The dragon had been sacred to Ares, so the god made Cadmus do penance for
eight years by serving him. According to Theban tellings, it was at the
expiration of this period that the gods gave him Harmonia ("harmony", literally
"well put together", or "well assembled") as wife. At Thebes, Cadmus and
Harmonia began a dynasty with a son Polydorus, and four daughters, Agave,
Autonoë, Ino and Semele.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadmusthe
dragon was sacrad ro aris. to satiet the this connection to teh dragon, cadmus
served for 8 years to complete this part of the rite concerning the authority of
the dragon cadmus came to represent. Thus cadmus was also concerned with the god
of war. who did cadmus serve. Was it the higher authority of the faith that
represented war and policery authority? Did he have to serve on a war tribunal
or did he serve as a soldier. teh aithority of teh dragon also represented teh
milatators. what serving would apease the old spirit of war, peacemaking and
peace keeping? This was cadmus' militaru side. he was not just clerical, and
authoritic marsherlor and founder oof faiths and cities, a founder of a new
epoch and enalgarator of a new language, but he was trained in the art of war.
In many countriesm such as teh former, military training was used by leaders as
credentials. So in his times cadmus had to drink of the blood of the tree of
war, he had to trained and recognised by the military caste of his time. No
leader could unify the aithority of teh dragon into a new creature without teh
apeasemment of this part of teh dragon. its teeth were boblatic, the oricle the
reliyethic faith and now the militators and if forsight serves us well the
business world was also encompassed as they like farmers, who might be refered
to as part of teh noblitic, as these are the parts of any society, cattle,
sheep, herds and packs that make up the system
faith sheep
business
cattle
herds the masses
and the pack, lead by the person in charge, the
leader of the pack, is teh politics.
below is some stuff on cadmus son, we will examine it in more detail next
week.
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Pentheus torn apart by Ino and Agave, lekanis lid, ca. 450-450 BC, Louvre.In
Greek mythology, Pentheus (/ˈpɛnθuːs/ or /ˈpɛnθjuːs/; Greek: Πενθεύς) was a king
of Thebes. His father was Echion, the wisest of the Spartes. His mother was
Agave, the daughter of Cadmus, the founder of Thebes, and the goddess Harmonia.
His sister was Epeiros.
Much of what is known about the character comes from the interpretation of
the myth in Euripides' tragic play, The Bacchae.
Mythological biography[edit]The story of Pentheus' resistance to Dionysus and
his subsequent punishment is presented by Euripides as follows.
Cadmus, the king of Thebes, abdicated due to his old age in favor of his
grandson Pentheus. Pentheus soon banned the worship of the god Dionysus, who was
the son of his aunt Semele, and did not allow the women of Cadmeia to join in
his rites.
An angered Dionysus caused Pentheus' mother Agave and his aunts Ino and
Autonoë, along with all the other women of Thebes, to rush to Mount Cithaeron in
a Bacchic frenzy. Because of this, Pentheus imprisoned Dionysus, thinking the
man simply a follower, but his chains fell off and the jail doors opened for
him.
Dionysus lured Pentheus out to spy on the Bacchic rites disguised as a woman,
and Pentheus expected to see sexual activities. The daughters of Cadmus saw him
in a tree and thought him to be a wild animal. They pulled Pentheus down and
tore him limb from limb (as part of a ritual known as the sparagmos). When his
true identity was later discovered, officials exiled the women from Thebes. Some
say that his own mother was the first to attack him, tearing his arm off and
then tearing off his head. She placed the head on a stick and took it back to
Thebes, but only realized whose head it was after meeting her father Cadmus.
The name "Pentheus", as Dionysus and Tiresias both point out, means "Man of
Sorrows" and derives from πένθος, pénthos, sorrow or grief, especially the grief
caused by the death of a loved one. His name appeared to mark him for tragedy.
Pentheus was succeeded by his uncle Polydorus.
Before or possibly after Pentheus was killed, his wife gave birth to a son
named Menoeceus, who became the father of Creon and Jocasta. He became the
grandfather of Oedipus.
The story of Pentheus is also discussed by Ovid in his Metamorphoses (3.
511–733). Ovid's version diverges from Euripides' work in several areas. In
Ovid's Metamorphoses, King Pentheus is warned by the blind seer Tiresias to
welcome Bacchus or else "Your blood [will be] poured out over your mother and
her sisters..." Pentheus dismisses Tiresias and ignores his warnings. As Thebes
succumbs to the "dementia and the delirium of the new god", Pentheus laments the
fall of his kingdom and demands the arrest of Bacchus. His guards instead arrest
Acoetes of Maeonia, a sailor who confirms the divinity of Bacchus and tells how
the crew of his ship ended up dead after trying to kidnap the young god.
Pentheus, convinced that Acoetes is lying, tries to throw him in jail. But
when the guards try to shackle Acoetes, the chains fall off. When Pentheus heard
this it caused "something insane behind his eyes [to] tear off its
straightjacket." In a rage, Pentheus ran to deal with Bacchus himself. He
charged through the woods straight into a bacchanalia. Driven to a frenzy the
participants thought Pentheus was a boar and attacked him. His mother was the
first one to spear him and then the group tore his flesh apart with their bare
hands.
Finally, all acknowledged Bacchus as a god.
from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentheus
note claws are symbols of militarionaru ower, eagal claws, swords, clubs and
teeth are symbols of powers
teeth comes originally from teh idea of biting
into things and haveing teh power to pick up like an anamat things, to eat and
have the power to ripe apart and devour food, to bite down on others die to
attack, anamata often have looks illusions of teeth that makes them look more
powerful.
