The Division of Honors and Journeying Among the Gods :: Christianity God Religion Essays

The Division of Honors and Journeying Among the Godsmissing works citedIn this midterm essay I exit discuss why Gods Journey. I believethat Gods journey for two reasons. One reason is to seek out honor forthemselves. The other reason is to regain honors they have lost. Todemonstrate this I will first discuss the journeys of Hades in theHomeric hymn To Demeter comparing it to the journey of Hermes in ToHermes. I fell that both of these companion journeys were attempts bythese Gods to get honors they did not already have. Next I will look atthe companion journeys of Demeter and Apollo. I think that both of theseGods journeyed to regain honors theyd previously had, but lost. ultimately Iwill conclude by showing how all four Gods had to compromise and divide upthe honors amongst themselves. Earth with its wide roads gaped and then everywhere the Nysian field the lord andAll receiver, the many named son of Kronos, sprang out upon herwith his immortal horses...Not an unseem ly bridegroom among the immortalsis Aidoneus, Lord on Many, your own brother from the same rootage to hisshare fell honor when in the beginning a triple division was made, andhe dwells among those over whom his lot made him lord (To Demeter 16-18, 83-87). I think that these two sets of lines show that Hades viewedPersephone as a prize. Honor was one of the things Hades won when he,Zeus, and Poseidon divided up the world. Thus Hades felt justify injourneying up from the underworld to earth to claim Persephone as hisbride. I feel that he felt he deserved to have her, jibe to hislogic, because honor was something he was entitled to as a God.I feel that Hermes journey was similar to that of Hades in that hetraveled in lay out to win honor for himself and for his Mother Maia. Awatcher by night and a gate keeper, soon destined to show forth glorious whole shebang among the immortal gods. Born at dawn, by midday he played his lyre,and at evening he stole the cattle of far sh ooting Apollon...But I shallbe master of whatever skill is best to provide for you and me foreverwe shall not suffer, as you bid me, to stay right here and be the just nowtwo immortals not plied with gifts and prayers.