Friday, January 22, 2010

Greek freedom from the cow hoof of tyranny

Daring the night episode when Penelope wanted the disguised Odysseus to hear her prayers of faithfulness and avoid ruining her plan, Zeus sends a thunder clap as a divine omen. This portrays the divine essence of their love and faithfulness and need to maintain their roles to let the strategy the next day work.

After the omen of the eagle carrying the dove interpreted as an omen of doom that saves the assassination attempt against Telemachus the suitors sit to eat. Athena or divine wisdom keeps the suitors antagonistic to keep Odysseus temper from flaring. The antagonism is based on the suitors trying to best each other and portray themselves as better and the one Penelope will marry. A rich suitor Ctesippus throws a cow hoof at Odysseus and is chastised by Telemachus who threatens to kill him with his sword if he continues said behaviour. .During the meal, from the time of the sighting of the eagle to the end of the meal the suitors begin looking ghostly and take on a foreign look. They do not notice the walls are covered in blood. This foreshadowing portrays the foreign non real Greek represented by Odysseus. They are dead as Greeks and humans not virtuous enough to entail the paradigm of the new Greece and heroism represented and embodied in the heroism of Odysseus and Telemachus. They are foreign to the virtue and being Greek. The rich suitor tosses cow hoofs around showing that for his wealth he tosses only the footing of the cattle that often represents the business world. He tries to harm the Greeks with his behaviour in an attempt to maintain or at least use as a misuse the wealth said suitor represents. This suitor is another paradigm and one of the reasons these Greeks must be terminated as paradigms in Greece for the sake of all people, esp. the Greeks tyrannized by such people. Such termination is liberating all peoples and esp. the Greeks from such vice filled people.

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