Iliad 1 triumphant golden allaince of the submitted

 Thus Thetis spoke; but Jove in silence held

The sacred counsels of his breast conceal'd.

Not so repulsed, the goddess closer press'd,

Still grasp'd his knees, and urged the dear request.

"O sire of gods and men! thy suppliant hear;

Refuse, or grant; for what has Jove to fear?

Or oh! declare, of all the powers above,

Is wretched Thetis least the care of Jove?"

n Here the prayer insights Joves providence

n Jove will act according to the divine lawfulness.

So what happens will be just and of the divine will.

She said; and, sighing, thus the god replies,

Who rolls the thunder o'er the vaulted skies:

"What hast thou ask'd? ah, why should Jove engage

In foreign contests and domestic rage,

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The gods' complaints, and Juno's fierce alarms,

While I, too partial, aid the Trojan arms?

Go, lest the haughty partner of my sway

With jealous eyes thy close access survey;

But part in peace, secure thy prayer is sped:

Witness the sacred honours of our head,

The nod that ratifies the will divine,

The faithful, fix'd, irrevocable sign;

This seals thy suit, and this fulfils thy vows—"

He spoke, and awful bends his sable brows,⁷⁰

Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives the nod,

The stamp of fate and sanction of the god:

High heaven with trembling the dread signal took,

And all Olympus to the centre shook.⁷¹

-        Here it sounds like judgment is sounded.  Like the someone who heard what have you done, here it is asked what did you ask?

-        It is divine will that leads them and determines this jushement and pace, the jealousy of bad people and the triumphant upgrade of the peoples of troy.  Hune is the warnings of what is now begun… judgement.

Swift to the seas profound the goddess flies,

Jove to his starry mansions in the skies.

The shining synod of the immortals wait

The coming god, and from their thrones of state

Arising silent, wrapp'd in holy fear,

Before the majesty of heaven appear.

Trembling they stand, while Jove assumes the throne,

All, but the god's imperious queen alone:

Late had she view'd the silver-footed dame,

And all her passions kindled into flame.

"Say, artful manager of heaven (she cries),

Who now partakes the secrets of the skies?

Thy Juno knows not the decrees of fate,

In vain the partner of imperial state.

What favourite goddess then those cares divides,

Which Jove in prudence from his consort hides?"

To this the thunderer: "Seek not thou to find

The sacred counsels of almighty mind:

n This is a divine judgment of the God of all mind, whose judgment and will is what ensures the throne and all that occurs as goddess in flames lights the way to this which must occur by the grace of Gods and those who obey their laws.

Involved in darkness likes the great decree,

Nor can the depths of fate be pierced by thee.

What fits thy knowledge, thou the first shalt know;

The first of gods above, and men below;

But thou, nor they, shall search the thoughts that roll

Deep in the close recesses of my soul."

n Even the thoughts of people will be monitored by the divine and only the divine to make what must occur as perfect for everyone lawful and good,

Full on the sire the goddess of the skies

Roll'd the large orbs of her majestic eyes,

And thus return'd:—"Austere Saturnius, say,

From whence this wrath, or who controls thy sway?

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Strict paths are drawn turning to the stars as the sky or the goddesses will above, meaning the higher thought , will rule and reign the way for this endevour.

Thy boundless will, for me, remains in force,

And all thy counsels take the destined course.

But 'tis for Greece I fear: for late was seen,

In close consult, the silver-footed queen.

Jove to his Thetis nothing could deny,

Nor was the signal vain that shook the sky.

What fatal favour has the goddess won,

To grace her fierce, inexorable son?

Perhaps in Grecian blood to drench the plain,

And glut his vengeance with my people slain."

Here the divine will tell that Greece or that epoch nowed is ending as the new age begins will a new troy rising, this is all judgment of upgrade because the old greek regime needs upgrading to be steered from its corrupt murderous ways.  Just vindication as lawful revenge.

Then thus the god: "O restless fate of pride,

That strives to learn what heaven resolves to hide;

Vain is the search, presumptuous and abhorr'd,

Anxious to thee, and odious to thy lord.

Let this suffice: the immutable decree

No force can shake: what is, that ought to be.

Goddess, submit; nor dare our will withstand,

But dread the power of this avenging hand:

The united strength of all the gods above

In vain resists the omnipotence of Jove."

---  here everyone submits to the divine will through goddess to God,  they submit to the perfect will of Jove, a face of Godthet. 

Only this way do the heroes access and interface with the grace and power of the gods, thus unifying as one force lead by divine universal omnipotent mind to a victory as one people driven to the same ultimate divine goal.

n  Here as above the thunder judgment as those found in revelations m—even the seals are being refered to as in revolations.  Below the second thunder.

The thunderer spoke, nor durst the queen reply;

A reverent horror silenced all the sky.

The feast disturb'd, with sorrow Vulcan saw

His mother menaced, and the gods in awe;

Peace at his heart, and pleasure his design,

Thus interposed the architect divine:

"The wretched quarrels of the mortal state

Are far unworthy, gods! of your debate:

Let men their days in senseless strife employ,

We, in eternal peace and constant joy.

Thou, goddess-mother, with our sire comply,

Nor break the sacred union of the sky:

Lest, roused to rage, he shake the bless'd abodes,

Launch the red lightning, and dethrone the gods.

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n If one notices the goddess and mother goddess is referred to as the source of the gods sire, including juno and jove,

n It might be the ancient pre troyans were more matriarchal.

n There was silence after this thunder in heaven.  The humans quarrels while we gpds and the submitted prefer peace and peaceful resolve.

If you submit, the thunderer stands appeased;

The gracious power is willing to be pleased."

Thus Vulcan spoke: and rising with a bound,

The double bowl with sparkling nectar crown'd,⁷²

Which held to Juno in a cheerful way,

"Goddess (he cried), be patient and obey.

Dear as you are, if Jove his arm extend,

I can but grieve, unable to defend

What god so daring in your aid to move,

Or lift his hand against the force of Jove?

Once in your cause I felt his matchless might,

Hurl'd headlong down from the ethereal height;⁷³

Toss'd all the day in rapid circles round,

n No one can stand against the might of the divine face called Jove or the goddess, submit and win with them otherwise you will lose, the submitted cannot attack the gods or error in trifle ways like the mortals who die fighting the laws of the divine and the unified with them on earth.  Even the mortals do the bidding of the gods but only the good are rewarded the bad are just used for the thetisise the divineswill and unified goals.

Nor till the sun descended touch'd the ground.

Breathless I fell, in giddy motion lost;

The Sinthians raised me on the Lemnian coast;⁷⁴

He said, and to her hands the goblet heaved,

Which, with a smile, the white-arm'd queen received

Then, to the rest he fill'd; and in his turn,

Each to his lips applied the nectar'd urn,

Vulcan with awkward grace his office plies,

And unextinguish'd laughter shakes the skies.

Thus the blest gods the genial day prolong,

In feasts ambrosial, and celestial song.⁷⁵

Apollo tuned the lyre; the Muses round

With voice alternate aid the silver sound.

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--this is to the pleasure of the gods and those unified with them such matters are the entertainment of the gods and the god, for songs and feasts that commemorate, but look towards the nations on the Anatolian shores for more allies to unify with the queens arms and the unified submitted of the gods.

Meantime the radiant sun to mortal sight

Descending swift, roll'd down the rapid light:

Then to their starry domes the gods depart,

The shining monuments of Vulcan's art:

Jove on his couch reclined his awful head,

And Juno slumber'd on the golden bed.

n Volcans fires forge power of earth and edifice the gods will triumph and will work from dawn to dusk till finished, but for them its only one day, a epos  maybe 1000 years of the journey of the soul as mentioned by Plato in the republic.

n Jove will shake the powers above as june will slumber on her golden bed of the alliance of submitted and the good, only these will triumph in the end

n G-ds bless us all

End of book one till next week

peace