Thanatos
Unshaped by life
For I have refused to live
Controlled by death
For I refuse to die
Athanatos
Giving shape to life
For you have lived
Unconstrained by death
For you have embraced death
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- LifeSpark
- Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- I've been an Orthodox Christian for just over 20 years now and I am unspeakably happy about it. I only wish I'd found the Church sooner. I am married and I have two children, 11 and 17 yrs old. My family makes me ridiculously and deliriously happy. I am a public servant living and working in Ottawa.
2 comments:
Explain the distinction between AnthroposThanatos and Anthropos Athanatos?
Do you mean for AnthroposThanatos to be two separate words?
The poem itself, btw, is excellent.
- V.
thanks vic...(weird, feels like I'm talking to myself :)
V Yes, I meant for them to be separate. Thanks for the fix.
Anthropos Thanatos = Man of death
Anthropos Athanatos = Undying or immortal Man. It might better be titled Anthropos Zoen (sp?)but I felt the use of the term thanatos (death) in both was useful as a device to signify that Christ has passed through death, plus it alliterates better.....
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