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2.28.2009

A Homeric epics thought

In my last email I mentioned C. S. Lewis saying Christianity is the myth that is true. Then I started thinking about how the Homeric epics mirror the language of the Work, visually. I thought about Odysseus, but wondered where Jesus would be, in even just the 'shadowy' way, in the Homeric epics. Then I thought of Achilles. How he *knows* he will die. How it is fated. How he willingly, eventually, goes back into the battle, giving himself in sacrifice, if you will.

It has weaknesses, but in a shadowy way there may be a touch of correspondence.

If I had to identify a Trinity: Zeus is God the Father, Achilles is God the Son, and Athena is God the Holy Spirit.

That sounds lame I know. Odysseus is the developing soul. Of course Achilles ends up in Hades, with no power, which is not very correspondent to Jesus Christ. I said it's weak, but... Achilles sacrificed himself and they all lived. He died, so they could win victory and live.

Achilles fighting the river is almost a visual of a warrior fighting a giant snake (the devil).

Another note: Gen 3:15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

Jesus shall bruise Satan's head, and Satan shall bruise Jesus' heel. Achilles died that way. Shot by an arrow in the heel.

It also occurs to me that if you had to identify a Satan figure in the Homeric epics (read the previous email I just sent first before this one) it would be Paris, Hector's brother. He is beautiful, worldly, he runs if confronted. He teams up with Helen, symbolic of the world, illusion all that. Paris is also at the foundation of all the trouble-making. I notice Paris' death is not recorded in the Iliad either. (Paris is also called Alexander or Alexandros.)

Also, it occurs to me: it was Paris (Satan) that killed Achilles (Jesus). Shot him in the heel with an arrow. Don't see how Achilles could have wounded Paris' 'head' though, unless it was the overall sacking of Paris' father's city and Kingdom.

Posted by c.t. at 15:13