Myths 16th entry

Monsters

Giants

Giants were immense creatures that lived on earth at the same time as humans did. They were so strong, that they managed to scare the gods and almost defeat them in one occasion. I don’t think that giants were created by gods because knowing them, they’d never create something that would be able to defeat them. How strange would it be to have a dominant specie in our planet? Imagine that you were a dog and lived on the earth, knowing that there was an advanced specie which ruled you and you couldn’t do anything about it.

“While the war lasted the giants proved for a formidable enemy”.

Imagine that dogs for instance, reveled to the human race and began attacking us in an unpredictable way. Probably we’d still end up winning for our advance technologies and weapons but they’d surely make a formidable enemy. We should not be thinking about war but its kind of a similar concept to that related to the gods and the giants.

The Sphinx

This story shows a resume of the whole story of Oedipus which if I’m not wrong, was also mentioned in the bible. The story of the Sphinx has been common to all of us since young age because of its moral I guess. The puzzle he solved was pretty difficult and when I read it again, I was reminded of a puzzle that I solved in my camp, on this summer. It asked something like, what is better than god, worst than the devil. The rich don’t need it and the poor have it. The dead eat it and something by the sort. The answer was very obvious but you had to think about a lot. When you are faced with these kinds of questions, the first thing you do is think for the most complicated answer when most of the times, the answer is right in front of our nose.

Pegasus and the Chimera

I always thought that Pegasus belonged to Hercules but then again, Disney has distorted our minds as young kids. Pegasus was indeed important in mythology but for different things than those that the movie showed. I found it amazing, how once you get a taste of power, you want to get it all. That’s part of what makes us humans and I can connect this to Ishmael. According to that book, humans are the only ones that are always wanting more than what they need and I guess that doesn’t only apply for food and territory but it definitively applies for power too.

“At last Bellerophon was by his pride and presumption drew upon himself the anger of the gods” pg 101

This statement shows that he wanted more and ended up suffering the wrath of the gods. According to Ishmael, we’ve been doing it all wrong and therefore, we are going to destroy our human race and destroy the world. This also reminds me to a song I saw on TV yesterday that was called De-evolution. The song showed that people with lower IQ’s are having more children and that’ll lead up to a civilization with much less intelligence in the not so far future.