Shaman. Chosen By The Spirits (2020)

Shaman. Chosen by the spirits (2020)

Voice over the battlefield (2020)

Illustration for one of the episodes of the eighteenth song of the Homer's Iliad: "Then Achilles, loved by Zeus, moved into action. Around his powerful shoulders Athena set her tasselled aegis. Then the lovely goddess wrapped his head up in a golden cloud, so from him a fiery light blazed out. Just like those times when smoke from a city stretches all the way to heaven, rising in the distance from an island under siege by an enemy, where men fight all day long                                               in Ares’ hateful war, struggling for their city— then at sunset, they light fires one by one,                                                           beacons flaming upwards to attract attention from those on near-by islands, so their ships will come to save them from destruction—that’s how the light blazed then from Achilles’ head right up to heaven. He strode from the wall, then stood there by the ditch. But recalling what his mother had said to him, he didn’t mingle with Achaeans. As he stood there, he cried out. From far away, Pallas Athena                                               added her voice, too, causing great consternation among the Trojans. As thrilling as a trumpet’s note when it rings clearly, when rapacious enemies                                                   besiege a city—that’s how sharp and piercing Achilles’ voice was then. When the Trojans heard it, that brazen shout Achilles gave, all their hearts were shaken. Their horses with the lovely manes turned back the chariots, anticipating trouble in their hearts. Charioteers were terrified, seeing the fearful inextinguishable fire blazing                                                   from the head of the great-hearted son of Peleus. For Athena, goddess with the glittering eyes, kept it burning. Three times godlike Achilles yelled across that ditch. Three times Trojans and their allies were thrown into confusion. At that moment, twelve of their best men were killed by their own chariots                               and their own spears. Achaeans then, with stronger hearts, pulled Patroclus out of spear range and laid him on a cot. His dear companions gathered mourning round him, Achilles with them, shedding hot tears when he saw                           his loyal companion lying on a death bed, mutilated by sharp bronze. He’d sent him out to war with chariot and horses, but never welcomed him at his return." In the foreground is the battlefield: the Trojans led by Hector are trying to recapture the body of Patroclus from Menelaus. Above Athena and an unarmed Achilles are depicted.        

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