Chapter I - "Nightmare", The Blind Soothsayer
The legendary soothsayer of the Ancient Greeks, Tiresias of Thebes, was blind. According to the myths, the reason for this curse was coming from such an unlucky confrontation of the poor man with the goddess Artemis. She was naked at that very moment. Taking her wild instincts directly from nature itself, the goddess got mad at such “disrespect” and thus, wrath fell upon him at the hands of the goddess. Finally, Tiresias became the mysterious harbinger of dreadful ends as king Oedipus and king Pentheus once met. Thereby, he had a right to be feared.
It was the unique perseverance in his prophecies that was making him “the soothsayer” among the other seers. It would not wrong to say that Apollo, the god of poetic inspiration, dreams, and clairvoyance, blessed him differently.
But one day, Tiresias died as all mortals did. From that point, he became the dweller of the realm of dreams.
And another day, centuries later upon the death of the soothsayer, someone who was living in many different eras saw Tiresias in his dream.
This man had a bad night because of what the blind soothsayer told him. He was told that one day, the man will be murdered together with his sister by their father.
There was no reason for him to believe that. He would also not know the fact that the man who became apparent in his dream was Tiresias. Therefore, nothing was suspect for him when his father entered his room with empty-looking eyes, a cold face, and a knife in his right hand. That happened in the night that three days later the dream was seen.
