Friday, December 11, 2015

Iliad1 Sacred retuns




The host to expiate next the king prepares,
With pure lustrations, and with solemn prayers.
Wash'd by the briny wave, the pious train59
Are cleansed; and cast the ablutions in the main.
Along the shore whole hecatombs were laid,
And bulls and goats to Phoebus' altars paid;
The sable fumes in curling spires arise,
And waft their grateful odours to the skies.

Off  Ulysses sails down the watery road, the water here is seen as cleansing; with prayer and glam the prayers in unison with the waters washes the pious train of ships returning to sacred shores, here all seem sacred. Clean of dirt and disease  Solemn is the king’s heart as love and prize sacredly return to the shores treated with the same piety and sacredness as  his own lands.   Chyses lands had become like his, even though they will not be married.  There is a sacred procession of ascendance, more like a level passing to the next.  The motion is seen as clean, safe and blessed, this act equally is made to look the same.  She is a hecatombs , which is a sacred sacrifice to honour Godz and people.  Here sacred sacrifices light the way along the shores of the pious and sacred watery path. Bulls and goats . cattle, were being sacrificed as part of the procession of returning Chryses to sacred shores, was she sacred to begin with, she is seen piously important by this point , so important that Ulysses brings her home and incents and spice scents are used by sacred alters to truly appease the gods with this gift of a prize returned  It is a road to heaven ,well at least to be seen so as a redemption and appeasement of the gods at the most sacred level, thus the prayers are hoped as the sights for Gods , friends and enemies, that Chryses is returned and the blessing of healing from the plagues that are running rapid through the Greeks.  All must be sacred to achieve the highest sacred and blessed result.

Agamemnon means general and is in charge if the armies
Ulysses might be naval commander, could these names be titles?

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