Saturday, April 4, 2009

what a wise man???

What a wise man?
Every nation has important norms and vice saying and characters...
Most of the societies recognized its own wise and guru people to guide them to the right path. In many belief system and religions there are some criteria to be a vice person for societies. Being good, truthful mysterious, knowledgeable, fortune reader, faithful, God’s sake seeker etc. For instance one of such character appears in ancient Greek time. That character named as Teiresias. Teiresias, the most famous soothsayer of Greece, was born at Thebes. He was the son of Eueres and Chariclo, descendant of Udaeus of Sparti.

Teiresias was a blinded person, some say because of his knowledge some say because of his sight what he saw, whatever happened to him quite childish story, actually Greek mythology is quite childish, gods are fighting and having kids, for instance, Zeus he was a completed god but he had relation with human woman and they got half god half human child named Hercule. So for Teiresias was accused by Hera and punished. The punishment was also quite funny and impossible/. But what to do, we just accept it as a story from people. Those people who made these ancient Greek mythology stories were having some expectation from life. We can see that from their stories and character that they produce. Our wise prophet Teiresias was one of them. We see that those people were thirsty to the knowledge and spiritual life. They needed to such characters. Therefore they made a Teiresias. Teiresias is actually completing the story of Oedipus the king. Without him message of the story and theme couldn’t be that much perfect. sometimes i think alone and i say to may self "is it possible that actually teiresias was a really a prophet from the God, same as jesus, muses, HZ. Muhhammad,? is he one of them? may be in his time ancient greek people made him like this, now how we see him hin Sophocles plays. may be they change him or re-form his chracter according to their dream. may be he was one of the messanger from tha divine palace., why not ha?

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