Zeus : son of Cronos, whom he overthrew. He decrees all that shall be, subject only to the mysterious power of Ananke. Lord of the heavens, he has as his special manifestations in Nature: thunder, lightning & the tempest. He is the universal Father.
... in her agora filling the heavens with shoutings, Bearing a name to the throne of Zeus in her mortal defiance. As when a sullen calm of the heavens discourages living, Nature and man feel the pain of the lightnings repressed in their bosoms, Dangerous and dull is the air, then suddenly strong from the anguish Zeus of the thunders starts into glories releasing his storm-voice, Earth exults in the... mystic seat on the tripod! Phoebus, the master of Truth, has promised the earth to our peoples. Children of Zeus, rejoice! for the Olympian brows have nodded Regal over the world. In earth's rhythm of shadow and sunlight Storm is the dance of the locks of the God assenting to greatness, Zeus who with secret compulsion orders the ways of our nature; Veiled in events he lives and working disguised... flame at last and each cornice Page 374 Shrieks with the pain of the blast, if the very pillars totter, Keep yet your faith in Zeus, hold fast to the word of Apollo. Not by a little pain and not by a temperate labour Trained is the nation chosen by Zeus for a dateless dominion. Long must it labour rolled in the foam of the fathomless surges, Often neighbour with death and ere Ares grow ...
... father's chariot and nearly destroyed the earth. Cronion: Zeus (son of Cronos). Cronos or Cronus: Father of Zeus. The youngest of the twelve titans, children of Gaea, the Earth, and Uranus the Sky. Father of six Greek gods: Zeus. Poseidon, Hades, Hera, Demeter and Hestia. He swallowed each of his own children at birth, but Zeus escaped. After a protracted struggle he and the other titans... however, tending to see him as a mere instigator of strife. He was the son of Zeus and Hera, and sided with the Trojans against the Greeks. Argives: name used for the Greeks of Argos, also extended to refer to all the Greeks under the leadership of Agamemnon- Artemis: Greek goddess, daughter of Zeus and Latona and the twin sister of Apollo. She was described in mythology as ... Apollo and Artemis (twin children of Zeus from Leto or Latona) and was the seat of an oracle of Apollo. Delphi: A rugged spot on the slopes of Mount Parnassus in central Greece, the site of the most important temple of Apollo, where the Pythia delivered the inspired messages of the god. Demeter: Daughter of Cronos and Rhea, sister of Zeus, Demeter was an ancient goddess of a ...
... fighting Argives' hands. And Iris, Zeus' crier, standing alongside Priam, spoke in a soft voice, but his limbs shook at once — "Courage, Dardan Priam, take heart! Nothing to fear. No herald of doom, I come on a friendly mission — I come with all good will. I bring you a message sent by Zeus, a world away but he has you in his heart, he pities you now... Olympian Zeus commands you to ransom royal Hector... to bear such torments; the gods live free of sorrows. There are two great jars that stand on the floor of Zeus' halls and hold his gifts, our miseries one, the other blessings. When Zeus who loves the lightning mixes gifts for a man, now he meets with misfortune, now good times in turn. When Zeus dispenses gifts from the jar of sorrows only, he makes a man an outcast. Brutal, ravenous hunger drives... message sent by Zeus: he says the gods are angry with you now and he is rising over them all in deathless wrath that you in heartsick fury still hold Hector's body, here by your beaked ships, and will not give him back. Oh give him back at once — take ransom for the dead!" The swift runner replied in haste, "So be it. The man who brings the ransom can take away the body, if Olympian Zeus himself insists ...
... But in the courts of Heaven Zeus to his brother immortal Turned like a menaced king on his counsellor smiling augustly: "Seest thou, Poseidon, this sign that great gods revolting have left us, Follow their hearts and strive with Ananke? Yet though they struggle, Thou and I will do our will with the world, O earth-shaker." Answered to Zeus the besieger of earth, the voice... desire and enjoying the world and each other Sported free and unscourged; for the earth was their prey and their playground. But from his luminous deep domain, from his estate of azure Zeus looked forth; he beheld the earth in its flowering greenness Spread like an emerald dream that" the eyes have enthroned in the sunlight, Heard the symphonies old of the ocean recalling the... from this lower blue and high in the death-scorning spaces Lifted above mortal mind where Time and Space are but figures Lightly imagined by Thought divine in her luminous stillness, Zeus has his palace high and there he has stabled his war-car. Thence he descends to our mortal realms; where the heights of our mountains Meet with the divine air, he touches and enters our regions ...
... Zeus So too, Demeter, loving my pure Will, Consented to the Separation hard, And gave our child, a portion of herself, Self of her self, made of her light and bliss; - Our single soul of all humanity1 Incarnate in each man and every nation. Ananke A sacrifice made for thy love, O Zeus; She's borne the agony of the Parting long. Zeus Ay, millions... Demeter and Persephone -04_Act_4.htm ACT IV SCENE 1 A room in Zeus' palace. He is looking out of a large window. Ananke, unveiled, stands a little behind him. Zeus Behold, Ananke, how the earth has blossomed Since that gold dawn when thy strong sanctioning word Put its white seal upon my Will, and I Sent forth... giant mights prevail. How can I see the battle's glorious end? Wilt thou come down to save, with all thy legions? Zeus There is one only answer. ( Demeter enters ) It is she. Music: Deep chords as of confirmation. Demeter walks up to Zeus and kneels at his feet. Demeter My Lord, thick darkness gathers over the earth. Grim demon figures stalk upon her ...
... unties? IOLAUS I shrink from violence in the grim god's temple. CIREAS Zeus, art thou there with thy feathers and phosphorus? I pray thee, my good bright darling Zeus, do not come in the way of my earnings. Do not be so cantankerously virtuous, do not Page 409 be so damnably economical. Good Zeus, I adjure thee by thy foot-plumes. IOLAUS Cireas, wilt thou bring forth the... The Legend of Perseus Acrisius, the Argive king, warned by an oracle that his daughter's son would be the agent of his death, hoped to escape his doom by shutting her up in a brazen tower. But Zeus, the King of the Gods, descended into her prison in a shower of gold and Danaë bore to him a son named Perseus. Danaë and her child were exposed in a boat without sail or oar on the sea, but here too... promptings of the deeper and higher psychic and spiritual being which it is his ultimate destiny to become. Page 328 Persons of the Drama PALLAS ATHENE. POSEIDON. PERSEUS - son of Zeus and Danaë. CEPHEUS - King of Syria. IOLAUS - son of Cepheus and Cassiopea. POLYDAON - priest of Poseidon. PHINEUS - King of Tyre. TYRNAUS, SMERDAS - merchants of Babylonia, wrecked on ...
... Achilles, Achaeans armed for the fight, And up the plain from them the Trojans did likewise. But powerful Zeus, from the many-ridged peak of Olympus, Bade Themis call the gods to a meeting, and quickly She went to them all and summoned them to the assembly At Zeus' palace. Not one river-god was absent Except Oceanus, nor any nymph, of all those Who haunt the lovely groves... man-to-man combat, he would not easily beat me, Not though he claims to be made of solid bronze!" Then lord Apollo, son of Zeus, replied: "Heroic Aeneas, why don't you also invoke The gods everlasting? After all, men say Aphrodite, Daughter of Zeus, is your mother, while surely Achilles Was born of a lesser goddess. Remember, your mother Is Zeus's own daughter, his the ... little look Did you cast behind you that day as you ran. From there You fled to Lyrnessus, which I attacked with the help Of Athena and Father Zeus and sacked it completely, Leading the women off no longer free. Zeus and the other gods saved you that time, but not This day, I believe, will they save you again, as you Undoubtedly think they will. So I myself warn you ...
... declares Menelaus the victor, and the war is apparently ended; but the gods, in imitative council on Olympus, demand more blood. Zeus votes for peace, but withdraws his vote in terrified retreat when Hera, his spouse, directs her speech upon him. She suggests that if Zeus will agree to the destruction of Troy she will allow him to raze Mycenae, Argos, and Sparta to the ground. The war is renewed; many... favored by them, but at one point in the battle he quarrels with Zeus' river, the Scamander. The river begs him to desist from his bloodshed as his clear waters are being polluted: "Stop Achilles! Greater than any man on earth, Greater in outrage too — For the gods themselves are always on your side! But if Zeus allows you to kill off all the Trojans, Drive them out of my... and "darkness enfolds his eyes." (V) The gods join in the merry slicing game; Ares, the awful god of war, is hurt by Diomed's spear, "utters a cry as of nine thou-sand men" and runs off to complain to Zeus. (VI) In a pretty interlude the Trojan leader Hector, before rejoining the battle, bids good-by to his wife Andromache. "Love," she whispers to him, "thy stout heart will be thy death; nor hast thou ...
... of the Achaean heroes, delivered to Trojans, a message of a conditional truce, which was rejected. We also hear in that epic the supreme Zeus and other Olympian gods who had watched the rejection revealing the deeper design of the unfolding of human history. Zeus, addressing the assembly of the gods, declares: "Troy shall fall at last and the ancient ages shall perish. ... Let not one nation... immediate issue was that of the departure of Apollo, the god of spiritual light, and enthronement of Athene, the goddess of Reason. The beautiful mystic Apollo knows this and responds to Zeus: "Zeus, I know that I fade; already the night is around me. Dusk she extends her reign and obscures my lightnings with error. Therefore my prophets mislead men's hearts to the ruin appointed... from Troy and with the fall of Troy, Hellas was created under the rule of Athene, the goddess of Reason. But aware of her real role in shaping human culture to its fullness, she had replied to Zeus: "Zeus, I see and I am not deceived by thy words in my spirit. We but build forms for thy thought while thou smilest down high o'er our toiling; Even as men are we tools for thee, who are thy ...
... favorite child of Zeus and that she sprung directly from his head. Here is a short tale about her birth as told in D' Aulaires Greek Myths: "Athena's mother was Metis, goddess of prudence, the first wife of Zeus. He depended on her for he needed her wise council, but Mother Earth warned him that, were Metis to bear him a son, this son would dethrone him. This must not happen, thought Zeus, but he couldn't... into the male-dominated religion of Zeus. Aphrodite was also known as Ishtar Page 68 in Babylon, and as Astarte in what is now Syria and Palestine. In Sumer she was worshiped as Innana, the great cosmic mother. In the Homeric hymns, which reflect the ideals and beliefs of a society pre- dominantly patriarchal, Aphrodite is said to be the daughter of Zeus, but in earlier myth she is said... she had taken on the shape of a little fly, Zeus opened wide his mouth, took a deep breath, and zip! He swallowed the fly. Ever after Metis sat in his head and guide him from there. Now it happened that Metis was going to have a daughter, and she sat inside Zeus's head hammering out a helmet and weaving a splendid robe for the coming child. Soon Zeus began to suffer from pounding headaches and ...
... the legend of the god; that of the passion of Dionysus. Son of Zeus and Demeter (or sometimes of Kore), Dionysus- Zagreus was torn to pieces by the Titans who threw the remains of his body into a big caldron. Pallas Athena however was able to rescue the god's heart which she brought to Zeus. With the still beating heart Zeus created Dionysus while Zagreus became an underworld deity, who in Hades... have perished of cruel, biting hunger if Zeus had not intervened. Zeus sent his son Hermes to Hades, and he obtained from him the promise that he would return young Kore to her mother. But, before sending her back, Hades tempted her to eat a few seeds of pomegranate and, as this fruit was a symbol of marriage, their union became indissoluble. As a compromise Zeus decided that Persephone should live with... supporting universal laws and functions, and were not bound by life and matter. In Greece, already at the time of Homer, the gods had developed deep moral and psychological functions. Zeus, very similar in some aspects to the Vedic god Indra, Lord of the sky and Illumined Intelligence, was Lord of wind, rain and storms, and of thunder The Thunderer became one of his most _____________ ...
... with earth. Apart from the passage about the Gods joining the mellay and a few others, perhaps this sense comes closest to us in the declarations of Gods and Goddesses when Zeus summons them together in Book VIII. Apropos of Zeus himself Sri Aurobindo says: Page 129 Red, intolerable, anguish of ore that is fused in the hell-heat, Shrink and yearn for coolness and peace and condemn... or it is the temple-rapt enthusiast with his huge reveries and god-gilded delusions, brave with a desperate passion— Storm is the dance of the locks of the God assenting to greatness, Zeus who with secret compulsion orders the ways of our nature;... Death? I have faced it. Fire? I have watched it climb in my vision Over the timeless domes and over the rooftops of Priam, ... that are locked in the caverns of Nature. Calm and unmoved, upholding the Word that is Fate and the order Fixed in the sight of a Will foreknowing and silent and changeless, Hera sent by Zeus and Athene lifting his aegis Guarded the hidden decree. But for Ilion, loud as the surges, Ares impetuous called to the fire in men's hearts, and his passion Woke in the shadowy depths ...
... in a Christian manner what the Greek myth in Aeschylus's Suppliants represents. Although it speaks of Zeus making Io a mother with "a mystic breath" which Brown finds it possible to understand as "spirit", Brown 84 comments: "a few lines later on we hear that Io was 'quickened with Zeus' veritable seed'..." Keeping these words in sight, look at 1 John 3:9 - "It was to undo all that the devil... the Word, who is the firstborn of God, came into being without sexual intercourse... we do not report anything different from your view about those called sons of Zeus" (First Apology, 21). 88 It is apparent that the action of a Zeus or any other god on a woman in some sort of sexual manner along with a spiritual non-sexual influx did not, for Justin, put it in a different category from that... believe, not implausibly, that it is not impossible for the Spirit of a god to approach a woman and procure in her certain beginnings of parturition... (b) Aeschylus, Suppliants, w. 17-19, speaks of Zeus making Io a mother 'with a mystic breath' (which could be interpreted as spirit)... (c) Plutarch, Table-Talk, VIII: 1, 2-3 (Loeb. Moralia, 9, 114-19), has Apollo engender Plato not by seed, but ...
... living king on his coins when Ptolemy I appears, still as a god with the aegis of Zeus. Seleucus I similarly puts himself on his coins as Dionysus..." Now, Dionysus is well-known as the Son of Zeus by Semele, and the etymology of the very name is supposed to be: "dio - name of the Thraco-Phrygian sky god resembling Zeus; nys- possibly akin to Lat. nurus. Gr. nyos, and may mean 'child' or 'son';... his mother Berenice also, the two being worshipped together as theoi Sôteres. Antiochus I followed the Ptolemaic precedent by instituting at Seleucia-in-Pieria a cult for his father as Seleucus Zeus Nicator. So far we can point to no instance of a cult of the living sovereign (though the cities might institute such locally) being established by the court for the realm. This step was taken in Egypt... was evidently in answer to a command translated to Dan-damis (Dandi-Swāmī?) to meet Alexander, "Son of God". In fact, another account 1 preserves the words of the command: "The son of the mighty god Zeus, King Alexander, who is the sovereign lord of all men, asks you to go to him..." Thus in 326 B.C. Alexander's interpreter used the expression "Devaputra" to Dandamis who in his answer repeated ...
... Greeks. And above them all are the "awful three" - Themis, Dis and Ananke - and Zeus of course is above everybody. These gods and goddesses have their divers powers and personalities, yet they are not the ultimate Power - as Agni, Vayu and Indra are made to realise in the Kena Upanishad. In the Council of the Gods when Zeus tells Athene that she shall rule as the light of reason the Greek and the Saxon... when it moans unappeased, unrequited.. . 89 And now, on the eve of the final battle, the gods too assemble in full force to confabulate and decree: Hera came in her pride, the spouse of Zeus and his sister. As at her birth from the foam of the spaces white Aphrodite Rose in the cloud of her golden hair like the moon in its halo. 90 And others too, "aegis-bearing Athene... Saxon, the Frank and the Roman, the goddess answers that she knows that she too (like the rest) is but a subordinate power ordained to function only for a limited term: Zeus, I see and I am not deceived by thy words in my spirit. We but build forms for thy thought while thou smilest down high o'er our toiling; Even as men are we tools for thee, who are thy children and dear ones. ... ...
... Emperor Theodosus I, in AD 393, closed all "pagan" shrines. Zeus the Thunderer and all the other gods of Mount Olympus were banished. The last Olympiad, the 293rd, was probably held that same year. Olympia lay buried in mud for about 1,400 years. Early in the nineteenth century, archaeologists began to explore the remains of the temple of Zeus, and they have been digging in the area ever since. ... the only date which historians can treat as a lodestar in their search is 776 BC. This is called the first fixed date in Greek history, the year in which the Olympic Games were founded in honour of Zeus. But this was by no means the beginning of Greek athletics. We know from Homer, the author of the two famous epics the Iliad and the Odyssey, that the events of the Games had been practised in... something perhaps more surprising: he made games part of his religion. To be quite explicit, the Olympian Games, the Page 289 greatest of the four international festivals, were held in honour of Zeus of Olympia, the Pythian Games in honour of Apollo, the Panathenaic Games in honour of Athena. Moreover, they were held in the sacred precinct. The feeling that prompted this was a perfectly natural ...
... of course, older than Homer and Hesiod and has been recounted by them: Persephone, daughter of Demeter and Zeus, is carried off by Pluto, God of the Underworld, with Zeus' consent, when she goes to pluck the narcissus-flower, grown specially for the occasion by Gaia, the Earth-Goddess, at Zeus' behest. Pluto makes her his queen and keeps her as his prisoner. Demeter, in deep sorrow searches for her... and uneasy, spies on Demeter and destroys her work. Demeter reveals her godhead and leaves the place. The common story tells of how she goes to ask Zeus to send for Persephone, compelling him to do so by stopping all growth of corn and fruit on earth. Zeus sends Hermes to fetch Persephone and Pluto has to release her, but he has given her seven pomegranate seeds to eat, to assure her return to his realm... Persephone speaks of the separation of the soul from its Divine Mother-Consciousness and its descent into Matter, (the Greek "hyle"), into Hades. Pluto, Lord of the Underworld, called also "the Nether Zeus", is the entire material Nature which imprisons the soul until the Divine Consciousness descends and redeems it, and all Nature with it. The ancients certainly knew these deeper significances. Plotinus ...
... of each." Each one names Him according to his pleasure, says the Greek seer, and He accepts all names and yet accepts none, not even the highest name of Zeus. "He consents and yet at the same time does not consent to be called by the name of Zeus." So too said Indian Dirghatamas of old in his long hymn of the divine Mysteries in the Rig Veda, "One existent the sages call by many names." Though He assumes... immortal Fire. Something that is eternal, that is itself eternity, something that is for ever one,—for the cosmos is eternally one and many and does not by becoming cease to be one,—something that is God (Zeus), something that can be imaged as Fire which, if an ever-active force, is yet a substance or at least a substantial force and not merely an abstract Will-to-become,—something out of which Page 226... changing; there is a Being as well as a Becoming and by that we have an eternal and real existence as well as a temporary and apparent, are not merely a constant mutation but a constant identical existence. Zeus exists, a sempiternal active Fire and eternal Word, a One by which all things are unified, all laws and results perpetually determined, all measures unalterably maintained. Day and Night are one, Death ...
... divinity of mental Wisdom. Even as far back as the drama Perseus the Delioerer 2 of Sri Aurobindo's Baroda days we have those lines on Athene: A noble centre of a people's worship, To Zeus and great Athene build a temple Between your sky-topped hills and Ocean's vasts: Her might shall guard your lives and save your land. In your human image of her deity A light of... only when a crude vitalism is overpassed: it is developed also when a mighty supra-intellectualism is left behind. This latter aspect is shown magnificently in "The Book of the Gods" in Ilion. Zeus summons all the Gods to assembly and declares the divine will that Troy should perish and be razed to the ground, however heart-rending the event may prove to many of the deities, for only by the perishing... progress: the hour is ripe now for the advent of the rule of Reason and there must be for its sake the subdual of three powers—Aphrodite, Ares and Apollo. After addressing several of the Gods, far-seeing Zeus says to "the brilliant offspring born of his musings": 2 "What shall I say to the thought that is calm in thy breasts, O Athene? Have I not given thee earth for thy portion, throned thee ...
... out of it by a somewhat pompous and ill-balanced turn at the end: Son of Cronion, of Zeus the Almighty was I — but afflictions Ever-unending I knew. Surely it was nothing save defect of the poetic afflatus that could not strike upon a more moving approximation like I was the child of Zeus Cronion, yet have I suffered Infinite pain. Sri Aurobindo's sovereign mark is... Missing their blameless charioteers, but for these, they were outstretched Flat upon earth, far dearer to vultures than to their home-mates. Another passage by the same poet is about Zeus speaking to the weeping horses of Achilles: Now when the issue of Kronos beheld that sorrow his head shook Pitying them for their grief, these words then he spoke in his bosom:... Agamemnon in the fight. Almost as fine in its own way is the note of pathos, pausing and progressing, with a suggestive burden of repetition, in the two opening lines, beautifully enjambed, of the speech of Zeus — "Why, ye hapless...". The sixth line of the first excerpt and the last of the second are not unsatisfying. Nevertheless we are left disappointed with the sum-total. If we were to give a summary d ...
... When morning came, what had been the proudest city in Asia was fiery ruin. As the invocation of the Iliad says, "the will of Zeus was done”. . The excerpt presented here is taken out of book 20, " The Gods at War.” Earlier in the story, the gods, on Zeus' demand, had withdrawn from the battlefield. They are now conveyed to come to an assembly on mount Olympus and asked to help once more... He furthermore, set passages describing scenes of sacrifice, fighting and funerals and particular descriptive phrases, called epithets, that describe gods, people and nature as examples among many, 'Zeus is Lord of lightning, the Thunderer, Lord of the gathering gale; Poseidon, the great shaker of shores, creator of earthquake. Lord of the main;*Hermes is, luck bringing, and Aphrodite, adorer of smiles... Poseidon, Lord of the sea, favored the Greeks, a sea people and great sailors. Apollo helped the Trojans for the sake of Hector, son of Priam and mainstay of Troy, and Artemis, his sister, did so too. Zeus, for his part, tried to stay neutral, but, urged by Thetis, who cruelly wounded by her son’s dishonor wanted a Trojan victory, agreed to help and sent a false dream to Agamemnon promising him victory ...
... Asia Minor, southeast of the site of ancient Troy. It was a seat of Zeus. Trojan, herald of Priam. Idaeus: Trojan, son of Priam. Ilus: legendary Trojan king, son of Dardanus and ancestor of Priam. He was one of the chief builders of Troy, which was named Ilion after him. Iris: goddess, messenger of Zeus who travels on a rainbow. Judgment of Paris: a tale of... kettle. Centaur: a member of the race, half man and half horse living in the mountains of Thessaly. Chiron: centaur renowned for his skill in medicine. Dardanus: son of Zeus and Electra, the daughter of Atlas; he married the daughter of Teucer and became the ancestor of both the younger and older branches of the royal house of Troy. Deiphobus: son of Priam... is the mythical explanation behind the siege of Troy. Lesbos: island and city off the coast of Asia Minor south of Troy. Leto: Greek goddess, mother of Apollo and Artemis by Zeus. Libation: the pouring out of a liquid as an offering to the gods. Lyre: a stringed instrument of the harp class used by ancient Greeks to accompany song and recitation. ...
... of Indra who became later on the king of the gods. And Zeus too occupies the same place in Greek Pantheon. Indra is, as has been pointed out by Sri Aurobindo, the Divine Mind, the leader of thought-gods (Maruts), the creator of perfect forms, in which to clothe our truth-realisations in life. The later traditional Indra in India and the Greek Zeus seem to be formulations on a lower level of the original... words, the scientific procedure. The Greeks have had their gods, their mythology; but these are modelled some-what differently: the gods are made more human, too human, j as has often been observed. Zeus and Juno (Hera) are infinitely more human than Isis and Osiris or Moloch and Baal or even the Jewish Jehovah. These vital gods have a sombre air about them, solemn and serious, grim and powerful, but... original archetypal Indra, where the consciousness was more mentalised, intellectualised, made more rational, sense-bound, external, pragmatic. The legend of Athena being born straight out of the head of Zeus is a pointer as to the nature and character of the gods. The Roman name for Athena, Minerva, is significantly derived by scholars from Latin mens, which means, as we all know, mind. The Greek ...
... shall produce Perseus in court. Iolaus is content but is amused as well: I laugh to see wise men Catching their feet in their own subtleties. King Phineas, wilt thou seize Olympian Zeus And call thy Tyrian smiths to forge his fetters? Or wilt thou claim the archer bright Apollo To meet thy human doom, priest Polydaon? ' Tis well; the danger's yours. 11 The... thunderous Ocean.... Page 125 I am a god, a mighty dreadful god, The multitudinous mover in the sea.... Sit'st thou, my elder brother, charioted In clouds? Look down, O brother Zeus, and see My actions! they merit thy immortal gaze. 16 The last Act. Andromeda is chained to the cliff on the seaside, and as she awaits the monster of the deep, she speaks words that lash... Elsewhere Polydaon is busy condemning Iolaus, Cepheus and Cassiopea to death, but at the nick of time Perseus intervenes: Page 126 Syrians, I am Perseus, The mighty son of Zeus and Danae. The blood of gods is in my veins, the strength Of gods is in my arm: Athene helps me.... What I have done, is by Athene's strength.... I have dashed back the leaping angry ...
... this early Indian consciousness. The idea of Zeus pater or Jupiter existed in European antiquity but it evoked in the Greeks & Latins no such emotions as break out in the piteva sunave of Madhuchchhandas & are paralleled by the intimacy of his claim, later on, of special & dear comradeship with Indra, the master of the thunderbolt. The Fatherhood of Zeus was the distant fatherhood of the Prajapati,... —Aryan races—seem to have been otherwise clear, concrete & definite. The Greeks knew well what they meant by Fate, Necessity,Ate, Themis, Dike, Koros,Hubris; we are in no danger of confusing morally Zeus with Ares, or Ares with Hephaistos, Aphrodite with Pallas or Pallas with Artemis! We will suppose, however, that the higher spiritual development of the Indians, their urge towards universality, prevented ...
... into being according to Reason, kat' erin but also kata ton logon . What is this Logos? It is not an inconscient reason in things, for his Fire is not merely an inconscient force, it is Zeus and eternity. Fire, Zeus is Force, but it is also an Intelligence; let us say then that it is an intelligent Force which is the origin and master of things. Nor can this Logos be identical in its nature with the... absolute reason therefore combining and managing all the relativities of the many. Was not then Philo justified in deducing from this idea of an intelligent Force originating and governing the world, Zeus and Fire, his interpretation of the Logos as "the divine dynamic, the energy and the self-revelation of God"? Heraclitus might not so have phrased it, might not have seen all that his thought contained ...
... wine-god who was on a par with Dionysus and even identified with him. While we are about Prithu as Vainya, son of Vena, we may allude to the myth that Dionysus was bred in the thigh of his father Zeus and delivered from it to the world. The common myth concerning Prithu's birth is that he was born from the churning of Vena's left arm. But Ronald M. Huntington 2 has drawn attention to traditional... flowed, some with water, others with milk and likewise with honey, and others with wine, and some with olive oil; but, by reason of his gluttony and luxury, man fell into arrogance beyond bounds. But Zeus, hating this state of things, destroyed everything and appointed for man a life of toil. And when self-control and the other virtues in general reappeared, there came again an abundance of blessings... overall characteristic of the account is: the change of Ages is due to changing human traits and attitudes (man's "gluttony and luxury", his "self-control and the other virtues"). The "blessings" of Zeus as well as His punitive judgments follow upon historico-psychological events. Nothing is made dependent on pre-determining mathematics on a cosmological scale. Thus Megasthenes and the Purānas ...
... the world, Zeus struck him down with his thunderbolt and transformed him into a constellation. 57. Xenophon, "The Memorabilia of Socrates", literally translated from the Greek by J.S. Watson (Philadelphia: D. McKay, 1899), iv, 8. Page 44 Athena (430 BC) "Hear, Oh Athena, Goddess of Wisdom, conceived in Mother Metis, but born out of the of Father Zeus; Goddess... Charmides, was an ancient Greek sculptor, universally regarded as the greatest of all Classical sculptors. Along with the Athenian works commissioned by Pericles, he also sculpted the colossal statue of Zeus at Olympia in the 5th century BC. 12. Acropolis is the Greek term for the central place of a city containing the municipal and religious buildings, preferably located on a hill, as is the one in ...
... Epictetus who had been a slave and his leg broken. In a dialogue which he imagines, he states: "I will fetter you?" "What did you say man?" "Fetter me?" "You fetter my leg, but my will not even Zeus can conquer." 8 This sense of endurance is expressed even more explicitly in one writings of the Stoics: I must die. But must I die groaning? I must be imprisoned. But must I whine as well... good courage, and at peace? 'Tell the secret.' I refuse to tell, for this is in my power. 'But I will chain you.' What say you, fellow? Chain me? My leg you will chain - yes, but my will - no, not even Zeus can conquer that. 'I will behead you.' Why? When did I ever tell you that I was the only man in the world that could not be beheaded? 9 Page 105 A similar philosophical Stoicism is... fruit to me which thy seasons bring, O Nature: from thee are all things, in thee are all things, to thee all things return. The poet says, Dear City of Cecrops; and wilt thou not say, Dear City of Zeus?" 10 This philosophical Stoicism, in its psychological depth and fervour, stands at a lower level than the state in which equality arises through resignation or surrender of the will to the ...
... It is the husband of thy boasted love, Woman, thou wrongest in thy son. CLEOPATRA Alas, Mentho, my nurse, thou knowest not the cause. MENTHO I do not need to know. Art thou Olympian Zeus? Has he given thee his sceptre and his charge To guide the tangled world? Wilt thou upset His rulings? wilt thou improve his providence? Are thy light woman's brain and shallow love Page 246... Fate our only mover. Seek it out, my soul, And make no error here; for on this hour The future of the man Antiochus, What future he may have upon the earth In name or body lies. Reveal it to me, Zeus! In Antioch or upon the Grecian spears, Where lies my fate? While he is speaking, the Eremite enters. EREMITE Before thee always. ANTIOCHUS How Cam'st thou or whence? I know thy ...
... Fire. It has been objected that he attributes relativity to God, because he says that the first principle is willing and yet not willing to be called by the name of Zeus. But surely this is to misunderstand him altogether. The name Zeus expresses only the relative human idea of the Godhead; therefore while God accepts the name, He is not bound or limited by it. All our concepts of Him are partial and ...
... ns attempt to approach them in quality and manner. In the deep yet clear type, we may cite that "world-cry" from Horner: I was the son of Zeus the Cronion, yet have I suffered Infinite pain. (K.D.S.) Equally magnificent in its expression of a similar motive in a more picturesque style... with twice-repeated cry of woe His limbs gave way beneath him; where he fell, A third time yet I hewed him, as in prayer And sacrifice to the infernal Zeus, Deliverer of the dead. So on the earth he gasped his life away, And from his lips burst forth a gush of blood, That splashed me, ...
... 22 Nor does this beast answer to Blake's conception - "the revelation to the parents that is the central meaning of the poem" 23 -that the King of Hades, "the Zeus of the underworld is in truth the same as the Zeus of Olympus, and Persephone's marriage in truth a marriage to the supreme deity himself." 24 Further, even if Blake had introduced into his Lion-picture the golden armour ...
... written all at once or it may come through by driblets. But, just because it is not bom fully formed and perfectly panoplied like Pallas Athena from the head of Zeus, we cannot say that the ultimate structure of it has nothing of Athena-shape or Zeus-substance. The process of a poem's birth may be slow, gradual, piecemeal. What we have to see at the end is whether the final product, which has come laboriously ...
... picture of Satan's fall the picture of the fall of a comrade of his, who built Satan's palace in Hell and who, according to Milton, was the same spirit that in Greek mythology was known as having offended Zeus and been flung earthwards from Olympus. Milton, relating that he was not unheard of and unadored in ancient Greece and that "in Ausonian land/Men called him Mulciber", writes: and how he fell... situation. There is the sublime phrase in Homer's Odyssey: Zenos men pais ea Kronīonos autar oixun Eikhon apeiresien... This may be hexametricised in English: Son of Saturnine Zeus was I, yet have I suffered Infinite pain... Then there is the poignant phrase in Virgil's Aeneid: Tendebantque manus ripae ulterioris amore. Again a hexametrical version would ...
... Top: The theatre at Dodona and the mountains of Epirus in the back-ground. In Dodona, Zeus' oracle spoke through the rustling leaves of an age-old sacred oak tree. Right: at Delos, the sacred island of Apollo, a processional way, 7th century BC Left page: Apollo (Temple of Zeus, Olympia, c.470 BC) Page 125 ...
... Jules Romains 39 Jules Supervielle 55 Juno 34 Jupiter 32 Jouve 76, 77 K Kali 78 Kalidasa 17, 18, 27, 32 Kanhu 83 Kanwa 8 King Lear 20 King Zeus 34 Krishna 31, 78 Kronos 4 Kumbhodara 17 Kutsa 8 L Lalan the Fakir 84 Laocoon 18 London 10 Lombards 50 M Macbeth 19 Madhuchchanda... Western Powers 83 White Goddess 77 Wordsworth 16, 39, 97, 98, 99, 101, 102, 103 Y Yama I Yoga 33 Yogis 83 Yuga-sandhi 91 Yves Bonnefoy 76 Z Zeus 4, 32 Page 106 ...
... which is nectar in heaven is presented on earth in drugs and herbal juices. Shilindhra and ambrosia pertain to the same class. The birth of Shilindhra resembles the birth of Dionysus. When King Zeus took the form of thunder and lightning and entered the womb of Semele, Dionysus was born. Similar is the story of the appearance of the toadstool, in the midst of rain and thunder and lightning and... worship the father, and Tantriks, the mother. Svarga, Dyaus, is the world of light, and earth or bhu is that of delight and enjoyment. We have already said that high above, up there, dwell Apollo and Zeus and Juno, and below here on earth, Dionysus and Bacchus and Semele and Aphrodite. However the poet says that as the toadstool is born in the midst of thunder and lightning, his strength and capacity ...
... Master had borne little resemblance to the published portraits and even less to one's deliberate imaginings, - yet it had worn a familiar look. Where had one seen the Master before? Was it the face of Zeus as it had appeared in an old book of mythology - or that of Aeschylus? Rishi Vasishtha had, perhaps, worn such radiance when he blessed King Dasharatha's son; perhaps Valmiki had sat even like that... in the varying possibilities of one subject or another that there lies an immense difference. Apelles' grapes deceived the birds that came to peck at them, but there was more aesthetic content in the Zeus of Pheidias... . 80 Or he can, in the course of a few lines, balance the merits of Albert Samain's poem Pannyre aux talons d'or as against those of Flecker's English translation of the ...
... referring evidently to the time (c. 300 B.C.) of Megasthenes - the Greek ambassador to the court of the Indian king whom the Greeks named "Sandrocottus" - tells us that the Indians worshipped Zeus Ombrios, "Zeus of the Rain-storms", who can only be Indra. On the coins of the Kushāņas (early centuries A.D.) we get representations of "Mithro" (Avestan Mithra, Rigvedic Mitra) as well as of "Horon" (Sanskrit ...
... wrath of Achilles, son of Peleus, which laid a thousand woes on the Achaeans and hurled many strong souls of heroes down to Hades and made their bodies a prey for dogs and all the birds; and the will of Zeus was accomplished", he is writing in the highest style of poetry. 13 June 1936 Conceit When an image comes out from the mind not properly transmuted in the inner vision or delivered by the alchemy... there. I may say however that grandeur and nobility are kindred but not interchangeable terms. One can be noble without reaching grandeur—one can be grand without the subtle quality of nobility. Zeus Olympius is grand and noble; Ravana or Briareus with the thousand arms is grand without being noble. Lear going mad in the storm is grand, but too vehement and disordered to be noble. I think the essential ...
... fails in poetic sensitiveness, both in rhythm and word. Here is Homer, godlike yet direct: Zenos men pais ea Kronion autar oixun Eikhon apereisien. Here is Cotterill: Son of Cronion, of Zeus the Almighty was I, but afflictions Ever-unending I knew. The translator has knocked half the world-cry out by a somewhat pompous and cluttered and ill-balanced turn at the end. He has also... also padded out the line with "the Almighty" which is not in the Greek. I think a more moving approximation of the Homeric afflatus can be struck upon by something like: I was the child of Zeus the Kronion, yet have I suffered Infinite pain. ("Kronion" means "one who has Kronos for his father" — Kronos who is known in English as "Saturn".) Homer is always simple even in his profundity ...
... is nectar in heaven is presented on earth in drugs and herbal juices. Shilindhra and ambrosia pertain to the same class. The birth of Shilindhra resembles the birth of Dionysus. When King Zeus took the form of thunder and lightning and entered the womb of Semele, Dionysus was bom. Similar is the story of the appearance of the toadstool, in the midst of rain and thunder and lightning and... worship the father, and Tantriks, the mother. Svarga, Dyaus, is the world of light, and earth or bhu is that of delight and enjoyment. We have already said that high above, up there, dwell Apollo and Zeus and Juno, and below here on earth, Dionysus and Bacchus and Semele and Aphrodite. However the poet says that as the toadstool is born in the midst of thunder and lightning, his strength and ...
... and is therefore inappropriate. Each sign has a devata , a god or spiritual being in charge of it. He is not its master, but its protector and the protector of all who are born in the sign. Indra (Zeus, Odin) protects the Ram, Agni (Moloch, Thor) the Bull, the Aswins (Castor & Pollux) the Twins, Upendra (Baal) the Crab, Varuna (Poseidon) the Lion, Aditi, called also Savitri or Sita (Astarte, Aphrodite) ...
... forces unborn that are locked in the caverns of Nature. Calm and unmoved, upholding the Word that is Fate and the order Fixed in the sight of a Will foreknowing and silent and changeless, Hera sent by Zeus and Athene lifting his aegis Guarded the hidden decree. But for Ilion, loud as the surges, Ares impetuous called to the fire in men's hearts, and his passion Woke in the shadowy depths the forms ...
... ancient peoples. But in all these countries these gods began to assume a higher, a psychological function; Pallas Athene who may have been originally a Dawn-Goddess springing in flames from the head of Zeus, the Sky-God, Dyaus of the Veda, has in classical Greece a higher function and was identified by the Romans with their Minerva, the Goddess of learning and wisdom; similarly, Saraswati, a river Goddess ...
... to be accented in "translunary", not the second as in present practice.) Chapman has now and then a phrase striking with an exceptionally vivid vehemence at the imagination, like the one about Zeus who, favouring the Trojan Hector and looking wrathfully at the Greek galleys afar which Hector wanted to be set on fire, wished in any wise The splendour of the burning ships might satiate ...
... existence in the very language of the riddle. What for instance is the "ever-living Fire" in which he finds the primary and imperishable substance of the universe and identifies it in succession with Zeus and with eternity? or what should we understand by "the thunderbolt which steers all things"? To interpret this fire as merely a material force of heat and flame or simply a metaphor for being which ...
... means: "Just as here you are physically stronger than I, so there I shall be by virtue of my love stronger than you." Page 361 In the passage about the gathering of the Gods before Zeus, in The Book of the Gods, In the same passage the lines, There our sun cannot shine and our moon has no place for her lustres, There our lightnings flash not nor fire of these ...
... W.P., 141 fn. 8,225,282 Word, the, 43 Wordsworth, 131 "work", 29,30,31,62,63,110,222 Workman, Workman Mind, 170,171, 173,222 Wrath, Divine, 39,49,50 Yoga, 4 Zeus of the Underworld and Olympus, 136 "Zoa", 141 fn. 7 Zoas, 4,143-45,257,262,264 Page 275 ...
... a millennium. Moreover, the tradition speaks of the "origins" of the Scythians: "The first man to live in their country, which before his birth was uninhabited, was a certain Targitaus, the son of Zeus and of a daughter of the river Borysthenes". As Herodotus 289 makes plain, he wants this to refer to the terrain which the Scythians occupied before they started moving westward. So his "origins" in ...
... receipt of your letter, so I don't know if it will catch you still in England. What you write about your poetry brings up to me the image of Athene full formed and perfectly panoplied from the head of Zeus. Where then is any room left for "improvement"? Your early work is essentially as good as any "grown-up" might compose. Once you realise this, you won't break your heart because you don't write better ...
... the mystic fire of the Vedas “which is hymned as the upbuilder of the worlds, the secret Immortal in men and things.” It is the central Fire of Heraclitus, Pythagoras and the Stoics, “the heart of Zeus.” “In the Pythagorean cosmology the centre of the world is occupied by a fire (different from the Sun) around which orbit all the heavenly bodies (including the Sun), and that fire is connected with ...
... thinking. Part of the higher hemisphere are the worlds of the attributes of the Godhead, of Being, Consciousness and Bliss, held by the seers to be the highest qualities of existence. When one thinks of Zeus and his Olympic court, of the Hindu pantheon, or of Yahweh and his hosts of angels, it becomes obvious that Brahman with its attributes must be higher, or deeper, or more inclusive. The worlds of the ...
... multifarious learning deployed in balanced organisation - all issued from him as Pallas Athene is said to have been born, leaping splendid-limbed and golden-armoured, sudden yet complete, from the head of Zeus, a complex grandeur of form and function manifested in the simplest manner, without strain, without even visible process. If we are minded to make Milton himself suggest this manner we may take the ...
... varying possibilities of one subject or another that there lies an immense difference. Apelles' 1 grapes deceived the birds that came to peck at them, but there was more aesthetic content in the Zeus ofPheidias, 2 a greater content of Consciousness and therefore of Ananda to express and with it to fill in and intensify the essential principle of Beauty, even though the essence of beauty may ...
... not understand that without Alexander's favour he was nothing. Then later in private he sharply rebuked 2 Craterus. Finally he called both men together and made them be friends again. He swore by Zeus, Ammon and the rest of the gods that these were the two men he loved best in the world, but that if he ever heard them quarrelling again, he would kill them both, or at least the one who began the ...
... perhaps jealous of the happiness and well-being of men and were all the time scheming to disrupt the smooth flow of their lives. A few of the Greek Gods had specially bad repute in this matter: these were Zeus, Themis, Nemesis and Ananke. While speaking about a special trait of the consciousness of the ancient Greeks the Mother once observed: "The Greeks had a keen and exceptional sense of beauty ...
... temporary and temporal, depending on circumstances. There is another kind of law, an unwritten code derived from God and that cannot be transgressed: "Yes, for these laws were not ordained of Zeus, And she who sits enthroned with Gods below, Page 61 Justice enacted not these human laws. Nor did deem that thou, a mortal man, Couldst by a breath annul and override ...
... inexperienced, could not cope immediately with their strong Elders. It is why we see in the mythological legends the gods very often worsted at the hands of the Asuras, Indra hiding under the sea, Zeus threatened often with defeat and disaster. It is only an intervention from the Supreme (the Greeks called it Fate) that saved them in the end and restored the balance. However, the Asuras came ...
... has to be posited first clear and nett. The question next arises how the two are one and identical; this demands some clarification. For, is it meant that they are one and the same in the sense that Zeus and Jupiter are the same or that water and H 2 O are the same? Apart from any barren theorising, is it not a universal and eternal and invariable experience that to attain to the Divine one must leave ...
... Indeed, the Divine chastises also in the same way. The Asura or the anti-divine he does not kill with one blow nor even with many blows of his thunderbolt or burn away with his red wrath. The image of Zeus or Jehovah is a human figuration: it depicts the human way of dealing with one's enemies. The Divine deals with the undivine in the divine way, Page 76 for the undivine too is not something ...
... in the evolutionary movement – and inferior gods that Agni's service is being requisitioned. Mythologically also a parallelism is found in the Greek legends where it is said that the Olympian gods – Zeus and his company – were a younger generation that replaced, after of course a bloody warfare, their ancestors, the more ancient race of Kronos, the Titans. Titans were the Asuras and Rakshasas who reigned ...
... has to be posited first clear and nett. The question next arises how the two are one and identical; this demands some clarification. For, is it meant that they are one and the same in the sense that Zeus and Jupiter are the same or that water and H2O are the same? Apart from any barren theorising, is it not a universal and eternal and invariable experience that to attain to the Divine one must leave ...
... Indeed, the Divine chastises also in the same way. The Asura or the anti-divine he does not kill with one blow nor even with many blows of his thunderbolt or burn away with his red wrath. The image of Zeus or Jehovah is a human figuration: it depicts the human way of dealing with one's enemies. The Divine deals with the undivine in the divine way, for the undivine too is not something outside the Divine ...
... to the artist as well; "In the Artist's vision too there can be gradations, a hierarchy of values—Appelle's grapes deceived the birds that came to peck at them but there was more aesthetic content in Zeus of Phidias, a greater content of consciousness and therefore Ananda to express and fill in the essential principle of beauty, even though the essence of beauty may be realised perhaps with equal aesthetic ...
... the whole cosmic action; everything is a poise of contrary energies. 67 Heraclitus thought of Fire as the source of all. Fire being Force as well as Intelligence; and Fire was for him also Zeus the Eternal. But beyond Force and Intelligence - universal energy and universal reason - there is the third principle, "a third aspect of the Self and of Brahman, besides the universal consciousness ...
... Egyptian gods. “In the Egyptian language”, he writes, “Apollo is called Horus, Demeter Isis, Artemis Bubastis”. Neith is identified with Athena, Osiris with Dionysus, Hathor with Aphrodite, Ammon with Zeus, and so on. 5 In the present context more need not be said about this fascinating topic. Its importance will be clear because it erodes another foundation of the bulwark of “Eurocentrism” that ...
... only monotheisms. This is a gross misconception. “The earliest Greek natural theology was certainly monotheistic … The Greeks did not invent polytheism but instead spoke of a single god whom they call Zeus, whose mind embraces all things in its knowledge, and who guides all things and is king of all’.” (Werner Jaeger 7 ) And there was the Platonic Absolute, the God identified with the Idea of the Good ...
... high debate in the empyrean among the Gods. Even in the Gods' assembly we witness intense pulls this way and that of universal ideas and emotions, aspirations and ambitions. Aphrodite, knowing that Zeus has willed in favour of Hera and Pallas, comes with her perfect mouth a rose of resistance Chidingly budded 'gainst Fate... Passionate and desperate are some of her words: ...
... About the contents of these Dialogues it has been remarked that all subsequent philosophy is only a number of footnotes to what Socrates said. About their form, their style, it has been stated: "If Zeus were to speak in the language of mortals, he would do so in the Greek of Plato." To find another colossal talker we have to jump over nearly two thousand years and come to Dr. Samuel Johnson of ...
... of knowledge. Then there is the tone of voice, which links together the utterances of various poets. Take Zenos men pais ea Kronionos autar oixun Eikhon apeiresien, (I was the son of Zeus Cronion, yet have I suffered Infinite pain,) and O passi graviora! dabit Deus his quoque finem, (Fiercer griefs we have suffered; to these too God will give ending,) ...
... the term means: "entry by a God." The poetic enthousiasmos blows often through Plato's prose. He was an artist in language and not only a fashioner of philosophy. There is the saying: "If Zeus were to speak in the language of mortals, it would be in the Greek of Plato." How particular he was for the right order of vocables and the sovereign rhythm of their combination may be judged from the ...
... Yavyāvatī, 126, 128, 129 Yasdata, 32 Yima (= Jamshed), 83 Zarathustra, Zarathustrian, 2, 81, 93 Zeuner, Frederick, 58, 69, 71, 72, 74, 76, 77 Zend, 33 Zeus Ombrios , 86 "Zhob cult", 59 Zhob valley, 59 Zimmer, 126 Page 151 ...
... discoverers of its wisdom. Both of these processes are recognisable in early mythology. In the Greek legend, for instance, Castor and Polydeuces and their sister Helen are human beings, though children of Zeus, and only deified after their death, but the probability is that originally all three were gods,—Castor and Polydeuces, the twins, riders of the horse, saviours of sailors on the ocean being almost ...
... our egoistic ignorance and self-will and violence dashes up in the end, as the old Greek poet said of the haughty insolence and prosperous pride of man, against the very foundation of the throne of Zeus, the marble feet of Themis, the adamantine bust of Ananke. There is the secret of an eternal factor, the base of the unchanging action of the just and truthful gods, devānāṁ dhruvāṇi vratāni in the ...
... Heraclitus. And is there not after all sometimes a tremendous strength behind weakness, the very strength of the pressure on the oppressed which brings its terrible reaction, the back return of the bow, Zeus, the eternal Fire, observing his measures? Not only between being and being, force and force is there Page 239 war, but within each there is an eternal opposition, a tension of contraries ...
... in the varying possibilities of one subject or another that there lies an immense difference. Apelles' grapes deceived the birds that came to peck at them, but there was more aesthetic content in the Zeus of Phidias, a greater content of consciousness and therefore of Ananda to express and with it to fill in and intensify the essential principle of Beauty even though the essence of beauty might be realised ...
... committed against him. The story is actually about the passage of a half-primitive tribe, living in terror of the old dark and cruel gods, to a more evolved and sunlit stage. Perseus, son of Diana and Zeus, and protected by Pallas Athene, goddess of wisdom and intelligence, comes to deliver Andromeda from the rock she is chained to (the rock symbolizes the Inconscient for the Rishis), and founds the religion ...
... madness they perished, Fools that they were—who the cows of the sun-god, lord Hyperion, Slaughtered and ate; and he took from the men their day of returning. Sing—whence-ever the lay—sing, Zeus-born goddess for us too! It would seem that today the most promising voice is of an American disciple of Sri Aurobindo: Jesse Roarke. He has a translation of the entire Iliad waiting for an ...
... yuggs, 258 Yuvan,257 Zakir, 333,349 Zāmotika, 468 Zarathustra, 281,282,366, 367 Zarathustrian culture and society, 247 Zarathustrian pantheon, 333 Zeus, 81,146 Zimmer,H.,309 Page 643 ...
... s. I may start with that snatch from the Odyssey: Zenos men pais ea Kronlonos autar oixun Eikhon apeiresien, which I may approximate in English with: I was the child of Zeus Cronion, yet have I suffered Infinite pain. Or take that equally poignant yet more reassured cry from Virgil: O passi graviora! dabit deus his quoque finem, rendered most sensitively ...
... Attica. 41 The Great King: The king of Persia, regarded as a type of worldly prosperity. 42 Minos, Rhadamanthys, and Aeacus were by tradition mortal sons of Zeus (the gods' king), and became judges in the underworld as a reward for their earthly justice and piety. 43 Triptolemus was the introducer of agriculture and had an important part in ...
... case. Using a large number of jurors prevented bribery and the panel before which a case was to be tried was decided by lot at the last minute to reduce corruption. All jurors swore an oath by the gods Zeus, Apollo and Demeter: "I will cast my vote in consonance with the laws and decrees passed by the Assembly and by the council, but, if there is no law, in consonance with my sense of what is most ...
... especially at Eleusis in Attica. The Great King: The king of Persia, regarded as a type of worldly prosperity. Minos, Rhadamanthys, andAeacus were by tradition mortal sons of Zeus (the gods' king), and became judges in the underworld as a reward for their earthly justice and piety. Triptolemus was the introducer of agriculture and had an important part in the cult ...
... and an inauguration of the same evil under a new name and form, which means its perpetuation, but in the creation of a new life and soul, that can happen only with the creation of a new head and front Zeus-like that would give birth to the goddess of light and knowledge, inspirer of a true Brahminhood. We repeat a fair and sure economic basis has to be found for the down-trodden, proletarian ...
... humanity. Humanity, according to Nietzsche, is made in order to be beautiful, to conceive the beautiful, to create the beautiful. Nietzsche's Superman has its perfect image in a Grecian statue of Zeus cut out in white marble-Olympian grandeur shedding in every lineament Apollonian beauty and Dionysian vigour. The real secret of Nietzsche's philosophy is not an adoration of brute force ...
... the ground, and had to be very careful, particularly at turnings, by checking his speed. We were posted at these turnings to prevent any possibility of a mishap. His steps were now not like those of Zeus on Mount Olympus! They had naturally lost that resounding force we were accustomed to hear, when he used to pace up and down above, during our meditation in the hall below. He told us that it was during ...
... 194 World Review, the, 353 World War I, 101, 373 YADUPATI,91 Yajnavalkya, 160, 167,200,259 Yama, 381 Yeats, 152, 195 Yudhisthira, 93 ZEUS, 24, 123,220,222 Zola, 145 ...
... dream of delight Thou comst nearer and nearer to me. Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: In Some Faint Dawn ============= MUSES, the nine goddesses of the liberal arts — daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne. Calliope — of epic poetry Clio — ” history Erato — ” love poetry Euterpe — ” music and lyric poetry Melpomene — ” tragedy Polyhymnia — ” sacred lyrics Terpsichore — ” dancing ...
... originally represented the beings did not entirely disappear from iconography; they became the companions or slaves of the divinities whom they used to embody, e.g., the owl of Athene, the eagle of Zeus, the hind of Artemis, the dolphin of Poseidon, and the dove of Aphrodite. In other cases, the bestial or repugnant forms have been left to evil spirits, the enemies of gods and men." 4 Man ...
... amphora - 670 BC) Page 22 attack with great force. They rushed in through the open gates, and in the midst of the general massacre and destruction, Odysseus killed Priam at the altar of Zeus. The city was burned and looted. Menelaus ransacked the royal apartments of Troy in search of his wife. In the meantime, when Paris was killed, Helen had married a brother of Paris, Demophobus. Menelaus ...
... Sparta, and lost its empire. _____________ 1 Feudal: characteristic of or relating to a fief. 2 Olympic Games: the greatest Panhellenic festival, held every fourth year in honour of Zeus at ancient Olympia. From 472B.C., it consisted of five days of games, sacrifices, and festivities. Page 90 The city-states of Greece continued to fight between themselves and particularly ...
... theology that is available, Bacchus with whom one can be united by increasing development of the heavenly part that was twice born, once of his mother Siemele, and once from the thigh of his father Zeus. The Bacchic rites, it was believed, were capable of making man more nearly completely divine. At Eleusis, the most important part of religion consisted of Eleusinian mysteries. It appears that the ...
... courage^, and at peace? Tell the secret.' I refuse to tell, for this is in my power. 'But I will chain you.' What say v you, fellow? Chain me? My leg you will chain — yes,,, but my will — no, not even Zeus can conquer that. ° "I will behead you.' Why? When did I ever tell you that I was the only man in the world that could not be beheaded? 7 An example of the second stage of equality, that of ...
... wrath of Achilles, son of Peleus, which laid a thousand woes on the Achaeans and hurled many strong souls of heroes down to Hades and made their bodies a prey for dogs and all the birds; and the will of Zeus was accomplished", he is writing in the highest style of poetry. June 13, 1937 Guru, here is the tail of the poem I had begun. I am afraid the typing is as pale as the moon's eye and the ...
... everything had a name she at once became mistress of the treasury of the English language, or that "her mental faculties emerged, full armed, from their then living tomb, as Pallas Athena from the head of Zeus," as one other enthusiastic admirers would have us believe. At first, the words, phrases and sentences which she used in expressing her thoughts were all reproductions of what we had used in conversation ...
... 133 YAJNAVALKYA, 5-6, 29-30, 126, 242, 299 Yama, 13, 19-20, 32-5, 157, 159-60 Yeats, W. B., 94n -The Wind among the Reeds, 94n - "The Lover tells of the Rose in his Heart", 94n ZEUS, 159, 182 Zhivago, 186-8 Page 376 ...
... anterior—in the evolutionary movement —and inferior gods that Agni's service is being requisitioned. Mythologically also a parallelism is found in the Greek legends where it is said that the Olympian gods—Zeus and his company—were a younger generation that replaced, after of course a bloody warfare, their ancestors, the more ancient race of Kronos, the Titans. Titans were the Asuras and Rakshasas who reigned ...
... and inexperienced, could not cope immediately with their strong Elders. It is why we see in the mythological legends the gods very often worsted at the hands of the Asuras: Indra hiding under the sea, Zeus threatened often with defeat and disaster. It is only an intervention from the Supreme (the Greeks called it Fate) that saved them in the end and restored the balance. However, the Asuras came to ...
... -"We are Seven", 195n. World War, 66-7, YAJNAVALKYA,21,134 Yama,44 Yeats,84n. -The Wild Swans at Coole, 84n. -"The Phases of the Moon", 84n. Yudhisthira, 76-7 ZEUS, 25, 98, 253 Page 434 ...
... and an inauguration of the same evil under a new name and form, which means its perpetuation, but in the creation of a new life and soul, that can happen only with the creation of a new head and front Zeus-like that would give birth to the goddess of light and knowledge, inspirer of a true Brahminhood. Page 119 We repeat a fair and sure economic basis has to be found for the down-trodden ...
... n the evolutionary movement—and inferior gods that Agni's service is being requisitioned. Mytho-logically also a parallelism is found in the Greek legends where it is said that the Olympian gods—Zeus and his company—were a younger generation that replaced, after of course a bloody warfare, their ancestors, the more ancient race of Kronos, the Titans. Titans were the Page 4 Asuras ...
... beauty than others. "In the artist's vision too there can be gradations, a hierarchy of values.—Apollo's grapes deceived the birds that came to peck at them, but there was more aesthetic content in the Zeus of Phidias, a greater content of consciousness and therefore of Ananda to express and fill in the essential principle of Beauty, even though the essence of beauty may be realised perhaps with equal ...
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