Tariq

Season: 2, Episodes: 1, Faction: N/A

Overview

Tariq (Arabic: طارق) was Sayid’s superior in the Republican Guard during Desert Storm.

War

Death

2×14 – One of Them

   

When U.S. forces entered a bunker, he ordered the destruction of numerous documents. He was captured alongside Sayid.

   

He was interrogated concerning the whereabouts of a U.S. pilot, but he refused to answer. This led Inman to convince Sayid to torture him for the information. Inman encouraged Sayid by telling him that Tariq was responsible for spreading sarin gas on a village where Sayid had relatives. 

   

Sayid eventually gave in and tortured Tariq with a set of tools provided by Inman. During the interrogation, Tariq accused Sayid of being a disgrace to his uniform and ordered him to kill himself. Tariq revealed that the captured U.S. pilot had been killed two days earlier.

Given his strong opinions on this subject, and the fact that Sayid continued to serve in the Republican Guard after this period, it is reasonable to assume that Tariq never returned to service (at least in good standing), instead being killed or remaining in allied captivity. (“One of Them”)

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Decoded Season 1 Characters

Sayid Jarrah

Danielle Rousseau

Decoded Season 2 Characters

Kelvin Inman

Sgt. Tony Buccelli

Sam Austen

U.S. Soldier No. 1

U.S. Soldier No. 2

Benjamin Linus

Ana Lucia Cortez

Key Episode(s) to Decoding the Character

2x14 "One Of Them"

Wiki Info

In Greek Mythology, Enyalius or Enyalio is generally a byname of Ares the god of war but in Mycenaean times is differentiated as a separate deity. On the Linear B Knossos Tablet KN V 52 the name E-nu-wa-ri-jo is interpreted to refer to this same Enyalios.

Enyalios is mentioned nine times in Homer’s Iliad and in four of them it is in the same formula describing Meriones who is one of the leaders of warriors from Crete. Homer calls Ares ‘Enyalios’ (Ἐνυάλιος) in Iliad book xx,

A scholiast on Homer declares that the poet Alcman sometimes identified Ares with Enyalius and sometimes differentiated him, and that Enyalius was sometimes made the son of Ares by Enyo and sometimes the son of Cronus and Rhea. Ares and Enyalius are possibly differentiated in Aristophanes’ comedy Peace.

Aristophanes (in Peace), envisages Ares and Enyalios as separate gods of war.

In Argonautica book II, part xiv, Jason sets the chthonic earthborn warriors fighting among themselves by hurling a boulder in their midst:

‘But Jason called to mind the counsels of Medea full of craft, and seized from the plain a huge round boulder, a terrible quoit of Ares Enyalius; four stalwart youths could not have raised it from the ground even a little.’

The urbane Alexandrian author gives his old tale a touch of appropriate Homeric antiquity by using such an ancient epithet.

Plutarch, in Moralia (2nd century), tells of the bravery of the women of Argos, in the 5th century BC, who repulsed the attacks of kings of Sparta. The survivors erected a temple to Ares Enyalius by the road where they fell:

‘After the city was saved, they buried the women who had fallen in battle by the Argive road, and as a memorial to the achievements of the women who were spared they dedicated a temple to Ares Enyalius… Up to the present day they celebrate the Festival of Impudence (Hybristika) on the anniversary [of the battle], putting the women into men’s tunics and cloaks and the men in women’s dresses and head-coverings.’

According to Pausanias (3.15.7) the Lacedaemonians believed that by chaining up Enyalius they would prevent the god from deserting Sparta. Pausanias also mentions at 3.14.9 and 3.20.2 that puppies were sacrificed to Enyalius in Sparta.

Polybius’ history renders the Roman god Mars by Greek Ares but the Roman god Quirinus by Enyalius, and the same identifications are made by later writers such as Dionysius of Halicarnassus, perhaps only because it made sense that a Roman god who was sometimes confounded with Mars and sometimes differentiated should be represented in Greek by a name that was similarly sometimes equated with Ares (who definitely corresponded with Mars) and was sometimes differentiated.

Josephus in his Antiquities 4, (3) [115] states after telling the story of the Tower of Babel:

But as to the plan of Shinar, in the country of Babylonia, Hestiaeus mentions it, when he says thus: “Such of the priests as were saved, took the sacred vessels of Zeus Enyalius, and came to Shinar of Babylonia.” 

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Mythological Family Members & Associated Deities

ARES (Father)

ENYO (Mother)

CRONUS

RHEA

JASON

MEDEA