Then one day the monster was killed, so the king blamed the Father and Son and trapped them both in a tower. The earthly son of Daedalus who weaved and created the labyrinth maze for King Minos, who eventually turned evil by setting up his minotaur bull monster in the middle of the labyrinth maze, where he lured his enemies for his monster to catch and feed on them. A awesome song, sung and performed within the mindset of the Greek myth tragedy of Icarus.
#IRON MAIDEN FLIGHT OF ICARUS FREE#
In order to be free again from his ego's grip that had a earthly hold on him. Forwanting only to reach and overcome his intended objective need of seeing god. The father has to live the rest of his life all alone, knowing that he caused his son's death.Ībout a rebellious and egotistical teenage Individual who reached way too high, to sadly brake down on his ego that had a hold on him. It doesn't occur to him that Daedalus has been betrayed, too by his illusory ambitions and the endless love for his son. As Icarus falls down to his demise, he is sure that his father betrayed him. But success is often as chimerical as a flight to the sun on wings made of wax. The young man follows his father's advice and initially achieves a degree of success, shouting to his father below: "look at me, father! I came off! I made you proud!". The mad, old man is Icarus' father Daedalus, who pushes the lad to the extreme(the sun) to make him acquire a status above the crowd (other common people). Here, there is no adolescent disobedience or rebellion. 《Fly on your way like an eagle,Fly as high as the sun,Fly and touch the sun》. Most of them are just describing the original Greek myth.īut, Bruce Dickinson has modified, or to be more accurate, has reversed the meaning of the myth. With all due respect, I disagree with the song-explanations hitherto. Hellenistic writers who provided philosophical underpinnings to the myth also preferred more realistic variants, in which the escape from Crete was actually by boat, provided by Pasiphaë, for which Daedalus invented the first sails, to outstrip Minos' pursuing galleys, and that Icarus fell overboard en route to Sicily and drowned. And so, Icarus fell into the sea in the area which bears his name, the Icarian Sea near Icaria, an island southwest of Samos. Icarus kept flapping his wings but soon realized that he had no feathers left and that he was only flapping his bare arms. Overcome by the giddiness that flying lent him, Icarus soared through the sky curiously, but in the process he came too close to the sun, which melted the wax. Before they took off from the island, Daedalus warned his son not to fly too close to the sun, nor too close to the sea. Daedalus fashioned a pair of wings out of wax and feathers for himself and his son. Daedalus, the master craftsman, was exiled because he gave Minos' daughter, Ariadne, a clew of string in order to help Theseus, enemy of Minos, survive the Labyrinth and defeat the Minotaur. "Icarus' father, Daedalus, a talented craftsman, attempted to escape from his exile in Crete, where he and his son were imprisoned at the hands of King Minos, the king for whom he had built the Labyrinth to imprison the Minotaur (part man, part bull).
#IRON MAIDEN FLIGHT OF ICARUS FULL#
It doesn't hurt to do a little research before making a post full of innacuracies.here's the story (taken from Wikipedia)
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