Atlas : The Bearer of the World

He shall always shine in the empyrean all the time, wherever the earth may be.

In the history-changing war between the Titans and the Olympians, Atlas – Titan in Greek Mythology was punished. Banished by Zeus and forced to hold the heaven on his capable shoulders, the ever-changing historical tales never give a true picture of the back-story behind Atlas being the world bearer! However, he is merely regarded as the carrier of a globe on his able shoulders, in the present, modern times.

Damned and deserted after the loss of his side, he continued to live under moral codes of supremacy and hierarchy when most others wouldn't have. He accepted the hamartia of the Titans and hence accepted his fate. He then became the superfluous harbinger of devotion, who deeply cared for his master. Even with efforts, we cannot ever sacrifice his arbiter but can only manage to immortalize him with statues.

Even the mighty Hercules is said to have helped relieve Atlas from the gargantuan burden of the entire sky by building the "Pillars of Hercules". In return, he did want Atlas to get him the “Golden Apples”. The relief from the burden of holding the sky was short-lived, for Hercules tricked him into holding it again.

No one wants such a burden to befall them, so his attempt at trickery can be forgiven. Atlas is the epitome of strength and a worthy driving force. He fell prey to the curse of Perseus, for not being able to provide him with food and shelter, due to the burden he was suffering under and was turned into stone by Medusa’s head. Transformed into the Atlas Mountain, he forever stands as an embodiment of “indestructible, tough and enduring” as nature itself.

Atlas stands as a personification, forever in time, of the penultimate hope of revivalism, as we know it today and tomorrow! Misconceived as alone in the world, he bore the grim freight of the entire celestial system on himself for aeons. Atlas established that non-misanthrope and unctuous is what becomes the magnum opus of our lives. Sisyphean tasks may always be feared by all, but we never know how the results out of them might be as splenderous.