Tuesday, November 1, 2016

Rise of Achilles and the Fall and Hektor

Achilles anger and blood lust continues to advance the Greeks. Achilles is basically all they need. He is killing everyone in his path. Achilles does manage to anger a river god, only because he is dumping so many dead Trojans into the river! The River God, Skamandros, starts attacking Achilles. Achilles thinks he is so powerful, but the power of the Gods is greater. It actually looks like Achilles will lose. But then Poseidon, Hera, and Hephaistos team up to help him. The battle with the River God is over. Now something interesting happens on Mt. Olympus. The Gods start fighting. Poseidon challenges me. He thinks I should be mad at the Trojans for enslaving Poseidon and myself ages ago. I disregard Poseidon. He isn’t even worth my time. Bringing up issues from so long ago. I just walk away. Artemis curses at me for this. But why are we even fighting! This isn’t our war. It is a war for mortals! Back on the battlefield the Trojans are losing. They call for a retreat and I distracted Achilles so they can take cover behind the great walls. Everyone takes refuge, except for Hektor. Hektor’s mind cannot be shaken now. He has decided to end this battle with Achilles now. No one can convince him otherwise to come back into the walls. Achilles strikes fear in Hektor and he runs around the walls, avoiding the fight. Athena goes down to trick Hektor into fighting. There’s nothing any of us can do now. Hektor’s fate has been weighed by Zeus, and it doesn’t look good. My poor Hektor. He faces his attacker and they prepare for battle. Hektor asks that the loser will receive proper funeral rights. Achilles refuses. His anger is too much for any proper battle etiquette. Soon our worst fear is realized. Hektor, the defender of Troy has been killed at the hands of Achilles. The city will fall.

            We have reached the climax of this tale. Achilles is on his vendetta and killing all in his path. Achilles even turns up the fighting on Mt Olympus. This entire time it has been clear that the Gods care about this war but it is just a game to them. They are immortal they will not die. Yet, as Achilles fights for the Greeks on land, the Gods start to mimic the fighting amongst themselves. Chaos is everywhere. River Gods are fighting Achilles, Water and Fire collide, Gods and Goddesses are fighting. The end has to be near. And all of this fighting, all of this disaster is caused by Achilles. He is being portrayed as more than a man. He can through the cosmos out of order. But he is just a man. And soon his time will come. He did kill Hektor. But if we look at that fight it will predict the death of Achilles. Hektor faced Patroklos, a man in Achilles armor and killed him. Hektor was then the next to die. Now we have Achilles and Hektor facing off. Both are just men wearing the armor of Achilles. Hektor perishes. Now Achilles will die next. By killing Hektor, Achilles has set his faith in stone. He will die. But the damage he has caused is damning to the Trojans. 


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