Ceres of 12 Sonnets, Songs, Operas

Athena's Maps for Odysseus

Sagittarius

Temperance

Samech

The Cup of Odysseus.

In the Odyssey, Odysseus is returning home to his beloved wife Penelope. Guided by the Goddess Athena.

In my portrayal Athena is the Solar Current, Penelope the Luna, they are both manifestations of One woman.

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One representing the childlike warmth, joy and innocence of Love (The Sun) And the other, the sensuality and romance (The Moon)

In the Odyssey,

even Calypso and Circe can be manifestations of the same feminine energy, like shadows of Athena and Penelope.

Calypso is cold and unfeeling, and Circe is Madness.

Circe (Madness) is like a shadow of Athena's Divinity, and Calypso (Coldness, Death) is like a shadow of Penelope's loving warmth.

In the Kabbalah tree of life, the path of Temperance (Samech) is like a Knight on a path between Death (Nun) and the Devil (Ayin).

Athena/ Penelope are like the Knight, the Samech.

Calypso is like Death.

and Circe is like the Devil.

Perhaps the manifestations and shadows of One person.

Alchemy, Art, Temperance

'She spoke, and still more roused in him the passion for weeping. He wept as he held his lovely wife, whose thoughts were virtuous. And as when the land appears welcome to men who are swimming, after Poseidon has smashed their strong-built ship on the open water, pounding it with the weight of wind and the heavy seas, and only a few escape the gray water landward by swimming, with a thick scurf of salt coated upon them, and gladly they set foot on the shore, escaping the evil; so welcome was her husband to her as she looked upon him, and she could not let him go from the embrace of her white arms. (23.231-240) HOMERS ODYSSEY