In quest for the seed idea

By Klaus

100 books in one

The question of creation involves a costant reflection on our natural or/and divine origin. At the same time, we analyse the never-ending circle of life transformation, from birth to death to rebirth

• Language: English
• Publisher: Klaus
• Release date: Mar 19, 2014
• ISBN: 9788869091278

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Greek Olympus

According to Greek mythology in the beginning there was Chaos, that is, the mixture of all things in a vacuum. (Esiodo, DCC Rizzoli)

Deities were considered to be eternal, and of course having so much time at their disposal human beings invented Myths based on incredible never ending stories.

Chronos the time was warned by a deities’ oracle that one day one of his sons would kill him. He impetuously found the solution, by swallowing his children alive. But Zeus, Hades, and Poseidon were eternal, so growing in the body of their father as soon as they were strong adults they were released from their fathers’ body. After creating the Olympus, they drew lots for the leadership of the world kingdoms.

To Zeus went the skies, to Poseidon the seas and to Hades the underworlds. Poor Hades not one of his brothers and deities ever went to visit him, of course they were immortal!

Classic poems like the Odyssey, the Iliad and the Æneid often deal with interesting stories on Southern Italy and to the Campania region in particular, concerning events, characters and considerations of the civilizations of Greater Greece, and related to the history of the Mediterranean world, starting from the Trojan War.

HESIOD was a Greek poet who lived probably during the VII century BC.

His poem, Theogony, describes deities and myths in a very detailed way. The poet is one of the major sources of mythology.

HOMER is considered to be the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey. He probably lived in the VIII BC and he is the first author in Greek literature. His reports were important references for scholars in ancient history, in archaeology and in Greek mythology. His descriptions of historical events reported dates, names, sites and causes. Before him in Greece, oral culture was the main way to transmit historical events, myths, political information, and so on.

(A sculpture representing Pseudo-Homer can be seen at the Archaeomuseum of Naples).

There are no certainties on Homer’s biographical information. Plato describes Homer as the most divine among all poets. Herodotus (whose marble bust is in the Archaeomuseum Naples), who lived between 484 and 425 BC, said that Hesiod and Homer preceded him by 400 years.

Several legends report anecdotes of his interesting life and one about is death. In this tell Homer's Death is caused by the pain he suffered after failing to guess the meaning of a sentence heard during a conversation between some children which were killing lice.

The sentence was What we saw and we took we leave it, what we have not seen and not taken we bring it with us.

The image of Homer that the tradition handed down to us is that of an old blind bard (storyteller) travelling around all the cities of Greece singing the deeds of warriors who had fought under the walls of Troy.

Many historians makes the meaning of Homer deriving from the Greek or me oron he who does not see.

(from a very interesting article on National Geographic Magazine Storica # 35 January 2012).

The first stories of wars and heroes’ journeys back home were the nostoi that probably inspired Homer’s tales about heroes’ adventures after the Trojan War. These myths are the first ones ever written down. The copies we have today are the result of translations of Roman and Byzantine copyists.

Of the 5 Nostoi books only 5 lines survived, the rest was transmitted by word of mouth.

From Nostoi we have the Italian term nostalgia.

There are some obvious parallels, as well between the Iliad VIII cent BC and the epic of Gilgamesh 2000 years BC.

(NOTE: Vincenzo De Benedetto, historian, Pisa University).

The poet Virgil, of the 1st century BC, taking the Iliad and the Odyssey as models, wrote the Æneid poem.

See the parallelism in religious origin

Considerations

Young people, who were born in modern cities, often have no notion of past myths. This may depend on the fact that their grandparents are not there to hand down their roots, their parents are busy working and, by doing so, the myths come from TV, films and friends who share a similar condition.

The educational system aims at specialisation and so it educates to professions, but it is very poor from the humanistic point of view, and hardly has any sensitivity.

As a result, children dress as adults and use an adult language; therefore often the baby becomes an adult, with no childhood in between.

Without classic myths man is brought to a bad use of freedom. Missing the perception of the right myths, or taking example from the wrong ones, human beings can destroy their life.

Myth is the invisible code of behaviour for people that may adjust to progress without losing their roots.

Breaking-up of people happens when this code is infringed.

Several tribes that have been civilised by people of the so-called modern world have thus lost their identity.

OBSERVATIONS ON RELIGIONS

We search for Almighty through science or myth...

(NOTE: A brief history of time "by Stephen Hawking).

From the Eastern to the Western world there seems to be a succession of similar facts and events dealt with in religious writings.

From the Mesopotamian culture, Abraham (circa 2400 BC) was directed to Palestine by his Divine leader.

Moses came from the Egyptian culture and after him Isaac, Jacob, Salomon, David, Jesus, going from Hebraism to Christianity.

…from Hebraism and Christianity to Islamism…

A Muslim theologian said that the same divinity who made the verb became a man in Bethlem, made the verb become a book in Mecca.

According to Muslims, most of literal expression in the Koran can’t be translated in any of the world languages, as only in Arabic the reading sound brings the mind toward the greatness of the Divine .

Furthermore, according to the Muslim credo the Koran is based on Mohamed’s talks as Allah's prophet.

The first part was preached by Mohamed in Mecca 610 AD. The second part, 622 AD in Medina, deals with social ethics and society rules. These tales were transmitted orally by Mohamed and transcribed by his listeners on bones and goat skins.

Mohamed ascended to Allah during the year 632, and only in 651 by order of a Caliph, the Koran started to be assembled in the Muslim Arabic world as a corrector of the Ancient and New Testament.

Interesting to read is:

Sura 2 Vers. 120-135 talking about Abraham gens

Sura 2 Vers.186-190talking about killing enemies

Sura 4 Vers. 156 talking about Jesus

Sura 81 Vers. 1-14 talking about apocalypse

(Il Corano - Ulrico Hoepli Editore 1997).

Jhawe>Abraham > Pentateuch > Hebraism    3 millennia ago

Elohim > Jesus > Gospels > Christianity  2 millennia ago

Allah > Mohamed > Koran > Islamism  14 hundreds years ago

Other religious systems are Hinduism and Buddhism:

Brahma = Creation

Brahma- Shiva -Vishnu-, the Hindu trinity

Krishna = reincarnation

Brahma>Krishna>Rig-Veda>Hinduism 3200 years ago

Brahma Krishna>Buddha>Himayama Mahayana> Buddhism

2600 years ago

Confucius Breviary, 2500 years ago, is a life style code concerning the civic, political and religious ethics of people.

The Talmud can be considered a collection of Jewish traditions, ethics, customs and history, as the Sharia for Muslims.

The monotheistic doctrines are often enclosed in their stereotypes, they should be more open to comparisons and avoid judging other