#krypteia

You know, another funny thing about Fallon (and the Spartans in general, but it’s Fallon who really emphasizes this part of the practice, as he seems to be the most devoted to it as an actual ideology) is that that rite of passage he tells Lucy about in 2.05 ... was indeed a rite of passage. Specifically (and I’m not an expert in this subject, but we, like Fallon, are more interested in the gist of the matter than in the specifics), terrorizing and murdering the helots was something supposedly practiced by the Krypteia, which was a sort of secret paramilitary group composed of Spartan youths.

What I’m saying is that the Spartans on Harlots put themselves forward as being so cool and mysterious, but they’re imitating KIDS. They are literally casting themselves in the role of, like, teenagers who were not yet considered part of adult society. Not yet considered READY for adult society! The whole point of a rite of passage is to become something. For members of the Krypteia, this was part of the process of becoming a man, a full-grown citizen. But what are Fallon and Harcourt and Lidington becoming? There is no transformation. Raping and killing helpless girls doesn’t prepare them for war; they’re unlikely to ever see war. It doesn’t help integrate them into society; it distances them from it. It doesn’t strengthen their loyalty to the city-state, because they don’t have any actual society, they just have a smallish club of hedonists. If they view what they’re doing as being analogous to this rite of passage (though, for the record, historically it’s uncertain whether it was a rite of passage), then it follows that by continuing to enact this ritual over and over again with no apparent endgame or state of being to progress to, they’re metaphorically keeping themselves trapped in an immature phase of existence, emasculated and childlike.

Another irony is that, according to Plutarch, the Krypteia tried to slay the “sturdiest and best” Helots. That’s how these ancient Spartans proved their superiority. And the modern Spartans think that kidnapped young girls count as “sturdiest and best”? Fallon thinks that killing them proves anything? All it proves is that the modern Spartans, like the ancient ones, are aware of how immensely outnumbered they are by the common helots and are so terrified by that fact that they feel the need to assert their superiority through terror and violence and to dress it up in ritual so they can feel justified in the slaughter.

Nome da obra: Krypteia

Sinopse:

Os deuses estão entre nós, isso é um fato. Mas, para continuarem liderando o mundo, é necessário que suas histórias sejam lembradas, é necessário que a chama olímpica queime na frente dos olhos dos meros mortais. As histórias os fazem fortes, os fazem ter forma física. O esquecimento talvez seja a pior coisa que eles poderiam enfrentar. Enquanto o drama no Dodekatheon acontece, há outro em curso: Edmure Alessi sempre teve uma vida tempestuosa. Encara seus demônios psicológicos e os demônios físicos, como bullies. Um bom escritor, nadador e equitador, ele apenas quer dar uma vida melhor para as pessoas que vem do mesmo lugar que ele. No entanto, “Eddie” não sabe que, além de seus olhos, há algo mais nele que é dourado: seu sangue. E ele é necessitado na Ilha de Krypteia.

Autor(a): Spider

Gênero: Mitologia/Fantasia

Data de estreia: 10 de Janeiro de 2017 (em andamento)