Saturday, December 18, 2010

Sickle harvest authority, Gorgon Pegasus union

In some tales Perseus is given a sickle rather than sword,

"he god Hermes gave him either a sickle of adamant. Note that this adamantine sickle was probably the same one that the Titan Cronus had used against his father Uranus, and that Zeus had to fight against the monster Typhon." from http://www.timelessmyths.com/classical/perseus.html#Gorgon note adamantine is ademantium see x men marvel comics.

this represents the symbol of authority used to reap authority and gain it as a new epoch, Cronus commandeered Uranus; authority or the sky's authority and Zeus Cronus' authority. This further substantiates the idea that Perseus used the authority of Medusa by reflecting her using the knowledge as wisdom and thus being able to win her over. Athena or divine wisdom ( the angel thereof) warned Perseus that trying to win her over by facing her as an equal , looking into her face directly, would overwhelm him like all others, instead he was to look at her only through the reflection of wisdom that was his shield from her. Once Perseus got to Medusa's lair he found people and animals that had succumbed to her and had become statues in her presence, silent , powerless and unmoving, frozen with awe and submissiveness to her power and authority.
Perseus stayed outside the lair watching the gorgons using the shield, this represents the time he took watching these people to learn about them and thus be what was needed to encounter them as one of them, not defensively but a sleep. When they fell asleep Perseus creeped into the lair and used his shield to cut off the Medusa's head that he put in the bag or wallet of many things. This represents that the head of
Medusa was connected to the wealth of the northern nymphs. He entered invisible wearing the cap that made him look like one of the northern people Once he learned Medusa's and the gorgons ways he took her head and authority and became one of them. The gorgons could not see him as as he was common and one of them and saw no threat to fight off.

"Some of the blood from Medusa's head, leaked out of the bag. A drop of Medusa's blood fell into the sea, Pegasus (Πήγασος), the winged horse was born. Another drop of blood had fallen on the ground in Libya, so a giant sprang out of the earth, known as Chrysaor (Χρυάωρ)." ibid.

The drop of blood that created the flying horse or Pegasus from the waters represents the power the Greeks gained to fly across the sea and travel due to the unity with the gorgons through Medusa. These vast people allowed all Greeks not Just Perseus to fly through their lands as one of them. A drop fell in Libya that created a new giant group of people of Poseidon and his lover Medusa. It is Medusa's divine love of the sea that portrays their naval power and why Pegasus was the symbol used for what was born of it. While Chrysaoris the people that grew out of Libya after the unity of Greek and Medusan. These people allied with the Egyptians or married Callirrhoe, daughter of Oceanus and Tethys( tothos the Egyptian). Chrysaor was the father of Geryon( the people born of the union). There were many Celts in Libya at the time.

Notice Persues allies with peoples by becoming one with thier authority structure and gain acceptance of himself and greeks as one of the peoples he unifies the greeks with?

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