On the Mythological Origins of Logo's - Essay Example

Apollo felt that if they had a child together that she might return the affection that he felt for her. When she finally gave birth to a daughter who she called Logos, she received her first vision of the future and it had to do with her new born daughter. Cassandra received a vision that her daughter would grow up to be a hero, but more significantly, that she would challenge the authority and power of the Gods themselves. At approximately the same time that Cassandra had the vision of her daughter's future, the Delphic Oracle who is Apollo's seer, also had the same prediction come to them.

The Pythia, who was Apollo's seer at Delphi, immediately reported the vision to Apollo. Apollo was concerned about the form or shape that the challenge to the Gods was going to take, so decided to keep an eye on Cassandra and Logos. He sent a mortal to watch Cassandra and her daughter, and when the spy reported back to Apollo that there was no daughter, Apollo visited Cassandra. Cassandra told Apollo that she had given her daughter up for adoption and told Apollo that someone had taken her to the North of Africa far away from Greece to raise her.

Secretly, she had actually conspired with a cousin to raise her daughter in secret. Knowing the future, she knew that her daughter would one day pose a threat to the Gods and felt that if they knew that, they would come after her. She knew Apollo would eventually come for his daughter too. When she told Apollo that her daughter was gone, he flew into a rage and she then fled to the Temple of Athena where she was captured and taken by Ajax the Lesser. Eventually, she was taken as a concubine of King Agamemnon where she was eventually murdered by his wife Clytemnestra.

Logos was an orphan, but her mother had arranged and paid for her perpetual care. Cassandra knew a friend of a friend in the country-side who had just given birth and agreed to mother Logos as her own, but for compensation. Logos family in the country-side was probably not what Cassandra had hoped for or expected. As soon as she was old enough, they set her to work and by the time that she was in her early youth, she was sent to live among the farm slaves. Slavery was common in Greece, but the pool or source of slaves came from the losers of war or particular battles.

Among the slaves was a learned man who had been a ship navigator for a once great army from the Peloponnesus. He taught Logos geometry, and the secrets of navigating through measurement, direction, and the locations of the stars. Logos learned that some patterns of stars changed more than others, and some stars like the 'pole star' or the 'north star' remain the most stable year-round of all stars. And, so Logos learned about the importance of what changes versus what remains the same and that became one of the main things that she thought.

She began to look at everything in terms of what changed and what remained the same. She noticed one day that she could only perceive that the flow of the river near the farm was detectable because of the bank of river was stable. So, she then began to see a relationship between the changing and the unchanging, and understood that just like the unchanging 'pole star' helped to locate the more changing other constellations of stars, that which is stable will always help to understand that which is changing.

The old navigator eventually grew sick, and when he was close to dying he summoned Logo's to be with