Apophis And Anubis: The Misunderstood

the younger gods were noisy. So, they decided to destroy the new gods. Ea, the

He was still alive when I passed in front of him. His tongue was still red, his eyes were not yet glazed. Behind me I heard the same man ask where is God now? And I heard a voice within me answer him: Where is He? Here He is-He is hanging here on this gallows? (Wiesel 62)

In The Odyssey, the reader is easily able to distinguish that Odysseus is a hero in the story. He is a god-like figure. Odysseus’s wife, Penelope, is a hero and seen by many readers as such especially females. Both possess characteristics of heroes and they deserve to be considered such but that does not mean that they are the true hero of the story. Their son Telemachus is the true hero in The Odyssey. The reader should be able to identify with him the most and realize everything that has happened in his life and he deals with it with extreme heroism. He handles the situation in his life the way every human being should.

5. “Must then the same not be said of the deathless? If the deathless is also indestructible, it is impossible for the soul to be destroyed when death comes upon it” (105e-106d)

In the Myth of the Soul, Darrow argues against different conceptions of immortality. One of the arguments that he presents to us is that we have a soul that can survive our death. Darrow argues that there is no evidence for the existence of the soul and questions where the soul stays within our body and when it enters our body. His arguments are to be further evaluated for its strengths and weaknesses as he tries to counter a belief with a long history particularly, in religion.

“He is dead who called me into being; and when I shall be no more, the very remembrance of us both will speedily vanish. I shall no longer see the sun or stars, or feel the winds play on my cheeks. Light, feeling, and sense, will pass away; and in this condition must I find my happiness.”(161)

“Why, what should be the fear?/I do not set my life at a pin’s fee,/And for my soul, what can it do to that,/Being a thing immortal as itself?/It waves me forth again. I’ll follow it.” (1.4.64-68)

As humans, we are always imagining what our lives will be like when we die. While the depictions of what hell or heaven may be from the ancient times and now, what has stayed consist is the idea of an afterlife altogether.

Very soon after he said this he became an empty shell as if the last part of him finally allowed death in until he died.

“Gods can be evil sometimes.” In the play “Oedipus the King”, Sophocles defamed the gods’ reputation, and lowered their status by making them look harmful and evil. It is known that all gods should be perfect and infallible, and should represent justice and equity, but with Oedipus, the gods decided to destroy him and his family for no reason. It might be hard to believe that gods can have humanistic traits, but in fact they do. The gods, especially Apollo, are considered evil by the reader because they destroyed an innocent man’s life and his family. They destroyed Oedipus by controlling his fate, granting people the power of prophecy, telling Oedipus about his fate through the oracle of Apollo, and finally afflicting the people of

To begin, in "Oedipus Rex" the gods appear cruel because they have inflicted the people of Thebes with many afflictions. The story commences with a priest of Zeus informing Oedipus of the poor state of his city saying, "The fever-god swoops down on us, hateful plague, he hounds the city and empties the houses of Thebes. The black god is made rich with wailing and funeral laments." (pg. 3, lines 2-5). The fever-god, better know as Apollo, has sent a plague upon the city of Thebes and the plague is killing myriads of people. This shows the cruel nature of the gods because they are more than willing to inflict hardships upon their worshipers. Furthermore, the black god, Hades, seems to benefit from this brutish behavior as well. The gods also have a tendency to twist people's fate in cruel ways. It is revealed by Apollo to Jocasta that, “…Laius was fated to die by the hand of his son, a son born to me.” (pg. 50, lines 11-12) When Oedipus was born Jocasta gave her baby to a Shepard with the orders to kill the baby. The Shepard did not kill the baby but gave it to a messenger bound for Corinth. Oedipus was then given to Polybus and Merope (king and queen of Corinth) to be raised as their own. Later, it was revealed, through the power of Apollo, to Oedipus that he was destined to kill his father. Believing Polybus to be his true father, Oedipus set out for Thebes. At the crossroads of three cities, Oedipus attacked and killed a band of men, one of which was his true father Laius. The tragic fate of Oedipus, and by extension Laius, was brought about by Apollo. His way of exposing only some information while keeping other crucial information hidden is cruel and usually, ends in

"I am afraid that when I come again my God will humble me before you, and I will

This line is an example of his use of contradiction because he also says that his soul cannot exceed the other parts of himself.

First, a prayer was said to the goddess of birth and death, Ani; then Thoth, the god of scribes makes a speech. After a plea to the god Anubis (embalming), the god Horus introduces the goddess Ani to Osiris. Ani makes a speech, and then the deceased's heart--which was viewed as the seat of intelligence--was weighed against the Feather of Knowledge. The fearsome demon Am-mit waited beneath the scales to devour the soul if the heart proved to be too heavy to enter the afterlife.

you may live in desolation for all eternity, as he feels his soul feels at this moment. He