Athena's speech here, which will fuel the eventual release of Odysseus and his long ride home, continues at this point to describe the situation in which (at the story's beginning) he is imprisoned. She described how he is suffering torments "on a wave-washed island rising at the centre of the seas," where he is held captive by "a daughter of Atlas, wicked Titan." This daughter, Calypso, is herself an immortal, and contemporary of the oldest gods. The Titans were those deific forces which proceeded Zeus and the other Olympic Gods. Cronos, king of the Titans, had been the father of Zeus and over thrown by them. In this overthrow, the old titans were replaced by the new Gods -- but the child of the titan Atlas would still have a great deal of power like Zeus himself. Atlas was the titan "whose shoulders lift on high the colossal pillars thrusting earth and sky apart" and who with his strength supports...
Hence Calypso, as his child, can be see as a sort of elemental force. She holds Odysseus as easily as Athena controls the minds of the suitors, and yet she is not as strong as Zeus. In her forced yielding to Zeus (who is essentially her cousin), there is some foreshadowing of the way in which Odysseus with Athena's help is overcoming the anger of the gods... For Zeus and the young gods were once to the titans what humans are now to the gods, and their eventually seizure of control has certain odd parallels to the slip from the Iliad to the Odyssey in terms of deific intervention. This extract ends with Athena saying that as he is "straining for no more than a glimpse of hearth-smoke drifting up from his own land, Odysseus longs to die..." This is used to return the extract to a focus on the humanity of the story, and Odysseus' desire to return home which is being thwarted by the gods.
It was clear that Cain had murdered his brother, an offense that is unthinkable in today's modern context. When Cain refused to admit his sins, God punished him in the same manner as he had punished Adam and Eve. God had cast Cain out of his homeland, just as He had done with Adam and Eve; "And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth
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God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy shows a surprisingly profound understanding of human nature for such a new author. Her complex novel intertwines the past and present with the subtleties of Indian class and culture to create a rich tapestry of betrayal and spirituality. It is perhaps in her portrayal of the many facets of human betrayal that Roy is at her most proficient and convincing in the novel.
Bernard of Clairvauxs on Love For anyone wanting to learn about the simple and complex realities On Loving God, the early writings by Bernard of Clairvauxs present a great place to start. His assessment is written in old style but is pretty easy to understand and relate to. It's encouraging too that he writes with humbleness about the kinds of difficult questions of what love is and whether or not he
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Suffering in the Human Relationship with God Suffering is part of human existence on earth. Christians are no exception to the rule. The problem is that most suffering is experienced by the innocent. When believers suffer, this appears to deny God's love, and it is very difficult to hold on to faith in the face of physical, emotional or spiritual turmoil. In order to understand this phenomenon in the believer's
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