Hello, my darling subscribers! You all will never guess what happened in my time-traveling life this past week. My old, or shall I say young, simply because he’s actually from the future, friend of mine, Savage (Sa-vaay) came to visit me. I told him all about my assignment, plans, and time-travel destination, so of course he was down for the ride. We traveled to the land of Thebes, decade of Oedipus the King, and wanted to play around with the idea of prophecy. With him he brought the Provocationator, a device that challenges theories, actions, etc. It was essential to our quest because, on this journey, we decided to take the backseat and see what happened once the theory of prophecy was challenged.
Now for those of you who don’t know the great tale of Oedipus, I will simply sum it up for you. Oedipus was originally born of King Laios and Queen Iacoste of Thebes, but, once warned of a terrifying prophecy the king and queen send the child out to be killed. He ends up in the hands of the king and queen of Corinth who name him Oedipus because of is swollen and pierced feet, a result of his exile, and raise him as their son. Curious as to what this horrible prophecy had to be? Well, Oedipus was to kill his father and marry his mother, which, as prophesied,he did.
You may be asking, why I chose to challenge this prophecy. This is because I cannot help but wonder if this fate would have come because it was prophesied or because actions were taken to avoid it. Perhaps, the knowledge of the prophecy itself made the fate come to pass. Either way, I was going to find out.
In order to have a challenge you need a challenger or an alternate, so Savage and I figured it would be best to challenge the theory in two ways. The first included not warning King Laios of the prophecy. And oh boy, how that turned out.
King Laios and Queen Iacoste welcome home a beautiful baby boy, Laiotis. Everything in the palace seems as normal as can be, yet, as Laiotis grows older he wishes to be more and more like his father. He believes he could a better king than his father, even though the kingdom loves him. He even believes he could be a greater husband and lover to his mother, whom is too vain to care either way. In his private hours, Laiotis practices his walk, he practices his talk, even his gestures just to that of his father’s. He grows to hate Laios more and more everyday, and so comes forth with a plan to murder him on a fishing trip the two will take. On the road to the lake, Laiotis picks a fight with a gang, a group of thugs he is actually friends with, who appear to be stealing. In the mix of the brawl, he slithers behind Laios and kills him. When he returns home with his father’s corpse, he tells everyone he and Laios were no match for the gang and there was nothing he could have done to stop his father’s death. He says the king’s last wish was for his son to take his place as rightful king beside his mother. Iacoste has no declaration against it because she is too vain to be anything other than a queen and would hate to give up her crown, so she marries Laiotis.
In the second challenge, we thought it would be interesting to see what would happen if King Laios was warned of the prophecy but decided not to kill the child and raise him anyway.
King Laios and Queen Iacoste are warned of a dreaded prophecy. They are told the child will murder Laios and marry Iacoste. At first, they are shocked. Then, they are horrified. King Laios thinks to himself, “What would a fool do? A fool would put his problems into the hands of another”, then he spoke. “I shall keep my unborn child and raise him to love me...so that he does not kill me.” And so it was. They bore a child and name himed Eliy. As Eliy grew the king spoiled him and showered him with the love of only a father can. He taught the boy how to fight and made him strong as a bull. The king loved his son and was proud of the young man he was growing to be. Iacoste, was proud of the young man her only son was becoming as well. She secretly taught him some things of her own, incest may it be called. She loved her son as a babe, but as he grew into this young strong man, her love grew to fond. She wanted to marry her son, so one day, as the two lay in bed, she said, “You’re father doesn’t love you like I love you. He only raised you to love him so that you do not kill him.” “What do you mean,” asked a confused Eliy. She simply responded with the prophecy and convinced him to kill his father. Hence, Eliy wanted revenge against him because he felt tricked out of his destiny. They plan to poison the king, take his crown, and run away together to get married. So one night, Eliy slips the poison into the king’s wine, at his bedside while Iacoste is distracting him in bed. He died that night. And so Iacoste and Eliy were gone that night as well.
If you all could have seen my face, when this all came about. I was so amazed as to how the prophecy still came true no matter the elements that effected it. Safe to say we stood no chance to theory of prophecy. Be it so, everyone is simply powerless to the infamous lady we call Fate. So what’s your’s and are you ready for it, whatever it may be? This has been Holly, over and out.
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