In memory of Oenomaus, the Olympic Games were created because Oenomaus' chariot race was one legendary origin of them.
Pelops and Hippodamia had many sons; 2 of them were Atreus and Thyestes. They murdered Chrysippus, who was their half brother, a divine hero of Elis in the Peloponnesus. He was the bastard son of Pelops king of Pisa and the nymph Axioche. He was kidnapped by the Theban Laius, his tutor, who was escorting him to the Nemean Games, where the boy planned to complete. Instead, Laius ran away with him to Thebes and raped him, a crime for which he, his city, and his family were later punished by the gods. His death is seen as springing from the curse that Myrtilus placed on Pelops for his betrayal. Because of the murder, Hippodamia, Atreus, and Thyestes were banished to Mycenae, where Hippodamia is said to have hanged herself.
Atreus vowed to sacrifice his best lamb to Artemis. Upon searching his flock, however, Atreus discovered a golden lamb which he gave to his wife, Aerope, to hide from Artemis, the goddess. Aerope gave the golden lamb to Thyestes, her lover, Atreus' brother, who then convinced Atreus to agree that whoever had the lamb should be king. Thyestes produced the lamb and claimed the throne. Atreus retook the throne using the advice he received from Hermes. Thyestes agreed to give the kingdom back when the sun moved backwards in the sky, a feat that Zeus accomplished. Atreus retook the throne and banished Thyestes. Atreus then learned of Thyestes' and Aerope's adultery and plotted revenge. He killed Thyestes' sons and cooked them, save their hands and feet. He tricked Thyestes into eating the flesh of his own sons and then taunted him with their hands and feet. Thyestes was forced into exile for eating the flesh of a human. Thyestes responded by asking an oracle what to do, who advised him to have a son by his daughter, Pelopia, who would then kill Atreus. However, when Aegisthus was first born, he was abandoned by his mother who was ashamed of the incestuous act. A shepherd found the infant Aegisthus and gave him to to Atreus, who raised him as his own. Only as he entered adulthood did Thyestes reveal the truth to Aegisthus, that he was both father and grandfather to the boy. Aegisthus then killed Atreus, although not before Atreus and Aerope had had 2 sons, Agamemnon and Menelaus, and a daughter Anaxibia.
Agamemnon married Clytemnestra, and Menelaus married Helen, her sister (known later as helen of Troy). Helen was taken away from Menelaus by Paris of Troy during a visit. Menelaus then called on the chieftains to help him take back Helen.
Prior to sailing off to war against Troy, Agamemnon had angered the goddess Artemis because he had killed a sacred deer in a sacred grove, and had then boasted that he was a better hunter than she was. When the time came, Artemis stilled the winds so that Agamemnon's fleet could not sail. A prophet named Calchas told him that in order to appease Artemis, Agamemnon would have to sacrifice the most precious thing that had come to his possession in the year he killed the sacred deer. This was his first-born daughter, Iphigenia. He sent word home for her to come, on the pretense that she was to be married to Achilles. Iphigenia accepted her father's choice and was honored to be part of the war. Clytemnestra tried to stop Iphigenia but was sent away. After doing the deed, Agamemnon's fleet was able to get under way. Artemis, however, has instantly switched Iphigenia, as she lay upon the altar, with a deer without anyone noticing, and had taken her todistant Colchis, there to be her priestess.
While he was fighting the Trojans, his wife Clytemnestra, enraged by the murder of her daughter, began an affair with Aegisthus. When Agamemnon returned home he brought with him a new concubine, the doomed prophetess, Cassandra. Upon his arrival that evening, before the great banquet she had prepared, Clytemnestra drew a bath for him and when he came out of the bath, she put the royal purple robe on him which had no opening for his head. He was confused and tangled up and Clytemnestra then stabbed him to death.
Agamemnon's only son, Orestes, was quite young when his mother killed his father. He was sent into exile. He was the legitimate heir and as such a potential danger to his usurper uncle. Goaded by his sister Electra, Orestes swore revenge. He knew it was his duty to avenge his father's death, but saw also that in doing so he would have to kill his mother. He was torn between avenging his father and sparing his mother. "It was a son's duty to kill his father's murderers, a duty that came before all others. But a son who killed his mother was abhorrent to gods and to men."
When he prayed to Apollo, the god advised him to kill his mother. Orestes realized that he must work out the curse on his house, exact vengeance and pay with his own ruin. After Orestes murdered Clytemnestra, he wandered the land with guilt in his heart. After many years, with Apollo by his side, he pleaded to Athena. No descendant of Atreus had ever done so noble an act and "neither he or any descendant of his would ever again be driven into evil by the irresistible power of the past."
Thus Orestes ended the curse of the House of Atreus.
This story as the major plot line of Aeschylus' s Trilogy "The Oresteia" shows how the Greek gods interacted with the characters and influenced their decisions pertaining to events and disputes.
The principal themes of the trilogy include the contrast between revenge and justice, as well as the transition from personal vendetta to organize litigation.
Friday, December 30, 2016
REVENGE AND JUSTICE IN ANCIENT GREECE. PART 1
The Oresteia is a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus concerning Agamemnon's murder by Clytaemnestra, the murder of Clytaemnestra by Orestes, the trial of Orestes, and end of the curse on the House of Atreus.
The House of Atreus begins with Tantalus of Lydia. Tantalus was the son of Zeus who enjoyed cordial relations with gods until he decided to slay his son Pelops and feed him to the gods as a test of their omniscience.
Most of the gods, as they were served, were appalled and did not partake. But Demeter, who was distracted due to the abduction by Hades of her daughter Persephone, obliviously ate Pelops' shoulder.
The gods threw Tantalus into the Underworld, where he spends eternity standing in a pool of water beneath a fruit tree with low branches. Whenever he reaches for the fruit, the branches raise his intended meal from his grasp. Whenever he bends down to get a drink, the water recedes before he can drink. Thus is derived the word "tantalising." The gods brought Pelops back to life, replacing the bone in his shoulder with a bit of ivory, thus marking the family forever afterwards.
Pelops and Hippodamia.- Pelops married HYippodamia after winning a chariot race against her father, King Oenomaus, by arranging for the sabotage of his future father-in-law's chariot and resulting in his death. Oenomaus was the son of Ares, the Greek god of War, one of the 12 Olympians, son of Zeus and Hera. In Greek literature, Ares often represent the physical or violent and untamed aspect of war, in contrast to his sister the armored Athena, whose functions as a goddess of Intelligence include military strategy and generalship. Are, although embodied the physical valor necessary for success in War, he was a dangerous force, "overwhelming, insatiable in battle, destructive, and man-slaughtering. His sons Phobos (Fear) and Deimos (Terror) and his lover, or sister, Enyo (Discord) accompanied him on his war chariot. In the Illiad, his father Zeus tells him that he is the god most hateful to him. An association with Ares endows places and objects with a savage, dangerous, or militarized quality.
King Oenomaus of Pisa, fearful of a prophecy that claimed he would be killed by his son-in-law, had killed 18 suitors of his daughter Hippodamia after defeating them in a chariot race. He affixed their heads to the wooden columns of his palace.
Pelops, worried about losing, went to the seaside and invoked Poseidon, his former lover. Reminding Poseidon of their love (Aphrodite's sweet gifts), Pelops asked Poseidon for help. Smiling, Poseidon caused a chariot drawn by winged horses to appear. Pelops, still unsure of himself, convinced Oenomaus's charioteer, Myrtilus, a son of Hermes, to help him win. Myrtilus was convinced by Pelops promising him half of Oenomaus' kingdom and the 1st night in bed with Hippodamia. The night before the race, while Myrtilus was putting Oenomaus' chariot together, he replaced the bronze linchpins attaching the wheels to the chariot axle with fake ones of beeswax. The race began, and went on for a long time. But as just as Oenomaus was catching up to Pelops and readying to kill him, the wheels flew off and the chariot broke apart. Myrtilus survived, but Oenomaus was dragged to death by his horses.
When Myrtilus tried to claim his reward and have sex with Hippodamia, Pelops killed Myrtilus by throwing him off a cliff into the sea. As Matylus died, he curse Pelops. This was the source of the curse that haunted Hippodamia and Pelops' children Atreus and Thyestes as well as their descendants Agamemnon, Aegisthus, Menelaus, and Orestes.
The House of Atreus begins with Tantalus of Lydia. Tantalus was the son of Zeus who enjoyed cordial relations with gods until he decided to slay his son Pelops and feed him to the gods as a test of their omniscience.
Most of the gods, as they were served, were appalled and did not partake. But Demeter, who was distracted due to the abduction by Hades of her daughter Persephone, obliviously ate Pelops' shoulder.
The gods threw Tantalus into the Underworld, where he spends eternity standing in a pool of water beneath a fruit tree with low branches. Whenever he reaches for the fruit, the branches raise his intended meal from his grasp. Whenever he bends down to get a drink, the water recedes before he can drink. Thus is derived the word "tantalising." The gods brought Pelops back to life, replacing the bone in his shoulder with a bit of ivory, thus marking the family forever afterwards.
Pelops and Hippodamia.- Pelops married HYippodamia after winning a chariot race against her father, King Oenomaus, by arranging for the sabotage of his future father-in-law's chariot and resulting in his death. Oenomaus was the son of Ares, the Greek god of War, one of the 12 Olympians, son of Zeus and Hera. In Greek literature, Ares often represent the physical or violent and untamed aspect of war, in contrast to his sister the armored Athena, whose functions as a goddess of Intelligence include military strategy and generalship. Are, although embodied the physical valor necessary for success in War, he was a dangerous force, "overwhelming, insatiable in battle, destructive, and man-slaughtering. His sons Phobos (Fear) and Deimos (Terror) and his lover, or sister, Enyo (Discord) accompanied him on his war chariot. In the Illiad, his father Zeus tells him that he is the god most hateful to him. An association with Ares endows places and objects with a savage, dangerous, or militarized quality.
King Oenomaus of Pisa, fearful of a prophecy that claimed he would be killed by his son-in-law, had killed 18 suitors of his daughter Hippodamia after defeating them in a chariot race. He affixed their heads to the wooden columns of his palace.
Pelops, worried about losing, went to the seaside and invoked Poseidon, his former lover. Reminding Poseidon of their love (Aphrodite's sweet gifts), Pelops asked Poseidon for help. Smiling, Poseidon caused a chariot drawn by winged horses to appear. Pelops, still unsure of himself, convinced Oenomaus's charioteer, Myrtilus, a son of Hermes, to help him win. Myrtilus was convinced by Pelops promising him half of Oenomaus' kingdom and the 1st night in bed with Hippodamia. The night before the race, while Myrtilus was putting Oenomaus' chariot together, he replaced the bronze linchpins attaching the wheels to the chariot axle with fake ones of beeswax. The race began, and went on for a long time. But as just as Oenomaus was catching up to Pelops and readying to kill him, the wheels flew off and the chariot broke apart. Myrtilus survived, but Oenomaus was dragged to death by his horses.
When Myrtilus tried to claim his reward and have sex with Hippodamia, Pelops killed Myrtilus by throwing him off a cliff into the sea. As Matylus died, he curse Pelops. This was the source of the curse that haunted Hippodamia and Pelops' children Atreus and Thyestes as well as their descendants Agamemnon, Aegisthus, Menelaus, and Orestes.
SEARCH JUSTICE.
Love Justice, you rulers of the World. Set your minds sincerely on GOD, and look for HIM with all honesty. (Wisdom 1:1) GOD said, 'This is the COVENANT that I will make with them in the Days to come. I will put MY LAWS IN THEIR HEARTS and WRITE THEM on their MINDS."(Heb.10:15)
"So let us come near GOD with a sincere heart and a sure FAITH, with hearts that have been purified from a guilty conscience and with bodies washed with clean water (REPENTANCE). Let us hold on firmly to the hope we profess, because we can TRUST GOD to KEEP HIS PROMISE. Let us be concerned for one another, to help one another to show love and do good. (22-24)
GOD will bring into Judgment both the Righteous and the Wicked, for there will be a time for every activity, a Time to Judge every deed. (Ecclesiastes 3:17) Everything that happens in this World happens at the Time GOD chooses. (3:1) In this World you find wickedness where Justice and Right ought to be. (3:16) GOD is testing us, to show us that we are no better than animals. After all, the same fate awaits human beings and animals alike. (3:18) I looked again at all the injustice that goes on to this World. The oppressed were crying and no one would help them, because their oppressors had power on their side. I envy those who are dead and gone; they are better off than those who are still alive. But better off than either are those who have never been born, who have never seen the injustice that goes on in this World. (4: 1-3) I saw all of this when I thought about the things that are done in this World, a World where some people have power and others have to suffer under them. Yes, I have seen the wicked buried and in their graves, and on the way back from the cemetery people praise them in the very city where they did their evil. (8:9-10) There is something else I saw, a good example if how Wisdom is regarded in this World: 'There was a little town with without many people in it. A powerful king attacked it. He surrounded it and prepared to break through the walls. Someone lived there who was poor, but so clever that he could have saved the town. But no one thought about him.' I have always said that Wisdom is Better than Strength, but no one thinks of the poor as a wise or pays any attention to what they say. It is better to listen to the quiet words of someone wise than to the shouts of a ruler at a council of fools. (9:13-18)
GOD says, "The people of Israel have surrounded ME with lies and deceit, and the people of Judah are still rebelling against ME, the FAITHFUL and HOLY GOD. Everything that the people of Israel do from morning to night is useless and destructive. Treachery and acts of violence increase among them. They make treaties with the sky elemental spirits and do business with the earth elemental spirits."
"The LORD has an accusation to bring against the people of Judah; HE is also going to punish Israel for the way her people act. HE will pay them back for what they have done. (Hosea 11-12)
Old people have Wisdom, but GOD has WISDOM and POWER.
Old people have Insight; GOD has INSIGHT and POWER TO ACT.
When GOD tears down, who can rebuild, and who can be free those GOD imprisons? (Job 12:12)
GOD IS STRONG and ALWAYS VICTORIOUS; both deceived and deceiver are in HIS POWER.
HE takes away the wisdom of rulers and make leaders act like fools. HE dethrones kings and makes them prisoners; HE humbles priests and men of power. HE silences those who are trusted, and takes the wisdom of old people away. HE disgraces those in power and puts an end to the strength of the rulers. HE sends light to places dark as death. HE makes nations strong and great, but then HE defeats and destroy them. HE makes their leaders foolish and lets them wander confused and lost; they grope in the dark and stagger like drunkards. (16-25)
"When Justice is done, good people are happy, but evil people are brought to despair. Death is waiting for anyone who wanders away from good sense. (Proverbs 21:15-16) The wicked bring on themselves the suffering they try to cause to good people. (22:18) Human wisdom, brilliance, insight -they are of no help if the LORD is against you." (22:30)
"So let us come near GOD with a sincere heart and a sure FAITH, with hearts that have been purified from a guilty conscience and with bodies washed with clean water (REPENTANCE). Let us hold on firmly to the hope we profess, because we can TRUST GOD to KEEP HIS PROMISE. Let us be concerned for one another, to help one another to show love and do good. (22-24)
GOD will bring into Judgment both the Righteous and the Wicked, for there will be a time for every activity, a Time to Judge every deed. (Ecclesiastes 3:17) Everything that happens in this World happens at the Time GOD chooses. (3:1) In this World you find wickedness where Justice and Right ought to be. (3:16) GOD is testing us, to show us that we are no better than animals. After all, the same fate awaits human beings and animals alike. (3:18) I looked again at all the injustice that goes on to this World. The oppressed were crying and no one would help them, because their oppressors had power on their side. I envy those who are dead and gone; they are better off than those who are still alive. But better off than either are those who have never been born, who have never seen the injustice that goes on in this World. (4: 1-3) I saw all of this when I thought about the things that are done in this World, a World where some people have power and others have to suffer under them. Yes, I have seen the wicked buried and in their graves, and on the way back from the cemetery people praise them in the very city where they did their evil. (8:9-10) There is something else I saw, a good example if how Wisdom is regarded in this World: 'There was a little town with without many people in it. A powerful king attacked it. He surrounded it and prepared to break through the walls. Someone lived there who was poor, but so clever that he could have saved the town. But no one thought about him.' I have always said that Wisdom is Better than Strength, but no one thinks of the poor as a wise or pays any attention to what they say. It is better to listen to the quiet words of someone wise than to the shouts of a ruler at a council of fools. (9:13-18)
GOD says, "The people of Israel have surrounded ME with lies and deceit, and the people of Judah are still rebelling against ME, the FAITHFUL and HOLY GOD. Everything that the people of Israel do from morning to night is useless and destructive. Treachery and acts of violence increase among them. They make treaties with the sky elemental spirits and do business with the earth elemental spirits."
"The LORD has an accusation to bring against the people of Judah; HE is also going to punish Israel for the way her people act. HE will pay them back for what they have done. (Hosea 11-12)
Old people have Wisdom, but GOD has WISDOM and POWER.
Old people have Insight; GOD has INSIGHT and POWER TO ACT.
When GOD tears down, who can rebuild, and who can be free those GOD imprisons? (Job 12:12)
GOD IS STRONG and ALWAYS VICTORIOUS; both deceived and deceiver are in HIS POWER.
HE takes away the wisdom of rulers and make leaders act like fools. HE dethrones kings and makes them prisoners; HE humbles priests and men of power. HE silences those who are trusted, and takes the wisdom of old people away. HE disgraces those in power and puts an end to the strength of the rulers. HE sends light to places dark as death. HE makes nations strong and great, but then HE defeats and destroy them. HE makes their leaders foolish and lets them wander confused and lost; they grope in the dark and stagger like drunkards. (16-25)
"When Justice is done, good people are happy, but evil people are brought to despair. Death is waiting for anyone who wanders away from good sense. (Proverbs 21:15-16) The wicked bring on themselves the suffering they try to cause to good people. (22:18) Human wisdom, brilliance, insight -they are of no help if the LORD is against you." (22:30)
Monday, January 19, 2015
TASTE By Pablo Neruda Translated by Nueva Vida Bookstore
TASTE
From false astrology beliefs, somewhat in nature, gloomy and inconclusive customs borne in on us, and always close at hand, I have cherished an impulse, a taste of my own loneliness.
From flimsy table-talks absorbed like used woods, with humble chairs, and a language, that, like slaves, only serve secondary wills, like a milky consistency of deadly weeks, like smog on a city from stagnating air. Who can boast a more tangible patience?
Prudence and good judgment engulf me like being dressed with a compact skin with a color that gathers itself to itself like a
.
All my creatures are born in a massive rejection; one drink of alcohol - alas! - and I wave off the day that I chose for myself, like all of the days of my earthly world.
I live in the fullness of matter; this substance is mute as a matriarch, I bear my fixed patient like a church and its shadow, or the quietness of bones
.
I go full of those waters that are in deep disposition, prepared and expectant, asleep in a tearful vigil.
The inner guitar, the image of my soul, keeps the catch of a ballad, spare a sonorous, abiding, immobile, like a punctual nourishment, like smoke in the air : an element of force in repose, the volatile power in the oil : an incorruptible bird that keeps vigilant watch on my head: an unvarying routine of an angel inhabits my sword.
From false astrology beliefs, somewhat in nature, gloomy and inconclusive customs borne in on us, and always close at hand, I have cherished an impulse, a taste of my own loneliness.
From flimsy table-talks absorbed like used woods, with humble chairs, and a language, that, like slaves, only serve secondary wills, like a milky consistency of deadly weeks, like smog on a city from stagnating air. Who can boast a more tangible patience?
Prudence and good judgment engulf me like being dressed with a compact skin with a color that gathers itself to itself like a
.
All my creatures are born in a massive rejection; one drink of alcohol - alas! - and I wave off the day that I chose for myself, like all of the days of my earthly world.
I live in the fullness of matter; this substance is mute as a matriarch, I bear my fixed patient like a church and its shadow, or the quietness of bones
.
I go full of those waters that are in deep disposition, prepared and expectant, asleep in a tearful vigil.
The inner guitar, the image of my soul, keeps the catch of a ballad, spare a sonorous, abiding, immobile, like a punctual nourishment, like smoke in the air : an element of force in repose, the volatile power in the oil : an incorruptible bird that keeps vigilant watch on my head: an unvarying routine of an angel inhabits my sword.
THE DREAM HORSE. author : Pablo Neruda. Translated by "Nueva Vida Bookstore."
I really enjoy the meaning of this poem coming from the internal world of Neruda. The movement of the corruptible world from its physical realm towards its metaphysical centre gives us a kind of perspective to his poetics words about the "impure."
He said: "It is good, at certain hours of the day and night, to look closely at the world of objects when we are at rest.... the used surfaces of things, the wear that the hands give to the things, the air, tragic at times... all lend a curious attractiveness to the reality of the world ... in them one sees the confused impurity of the human condition, the massing of things, the use and disuse of substances, footprints and fingerprints, the abiding presence of the human engulfing all artifacts, inside and out."
THE DREAM HORSE
Watching myself in a mirror, not because I needed, it was just for the sake of looking closely at the world around me. I am able to see my mind with a garment of passion involved in papers and cinemas, days of weeks... , then I suddenly snatch from my heart the chief captain of my hell and I begin to establish clauses mistakenly sad.
I see my spirit drifting from one place to another, absorbing illusions, converse in the nests of spiritual tailors which their voices sometimes so cold and deadly. I saw them singing together and sorcery going from them.
I see myself in a country spread out inside the sky. It has the image of a credulous carpet of rainbows and crepuscular plants. I decided to move myself toward it, my sensation of fatigue started to surface over my mind when I see my feet trampling over a fresh removed soil full of graves. I see my dreams belonging to this ground of confuse legumes.
I see me walking over origins, then over enjoyed beneficiary documents. I see me dressed like a natural and chopfallen entity wanting the loose honey of respect, the sweets of the preacher under whose leaves drained violets drowse and grow old; and then, I see those bustling abettors, the brooms, in whose image, assuredly, sorrow and certainty are joined. I destroy the whistle of roses, the unavoided anxiety, smashing the attractiveness of extremes -worst of all, I await a symmetrical time beyond measure in which the taste of my spirit disheartens me.
What a morning is here! What a milky-heavy glow in the air that its compact and digital image favor me! I have heard its red horse without the iron bridle, shimmering, whinnying there. Mounted, I see me soaring over churches, galloping the garrisons empty of soldiers while a dissolute army pursues me.
The eucalyptus image of the red horse's eyes raze the darkness and the bell image of its galloping body strikes home.
I see me needing but a spark of that persistent brightness, and my jubilant kindred claiming my inheritance.
He said: "It is good, at certain hours of the day and night, to look closely at the world of objects when we are at rest.... the used surfaces of things, the wear that the hands give to the things, the air, tragic at times... all lend a curious attractiveness to the reality of the world ... in them one sees the confused impurity of the human condition, the massing of things, the use and disuse of substances, footprints and fingerprints, the abiding presence of the human engulfing all artifacts, inside and out."
THE DREAM HORSE
Watching myself in a mirror, not because I needed, it was just for the sake of looking closely at the world around me. I am able to see my mind with a garment of passion involved in papers and cinemas, days of weeks... , then I suddenly snatch from my heart the chief captain of my hell and I begin to establish clauses mistakenly sad.
I see my spirit drifting from one place to another, absorbing illusions, converse in the nests of spiritual tailors which their voices sometimes so cold and deadly. I saw them singing together and sorcery going from them.
I see myself in a country spread out inside the sky. It has the image of a credulous carpet of rainbows and crepuscular plants. I decided to move myself toward it, my sensation of fatigue started to surface over my mind when I see my feet trampling over a fresh removed soil full of graves. I see my dreams belonging to this ground of confuse legumes.
I see me walking over origins, then over enjoyed beneficiary documents. I see me dressed like a natural and chopfallen entity wanting the loose honey of respect, the sweets of the preacher under whose leaves drained violets drowse and grow old; and then, I see those bustling abettors, the brooms, in whose image, assuredly, sorrow and certainty are joined. I destroy the whistle of roses, the unavoided anxiety, smashing the attractiveness of extremes -worst of all, I await a symmetrical time beyond measure in which the taste of my spirit disheartens me.
What a morning is here! What a milky-heavy glow in the air that its compact and digital image favor me! I have heard its red horse without the iron bridle, shimmering, whinnying there. Mounted, I see me soaring over churches, galloping the garrisons empty of soldiers while a dissolute army pursues me.
The eucalyptus image of the red horse's eyes raze the darkness and the bell image of its galloping body strikes home.
I see me needing but a spark of that persistent brightness, and my jubilant kindred claiming my inheritance.
Friday, July 25, 2014
Hansel and Gretel in modern time. By Angela Bernales
Deep in a deforested area stood a small and simple house in which lived a humble family. The father was a contractor in charge of the deforestation of the area, given the fact that wood was on high demand. He had two children named Hansel and Gretel that were in his teen ages and he was trying his best in raising them up.
The family tried to maintain a healthy lifestyle, but the demands of the controlled democracy system in which they were settled worked ceaselessly to smother them. Soon the family were at a complete economic disadvantage, because the demands of the system, especially its irresponsible energy policies were eating up their lifestyle to which they had become accustomed. The money that was left after paying all the basic necessities was not enough to feed them all.
The situation became worst when the two children reach their late teens age. Unable to bond with their father who was caught in the land of the capitalism, they decided to go on their own. Resented over the way things turned to them they decided to live in the open, protecting every single and simple thing that nature offer them. Over a while they developed a new consciousness and little by little they separated themselves from the city people who became heartless, exploitative, greedy and abusive toward their neighbors.
After a while they returned to the simple house in which they remembered the humble life they had before it was ruin by the controlling rules of the system in which their parents were caught. The parents did not recognized them. They thought they were rebels trying to take over the house and the business they settled around it, concerning the destruction of the natural way of living for the sake of the money.
Hansel and Gretel learned a lot during their time that they bond with Nature. They learned so many hidden languages through the vibration of every energy field that operates through it. They worked hard at perfecting their supernatural skills that they became so powerful in their minds that people around them fear to get in disagreement to them. Their teachings convinced these people about the harmony that exists in everything connected to it. If they choose the opposite they were turned into wild animals ceasing to enjoy the life as humans.
Their parents disagreed and immediately were transformed into two wild animals and headed towards the forest.
From that day they put to use their supernatural skills solely for defending the Nature. And the two of them, their friends, and most important, the trees of the forest lived happily ever after.
They talk to their parents about the way of Nature and asked them to change their way. But they had their minds set to the way of the money.
The family tried to maintain a healthy lifestyle, but the demands of the controlled democracy system in which they were settled worked ceaselessly to smother them. Soon the family were at a complete economic disadvantage, because the demands of the system, especially its irresponsible energy policies were eating up their lifestyle to which they had become accustomed. The money that was left after paying all the basic necessities was not enough to feed them all.
The situation became worst when the two children reach their late teens age. Unable to bond with their father who was caught in the land of the capitalism, they decided to go on their own. Resented over the way things turned to them they decided to live in the open, protecting every single and simple thing that nature offer them. Over a while they developed a new consciousness and little by little they separated themselves from the city people who became heartless, exploitative, greedy and abusive toward their neighbors.
After a while they returned to the simple house in which they remembered the humble life they had before it was ruin by the controlling rules of the system in which their parents were caught. The parents did not recognized them. They thought they were rebels trying to take over the house and the business they settled around it, concerning the destruction of the natural way of living for the sake of the money.
Hansel and Gretel learned a lot during their time that they bond with Nature. They learned so many hidden languages through the vibration of every energy field that operates through it. They worked hard at perfecting their supernatural skills that they became so powerful in their minds that people around them fear to get in disagreement to them. Their teachings convinced these people about the harmony that exists in everything connected to it. If they choose the opposite they were turned into wild animals ceasing to enjoy the life as humans.
Their parents disagreed and immediately were transformed into two wild animals and headed towards the forest.
From that day they put to use their supernatural skills solely for defending the Nature. And the two of them, their friends, and most important, the trees of the forest lived happily ever after.
They talk to their parents about the way of Nature and asked them to change their way. But they had their minds set to the way of the money.
Monday, May 5, 2014
THE PREACHER
The preacher shows that ALL human courses are vain, because the creatures are restless in their courses.
They bring forth nothing new, and all old things are forgotten. The preacher has found it so in the study of wisdom.
The words of the Preacher, ... Vanity of vanities, all IS vanity. What profit has a man of all his labour which he takes under the sun?
ONE generation passes away, and ANOTHER generation comes : but the earth abides for ever.
The sun also arises, and the sun goes down, and move with hurry, back to where he arose.
The wind goes toward the South, and turns about to the North; it whirls about continually, and the wind returns again according to his circuits.
All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea IS not full; unto the place from where the rivers come, towards that place they return again.
All things ARE full of labour; MAN cannot express mannerly or verbally unto IT: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
The thing that has been, it IS THAT which shall be; and that which is done IS that which shall be done: and THERE IS no new THING under the sun. Is there ANY thing where of it may be said, See, this IS new? it has been already of old time, which was before us.
THERE IS no remembrance of former THINGS; neither shall there be ANY remembrance of THINGS that are to come with THOSE that shall come after.
I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem (spiritual centre of God's people). And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all THINGS that are done under heaven: this sore intense mental and physical pain of laborious work like the pains of a woman giving birth to a child, that GOD has given to the SONS of MAN to be exercised there with (Adam's sin and punishment). I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all IS vanity and instituted by MAN without real grounds an meant to cause trouble or annoyance to the spirit. THAT WHICH is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered...... . For in much wisdom IS much grief: and he that increases knowledge increases sorrows (in the colored world).
They bring forth nothing new, and all old things are forgotten. The preacher has found it so in the study of wisdom.
The words of the Preacher, ... Vanity of vanities, all IS vanity. What profit has a man of all his labour which he takes under the sun?
ONE generation passes away, and ANOTHER generation comes : but the earth abides for ever.
The sun also arises, and the sun goes down, and move with hurry, back to where he arose.
The wind goes toward the South, and turns about to the North; it whirls about continually, and the wind returns again according to his circuits.
All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea IS not full; unto the place from where the rivers come, towards that place they return again.
All things ARE full of labour; MAN cannot express mannerly or verbally unto IT: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
The thing that has been, it IS THAT which shall be; and that which is done IS that which shall be done: and THERE IS no new THING under the sun. Is there ANY thing where of it may be said, See, this IS new? it has been already of old time, which was before us.
THERE IS no remembrance of former THINGS; neither shall there be ANY remembrance of THINGS that are to come with THOSE that shall come after.
I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem (spiritual centre of God's people). And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all THINGS that are done under heaven: this sore intense mental and physical pain of laborious work like the pains of a woman giving birth to a child, that GOD has given to the SONS of MAN to be exercised there with (Adam's sin and punishment). I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all IS vanity and instituted by MAN without real grounds an meant to cause trouble or annoyance to the spirit. THAT WHICH is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered...... . For in much wisdom IS much grief: and he that increases knowledge increases sorrows (in the colored world).
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