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Since the start of time nature’s song has resounded throughout creation. It is an eerie song, one of life and death, inextricable disorder and soothing serenity. Alone in the wilderness, accompanied only by life’s primordial symphony and the beating of his heart, however, the hymn took on a new and unquestionable form to primitive man. As the symphony echoed in early man’s ears, he interpreted only one thing, a song of uncertainty and helplessness. Primal man’s entire surroundings were a place of foreboding where behind every shadow there lay some new danger ready to make him his prey or a natural occurrence taunting his curiosity with mystery.
In a seemingly hostile world, mankind felt cold and desolate. Tortured by both unknown dangers and an instinctual curiosity, man yearned for answers. Thus in his search for answers and protection, man’s imagination transformed the predators in the shadows into beings he could relate with and made it clear that another being must had rattled the earth during the last earthquake. These ideas gave primitive man a sense of security and assurance, no longer were they torn apart by fears and daunting mysteries.
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Lastly, as is necessary in all great epics, Virgil realized the necessity of creating characters that were greater than life, were in touch with the gods and performed great deeds. For the most part Virgil uses his main character Aeneas as the primary way to prove out Rome greatness. Thesus does so but Creon refuses the two states go to war but Athens is triumphant and buries the corpses. Amazingly, the majority of those same passerby’s have wished for something wonderful to occur to them i. In our modern world we tend to take this for granted, we would never dream of executing someone for a murder committed by his ancestor.
The tale takes off after the death of Antigone. Saddened by Io’s pain which sounded worse than his he could do nothing but comfort her and direct her to the Nile where she might be whole one more. Likewise, those telling the tales of gods and titans would use their ‘direct contact with the gods’ to their own advantage. Eventually the Greeks would come upon a great revelation, the greatness and perfection of mankind. Antigone is executed and the grave desecrated. Consequently, came the development of literature, poetry and more influential and profound myths.
Part II: Prometheus and Io: A Lesson for us All
A crying woman may walk for hours through the streets of any one modern city and receive not one-piece consolation from any of the hundred passing by her.
Where before the gods were a terrifying unpredictable force, now the gods and deities were shaped in the likeness of man. Though they continued to act as a form of explaining life’s mysteries, the worship (particularly sacrifice) in exchange for assistance would provide a great sense of hope and unity for growing communities.
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