11-02-2019, 12:03 PM
Essence of Zeus
Saturn, or, to give his Greek name, Kronos,
embodied Time not as progression
but as devourer and destroyer. Thus
he lorded over his contemporaries, Titans,
yet gulped his offspring down until
Zeus tricked his father into eating stone
instead of him, then rescued all
his brother- and his sister-gods
by making Kronos throw them up again.
What symbolism! Zeus wills immortality
to others of the Nine, as to his own
heroic kids like Hercules by rescuing
them from death-dissolution in Time’s bowels.
How tightly interlocking, this mythology–
so literate, so different from Council-decreed
monotheism with one Source of verity
on which archangels, devils, genies fringe
without significance, though mortals know
(as Councils must deny) that true eternity
is its own Resistance.
Saturn, or, to give his Greek name, Kronos,
embodied Time not as progression
but as devourer and destroyer. Thus
he lorded over his contemporaries, Titans,
yet gulped his offspring down until
Zeus tricked his father into eating stone
instead of him, then rescued all
his brother- and his sister-gods
by making Kronos throw them up again.
What symbolism! Zeus wills immortality
to others of the Nine, as to his own
heroic kids like Hercules by rescuing
them from death-dissolution in Time’s bowels.
How tightly interlocking, this mythology–
so literate, so different from Council-decreed
monotheism with one Source of verity
on which archangels, devils, genies fringe
without significance, though mortals know
(as Councils must deny) that true eternity
is its own Resistance.
Non-practicing atheist