Sergeant-Major

Season: 4, Episodes: 1, Faction: N/A

Overview

A Sergeant-Major was Desmond’s superior officer in bootcamp for the Royal Scots.

Sky (Wind)

Fertility (Water)

4×05 – The Constant

   

During Desmond’s flashes he awakens in bootcamp and the Sergeant-Major belittles him for his erratic behavior. Desmond explains he was having a very vivid dream about being “in a helicopter, Sir,…and there was a storm.” (“The Constant”)

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Decoded Family Members & Associated Characters

Desmond Hume

Billy

Soldier

Charles Widmore

Sayid Jarrah

Key Episode(s) to Decoding the Character

4x05 "The Constant"










Wiki Info

Aeolus was the ruler of the winds in Greek mythology. In fact this name was shared by three mythic characters. These three personages are often difficult to tell apart, and even the ancient mythographers appear to have been perplexed about which Aeolus was which. Diodorus Siculus made an attempt to define each of these three (although it is clear he also became muddled), and his opinion is followed here. Briefly, the first Aeolus was a son of Hellen and eponymous founder of the Aeolian race; the second was a son of Poseidon, who led a colony to islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea; and the third Aeolus was a son of Hippotes who is mentioned in Odyssey book 10 as Keeper of the Winds who gives Odysseus a tightly closed bag full of the captured winds so he could sail easily home to Ithaca on the gentle West Wind. All three men named Aeolus appear to be connected genealogically, although the precise relationship, especially regarding the second and third Aeolus, is often ambiguous.

Son of Hippotes

This Aeolus is most frequently conflated with Aeolus, the son of Poseidon, god of the sea. It is difficult to delineate this Aeolus from the second Aeolus, as their identities seem to have been merged by many ancient writers. The father of this third Aeolus is given as Mimas, a son of the first Aeolus (son of Hellen). According to some accounts, Mimas married the same Melanippe who was the mother of Arne. This Aeolus lived on the floating island of Aeolia and was visited by Odysseus and his crew in the Odyssey. He gave hospitality for a month and provided for a west wind to carry them home. He also provided a gift of a bag containing all winds but the west, which Odysseus’s crew members unwittingly opened just before they were to reach Ithaca. Unfortunately, they were blown back to Aeolia, where Aeolus refused to provide any further help, because he believed that their short and unsuccessful voyage meant that the Gods did not favour them. This Aeolus was perceived by post-Homeric authors as a god, rather than as a mortal and simple Keeper of the Winds (as in the Odyssey).

In the Aeneid by Virgil, Juno offers Aeolus the nymph Deiopea as a wife if he will release his winds upon the fleet of Aeneas.

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Mythological Family Members & Associated Deities

ODYSSEUS

POSEIDON