Odysseus and The cyclopean islands

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The cyclopean Islands are found on the eastern part of the Aegean. Archeologist has found statues made by pre Greeks that depict one eyed beings. The island group is named after the peoples who held these one eyed being in high regard as a religious figure.
In the Odysseus tale the Greeks go to the islands and are welcomed in as friends. They are well treated. Soon one of the Cyclopses closes his cave and began devouring the Greeks. Odysseus introduced himself as a nobody and the Cyclops also saw him as a nobody. Odysseus blinds the Cyclops and escapes with his people riding under the sheep as they left to graze in the mourning. The Cyclops who was eating them cried out to the rest of them that he was blinded by a nobody and they reply how can nobody blind you?
Religiously the Cyclops’s eye represents the eye of enlightenment or the third eye. It is God's eye or the all Seeing Eye of authority the elite class and clerics had in the cyclopean society. To blind it means to destroy its authority and power, not the Cyclops eye but the particular Cyclops eye. The other peaceful Cyclops who did not try destroying the Greeks figuring they were no ones laughed at this clan (maybe secluded on one of the islands) how can the person you called no one blind you. The clerics/leader, most likely an autocracy lived off the fruits of their fold or flock; these are represented by the sheep that produced the milk that the Cyclops used as a staple for their food. This choice of fruit indicates one of the food staples of these people. These were the cheese eating herders of the cyclopean religion. The analogy goes further to illustrate how the bad Cyclops representing all the bad ones did evil because they did not respect the Greeks and their flock of believers help save the Greeks and blind that faction of dissention in cyclopean society. The other Cyclops and their flocks like the flock that helped the Greeks based on the same grace of God as represented by Zeus and the all Seeing Eye then unified and became part of the Greek empire.
So bad clerics were blinded by their unholy evil actions and were eliminated by the Greeks who were thought of as nobodies and made targets till saved by the good people on the island. Were the Cyclops the same race as the flocks? I think so as I believe when one said Cyclops in the Greece of Odysseus time one would have thought of the leadership and authority of the island folks of cyclopean island dwellers.
Unlike the Circe story the Cyclops story refers to xenophobia and racism leading to a unity of people after the evil people were blinded, excommunicated from authority in that society.

Till next week.
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