan to have Hercules change the areas of the Greeks into peaceful peoples worsh

The Nemean lion, the terrorist raiders or bandits of Nemea and Hera's plan to have Hercules change the areas of the Greeks into peaceful peoples worshiping the god head of mount Olympus.
by valpetridis @ 2008-06-02 - 21:28:35
The Nemean lion, the terrorist raiders or bandits of Nemea and Hera's plan to have Hercules change the areas of the Greeks into peaceful peoples worshiping the god head of mount Olympus.
The Nemea lion is said to have had different origins depending on who told its tale. Some claimed it was the offspring of , Typhon and Echidna, a sibling of the hydra, and others that it was a offspring of Zues and the moon(Seleni) a third version says it was the child of a chimera.The lion was not a mortal ordinarry felian, it was said to be immortal and imprevious to weapons. Its skin was said to make it invulnerable. The lion is considered a royal symbol of authority, the arrows hercules used could not penatrate the skin or armour of those the lion represented. These were bandits or tribes people who terrorised Nemea. On his way to find the lion Hercules stayed at a farm workers house who agreed to sacrifice a lion to bless hercules task, hercules asked him to wait 30 days and sacrife the lion only if he returned or sacrife himself if he did not. In some takes these sacrifes were completely the will of the farm worker named Molorchus. Hercules tracked the moster lion and trapped him in lions cave lair, by sealing one entrance, and then strangling the beast, he then returned with the pelt to Molorchus and sacrificed with him to Zues. Thus this tale portrays a conflict between peoples in namea. The peoples represented by the immortal lion were not immortal as the lion is killed in the tale, but rather inprevious to the weapons used against them due to their arm,our or skin. The sacrife Molorchus was to make to bless the task was representative of the previous religion that dominated the area and it entailed human sacrifice, after Hercules and the people he represented were abvle to kill the foes in armour, the bandits terrorising the area by choking and bludging them at close range, thus penetrating their armour, the return to the farm worker on the 30th day repr4esents the religious freedom from the old arts of the bandits or people represented by the liuon and the analgeration of the new religion of Zues., ending the human sacrifices costom to the area and represented by the authority of the immortal lion, an authority which wained after their irradication. This idea coincides with the idea that hercules killed the two snalkes of the older celtic earth cults and resserected them as Eras son, Era being the earth godess in the sky, not the godess of the earth but the mo0ther godess sharing her riegn with the father God zues.Hewrcules changed the religious practices of the greeks into more peaceful rituals. The earth godesses represented by the snamakes is both dimetra, the womb of God and era the godess.Both presisted but in a more peaceful understanding that coincided more with the peacefiul nature they opriginally accorded with before being currupted by unelightened practicioners. Hera sent the two snakes on purpose to cause this change as she sent hercules the rage to remove him from his complancy and have him seek the guildance that would lead to the tasks he became famous for, if you notice each task leads to the liberation of the greeks from peoples who wewre not peaceful and caused unrest in the area.