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Author: | GoldenBoy [ Fri Jan 04, 2013 5:18 pm ] | ||
Post subject: | Circe and Odysseus (Being a Man - Women's tricks) | ||
Quote from Chinweizu - Anatomy of Female Power book p 98-99 (p52 in the pdf)
Circe was.the sorceress who turned men into swine. When Odysseus
came to her Island, he sent his men out to explore it. They found the home of Circe, She welcomed them, fed them pottage, and then, with a wave of her magic wand, turned them into pigs, and ordered them off to her pigsty for later slaughter. Only Eurylochus escaped to tell Odysseus what. had happened. After consulting his gods, who told him how to resist Circe's charms, Odysseus set out to meet Circe and rescue his men. Let us consider Circe's tricks and how Odysseus countered them. Her first trick was to serve him drugged pottage, which would weaken his resistance to her magic, and then to wave her wand and order him off to the pigsty. When her pottage and wand technique failed, she didn t give up, but tried another trick. She shrieked, fell on her knees burst into tears, and invited him to her bed, where s'he planned to rob him of his courage, and so render him susceptible to her magic wand. To counter her tears and sex appeal, Odysseus drew his resolute sword. When. capitulating, Circe praised Odysseus, saying: "you must have a heart in your breast that is proof against all enchantment." That was high praise indeed! She added: "I beg you now to put up your sword and come With me to my bed, so that in love and sleep we may learn to trust one another". The encounter between Circe and Odysseus illustrates that when tangling with a woman's desire, a man is embattled with a predatory goddess whose appetite is implacable. Any man who would thwart her needs all the guile and discipline of an Odysseus, plus the good counsel of his gods. Any man who would keep his freedom must also be prepared to use violence if need be. Woman, like the slave hunter, wants to live. If you don't want to be captured, you must make it clear that an attempt on your liberty will cost the attempter's life. Nothing less will make her back away and leave you alone. Note also that it is only in defeat that Circe finally accepts a relation- ship based on love and trust. Only when a man-hunting woman is persuaded that she cannot enslave you is she prepared to settle for a friendship which, to her nature, is only second best. Alas, a beast of prey does not take easily to fair exchange; a parasite does not take easily to symbiosis. Men who insist on fairness in relationships with women must have a resolute heart proof against all enchantment, as well as a sharp and ready sword, and the will to use it on any would-be enslaver.
The most important lesson from Odysseus's encounters with these
A poetic way of saying :women is that the lot of a man in the hands of a woman hungry for a consort depends on him. If he allows himself to be trapped and tamed, his lot will be enslavement; if he stands his ground, he could escape, or at least exact an equitable and symbiotic relationship. Be yourself / a man. Finish how you start. Treat people accordingly. Sorry for the punctuation on the book ... |
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