From Homer's Odysseus to Odysseus Elytis

Description

Twelve set poems of Elytis are analyzed and it is demonstrated that they express the same codes as the Odyssey, which concern the cosmic divine course of the soul, which goes through the purification of emotion. The interpretation of the code words is based on etymology.

After all, the emblematic saying of our Nobel laureate poet is well known: "My only knowledge is the language on the sands of Homer".

Odysseus Elytis is not just a great poet who brightened modern Greek Poetry with the Nobel Prize for Literature, but primarily a modern mystic and exponent of the Orphic-Pythagorean-Platonic-Homeric Greek Tradition, proving the inseparable continuity of the Greek Language over the centuries. He himself had stated in his interview with the newspaper Ta Nea: "I do not know that there is but one language, the single language, Greek, as it evolved from the ancient one, which came to be our great pride and our great support".

The Greek Language is not a common human language, it is divine, structured so perfectly that it cannot be the product of a human brain. This is the golden link that binds our modern Odysseus, our remembered poet, with Homer, the stylobate of the tribe. And it is she who used to express in code the highest truths contained hermetically sealed in the work of Homer, the beloved of the Muses. That is why he states unequivocally:

"My tongue is the only knowledge on the sands of Homer".

In the present poem, twelve poems and songs of Odysseus Elytis are interpreted based on the etymological analysis of the words he uses and it turns out that these are the same coded truths that Homer captures in his Epics and concern the cosmic divine path of the soul, which goes through the purification of emotion.