Language as a Sacred Craft in the Dark Centuries: An Invitation to Read Homer and Hesiod

Abstract

Since the emergence of language, humans have sought to describe their environment and name it. However, there exists an insurmountable distance between what we see, what we manage to understand, and what we can articulate as a discourse of truth. This is due to our inability to transform experience into understandable language, as our concepts fall short in recounting what we perceive. Philosophy has taken important steps, at least in its attempt to pose questions precisely, but without poetry, it would be impossible to even approach that level of understanding, given the sacred sense implied by this craft.