Friday, July 01, 2005

Kronus: First Generation Titan

David is my my first name so we take up the discovery:

David (דָּוִד "Beloved", Standard Hebrew Dávid, Tiberian Hebrew; Arabic داود "Beloved") was one of the most well known kings of ancient Israel, as well as the most-mentioned man in the Hebrew Bible. He was the eighth and youngest son of Jesse, a citizen of Bethlehem.His mother's name is not recorded. Some think she was the Nahash of 2 Samuel 17:25. As to his personal appearance, he is described as red-haired, with beautiful eyes and a fair face (1 Samuel 16:12; 17:42).

He was vouchsafed by God in the Bible that the Israelite and Jewish monarchies would be guaranteed to come from his Davidic line forever. Judaism believes that the Jewish Messiah will be a direct descendant of King David, and Christianity traces the lineage of Jesus back to him.In order to find out who we are, one has to investigate where one's name has origin. Here we discover that the trail leads to the pre-classical pewriod of Greece.

Kronus (of obscure etymology, perhaps related to "horned"), also spelled Cronos or Kronos, is often confused with Chronos/Khronos. Cronus was the leader and (in some myths) the youngest of the first generation of Titans. His mother was Gaia, and his father was Uranus, whom Cronus envied. Uranus hid the youngest children of Gaia, the one-hundred armed giants
(Hecatonchires) and the one-eyed giants, the Cyclopes, in Tartarus so that they would not see the light, rejoicing in this evil doing. This caused pain to Gaia (Tartarus was her bowels), so she created grey flint and shaped a great sickle and gathered together Kronus and his brothers to ask them to obey her. Only Kronus was willing to do the deed, so Gaia gave him the sickle and set him in ambush. Kronus jumped out and lopped off his father's testicles, casting them behind him. From his blood on the Earth came forth the Giganates, Erinyese, and Meliae. From the testicles of Uranus in the sea came forth Aphrodite. For this, Uranus called his sons Titans, meaning "strainers," for they strained and did presumptuously a fearful deed, for which vengeance would come afterwards.

This excerpt leads to a continuity in the development in identity and explains how activities of the tyranny and secret police activities develop their pattern of behavior. The first instance leaves one with a chip on the shoulder. This is not an easy legacy to uphold!

This quality information is from wikepdia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cronus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David

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