Edipian Edipus Hopeless Destiny Edema Swelled Moira Moera Moirae Lachesis Fatalism Aedipus

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~ EDIPIAN  from EDIPUS WHO STANDS FOR
           FATAL INEVITABLE or HOPELESS   sug> DESTINY
     id+ FATALISM     INEVITABLE DEATH IS PART OF LIFE
         as in PRINCIPLE or BELIEF IN FATAL FATE
     opp to JOBIAN JONIANIS from JOB as in the BIBLE or
     DOGMA or BELIEF in DIVINE or SUPERNATURAL JUSTICE
     id+ EDIPIAN AND JOBIAN REPRESENT A FUNDAMENTAL
         DICHOTOMY ABOUT THE " MEANING OF LIFE "
     biol> med> EDEMA MAY RELATE TO EDIPUS
                WHOSE FEET SWELLED FROM WALKING
     sc>  OPPOSITE VIEWS or JOBIAN vs EDIPIAN ARE FOUND
          EVEN AMONG PRIMITIVE TRIBES LIVING NEAR EACH OTHER
     SUCH CONTRASTS SHOW AN IMPORTANT CARDINAL HUMAN DICHOTOMY
     hx> THE EDIPIAN VIEW IS THAT FATE
         IS BLIND AND HOPELESS                sug> FATALISM
     ply> | MAN IS A VICTIM OF HIS DESTINY |  sug> CRUEL
            the above is TRACED TO SOPHOCLES and his AEDIPUS
     SUCH TRAGIC CONCEPT OF FATE IS FOUND IN
     gr  MOIRA MOERA or MOIRAE = DESTINY
         LACHESIS                LOT or in gr MOERA or MOIRAE
     lat LOT  = PERSONAL SHARE OR LOT OF DESTINY  sug> LOTTERY
         FATE   FATE or FORTUNE           sug> FATAL  FATALISM
     in CONTRAST THE VIEW GIVEN BY JOB in the BIBLE concerns
     DIVINE JUSTICE and therefore HOPE
     id+ THE JEWISH RELIGION and its derivatives
         CHRISTIANITY and MAHOMETANISM CONQUERED THE WORLD WITH
     AN OFFER OF HOPE in contrast to a VIEW OF
     DEATH AS THE ULTIMATE DESTINY OFFERED BY
     STOIC AND THE EPICUREAN PHILOSOPHIES
           ply> | POPULAR VIEWS are found in POPULAR RELIGIONS |
           for more see> ~ SOCIETY
~ EDIPUS   AEDIPUS or OEDIPUS
           A PROTAGONIST OF A TRAGEDY
  myth>    EDIPUS IS A NAME THAT MAY RELATE TO EDEIMA
           RELATES TO EDEMA  THE HERO EDIPUS
  WALKED ACROSS GREECE AND DEVELOPED EDEMA OF
  HIS FEET
  lit+ ANTIGONE and EDIPUS by SOPHOCLES [#]
       A CLASSIC TRAGEDY POINTING OUT among other points
  FAITHFUL ANTIGONE LEADING THE BLIND EDIPUS
  hx> EDIPUS WAS THE SON OF LAIOS & JOKASTE
      LAIOS WAS THE SON OF LABKAKOS KING OF THEBES AND
  JOKASTA WAS THE DAUGHTER OF MENOIKEUS
  AN ORACLE TOLD LAIOS THAT OEDIPUS UPON REACHING MANHOOD
  WOULD CAUSE HIS DEATH WHICH LED LAIOS
  TO ORDER THE NEWBORN OEDIPOS TO BE LEFT NAKED
  TO PERISH ON MOUNT KITHAERON BUT AEDIPUS WAS FOUND BY
  A HERDSMAN AND TAKEN TO CORINTH WHERE
  KING POLYBOS AND HIS CHILDLESS WIFE RAISED HIM
  LATER OEDIPOS INQUIRED FROM AN ORACLE ABOUT HIS PARENTAGE AND
  WAS TOLD TO AVOID THE LANDS OF HIS ANCESTORS SINCE
  OTHERWISE HE WOULD CAUSE THE DEATH OF HIS FATHER AND
  MARRY HIS OWN MOTHER
  FEAR THAT HIS FATHER MIGHT BE POLYBOS HE LEFT CORINTH
  WHILE WANDERING THE COUNTRY HE MET HIS FATHER LAIOS AND
  SLEW HIM
  LATER HE ARRIVED AT THEBES TO FIND
  GREAT DISTRESS CAUSED BY A MONSTER SPHINX WHICH HAD
  A BODY OF A LION EXCEPT FOR THE HEAD BREAST AND ARMS WHICH
  WERE THOSE OF A WOMAN
  THE SPHINX HAD A RIDDLE FOR THOSE THAT APPROACHED HER
  AEDIPUS READ THE RIDDLE RIGHT WHICH CAUSED THE
  SPHINX TO CAST HERSELF INTO THE ABYSS
  THE PRIZE FOR THOSE WHO WOULD SUCCEED IN
  GETTING RID OF THE SPHINX WAS THE HAND OF JOKASTE
  WIDOW OF LAIOS AND MOTHER OF AEDIPUS AND SO
  AEDIPUS MARRIED HIS MOTHER AND
  FULFILLED THE PROPHECY BY THE ORACLE
  AEDIPUS & JOKASTE HAD TWO SONS NAMED
  ETEOKLES AND POLYNEIKES AND
  TWO DAUGHTERS NAMED ANTIGONE AND ISMENE
  ONLY AFTER OEDIPUS & JOKASTE
  INQUIRED OF THE ORACLE ABOUT
  MISFORTUNES THAT HAD DESCENDED UPON THEIR LAND
  DID THEY DISCOVER THAT THEY WERE MOTHER AND SON
  JOKASTE SLEW HERSELF WHILE
  OEDIPOS AFTER PUTTING OUT HIS EYES
  FORSOOK THEBES AND WANDERED ABOUT
  ACCOMPANIED BY HIS FAITHFUL DAUGHTER ANTIGONE
  HIS SONS SUCCEEDED HIM BUT
  THEY QUARRELED AND ULTIMATELY KILLED EACH OTHER
  THIS TRAGEDY IS THE SUBJECT OF POEMS AND WRITINGS BY
  AESCHYLUS or ESCHYLUS AS WELL AS BY SOPHOCLES  SENECA
  APOLLODUORUS  EURIPIDES AND OTHERS
  art> often TWO FALLEN WARRIORS SERVE TO DEPICT
       THE SONS OF OEDIPUS ETEOCLES AND POLYNICES
  BOTH BROTHERS COVETED THE THRONE OF THEBES AND
  BOTH FELL IN THE BATTLE FOR IT
  Jean A D INGRES [#] 1780-1867 PAINTED IN 1808
  AEDIPUS CONFRONTING THE SPHINX and one version is
  AT THE NATIONAL GALLERY IN LONDON
  EDIPUS and ANTIGONE  two paintings by
  Antoni BRODOWSKI [#]
  Aleksader KOKULAR [#]  both at the
  Museum Narodowe in Warsaw Poland
  hx>  SEVERAL SCHOLARS incl Immanuel VELIKOVSKY [#] in
       "Oedipus and Akhnaton" propose that OEDIPUS IS A MYTH
  OF EGYPTIAN ORIGIN  note THE EGYPTIAN CITY OF THEBES known as
  NO AMON to denote RESIDENCE OF AMON
  THEBES WAS AN ANCIENT MAGNIFICENT EGYPTIAN CAPITAL
  note THE TEMPLES OF LUXOR AND KARNAK
       LUXOR WAS BUILT BY AMENHOTEP III or HARIM of AMON
  HE WAS FOLLOWED BY AMENHOTEP IV or AKHNATON [#]
  SOME PROPOSE THAT A RELIGIOUS REFORM STARTED UNDER AKHNATON
  APPARENTLY THIS REFORM MAY HAVE BEEN ORIENTED TOWARD MONOTHEISM
  SOME CALLED AKHNATON THE "FIRST PROPHET"
  AKHNATON LEFT THEBES FOR HIS NEWLY BUILT CAPITAL AKHET ATON
  WHERE THE FAMOUS PAINTED HEAD OF NEFRETETE [#] WAS FOUND
  note THEBES the CAPITAL OF BEOTIA IN GREECE
       both cities relate to A SPHINX
  THE GREEK THEBES WAS FOUNDED BY CADMUS WHO CAME FROM PHOENICIA
  note MANY SUSTAIN THAT OEDIPUS AND AKHNATON WERE ONE PERSON
       A POINT NOT REALIZED BY Sigmund FREUD [#] WHO
       ELABORATED ON BOTH PERSONAGES  see> OEDIPUS COMPLEX below
  med> EDIPISM can denote SELF INFLICTION OF EYE INJURIES
       EDIPUS COMPLEX may denote SEXUAL PERVERSION OF A SON
  LUSTING AFTER HIS MOTHER                       sug> FREUD
  note AKHNATON [#] MAY HAVE SUFFERED FROM LIPODYSTROPHY
       AN AFFLICTION CHARACTERIZED BY THE GRADUAL DISAPPEARANCE
  OF SUBCUTANEOUS FAT OF THE UPPER PART OF THE BODY AND A
  MARKED INCREASE OF THE ADIPOSE TISSUE BELOW THE WAIST
  SUCH A DISORDER IS RARE PARTICULARLY IN MALES
  AKHNATON IS SHOWN WITH SWOLLEN THIGHS
  OEDIPUS IS SHOWN WITH SWOLLEN FEET
  biol> see> OEDIPU