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In reviewing Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, I do not intend to offer a sweeping overview of the many alterations Nolan has made to the Homeric epic. After all, in its protean form, The Odyssey was sung by bards in an oral tradition, which meant that the story was always being made anew. However, what happens when a director embarks upon the voyage of The Odyssey without invoking the Muses? Should divinely inspired poetry be turned into a motion picture? And when does an interpretation sever rather than serve its relationship to the source material? To answer some of these questions, I will focus upon a singular omission in Nolan’s adaptation: the moment Odysseus tricks the Cyclops into believing his name is ‘Nobody’. In the spirit of the bardic tradition, in which no one person holds the definitive meaning of a text, may this essay sit as one amongst many interpretations of the film. A fragment of the whole that offers a glimpse into the spellbinding magic of the oral tradition of Homeric poetry.

Gabriel Thomas Stevens

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In this dialogue, Reza asks Dominique a particular question about the

roles of Śiva and Brahmā in the Mahābhārata. Additionally, he inquires

why we refer to Vaiṣṇavites and Śivaites but don’t seem to have a

corresponding category of Brahmānites.

Dominique Wohlschlag is a specialist in medieval romance languages

and previously taught Latin at the Collège de Genève. With an extensive

background in Indian studies, he has offered courses on Sanskrit and

Indian Civilization at various Swiss institutions and has worked with

the Geneva Ethnography Museum. His scholarly contributions include three

translations of Indian poets (Jayadeva, Bhartrihari, Vidyâkara) and

numerous interpretative analyses of Hindu scriptures. In addition,

Wohlschlag has also written several books on the Hindu tradition with

two of them available in the link below for those interested in

exploring this rich tradition further.

The Queen and the Avatar

The Great War of the Dark Age: Keys to the Mahābhārata

Readings by Reza Shah-Kazemi

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Following the thread

Sensation of Eternity-Notes on Islam by Ivan Aguéli

Reading by Reza Shah-Kazemi

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Readings by Reza Shah-Kazemi

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Following the thread

Sensation of Eternity-Notes on Islam by Ivan Aguéli

Reading by Reza Shah-Kazemi

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Treasures of Buddhism-P60

Readings by Reza Shah-Kazemi

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Ch-17 Al-Isra

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In this episode Sarah will explain some of the symbolic meanings behind

the iconography of Lord Shiva Nataraj, the cosmic dancer which

simultaneously portrays the fluidity of this continuous movement of

existence reverberating within the stillness of Consciousness. Then she

will allude some of the meanings behind the dancing of the cosmic

creation with the five divine activities or the five-fold dances in

which they are paradoxically temporal and timeless. Finally, with Sarah,

we will be introduced transforming power of life; Tāṇḍava and the 

non-dual Kashmir Shivaism tradition where they consider the Heart of

Shiva to be in a state of perpetual movement.

“His form is everywhere, all-pervading in His Shiva-Shakti. Chidambaram

is everywhere. As Shiva is all and omnipresent, everywhere is Shiva’s

gracious dance made manifest. By His Grace, his five-fold dances are

temporal and timeless. This is the sacred dance of Uma-Sahaya. He dances

with Water, Fire, Wind and Ether. Thus, our Lord dances ever in the

court. Visible to those who pass over Māyā and ​Mahāmāyā (illusion and

super-illusion), Our Lord dances, His eternal dance” Ananda Coomaraswamy.

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