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#Ireader odysseus series#
HFS clients enjoy state-of-the-art warehousing, real-time access to critical business data, accounts receivable management and collection, and unparalleled customer service.While Odysseus, cursed by Poseidon, cannot find his way home and lives through a series of fantastical adventures, his wife Penelope is experiencing a deep wound of longing and despair. She is left to run the kingdom of Ithaca alone. At times she gives way to despair but she has an enormous ability to pull herself together and stay sober and level-headed amidst all the chaos and disarray of the suitors taking over her kingdom. The three epithets that Homer uses to describe her most frequently are “urbane”, “mentally present” and “thoughtful” or “wise.” While Odysseus sinks deeper and deeper into the inner world of his fantasy, she remains his anchor, a constant, a beacon, the safe harbor he hopes to reach one day. Her name is hard to trace back etymologically, but apparently, and very significantly, it is connected with aquatic birds (species of a duck) and weaving. A bird, particularly aquatic bird, is an important aspect of the Mother Goddess, who in many myths, notably the Syrian one, is born out of an egg brought up from the watery depths by a fish and brooded by a bird. According to Barbara Hand Clow, the author of The Pleiadian Agenda, aquatic birds are linked to the stars of the Pleiades birdsong being the sound and vibration connected with the Harmony of the Spheres and the creation of the universe. A winged goddess, so well-known in many mythologies, descended from the heavens to bring culture and civilization through transforming nature.
#Ireader odysseus full#
Penelope is not unlike a goddess herself, being full of dignity and displaying a truly regal demeanor.
In the previous posts of the series, I linked Odysseus’ ever changing adventures with him being a personification of the moon it seems to me that his alchemical spouse, Penelope, in her constancy may be associated with the Sun.
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