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If you refer to John 3:19 Light came into the world, but men rejected it. I tend to believe that John 1:5 has a double meaning: Light came, and as hard as it tried darkness could not overcome it. Satan has been trying for years. Light came, and the people in darkness didn't understand it.
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It was probably through Persian Zoroastrianism that the equation of Light and God was first made. But Ahura Mazda (whose name means Light Wisdom) was not opposed to Angra Mainyuon account of darkness – the name of that entity means "malign spirit" or "destructive mentality". Genesis begins with darkness upon the face of the deep, until God encompas...
There's a dissertation to be done on Shakespeare and darkness. So many scenes depend upon it – from Henry V touring the troops incognito, to the Porter in Macbeth unwittingly realising his role in murkier deeds, to the "darkness" of the Dark Lady. Night in Shakespeare is different from darkness – night is where identities are confused, conflated an...
"No light, but rather darkness visible": in 10 syllables Milton conjures the paradox of Hell. What makes these lines so moving is not just the intellectual sprezzatura (his Inferno is not geographical, like Dante, but metaphysical and impossible), but our knowledge that he was probably already blind when he dictated the line. In his ineffably movin...
Dark is also Dark Ages; and Pope describes the horror of cultural apocalypse better than anyone. Let's let him speak for himself: In vain, in vain, — the all-composing Hour Resistless falls: The Muse obeys the Pow'r. She comes! she comes! the sable Throne behold Of Night Primæval, and of Chaos old Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all it...
To all depressives, here, today and everywhere, at least know someone else has trod this path. The real darkness was never a matter of light. I WAKE and feel the fell of dark, not day. What hours, O what black hoürs we have spent This night! what sights you, heart, saw; ways you went! And more must, in yet longer light's delay. With witness I speak...
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Mar 1, 2023 · The Iliad is widely regarded as the earliest example of written literature in ancient Greece. Before the eighth century BCE, Greek literature was composed and transmitted orally, without the use of writing.
Jul 24, 2011 · Marinatos opens the ‘Being and Beyond’ section by outlining the early cosmographic importance of light and darkness to the topography of the ‘underworlds’, using three concepts: “sunlight, night (…absence of sunlight), and darkness as a quality of the beyond” (193).
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Mar 8, 2014 · Written by a former Greek slave, in the late to mid-6th century BCE, Aesop's Fables are the world's best known collection of morality tales. The fables, numbering 725, were originally told from person-to-person...
The parthenogenic children of Chaos were Gaia (the Earth), Eros (Desire or sexual love), Tartarus (the Underworld), Erebus (Darkness) and Nyx (Night). Erebos and Nyx reproduced to make Aither (Brightness) and Hemera (Day), and from Gaia came Ouranos (Sky), the Ourea (Mountains) and Pontus (Sea).
Light and Darkness in Ancient Greek Myth and Religion is a ground-breaking volume dedicated to a thorough examination of the well known empirical categories of light and darkness as it relates to modes of thought, beliefs and social behavior in Greek culture.
