Some events today inspired me to post this ;-)
Translated lyrics:
Besieged by Greeks, so many months Troy couldn’t be taken,
And it remained for long an undefeated town;
But had the Trojans listened to Cassandra’s statement,
Then, maybe, Troy wouldn’t have collapsed and fallen down.
Without stopping cried Cassandra, mad and raucous,
“I clearly see that soon in ruins will Troy quake!”
Despite the fact that people loathe those who forecast,
And at all times they meet their ending at the stake.
That night when hidden in the steed’s womb death flew out,
And Troy was captured by this ruthless, cruel master,
Somebody cried among the terror-stricken crowd,
“None but the sorceress has invited this disaster!”
Without stopping cried Cassandra, mad and raucous,
“I clearly see that soon in ruins will Troy quake!”
Despite the fact that people loathe those who forecast,
And at all times they meet their ending at the stake.
That night of massacre, confusion and disorder,
When all the prophecies came true and blood was chilling,
The mob was ready to commit its usual murder,
As mobs don’t think too long before they get to killing.
Without stopping cried Cassandra, mad and raucous,
“I clearly see that soon in ruins will Troy quake!”
Despite the fact that people loathe those who forecast,
And at all times they meet their ending at the stake.
Cassandra’s ending wasn’t appalling, ye may sneer –
Some hungry Greek happened to discover her abode,
And started using her at once not as a seer,
But as a woman in a very common mode.
Without stopping cried Cassandra, mad and raucous,
“I clearly see that soon in ruins will Troy quake!”
Despite the fact that people loathe those who forecast,
And at all times they meet their ending at the stake.
© Akbar Muhammad. Translation, 2013
(akbarmuhammad.awardspace.co.uk)
[Adapted from translations by other translators:
Alec Vagapov’s “The Song of Clairvoyant Cassandra”,
George Tokarev’s “About Clairvoyant Cassandra”.]
source: http://www.wysotsky.com/1033.htm?110
Thanks, boss, for posting great Vladimir Vysotsky’s song.
Translation is superb, by the way.
Also, a very good analysis of the “Cologne psychosis”
http://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/2563957.html
Police are powerless
Authorities are hapless
Politicians are corrupt
Migrants are out of control
Plan to destabilize Europe go along very smoothly
Please, use https://translate.yandex.ru/ to translate
I just wish that people would understand that they are being manipulated into emotional overdrive. Or, “played.” One of the lawyers involved said that everyone: victims, witnesses, and perpetrators were drunk. Everyone was drunk, for the exception of those who organized this situation.
Agreed. There is definitely a plan at work to bring down Europe and thereby make it totally dependent and subservient to the Empire. This entire immigration carefully and very well organized, as is its timing.Hugs!
Somewhat off the topic comment, but still about Homer’s Iliad.
Non Greek speaking readers (maybe some Greek as well) of this great story do not realize how ingenious it it is.
In general Greek names have some kind of e meaning (example popular Russian name Evgenyi in greek means Evenis (accent in the i (means polite). and so on and so on.
Iliad and Odyssey are full of them.
Odysseas (from odis => modern odos => road => traveller) he was traveling for many years before he came back home to Ithaki (Ithaca) his Island (my favored hero by the way).
Other characters:
Brizeida (in Greek Vrisida) was from the island of Tenedos (occupied by Turkey today) just a stone’s throw from the Iliad (Troy) her name means “swearing, argument” because she was the source of grave argument between Axilleas (Achiles) and Agamemnonas (Agamemnon). And then there was a girl called Chriseida (pronounsed Xrisida in Greek ) (gold covered) and her father was called Chrisalis (from chriso => gold) because he brought wagon-full of gold to Achilleas to buy her back. I could go on and on.
By the way, contrary to popular misconception the city of Iliad (it’s god patron was god of sun, hence the name from Ilios=>sun (Troy) was a Greek city. It’s problem was that it’s greedy rulers charged all the ships going to Black Sea a passage fee. Hence other Greeks ganged up on it to avoid those payments resulting in war (there were many wars of that nature by the way).
I am sorry, if only I could type: the Greek name for Evgenyi is Evgienios (Evgenis means polite).
So the whole Troy affair was more like the equivalent to modern days Boston tea party, rather than the claimed suppression of freedom loving citizens.
note,
The correct location of the city is marked by 1 on the video, not as marked “Troya” in russian..
Her first comment upon seeing Paris when he was returned to the family as a young lad was, ” Kill him, Kill him now, he will be the ruin of us all” They put that down to the Trojan equivalent of sibling rivalry even way back then, when they should have known better, even way back then. Crazy sister–put her in the attic. Do we all, even now, have our crazy sister in the attic? Even now when we should know better?
I like your translation.
Cassandra: the guy who raped her, Ajax, came to a bad end because he dragged her from her sanctuary in the temple of Athena. ( he knew this was a sacrilege and–mad with power and lust– did it anyway).Later on in Greece where she was carried, she knew who was going to kill her and her husband and her twin boys and walked into the room where the deed was done. ( the King’s wife and her paramour had organized a palace coup).
Oh no. no. You can’t talk like that about my ancestor. He was Thessalian.
Forgot to add Achilleas (Achilles) was my father’s neighborly ancestor also.
So you say things are going to get worse?
We have multi-party peace talks in Afghanistan (with China), the Syrian talks (Russia orchestrating), North Korea talks (Russia in the mix with China), and the new Contact Group in Minsk 2 talks.
There is some diplomatic stuff going on that is the other arm of multi-polar struggle against the Hegemon.
The Europeans are facing their day of reckoning. Everyone thought it would be an economic denouement. Instead it is an alliance crisis. They have been suckered and used by the US and Turkey to whom they just delivered 3 billion dollars.
The social backlash actually is a good thing. It creates internal pressures on the weak government and leaders. It also serves to fragment Eastern from Western Europe and North from South. Soon, it will generate “everyone for himself” strategies.
The Empire can sow chaos, but it is impossible to manage.
The war is localized. The destabilization is spread wide. The reaction and solutions are not within the realm of external (Hegemon or Brussels) control.
And no one wants war and Russia refuses to give them one.
Hence putin reminding, having to remind merkel hollande of the esence of minsk 2….but poro and co/osce…..bleating on about UN peace keepers and a minsk 3 which has been rubbished by moscow and donbass…..but eu is silent once again.
Ok, here is still a post from me before the break/time off:
Yes, but those so called “xenophocic” people are also sort of Cassandra:
What Is Cultural Marxism?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYu6qhd88_M&feature=youtu.be
Europe will be a Caliphate.
And before that there will be a 100 years war.
To label normal Europeans as “islamophobic” or “xenophobic” will at the end prove to be wrong.
But then it is too late. At the moment it isn’t yet, mobilize the Army and fight them (oh, what a Nazi I must be)
I forgot: Regarding what I just wrote about so called “Cultural Marxism”.
The term itself is part of the problem, because it must have been chosen by folks who either don’t know what Marxism is, or (and that’s it!) who strive under all circumstances to discredit real Marxism.
To hell with them (Marxist hell)
Maybe they can build some railroad along the coast of Barents Sea!
Being from DDR you have to remember all the communist slogans. Modern slogans of “multiculturalism” and like are just an extension of the word “communism and proletariat ” removed. The meaning is still the same.
I remember the saying polish people had in those days, which was kind of making fun of czech’s: “gołe dupki hop do kupki”, which meant “naked butts jump together”, which was really a sarcastic take on some of the communist slogans.
Well, who is laughing now. We are all suffering from that, but most of people do not realize that the word “communism” as being banned from our vocabulary is being removed.
Hope some of us around here are as resilient to guilt by association as the undisclosed numbers of Muslim peacefully integrated in our European society, for how long, and how much will they effectively enjoy their company.
It is not so much the prophecies and eschatology, but the self fulfilling ones, and what are we doing NOW to prevent them. One humble thing to do is to materially identify the culprits and not the scapegoats.
Excuse my political correctness.
Just remember a few things:
– the reason why Cassandra’s prophecies always went unheard (fraudulence)
– the fact that Troy’s fate had been decided longtime before
– even Laocoon who was free of guilt (in contrast to Cassandra) was killed together with his sons when he tried to interfere in Troy’s fate
– most likely the destruction of Troy had a single reason: To give Homer the chance to write his Epics
In summary the Cassandra story is a legend and has to be interpreted as a legend, not as a historical fact.
Even if Cassandra’s story were “historically accurate”, keep in mind that to use historical facts in order to establish or justify today’s objectives, politics or ideologies is nothing else but a kind of historical revisionism.
“to use historical facts in order to establish or justify today’s objectives, politics or ideologies is nothing else but a kind of historical revisionism.”
Really? As an opposite to use of historical fiction to justify the political ideologies and objectives of today?
1) If A not implies B, (Not) A must not imply B either.
2) History (fact or fiction) is not there to justify anything of today. It is there to learn from and to serve as an experience for those how are willing and able to understand.
3) Let history (the study of) change your convictions but don’t try to change history (historiography) according to your convictions.
Careful here. We have a copy from Homeros from the 800 hundreds. As a comparison, we have 5.000 fragments of the New Testment from the first centuries. Homeros was history in the 19th century, but I am not sure he is now.
The Saker uses Cassandra’s story as an allegory to show the animosity that people feel towards those who predict bad things, like honest military analysts; which is opposite to the way people treat those who make promises of only good things, like politicians.
Thank you very much to make this point clear. Unfortunately most of the interpretations of this allegory utilize it to justify extremely stupid prejudices
Therefore Spanish Speakers use to say:
Poner buena cara al mal tiempo.
And here, just to complete the idea, another – this time Cuban – wisdom!
¡Nadie quiere saber que llora de pobreza una mujer! (credits to José Martí)
In other words, no one likes to hear bad news. But if you want him to accept that news even so, try to give it a 180° turn in appearance.
Isn’t it a human nature to disregard anything we do not want to accept? Hence ignoring her visions.
How deceiving works. It is long but it is worth to watch
Parents are talking about the death of their son like they are washing their teeth, no emotion at all……
http://fktv.is/massive-hoax-blown-wide-open-27511
An interesting aspect of the Cassandra story is her relationship with the god of “reason,” Apollo. He failed in his attempt to seduce her (a psychological insight: Apollo never had much luck with the ladies). Cassandra had been given the gift of prophesy (wisdom?) by an earlier goddess at Delphi, or, according to a later legend, by Apl
per Wiki, Cassandra’s gift of prophecy but with the downside that no one would ever believe her may have resulted from a deal gone wrong:
“A common version of her story is that Apollo gave her the power of prophecy in order to seduce her, but when she refused, he spat into her mouth cursing her never to be believed. In an alternative version, she fell asleep in a temple, and snakes licked (or whispered in) her ears so that she was able to hear the future. Snakes as a source of knowledge is a recurring theme in Greek mythology, although sometimes the snake brings understanding of the language of animals rather than an ability to know the future. Cassandra is a figure of epic tradition and of tragedy.
In another version, Cassandra consented to have sex with Apollo in exchange for the gift of prophecy, and then broke her promise. Her punishment was the curse of never being believed. This version of the myth is told by Cassandra in Aeschylus’s Agamemnon: “Oh, but he struggled to win me, breathing ardent love for me….I consented to Loxias (Apollo) but broke my word….Ever since that fault I could persuade no one of anything.”
Katherine
Katherine, do not look into the Wikipedia for wisdom: read the original. Remember it’s the oldest piece of artistic jewel in human history and do not believe what others tell you.
Saker! Cassandra — and you — are clearly right, she about Troy, and you about the Evil Empire. The big question of course is what countries will this Empire cause to lie in ruins, as it pursues its mad course of destruction.
Daniel Andreev — Russia’s prophetic Cassandra, calling out from Vladimirskaya Prison, was also right, I believe, and gives the clues for us to make metahistorical sense of the events that you have been so faithfully tracking here.
I will withhold comment about my own Cassandra call, but there is the promise of that last line:
Despite the fact that people loathe those who forecast,
And at all times they meet their ending at the stake.
Yours,
Dr. Dann, on the JUBILEE! pilgrim road to DC, towing a Trojan Horse. . .