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Brave man.
Odysseus said to Athena that it is “already becoming hard to recognize the gods,” when they embodied human form. At Troy when people were "possessed" or "inspired" by the gods they did things they were not otherwise capable of doing. Trojan and Greek heroes alike performed superhuman feats when in when in ‘god mode.’ At the battle before Troy, all the gods were recorded as present and they all took part in the fighting on either the Greek or Trojan side. What did Homer mean? What happens when a human being is possessed by a god?
In Homer's account men were said to look different, though, as Odysseus complained to Athena, gods were becoming harder to recognize in the material realm. Odysseus was particularly in-sightful, recognizing Athena by her ox-eyes alone; Homer talks about a heroes’ "shining;" a glow or intensity like an aura, which marked men or women displaced or joined in their human body by a god. Divine possession is necessarily brief, Homer suggested, because human physiology can't stand the strain of higher energies very long.
The king of the Greeks, Agamemnon, sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia for the promise of victory, before leaving Greece. War is an environment where men are prompted to call on the personalized potencies or archetypes, what the Greeks called gods, and theologians call hypostasis of God.
Consider the psychospiritual environment in which soldiers besieging Troy lived. Daily rituals, prayers and animal and human sacrifices, continuous ceremonies invoking the gods’ assistance or beseeching their protection combined with strenuous daily combat created a hyper-charged psychic environment hospitable to the invocation of, and possession by, the gods. A collective state of mind where the line between the realm of the abstract, imaginary and the material world is indistinct, where the world becomes dreamlike and the gods whisper their secrets in men’s ears.
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