Saturday, March 12, 2011

Twigs cutting giant axe style

Theseus continued down the road to his throne in Athens and then encountered Sciron who claimed these hills were his. thus he was the leader of those hills. He told Theseus that if he did not wash his feet he would chop his head off with his battle axe. In Christianity the washing of another feet is a humbling task that often servants do. Theseus in subservience knelt down to wash the giants feet. While doing so he noticed a turtle laying below the cliff. He recalled the story that the giant would kick those washing his feet down the cliff to be eaten by the carnivorous turtle. Once the giant began to kick Theseus, he moved away and jerked the giant down the cliff to be eaten by the turtle. Here Sciron uses a battle axe, he is described as huge and thus his authority is a product strength and old technology. His power was pure brute strength unlike the power of new tech like brass that he insulted as a twig or small and not brutish by strength alone. The giant would force subservience and mistreat people and cause them to be devoured by the old slow society and brutish authority. Using the brutish strength and the subservience to get close to the people of this society to devour the giant and consequently unify the people of these hills. Thus using the same ancient brutish authority represent by the turtle and the giant holding the huge battle axe, Theseus was able to overcome and ally with the people as the symbol strong than the giant as both servant and equal leader. He as Hegel would say as a servant the ancient Greeks represented by Theseus and captured the heart of the hill people and used their culture represented by the turtle that is symbolic of an old and slowly moving or changing society and prove himself as cunning and stronger holding the twig or brass rod to be able to prove his Greeks equals and strong enough to ally as equal with these people. Actually he proved himself strong and more cunning than the brute strength of the older weapons and technologies.

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