Chariots of the Gods?

God’s authority and the people’s resistance. At first glance it may appear that there are two cases of resistance. First, Pharaoh resists God directly, and second, the Israelites resist the Egyptians who enslave them. However, upon further inspection it is apparent that neither is truly resistance. In the final cases of Pharaoh not obeying God’s commands, God hardens his heart, essentially creating “resistance” by taking away Pharaoh’s agency. As for the Israelites’ case, there is no mention of…

were seen as the Greeks version of celebrities (Fox 2005, 67). When they returned to their city-states, they welcomed and rewarded in a victory parade, and many stories were told about them. However, an Olympic Victory was owed to the favour of the gods. They believed that the victor was their chosen, in which they helped win the legendary prize, and whose name would then be talked about for long after he was dead (Pentazou, Kakridis & Andronicos 1982, 134). On the day that the prizes were…

literature, mythological gods play very centric roles in the plot. The Iliad and Medea are of no exception; however, the gods in the Iliad by Homer constantly interfere while the gods in Medea by Euripides remain passive. In the Iliad, the goddess Athena acts on behalf of the Achaeans multiple times. In Medea, the gods allow Medea to commit horrible acts and do not intervene (on or against her behalf) until the very end. In both works, the relationships between the gods and humans expose the…

that whatever you do, good or bad, will come back to you, this is also known as carma. This happens to daedalus when as his nephew in revenge leads daedalus's son into the sun. Body paragraph two: The myth of Phaethon or the son of Apollo, the sun god, shows the belief that you don't have to be better than everyone. This is seen on page 64 when Ephius said “do you visit your father?” Phaeton never had. But he could not bear to tell Ephius. This lead him to his father who swore on the river styx…

Mediterranean, and also showed them what sort of people their gods were, and how those gods behaved. The Iliad and the Odyssey (and possibly some other epics, which have now been lost) were what the Greeks had instead of history books, and also what they had instead of a Bible. This shows how the Greeks turned to the Iliad for advice on everything: what is the correct way to pray, which is the best way to bake bread, or mend your chariot (fix your car) - it is all in the Iliad (or the Odyssey).…

consequences directly related to the failure of heeding warnings. In the myth of Phaethon and his father, My Etiological understanding of the events begin with Phaethon asking for an unreasonable request from his father, Phoebus, in wanting to drive the sun chariot. The Sun warns, “you ask too great a favor, and one that is unfitting for your strength and boyish years.”… In this warning, I see a timeless warning that may have applied to Athenian culture; not to be overambition or try to fit into…

Upanishads contains an extended analogy that likens the various portions of a being to the makeup of a chariot. This…

The play I decided to read was Oedipus the King by Sophocles, I choose to read this play because of the intricacy of its story plot, which allows for great analysis of the many themes throughout this play. I owned a copy of the play since high school and that was how I obtained the play. In this play, Sophocles does a great job at depicting the prominent theme in Greek history, fate vs free will. They believed that a man was born with a certain fate, and all his actions would lead to that fate,…

compassionate Christ that I learned about while singing, Jesus, Loves Me. The Hebrew Bible presents some extremely violent text and when taken out of context it becomes difficult to find a connection between the compassion of Christ and a wrathful or vengeful God depicted in these Old Testament stories. Walter Brueggemann, in his book Divine Presence Amid Violence provides an interpretation of one of these controversial stories found in Joshua 11. He explores the domination of…

Lamassu sculptures in gallery 401, it is obligated to guarding king’s palace. Similar protective figure could also be found in Mesopotamia literature. In Gilgamesh Epic, there is a mythical creature: the Bull of heaven who is the guardian of the Sky god Aun and is sent to destroy Gilgamesh after his rejection towards the goddess Ishtar’s proposal. Although in the Epic, there is no apparent delineation towards the bull’s appearance, it is still clear for people to see the strong power of this…