Saturday, December 12, 2009

Hawks, doves, eagles and manslaughters.

The following day Telemachus reaches the shores of theca. He disembarks early before reaching the city. His crew continues to steer towards the city after he departs from them. Telemachus entrusts Theoclymenus the manslaughter to a close and trusted crew member Piraeus who shares a name with the port city of Athens. One notices that Theoclymenus is entrusted to a crew member’s watch and portrays that he is singled out from the rest of the crew and needs special treatment. The special treatment is at one level due to being a passenger from a foreign land who knows no one in Theca. He is also entrusted to him based on who he is and his history that necessitated him becoming a passenger on Telemachus ship to begin with. He is not brought along with Telemachus and is left to travel with the rest of the crew.
As Telemachus gets ready to seek the hut of the swine herder where unbeknownst to him sits Ulysses his father. Their embodied divine wisdom has led both to the same place and the same high born herder of people, a hawk swoops by with a dove in its talons. Telemachus interprets the hawk as a good sign of the strength and line of Ulysses house and line. Telemachus interprets this sign and includes himself in the positive interpretation of its manifestation as he is of the house and line of Ulysses. Moreover, the hawk carrying the dove is not interpreted by a third part like the eagle and swan was interpreted by Helen of Greece daughter of God. The hawk like the eagle is a majestic bird of prey, it does not have the same zymology of authority that the eagle has though it is considered a symbol of strength. The dove unlike the swan id seen as a symbol of peace. Thus the hawk shows strength to bring peace and secure the authority of the eagle that captures the swan from its penned up set up. Eagles fly higher than hawks and thus are seen to represent the higher authority.
Ulysses is the eagle and Telemachus the hawk together they represent those unified for a peaceful end to the penned up situation that caused the necessity of the need of the hawk and eagle to capture the swan to produce the peace of the dove.

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