19444 - The chronostrategic myth

N. Lygeros
Translated from the Greek by Athena Kehagias

The chosen chronostrategic myth
was Digenis Akritas.
And the reasons were multiple.
The afterlife had a mission.
Hellenism had to aid Christianity at a strategic level,
because, Byzantium was increasingly threatened by its religious enemies.
Digenis was not a philological contrivance, but a chronic stratagem.
Even his name indicates its derivation through a mental scheme, since it represented indication of dual origin.
The first part was his ontology.
And the second his teleology.
His mission was the protection of the Byzantine Empire on the boarder regions.
With Digenis Akritas, Byzantium was no longer merely a control center of authority.
Its substance was thereon determined by the edges.
Digenis was not neutral.
Neither by his birth, nor by his mission.
As a teleological entity, his life was just action.
An action which was necessary.
Because there was danger.
Digenis was the proof, that even at the edges, even on the extremes, Hellenism defeated its enemies and helped Christianity due to courage, in order to incorporate differences, which, without him would be friction points for Byzantium.
Digenis is a decisive mind and not merely a maze.
Because he configured his entire era, and he continued his mission for eons later.