Biography Cyclops

Cyclops – (KuklwpeV, Cyclopes = kruglookie) – in cosmogonic epic Hesiod offspring of Uranus and Gaea, the Titans, the personification of storm cloud with lightning, a symbolic way that is one large burning eyes giants. On the relation CC atmospheric phenomenon thunderstorms indicate their names: Bronte (bronth – thunder), Sterope (steroph – lightning) and Arg (arghV – bright, shining). For hostility to his father, they were cast into the earth's abyss – a myth. based on the idea of the disappearance in the land of lightning, penetrates the clouds and air. When, through their Krohn won Uranus, and then they also helped Zeus defeat crown; Zeus enjoyed creating and lightning and thunderbolt. When Zeus struck by lightning Apollo son of Aesculapius, Apollo, angry at TS. for the fact that they were accomplices in the case of Zeus, slew them. TS. as reported to us by Homer in the Odyssey (VI and IX of the song), are already different characteristics and properties: the original idea of them, as personified cosmic phenomena, now replaced by the submission of ethics. TS. Odyssey have a divine origin and are in communion with the gods, they are not afraid. Giants, with one eye on his forehead, they are different than a kite, but at the same time, wild, rude, cruel, it knows no law, equity, the relationship of cultural life. They do not live in society, and each one separately, in the caves on the tops of the mountains, doing pastoral and unfamiliar with farming. TS. Polyphemus, which empowers the individual traits of Odysseus, son of Poseidon and Foosy, has a terrible voice (hence its name), and growth, its strength is that it easily lifts and throws a stone, which could hardly budge the 22 carts . The cruelty of his boundless: moreover, he man-eater, treacherous and fearless. Contact TS. with Poseidon (by birth) and its convergence with the sea giant Orion, who, as Polyphemus – Odysseus blinds Oynopion, as well as Briareem-Egeonom indicates the natural features of the CM as marine divinities. At Eastman sacrificed TS. along with Poseidon, shrimps and other sea gods. Name TS. Geresta can be approximated with evbeyskim Gerestom city in which there was a cult of Poseidon. Since the driving forces of nature and of volcanic origin Neptunian forces are constructive, and because Poseidon, being zemlekolebatelem at the same time disposes of land and sea blocks builds walls, dams and so on., Insofar as and Ts are mythical builders. They attributed the construction of the above on behalf of cyclopean (kiklopicheskih) walls, which tells us argivsky myth: according to the last seven "chrevorukih – TS. come from Lycia to Tirineskomu king pass and built him a huge stone fortress of the town." In later legends TS. appear as a god of fire, but not the atmospheric and underground, as blacksmiths working in the workshop of Hephaestus. Seat of them is dated it to the volcano Etna on Sicily, then to the island of Lemnos and the Aeolian islands, preserved the traces of volcanic origin. Polyphemus Odysseus, as a type of primitive uncultured beings, in one myth, enjoyed great popularity, serves the role of sentimental lover, who were languishing on the charming and playful Nereid Galatea: This myth was the poetic process in the works difirambika Philox, Kallimahi, Theocritus and Ovid, and belonged to the plots, which have been treated Mural.