10/13/2016 Western Literature (week5)
The Garden of Eden or
often Paradise is the biblical "garden of God".
God fashions Adam from dust and places him in the Garden of Eden. Adam is
told that he can till the ground and eat freely of all the trees in the garden,
except for a tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Subsequently, Eve is created from one of Adam's ribs
to be Adam's companion. They are innocent and unashamed about their
nakedness. However, a serpent deceives Eve into eating fruit from the
forbidden tree, and she gives some of the fruit to Adam. These acts give them
additional knowledge, but it gives them the ability to conjure negative and
destructive concepts such as shame and evil. God later curses the serpent and the ground. God
prophetically tells the woman and the man what will be the consequences of
their sin of disobeying God. Then he banishes them from the Garden of Eden.
Adam and Eve ate the fruit of good and evil in the Garden of
Eden, which they had been commanded not to do by God. As a metaphor, the
phrase typically refers to any indulgence or pleasure that is considered illegal or immoral.
Original sin, also
called ancestral sin, is
the Christian doctrine of humanity's state of sin resulting from the fall of man, stemming from Adam and Eve's rebellion in Eden, namely the sin of disobedience in consuming from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
the Christian doctrine of humanity's state of sin resulting from the fall of man, stemming from Adam and Eve's rebellion in Eden, namely the sin of disobedience in consuming from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
The seven deadly sins,
also known as the capital vices or cardinal sins, is a grouping and classification of vices of Christian
origin. Behaviors or habits are classified under this category if they directly
give birth to other immoralities. According to the standard list, they are pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and sloth, which are also contrary to the seven virtues. These sins are often thought to be abuses or excessive
versions of one's natural faculties or passions (for example, gluttony abuses
one's desire to eat).
Satan is a figure
appearing in the texts of the Abrahamic
religions who brings evil and temptation, and is known as the deceiver who leads humanity
astray.
In the Odyssey of Homer, the singer, Demodokos,
tells the tale of how Aphrodite and Ares secretly laid together in the bed of
her husband, Lord Hephaistos, the smith of the gods. Helios [Sun] secretly
observed the lovers and told Hephaistos of Aphrodite's betrayal. The smith went
to work and devised clever fastenings that would ensnare and hold the lovers in
an unbreakable trap. The careless lovers fell into the trap and Hephaistos
stood before the other Olympians and demanded that his gifts of courtship be
returned. Only after Poseidon [lord of the sea] offered to guarantee the
adulterer's damages would Hephaistos loose the bonds After being freed,
Aphrodite went to her sacred precinct on the island of Kypros where she was
bathed by the Graces ... Ares went towards Thrake. Seeing the two lovers in the
indignity of the snare, Apollo asked Hermes how he would feel in such a
situation. Hermes answered that he would suffer thrice the number of bonds if
only he could share the bed of Aphrodite the Golden.
A characteristic of Homer's style is the use of
epithets, as in "rosy-fingered" dawn or "swift-footed"
Achilles. Epithets are used because of the constraints of the dactylic hexameter (i.e., it is convenient to have a stockpile of metrically fitting phrases to add to a
name) and because of the oral transmission of the poems;
they are mnemonic aids to the singer and the audience alike.
※Prefix
fra- break fragile, fragment, frailty.
※Definition
ash: the
powdery residue left after the burning of a substance.
clay:
a stiff, sticky
fine-grained earth, typically yellow, red, or bluish-gray in color and often
forming an impermeable layer in the soil. It can be molded when wet.
phoebus:
an epithet of
Apollo, used in contexts in which the god was identified with the sun.
by Chang I-Hsin
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