Many people yearn to have a meaning of life’, or why the world is the way it is. Why are there thunderstorms, or why are there rainbows in the sky after it rains? For people today, scientific research provides the reasons everyone craves. In ancient Greece, things were a little bit different. Myths were used as a way to teach a lesson, or explain the happenings of day to day life. A common recurrence in Greek mythology is the presence […]
Granted, throughout the epic, it is evident that Dante has his own interpretation of justice and who should pay it. It is also evident that Dante doesn’t like the Greeks, for several Greek heroes appear in the different circles of hell even though it seems like they’re in hell for the sole reason that Dante didn’t like them. In the start of canto twenty six, The Evil Counselors, in the Eighth Circle of Hell, Dante realizes the Greek hero, Odysseus, […]
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Get help with your assignmentIn today’s society, technology is so prevalent that if you were to go back 15 years in time, you’d probably think to yourself There is no way I could survive living in this time. When I say this, I say this because technology assists us in so many ways that it has become a part of our everyday lifestyle. When we wish to contact a loved one, or when we need quick and on the spot information from google, we […]
The term contrapasso describes the relationship between a person’s sins and the punishment they receive in Hell. It determines a specific punishment for each sinner based off of their sins, rather than them just burning in Hell. The contrapasso is an important factor in Inferno from The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri. Throughout Inferno, Virgil and Dante are exploring the Nine Circles of Hell, where they see the contrapasso at work. Every circle they visit, there are sinners being punished […]
Paradise Lost. Theme of lies and deception. Paradise Lost is a story of Adam and Eve. It also explains how they were created, placed in the Paradise and how they lost their place in Paradise, the Garden of Eden. The story also explains the origin of Satan, who was originally called Lucifer. Lucifer was an angel in heaven. He led his followers to rebel against God. The war between God and Lucifer made God to throw Lucifer to hell. Lucifer […]
At first, there was nothing in the world but a vast ocean of chaos, which was named Nu. There was nothing in the world except Nu. There was no sky, no land, no up, no down, nothing. Using his pure thoughts and force of his will, Atum came to be. Atum was the first of the primordial Egyptian gods. He created a hill because there was nowhere he could stand. Now there was only Nu and Atum in the world. […]
Inferno is the first part of Dante Alighieri’s poem, Divine Comedy, which tells of a journey of Dante through hell, purgatory, and heaven guided by the ancient Roman poet Virgil. Inferno is about the experiences Dante faced on his journey of the soul towards God as he travels the nine circles of hell to reach heaven. In the poem, hell is depicted as the realm for those who have disobeyed the spiritual values for cruel and violent actions against fellow […]
Inferno opens on the evening of fine Friday within the year 1300. Traveling thru a dark wood, Dante Alighieri has lost his course and now wanders fearfully through the forest. The sun shines down on a mountain above him, and he attempts to climb up to it but finds his way blocked via three beasts”a leopard, a lion, and a she-wolf. Frightened and helpless, Dante returns to the darkish wood. Here he encounters the ghost of Virgil, the gorgeous Roman […]
The Inferno is the first part of Dante’s epic poem, Divine Comedy, of the 14th century. The poet (Dante) starts a spiritual journey where he is guided by the soul of the Roman poet Virgil. Dante takes the journey through nine circles of hell where he observes the punishments that the sinners who had passed on earlier are going through. In the first canto, Dante is lost in the dark woods and lost both his literal and spiritual sense, which […]
In the Inferno, Dante describes a journey where he saw hell, purgatory and paradise. He began to write about this starting at the gates of hell. Hell is described as a series of layers/circles descending towards Satan. Each of the circles represents a different type of sin; the outer circle is for the least serious sinners and the inner circle where Satan contains the worst sinners. In Dante’s expedition, he sees many noble people in the modern world from Roman […]
When the clay tablets of the epic of Gilgamesh were first discovered and translated in 1872, scholars quickly noticed striking similarities between its narratives and those of the bible (Coogan 68). Specifically, the flood stories of these two pieces show the most clear resemblance to one another. In Gilgamesh, the main protagonist, Gilgamesh, seeks to become immortal. In effort to do so, he then speaks to Utnapushtim who tells him about his experience with a great flood. Utnapushtim explains that […]
The movie Life of Pi shows what Hindu’s think of other deities not within their pantheon, while also showing samsara, and the three components of a worldview; ontology, epistemology, and axiology. In the movie Life of Pi directed by Ang Lee, Piscine Molitor Pi Patel is confronted with multiple different religions. He was born a Hindu. Later, he accepted Jesus, and finally, he added Allah to his collection. Pi did not believe in just one of these religions but he […]
In the book, The Odyssey by Homer , there are many internal and external conflicts that affect Odysseus from getting back home to Ithaca. Odysseus struggles with several external conflicts more because most of the Gods have grudges against him. Some of the Gods are giving him great harm, mostly poseidon, to try and keep him from reaching home because they know that’s his one and only desire. For example, Polyphemus ( son of Poseidon ), traps Odysseus and some […]
How long would have Odysseus survived without any help from the gods. Without them, The Odyssey would most likely be a very short story. The gods help Odysseus in many ways, but they also made his adventure tougher. Odysseus might not have survived as long without the gods by his side. The gods that affect him the most were Athena, and Hermes. All humans show so much respect to the gods because the gods are listening and will help if […]
When thinking about Ancient Egyptian and their religion many tend to forget how important and serious Egyptians take death. It is shown that Egyptians have a specific preparation for death especially on how death is handled and making sure to keep a certain ceremony for death and the many beliefs about those dead alive. Egyptians strongly believed in the afterlife and its complete existence. They believed that the afterlife was more important than life itself. Which is why they made […]
The Epic of Gilgamesh was written in 2100 BC and was also the first piece of literature that was written which was later discovered. In this epic there is a king named Gilgamesh who ruled a city called Uruk. His life and problems in his life were discovered on stone tablets and it is to be the oldest and first written piece of literature. Essentially this epic is about Gilgamesh becoming comfortable with death and trying to gain eternal life. […]
In the tragedy of Sohrab and Rostam and epics of Gilgamesh, heroes Rostam and Gilgamesh have a passion to deal with the death of the most loved ones in their lives. Rostam loses his son, Sohrab, whom he murdered in the battlefield whereas Gilgamesh loses his colleague, Enkidu in the epic. Gilgamesh is the king of Uruk, he is a one-third man and two-thirds god, very strong and wise. Even though Gilgamesh is godly, he starts his kingship as a […]
Being native from Cuba where the sound of the drums are heard acclaiming to the Gods and the singing of souls worshiping Cachita known as Oshun in the Afro-Cuban culture make me decided to compare the foundation of Africans mythology vs. Greeks mythology. Once we have opportunity to dive into both civilizations we can find out that we are all the source of the same creation. Also that no matter where we came from, or where we travel the final […]
Zeus (greek name- Jupiter) he was the god of the sky and the thunder. He spent most of his time in the Mount of olympus so most of his myths was on this place. His powers was to throw lightning bolts, his winged pegasus, he controlled the weather, & he could shape shift himself into animals or persons. FAMILY RELATIVES His mother was Rhea the goddess of courage and wisdom, his father was the Titan Cronus. Zeus brothers was Hades […]
Hinduism is a religion that consists of thirty-three million gods, both male and female deities are worshipped with equal regard. Hindus worshipping gods and goddesses has always been a real enigma for most people, especially westerners that worship only one God. Hinduism is a model of a religion that stands in sharp opposition to Western notions of what constitutes a religion. The religion does not draw a sharp distinction between divine and human beings. This suggests that it is possible […]
When you look at both Christianity and Hinduism there is a lot that becomes clear and helps us better understand why these two different theologies have a lot in common. A significant point of agreement is that both Christians and Hindus share a monotheistic religion. Most importantly, there are many similarities among the birth of Christ and the birth of Krishna. The clear shared similarities between these two different religions help us to understand how their morals and teachings are […]
The ancient Greeks were polytheists (the worship of or belief in multiple deities) who viewed their gods as a family of immortals who intervened in the lives of human beings. There are many Greek gods, however there are 12 major Olympian gods. The reason for the name Olympian gods, is because of the mythical place Mount Olympus. Mount Olympus was the highest mountain in Greece and was so full of beauty and uniqueness which led the ancient Greeks to believe […]
In Greek Mythology, perhaps one of the most important elements are the Greek Gods and Goddesses. The ancient Greeks created the stories about the lives and journeys of the Greek Gods, known as myths, simply different information which were difficult to explain using modern science. These myths about the Gods were spread around the world by explorers and storytellers, and later merged with Greek culture. To this day, numerous myths survived through many writings. Each of these myths are very […]
Zeus was the king of the Greek gods in Mount Olympus. He was the god of the sky and thunder. His symbols are the lightning bolt, the eagle, and the oak tree. Zeus was the son of the Titan Cronus and Rhea, Cronus’ sister. His brothers were Hades and Poseidon. His sisters were Hestia, Demeter, and Hera who Zeus ended up marrying. Zeus’s father would eat all of his children the moment they were born, but his mother Rhea Zeus […]
After perusing the sagas The Odyssey by Homer and The Divine ComedyInferno by Dante Alighieri, it is obvious how extraordinary these two stories are. In The Odyssey, Odysseus is battling to achieve his home, which he didn’t see for a long time. The subject for his story is one man’s craving to go home. In Inferno, Dante the character is battling among great and abhorrence, which is the topic of the story. The character investigates inside and out the Christian […]
Among the numerous struggles humans undergo within a lifetime, the ultimate struggle of the human experience is to eventually contend with mortality. Kings can obtain as much physical power as they and their subjects have at hand, however even the most powerful of kings are subject to the brutal cycles of the most natural regulators. As solution seekers, humans have a great deal of trouble confronting this inevitable reality. There are of course, numerous historical paradigms that speak to this […]
Many people will question, “If Jesus was human how was he perfect?”, or “How can he be the Son of God if he was human?”. Many of the questions that people ask that revolve around Jesus all question his humanity. How could he be the Messiah if he was a man, many will wonder. In this essay I will talk about the humanity of Jesus in the New Testament. The Man, Jesus Christ: Although He was the Son of God, […]
There are numerous parallels between the Gilgamesh surge account and the scriptural surge account starting specifically with God picking a noble man to construct an ark because of an approaching extraordinary surge. This surge or flood was meant to get rid of all humans because God or gods were displeased with them. In the two records, all types of creatures were to be on the ark, and winged animals were utilized after the downpours to decide whether surge waters had […]
While reading Gilgamesh, I was struck by the similarities between the story being told and that of the stories compiled within the Bible. The correlations between the two made me question whether or not Gilgamesh somehow influenced the creation of certain narratives within the religion I practice today. It is interesting to read something that potentially helped fashion Christianity into what it has become over the centuries. I can see the influence of Gilgamesh in quite a few places in […]
Men always are symbol of power and change but women have played a crucial role through the history. As Beyonce said: Who run the world? Girls!”” Maybe she was right. We have seen many times during the history that a man was the king and ruler but many times because of a woman, peace and war was created. Before females were considered very important because they are able to continue human life by giving birth. In the Epic of Gilgamesh, […]
