Greek mythology is not a set of fairy tales about the adventures of gods and heroes.Ancient people contemplate the world is not as modern.His thinking was more imaginative than logical.The forces of nature humanizes and thus let in the human world.And the myth of the Cyclops is, to put it in a modern way, have multiple parts.
Ideological meta
Their story begins with the moment when the Olympian gods, beating storukih giants gathered to share power, and worlds together.There were three brothers: Poseidon senior, middle and junior Hades, Zeus.In battle, they all proved themselves worthy, and in no way inferior to each other.And then (the interesting part) come to the fore moral qualities of the three brothers.We do not want lesser gods and idols to see small ruler of the heavens nor the gloomy Hades, nor the terrible and impatient Poseidon.Under the rules of inheritance of the heavens has to be rule Poseidon, but the voice, it turns out, had other immortals.
Tsiklopichnye size and Cyclops
harbored a grudge Poseidon and took some action to overthrow his younger brother, namely, the power went out and married his wife of Cronus and mother of all things.It was an act of presentation of their rights to the highest authority among the gods.Subtlety - nothing like Zeus did not take.His power rested not only on his power, but also in harmony with all subordinate gods.While Poseidon raped the mother of all things, Zeus, along with the rest of the world to equip.He, in particular, helped to create the titanic Prometheus people.And then came the moment when Gaia beginning to bear heirs Poseidon - a huge, one-eyed and ugly.That's the first answer to the question of who the Cyclops.
unvarnished
Poseidon joy raced to the island of the Cyclops, together with them to go to Olympus and Change, in his opinion, the usurper.And if it does not the world, then overthrow.And they were wonderful, freshly created world.And he saw a harmonious people saw grazing horses, oaks, cool and full of bliss.And ashamed of ugliness of their children.Smaller-the gods did not dare to openly laugh at the older brother of Zeus, but behind her Poseidon heard giggles.And he gave up their claims, because I realized what the power of Zeus, as the ruler - in the beauty of the created world to them.And he returned his children to their island, and he plunged into the depths of the ocean to surpass his younger brother in the works.
Almost gods
modern population does not fully understand the very meaning of the word "Cyclops".People just moved away from nature and perceive the myth as entertaining a story in which one irrepressible imagination, and nothing more.But over the dwellings of ancient people over their flocks and fields "krugloglazye" (translated from the Greek, the direct meaning of "Cyclops") took place with heavy storm clouds, in which lightning and thunder.This mighty Titans and their junior or playing or fighting among themselves.These forces of nature, whether they are not restrained by the gods, would stop man's life on earth.They can not create.They can only run amok.
Cyclops represent an extreme form of irrationality forces that greatly exceed conceivable chapels awareness of human power as such.And that, if the shift to a modern mythology logical language of science, is true.In one year, storms in mid-latitudes of the planet Earth in the electrical discharges alone consume more energy than all of humanity has spent the last 100 years.
Pedigree
But some Titans took the path of humanization and therefore able to be, like people, gods.After all, the word "God" has a common ancestry with the word "be".Such and was Prometheus.He knows who the Cyclops, and moving away from its close relatives, becomes a teacher of people.Prometheus is not inert strength and entree to the gods.Zeus punishes him out of jealousy and did not like the others megagigantov.He is immortal, ascended the cliff and chained.And his liver pecked eagle, but she recovered overnight, flour to last forever.But there comes a man, the son of Zeus and a mortal, and releases it.Later, Hercules was lifted up on a golden chariot to Olympus, where he sat down at the banquet table with the gods.
Here's how to understand his existence in the world ancient people.There is no death.And there conservatism that everyone is able to win the confidence and become a god.Therefore, the principle - know thyself.
Homer describes the Copper Age
the past two centuries - gold and silver.People have become powerful, but to upset the balance of nature.Heroism has become a priority of their existence.They began to measure their strength with incredible enthusiasm.They mortals defy even the gods.Small river god Achilles begs for mercy, goddess of higher rank are asking Paris to resolve their dispute, Ajax is throwing a daring challenge to Poseidon, tames titanium named Ocean and rule over it.
If you understand the meaning of "Cyclops" so as to understand its ancient, it becomes clear what a big difference between a hero and a man.Heroes came to the Cyclops, not people.And Odysseus - the most powerful of those heroes.His death is not the nature of the ban the fact that he did not feel equal to the gods.Features Odysseus not commensurate smaller than that of the same Poseidon, but their souls are equal.And they argue with each other as equals.
noteworthy Homer draws Cyclops Polyphemus.After all, he is not just a monster, and the son of Poseidon, is the person with whom the hero Odysseus leads the dispute.The incredible power of the inferior human bodily, but truly divine qualities possessed by the soul of the hero.And the trick is not the most important one.The flexibility of the creative mind - that's what distinguishes Odyssey of inert forces of nature.
Divine, or the personification of conservatism mad
impossible to imagine, but Homer and gives no hint of the fact that the Cyclops Polyphemus, the personification of the insane stagnation, anything could be learned.In it, this divine principle is simply not available.Came guests returning from a decade of war, the fame of which rolls over the world.But he is just not interested.He reminds Odysseus of the law of hospitality."We will tell you a lot," - says the hero.But Cyclops interested only meat that pribludy in his home.And the hero punishes madman.
«No!Nobody hurt me! "- Screams the whole ocean of Polyphemus and relatives do not understand it and disagree, left alone with the disaster.And Odysseus begins to make fun of him.And blind rage vzdyblivaet sea.Even Poseidon did not respond to the call of the ugly son.The law of hospitality, the law of the desire for knowledge and development - the divine law.And the lord of the Ocean recognizes the validity of the victory of the hero.
Are modern humans do yourself meta?
This is a very important question.Understand who the Titans and the Cyclops who are far from simple, but it is necessary to modern people, if they really believe in their personal immortality.For all its boundless power of stagnant force of nature can never become gods.They have no creativity.And in others, at least in many, it is.Strive to power, forgetting who the Cyclops, it is converted to Cyclops.
Powerful forces of nuclear and thermonuclear secrets just seem subservient to man.It's really their ability to rein in creative, divine.And in another - a dead end, which does not honor the laws of hospitality, not revere justice, I do not like the truth and rightness.In such a world can only be Cyclops, not heroes.Heroes waiting for Olympus Cyclops - car.
