Invite Eris to your feast.

Greetings, I am Iggy Spirit, and my today's blog post is about a myth, a very educational myth that came down to us from the Ancient Greeks.

As you may recall from Hesiod, the marriage of hero Peleus and Thetis, a sea goddess was a major event that was celebrated by both humans and gods. Reason for that being that Thetis, who was known for her extreme beauty was being wooed by Zeus himself, with only one small problem - he received a prophecy that Thetis's son was going to become greater than his own dad. Zeus, being an autocrat and not willing  to surrender his throne to anyone, even his own son, decided to marry Thetis off to a human hero, one of the Argonauts - Peleus, who was famous for his warrior's prowess and good looks.
    There was everyone invited to the wedding and they all came with their own special gifts: to make life for the newlyweds exceptionally comfortable. But there was one guest that was ignored, Eris - the Goddess of Discord wasn't invited to the table. She was known to start trouble and nobody liked her. Eris became really upset, as she was sensitive and threw in a gift that became a center of attention at the wedding - it was a golden apple with an inscribed sign "to the most beautiful". Gold was especially valuable in those days, and a piece such as this funny object would of course be a very valued edition to anyone's treasure chest - goddess' or not.
     In any case,  three goddesses became enamored with the quest of being titled the most beautiful, Mother of the Gods Hera, the Virgin Goddess of warrior wisdom Athena, and the Goddess of Love and female beauty Aphrodite. The argument escalated to the point where goddesses had to look for a human referees, who became Paris, a young shepherd who was also a long lost son of the Trojan king Priam.
      Well, what is a point of this "apple of discord"? I think it is obvious that if Eris would have been invited to the marriage despite her wicked role on the Olympus, there would probably be no discord at all.   
      All the wedding planner had to think of was to how to keep discord happy and content. Apparently, no one really cared to think that Eris was what she was because she was created that way by all the years of neglect and ignoring by her fellow Gods on the Mount Olympus. So, the lesson is - do not neglect discord, and feel free to invite her to your private party. Why? Oh simply out of compassion, and also deeper vision. Look beyond into the personality of the discord and see that behind the seemingly malicious behavior there's a hurt individual, and who knows may be if you do it a few times Discord will turn into Harmonia.

Take care, and keep drawing great inspiration from the ancient mythology!