Friday, March 18, 2011

Bending over pine rod merge birth

Theseus walked down the road further and encountered Sinis who looked a lot like Sciron. This resemblance portrays the fact that Sinis' people like Sciron used older technologies. Many of their weapons were made of wood including their catapult. Sinus was found near Isthmian the land he represented. He was a giant and considered the son of Poseidon. Sinis was nicknamed pine bender as the use of pine, for weapons for instance and even executions. In Greek Pityocamptes (Πιτυοκάμπτης = "pine-bender"). When Theseus approached he bend a pine down and asked him to hold it down, Often Sinis was said to bend the pine in such a manner and by asking travelers to hold down the bent tree he would let go catapulting the victim into the air. Thus, the strength of these people that allowed them to maintain or even have their authority was tested by the travelers, everyone was weaker than Sinis and his peo0ple and it was not till Theseus came along that someone equaled his strength. Sinis' rod of authority was the pine tree, using the same technic Theseus held the tree down and when Sinis bent over to examine the tree , or authority iota represented , to see if he had broken it to allow Theseus to prove himself as strong utilising the same tech and authority Theseus let go catapulting Sinis. This metaphor represents the complaints Sinis had as some of his people did that something must be wrong with their systems that allowed Theseus to use their tech and authority as they do proving himself as equal. This challenge led to Theseus using this authority which was not broken to dispose of Sinis and merge his people with the Greeks Theseus represented.
It was said sometimes Sinis tied people to two trees letting go tearing the victim apart. However this was an after thought based on the metaphor that Theseus tied Sinis being knocked out by the tree he held down, tied his legs to one pine and his arms to another tearing him apart after letting go of them. This represents and further reinforces the conflict over the system that tears Sinis; people apart allowing Theseus to conquer their hearts using their own symbol of authority and merge them with his people, see two trees of the same authority tore him into pieces or splintered them.

After killing Sinis it is said “Theseus then raped Sinis' daughter, Perigune, who later bore Theseus' son, Melanippus. She later married Deioneus of Oechalia. According to Pausanias Sinis' pine was still alive and known during his times." http://wiki.ask.com/Sinis_%28mythology%29?qsrc=3044

Melanippus means something like Melado and thus is the child of the merge of Theseus' people and Sinis' people. In Greek Theseus used via or authority to cause the wedding and birth, he did not rape her as by force of strength but by the strength of the authority that allowed the merge. The word rape would have been the word used by those splintered against Sinis. In other words it was the use of the authority that led to this union Sinis daughter later married another king: Deioneus of Oechalia. Thus Theseus wedding to Sinis daughter was either short or unofficial as many would call such a sexual union by via not temple blessing. More to the point some would call the child illegitamate since it was a union not endorsed by all of Sinis' people but rather based on the force of the authority Theseus usurped by proving himself as strong as any of Sinis' people. However the sex was conceptual.

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