Orpheus and Eurydice

Death of Eurydice But the most famous story in which he figures is that of his wife Eurydice. Eurydice is sometimes known as Agriope. While fleeing from Aristaeus, she was bitten by a serpent which brought her to her death. Distraught, Orpheus played such sad songs and sang so mournfully that all the nymphs and gods wept and gave him advice. Orpheus went down to the lower world and by his music softened the heart of Hades and Persephone (the only person to ever do so), who agreed to allow Eurydice to return with him to earth. But the condition was attached that he should walk in front of her and not look back until he had reached the upper world. In his anxiety he broke his promise, and Eurydice vanished again from his sight. The story in this form belongs to the time of Virgil, who first introduces the name of Aristaeus. Other ancient writers, however, speak of Orpheus' visit to the underworld; according to Plato, the infernal gods only “presented an apparition” of Eurydice to him. Ovid says that Eurydice's death was not caused by fleeing from Aristaeus but dancing with Naiads on her wedding day." from : http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Mythology/Orpheus.html The story of Eurydice is said that while trying to escape Aristaeus from : www.pantheon.org/articles/a/aristaeus.html "An ancient Greek pastoral deity, the son of Apollo and the nymph Cyrene, but also Uranus is mentioned as his father. Aristaeus was made immortal by Gaia.He is the patron of the hunt, agriculture, cattle, and especially bee-culture. Aristaeus also taught mankind how to cultivate olives. " Running from a God of pastoral agriculture and famerering Orpheus wife fell to s snake bit. The snake or serpent is a sign of power and sometimes the fear of gatherers. Aristaeus was not a god of gathering but rather cultivation. Upon her death Orpheus played a powerful new version of his divine songm ( divine program reflection of reality} He was abe to descend into hades and meet the keeper of the dead , husband and wife, hades and persephene. His music unlocked and convinced teh nymphs and the gods including teh keepers of the dead that there was a reserection occuring. He was told as long as you do not look back you will not lose your wife and she will return with you. in zeal and anxieety he looked back on his way out of hades or the epoch change where teh old was dieinga nd the new was coming to life, the sife is really not behind him but reprsnets teh ciy or epoch chaning. The past when you look back vanished, in some versions a pillar of salt appears. However vanished is sufficient to claim that the wide or epoch just like lots wife changed and vanished as teh old was destroyed and died to the new, this copy of the story is used by Virgil and vergil is newer. in older randitions it is Plato who leads orpheus through a ritual of change by preasenting only an imahe of his wife as a means to portray the change of the epoch.Ovid ' story is that Eurydice's "death was not caused by fleeing from Aristaeus but dancing with Naiads on her wedding day" Here ovid who is middle to the other authors points out that it is her wedding day that has here bitten by the serpent of the old ways to transcend so taht Orpehus marryings a daughter of god and one of hades as the ritual changed her, she had a descent or karabasuisi( see earlier part of blog)Eurydice and orpheus went through hell for each other,, her like w benejeseret witch transmuting the poison and dancing with death to become enlightened and him with song and mourning for the old as it changing unlocking reality and causing a reserectuion of the old into the new. Th serpent ritual predates agriculture, it is of picking fruits of knowldge when one is wed with power and enlightenment, the old vanished and its knwoldge appeared infront of them as teh future they aproached, the old wofe and city died and the old was were reborn anew in the new city as part of teh new archetypes like the children of angels killed by enouch and the same arts including in the city builders line fron canes side, the arts are the children and tehy were jusdged by the new upgraded paradigms and added to the new city as part of theirer ssytem according to the new ways and upgraded virtuous of teh new epoch, new and old as one, jusdged and cleaned and born as part of the new epoch. ok till next week. Permalink Edit Delete no