Jupiter Consciousness
The Romans saw the god Jupiter as the equivalent of the Greek god Zeus. The god Neptune was his brother. Jupiter was married to Juno.
Zeus was the ruler of the Olympian gods. and the presiding deity of our solar system, the ruler of our skies and planets.
Zeus father was Cronus, the ruling Titan who came to power by castrating his father Uranus. After his dying father prophesied that one of Cronus children would dethrone him, he began to devour his children whole as they were born.
Their offspring were the first Olympians. Rhea, his wife, tricked Cronus into swallowing a rock, instead of his son Zeus. Zeus defeated Cronus and the other Titans. Banished them to Tartarus (Underworld).
Cronus managed to escape to Italy, where he ruled as Saturn. The period of his rule was said to be a golden age on earth, honored by the Saturnalia feast.
Zeus’ weapon was a thunderbolt which he hurled at those who displeased him, such as liars and oath breakers. Married to Hera, he was infamous for his many affairs.
Using his shield, the Aegis, Zeus could create all natural phenomena related to the air and the sky, such as storms, tempests, and intense darkness.
Personifying the operations of nature, he represented the grand laws of unchanging and harmonious order, by which both the natural + spiritual world were governed.
He was the god of regulated time as marked by the changing seasons and the regular succession of day and night, in contrast to what his father Cronus represented before him: absolute time, and eternity.
As the ruler of the state, he was the source of kingly power, the upholder of institutions connected to the state, and the friend and patron of princes, whom he guarded and assisted with his advice and counsel.
He watched over the human mortals with tender solicitude, rewarding truth, charity, and fairness, while severely punishing perjury and casting spells on cruelty.
Even the poorest wanderer could find a powerful advocate in Zeus, for he, a wise and merciful paternal figure, demanded that the wealthy inhabitants of the earth be attentive to the needs of their less fortunate.
He also made love
to many different women, like Europa,
who experienced agony and ecstacy!
A Greek play concerns the god Prometheus, who in defiance of Zeus (Jupiter) has saved humanity with his gift of fire.
The drama of the play lies in the clash between the irresistible power of Zeus and the immovable will of Prometheus. The most striking and controversial aspect of the play is its depiction of Zeus as a tyrant.
Normally, the consequence of defying the gods was severe and inevitable punishment. In questioning the justice of Prometheus’s fate and in demonstrating the wrenching choices Prometheus had to face, Aeschylus produced one of the first great tragedies of Western literature.
The 8-year-old Mozart makes use of this 4 note motif in his 1st, his 33th, and in the finale of his 41st and last symphony, which was later called the ‘Jupiter’ symphony.
For this symphony, Mozart reserved all the resources of his science and power, which no one seems to have possessed to the same degree as he, of concealing that science, and of making it the vehicle for music as pleasing as it is learned.
“It is the greatest orchestral work that preceded the French Revolution.”
(Sir George Grove)
