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spoken word? How much more vivid than a mere inward
monition is the famous scene in Iliad I where Athena
plucks Achilles by the hair and warns him not to strike
Agamemnon! But she is visible to Achilles alone: “none of
the others saw her.” That is a plain hint that she is
projection, the pictorial expression, of an inward
monition—a monition which Achilles might have described
by such a vague phrase as enepnense fpesi
daimwn. And I suggest that in general the inward monition,
or the sudden unaccountable feeling of power, or the
sudden unaccountable loss of judgment, is the germ out
of which the divine machinery developed.
The hero has become a split man as he moves towards
the possession of an individual ego. And the “split” is manifest
as pictorialized models or “machinery” of complex situations