Secret Son of a Legend: Autobiography

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There have been many proposals for the origin of the Masonic Hiram Abiff story, which are dismissed by most Masonic scholars. However, the leading theory supported by many scholars of historical Freemasonry is advanced in the recent work of Bro. Christopher Powell. In 2021, he published a paper in QCCC that the Reverend Dr. John Theophilus Desaguliers is the likely author of the Hiram Abiff story in the early 1720s and introduced it into the 3rd degree. In his research, Bro. Powell notes how Desaguliers also introduced the "lost word" aspect of the Royal Arch degree which he likely read in a book he owned titled "The Temple of Solomon, portrayed by Scripture-light." If the word was to be found, it would need to be first lost, hence the Hiram Abiff story. According to Powell, Desaguliers as a Frenchman living in England, would have known the Chanson de Geste legend (explored below), and used it as a base for the legend of Hiram Abiff. However instead of being used as a ritual since the 12th century, Powell argues that Desaguliers used this existing myth to create a central story for the newly created 3rd degree, for which there is no evidence whatsoever before 1720.

Midas, now hating wealth and splendor, moved to the country and became a worshipper of Pan, the god of the fields and satyrs. [21] Roman mythographers [22] asserted that his tutor in music was Orpheus.Luke and Leia of Star Wars are the children of Anakin Skywalker and Padmé Amidala, who married each other in secret due to Anakin being a Jedi, who are forbidden to have romantic attachments under the old Republic. Anakin's love for his wife is what caused his Start of Darkness, and his love for his son is what causes his return to the Light. It remains a continuing debate among scholars of comparative religion and the literary reception [76] of mythological and religious subject matter as to whether the typology of suffering and torment represented in the Prometheus myth finds its more representative comparisons with the narratives of the Hebrew scriptures or with the New Testament narratives. In the Book of Job, significant comparisons can be drawn between the sustained suffering of Job in comparison to that of eternal suffering and torment represented in the Prometheus myth. With Job, the suffering is at the acquiescence of heaven and at the will of the demonic, while in Prometheus the suffering is directly linked to Zeus as the ruler of Olympus. The comparison of the suffering of Jesus after his sentencing in Jerusalem is limited to the three days, from Thursday to Saturday, and leading to the culminating narratives corresponding to Easter Sunday. The symbolic import for comparative religion would maintain that suffering related to justified conduct is redeemed in both the Hebrew scriptures and the New Testament narratives, while in Prometheus there remains the image of a non-forgiving deity, Zeus, who nonetheless requires reverence. [74] In Georgian mythology, Amirani is a cultural hero who challenged the chief god and, like Prometheus, was chained on the Caucasian mountains where birds would eat his organs. This aspect of the myth had a significant influence on the Greek imagination. It is recognisable from a Greek gem roughly dated to the time of the Hesiod poems, which show Prometheus with hands bound behind his body and crouching before a bird with long wings. [72] This same image would also be used later in the Rome of the Augustan age as documented by Furtwangler. [73]

They requested the then Argentinian president, Jose Figueroa Alcorta, be their seventh son’s godfather. The president agreed to their request and this tradition has been kept till today. In 2014, Yair Tawil, a seventh son, became the godson of Argentina’s president , Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. Prometheus Bound, perhaps the most famous treatment of the myth to be found among the Greek tragedies, is traditionally attributed to the 5th-century BC Greek tragedian Aeschylus. [30] At the centre of the drama are the results of Prometheus' theft of fire and his current punishment by Zeus. The playwright's dependence on the Hesiodic source material is clear, though Prometheus Bound also includes a number of changes to the received tradition. [b] It has been suggested by M.L. West that these changes may derive from the now lost epic Titanomachy. [29] Vassileva, Maya. "King Midas: between the Balkans and Asia Minor". In: Dialogues d'histoire ancienne, vol. 23, n°2, 1997. pp.9–20. doi: 10.3406/dha.1997.2349. [www.persee.fr/doc/dha_0755-7256_1997_num_23_2_2349] But he didn't marry Stephen's mum Helen and moved to London soon after to sign for Spurs. And Helen, now 71, didn't tell Stephen who his dad was until Rob wrote a book about John's life that revealed the existence of his secret son.In Greek mythology, Prometheus ( / p r ə ˈ m iː θ i ə s/; Ancient Greek: Προμηθεύς, [promɛːtʰéu̯s], possibly meaning " forethought") [1] is sometimes referred to as the God of Fire. [2] Prometheus is best known for defying the Olympian gods by stealing fire from them and giving it to humanity in the form of technology, knowledge, and more generally, civilization. Other minor details attached to the myth include: the duration of Prometheus' torment; [61] [62] the origin of the eagle that ate the Titan's liver (found in Pseudo-Apollodorus and Hyginus); Pandora's marriage to Epimetheus (found in Pseudo-Apollodorus); myths surrounding the life of Prometheus' son, Deucalion (found in Ovid and Apollonius of Rhodes); and Prometheus' marginal role in the myth of Jason and the Argonauts (found in Apollonius of Rhodes and Valerius Flaccus). [43] We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you've consented to and to improve our understanding of you.

One version of the mythos has Gawain born from a love affair between Arthur's adoptive siblings (they were too young to wed at the time, and gave the baby to a passing warrior with a medallion to prove his identity). When he shows up at Arthur's court, he is given multiple quests before Arthur publicly recognizes him as his nephew and heir.Harold Bloom, in his research guide for Aeschylus, has summarised some of the critical attention that has been applied to Aeschylus concerning his general philosophical import in Athens. [33] As Bloom states, "Much critical attention has been paid to the question of theodicy in Aeschylus. For generations, scholars warred incessantly over 'the justice of Zeus,' unintentionally blurring it with a monotheism imported from Judeo-Christian thought. The playwright undoubtedly had religious concerns; for instance, Jacqueline de Romilly [34] suggests that his treatment of time flows directly out of his belief in divine justice. But it would be an error to think of Aeschylus as sermonising. His Zeus does not arrive at decisions which he then enacts in the mortal world; rather, human events are themselves an enactment of divine will." [35]